January 2020 were when both of those meetings took place, both on hard. Podoroska was ranked 258 during both matches, Fran was 350 and 352, so they have both made really good progress in those 12 months.

It's still very early days in Nadia's 'WTA' career following her surprise RG run to leave the ITF scene behind, and she's possibly still finding her feet. It'll likely be a tough match, as it would be against a lot of the field, but I don't think that opponent ranking is as daunting as it looks on paper, at this stage.

Peter too wrote:

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Q1: JONES, Francesca (GBR) 244 (CH=241 2020) v PODOROSKA, Nadia  (ARG) 14 47 =CH

 

Fran has played Nadia twice already this year losing in two and in three , in surprisingly close matches considering the difference in ranks.

 

NB. I may have to swap the two Melbourne draws round as the WTA and other sources differ.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 29th of January 2021 11:30:08 AM

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 As peter too says, the WTA is doing a great job of causing confusion by posting draws with the wrong names at the top of the draw sheets.

What a rubbish organisation they really are!

https://mobile.twitter.com/fogmount/status/1355080264553127936/photo/1 

Note that Fran's match is MD R1 (54 player draw). I don't think there is any qualifying for these WTA 500s, the eligible players just going into MDs. I had just thought how on earth could Podoroska be in qualifying, let alone q14 seed. 

No Brits on schedule for tomorrow in either WTA event

It looks like Fran's  match is scheduled  on court   8 overnight to start at 12.45.  She will be playing at exactly the same time as Katie.

JonH comes home wrote:

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ROSAMUND wrote:

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It looks like Fran's  match is scheduled  on court   8 overnight to start at 12.45.  She will be playing at exactly the same time as Katie.

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 according to the pdf on tnns from wta, Fran follows Katie and both are on court 8. Unless theyve changed the schedule?

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 Sorry Jon you are correct. I couldn't quite work  out the court, timing and the 2 tournaments. One match  follows the other. It's complicated with 2 separate womens tournaments going on at the same venue. Jo was shown for a long time  playing on Sunday night/Monday morning TBD and now that is not the case.

33 minutes for the first set. No doubt who was in charge, but the scoreline seemed a bit unrepresentative.
1-6 to the Argentine. No break-point chances yet for Jones.