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It looks as if Naomi's serve is no longer the weapon it used to be. Despite making 15/23 first serves in the first set, she only won 8 of them. Naiktha made 20/32 and won 17.

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Naiktha won 2 & 2

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Katie has a fellow qualifier, from Spain (Guerrero Alvarez), Naiktha has the Chinese player who beat Bouchard en route to the FQR in AO qualifying last week (Yue Yuan).

 

Didn't see any of Katie this morning, but the streams are of good quality, so could come in handy this week.



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Only 9 teams in doubles.

Naomi and Eden are top seeds.


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Just beat me Paul wink

So first round byes for our 1 1/2 pairs

 

QF:- Naomi Broady (GBR) / Eden Silva (GBR) CR323 (149+174) [1] v Anastasia Gasanova (RUS) / Sofya Lansere (RUS) CR555 (323+232)

QF:- Naiktha Bains (GBR) / Rutuja Bhosale (IND) CR424 (218+206) [2] v Mariam Bolkvadze (GEO) / Ekaterine Gorgodze (GEO) CR546 (431+115)



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PaulM wrote:

Only 9 teams in doubles.

Naomi and Eden are top seeds.

 I never understand why they cant at least fill out the draw with local pairs - if nothing else, the byes teams get an opening warm up, however, easy. Or they could utilise one or two pairs made up of those in qualies. 

At a pro level, with ranking points on the line, it seems disappointing to not have full draws even if the standard is  little lower than ideal.

 



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JonH comes home wrote:
PaulM wrote:

Only 9 teams in doubles.

Naomi and Eden are top seeds.

 I never understand why they cant at least fill out the draw with local pairs - if nothing else, the byes teams get an opening warm up, however, easy. Or they could utilise one or two pairs made up of those in qualies. 

At a pro level, with ranking points on the line, it seems disappointing to not have full draws even if the standard is  little lower than ideal.

 

 It also affects the ranking points awarded. If they lose these QF matches, they will only get the one point having had a first round bye, whereas if they had played and won the first round they would have 9 points in the bag.

A bit irrelevant for Naomi, Eden and Naiktha, as the lowest counter any of them have is 15



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Q2: SWAN, Katie (GBR) 11 270 (CH=163 2018) v OKAMURA, Kyoka (JPN) 6 238 (CH=223 2016) 6-2 2-6 [10-8]
Q2: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) 7 242 (CH=199 2020) def BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 15 517 (CH=76 2016) 6-2 6-2

R1: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) Q 242 (CH=199 2020) v YUAN, Yue (CHN) 230 (CH=205 2020)
R1: SWAN, Katie (GBR) Q 270 (CH=163 2018) v GUERRERO ALVAREZ, Eva (ESP) Q 224 (CH=221 2019)

Naiktha played Yue in Dec 2019, winning comfortably in two.

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Naiktha is first match on court 5 tomorrow at 10:30am local. Katie is third match on court 3, NB 12:30 local.

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Katie is on a streamed court, but Naiktha isn't. Play starts at 6.30am our time, so she could be on around 9.30/10am but obviously just depends on how those first 2 matches go, but NB 8.30am our time, converted from TAs above post.

Think I'll watch that match. Bar that cameo vs Alicia at the Progress Tour, I honestly can't remember the last time I saw her play. Probably some streamed US ITF in 2019.



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Naiktha served for the set at 5-4 but was broken

Now into a tb

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...which she lost 6-7 (1)

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All one way traffic in the second set

She lost 6-7 (1) 0-6

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Very disappointing, having started the match with a double-break for *3-0

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Going to be a lot later for Katie. The Japanese player who she beat yesterday (must be a LL) is a break up midway through the deciding set in the first match on that court.

There is a big 1/20 favourite in the 2nd match, so that one possibly will end fairly routinely in straight sets, although Nara isn't really the type to blast someone off the court in double quick time.

Shame Naiktha fell away.

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