Week 1 - WTA500 ABU Dhabi. UAE Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Week 1 - WTA500 ABU Dhabi. UAE Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity about the result, and while yes it was quite an opportunity in a WTA 500, I do think, Ace, that you are being a bit too harsh about this loss to the soon to be 28yo WR 289 ( CH 154 in 2016 )

21 yo Jodie herself is 'just' WR 263 with a CH of 233 in 2019 and it seemed to have been largely pretty competitive. Hardly appears awful and we didn't see the match.

Anyway, yes, it no doubt will be very tough in the MD but I'm not sure she's playing too badly so let's hope she can produce a decent match.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Don't get me wrong, it was certainly a 'losable' match, but it's the type you'd expect in R2 of a typical W25 event, or even quals in these back end 2020 events, so it's just a bit disappointing that it was such a good opportunity for her, and who knows what's around the corner, she could be back to W25 qualifying. It's more important than ever to take these opportunities, like vs Kerkove in Dubai the other week.

I guess that I might have had more hopes for her than her potential natural ceiling, if that makes sense, so it just highlights it a bit more from my perspective.

But, other than 12 points, and maybe a but of 'stock' in my mind, she has the same opportunity as if she had won, so good luck to her.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Heather draws Jodie, naturally.

the addict · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Heather draws Jodie, naturally.

Inevitable ! Not what we wanted to see though. Mind you, Jodie could have drawn Kenin

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Ha, typical. Normally I wouldn't mind, but, given the Q field, Jodie was the highest ranked player so Heather would likely have had a good chance against most, and then a 'free hit' for Jodie from a GB perspective, but we obviously can't get more than one through now.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Ace Ventura wrote:
Ha, typical. Normally I wouldn't mind, but, given the Q field, Jodie was the highest ranked player so Heather would likely have had a good chance against most, and then a 'free hit' for Jodie from a GB perspective, but we obviously can't get more than one through now.

On the plus side, we aare guaranteed 1.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Ha, typical. Normally I wouldn't mind, but, given the Q field, Jodie was the highest ranked player so Heather would likely have had a good chance against most, and then a 'free hit' for Jodie from a GB perspective, but we obviously can't get more than one through now.
On the plus side, we aare guaranteed 1.

True. I'm often a conservative person (not necessarily political, ha) and would often be quite happy to guarantee that, but maybe not so much here, but at least we do have R2 interest (GB wise) as you say.

Heather would have more chance of an extended run of the two I would have thought, but I'm hoping Jodie can pull it off, although suspect it might go similar to their recent BotB contest in terms of score.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, here I would have certainly preferred to avoid an all GB match, though it will now be interesting to see how it goes.

30 ranking points to the winner. If that's Jodie, as a LL these 30 points would be instead of her 13 FQR points.

seagull · Hall of fame

I imaging she must have played Watson in BOB's? I'm too lazy to look it up

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
I imaging she must have played Watson in BOB's? I'm too lazy to look it up

Yeah, they played just before Xmas. It was a comfortable Heather win, like 1 and 3, 3 and 1, or equivalent.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

On a diffetent note, not a big issue either, but when you post now, does it go back to the first page of the thread for you, rather than the page where the latest post will be? Just started happening for me the past couple of days.

seagull · Hall of fame

Ace Ventura wrote:
On a diffetent note, not a big issue either, but when you post now, does it go back to the first page of the thread for you, rather than the page where the latest post will be? Just started happening for me the past couple of days.

Yes it does - bit annoying

Heather v Jodie is 5th match on Court 1 tomorrow (Are all courts televised?)

the addict · Tennis legend

Amazon Prime are showing Centre Court, Court 1 and Court 2 at the moment. Not certain about courts 3 & 4, as they only had qualifying today.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

PaulM wrote:
Heather draws Jodie, naturally.

Reminds one of the US Open when Heather played Jo. In this circumstance I would favour Heather to win.