A rare WTA event for Jodie, her first outside of the British grass I believe.

Good opportunity for her, although she is effectively playing a top 100 player (in all but official ranking). Martincova is 75 in the race, would usually have enough points to be in the top 100, has made a full WTA SF since the restart, and has 8 top 100 wins in 2020 alone, or 10 above her current ranking:

www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/wplayer-classic.cgi

Also pushed top 40 players Martic, Sakkari, and Kudermetova to 3 sets as well this year. One of the harder draws she could have had, but unless you were ITK, nobody would have expected this opportunity before that Instagram story saying she was on her way.

Good luck to her. Hopefully there is a stream.

Oh, and she's a QWC here Peter.

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Strange. I just took Meelis' post on TF as gospel.

twitter.com/josemorgado/status/1324788369642131463

She was initially down as a QWC on the WTA drawsheet, perhaps that was no longer required and upgraded to DA or something?

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 Yes, probably a wirhdrawal or two. Anyway leaves qwcs for such as Lisicki ( in Jodie's section ) and Konjuh. 

There are betting site streams on both Linz courts today, so we'll get to see Jodie play. Jodie 5th on the second court, as TA said in the entries thread, so probably looking at around 4pm, obviously depending on how the previous matches go.

Dodin currently rattiling through her match (although that's on the main court).

The second court actually has the better camera for some reaaon. Main court is one of those basic, fixed ITF streams (still fine), but more angles on the second one.

It was going really well until 3-2 *40-15, had another BP in an earlier game, but seems a different match now at 3-5*.