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Begu finally wins the 3rd set tie break 7-4 in a very long match; I thought Jo might have won this one, but at least she made the 3rd round and both her and Katie B are taking decent form into next week, and there is always the argument pre-Grand Slam, that you don't really want six long arduous matches immediately before starting a 7 match tournament, especially in the Aussie heat of Melbourne.

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 Yeah but Jo had a bye in R1. Katie reaching R3 and losing in 3 is far better than Jo's winning 1 match and losing a 3 setter. Would've been nice to see Jo play Naomi!

Jo a little disappointing, Katie really showing what she has when fit. Pretty happy that she made a match of that but lost. 3 matches, 2 of them top 50 players is fabulous preparation and a few training days to recover and work on anything not quite firing.

I'm not really that surprised by Jo's result given the last couple of years. I didn't see her match points but she lost her last five service points in that breaker which is a concern.

It is frustrating to do so well to come back from 0-40 twice to save 6, and you then throw in a couple of errors at *6-5. Can't imagine Begu was feeling great at that point and she was allowed back in.

Nice effort from Katie, hope she gets a decent draw for the Open.

Haven't watched any of last night's matches yet, so will have to skim through later.
Dissappointing from Jo - thought she would win that, although close.
Katie did better than I expected, but Osaka was always likely to have too much power once she found her rhythm.

Hope they get decent draws, Katie could win a round or two if she avoids the seeds.

ROSAMUND wrote:

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Whoever it was following Kaia Kanepi will be pleased to see she's reached the  quarter finals beating Kasatkina. I see to remember Kanepi frustrating British hopes back at Wimbledon 2013.

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 I saw somone reference her new physique, seems to be paying dividends.

-- Edited by emmsie69 on Thursday 4th of February 2021 07:31:06 AM

dodrade wrote:

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the addict wrote:

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Haven't watched any of last night's matches yet, so will have to skim through later.
Dissappointing from Jo - thought she would win that, although close.
Katie did better than I expected, but Osaka was always likely to have too much power once she found her rhythm.

Hope they get decent draws, Katie could win a round or two if she avoids the seeds.

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 I hope so, if she can get back into the top 300 or 250 then presumably no more W15's. Does she still have a few tournaments left to use her protected ranking for?

-- Edited by dodrade on Wednesday 3rd of February 2021 09:04:34 PM

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 I think she has used both her Grand Slam ones, then there are 2 Premier Mandatory ones which I don't think she can have used as the ones in Spring were cancelled and she didn't travel to the US for the late Summer swing and I'm not sure about the other 4 but pretty sure she will have some left as she was mainly entering W25 and W15 at the end of the year where she didn't need to use them.  The one thing I'm not sure of is whether the tournaments preceeding the AO this year are counting as a PR as everyone in the AO regardless of how they qualified has been automatically entered.

-- Edited by emmsie69 on Thursday 4th of February 2021 07:39:54 AM

Kaia Kanepi has reached the semi finals as Muchova pulled out. She plays Alexandrova who beat Halep easily. Halep had some sort of injury.