Week 6 - Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Week 6 - Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard

flamingowings · All-time great

R1: Heather Watson CR 58, CH = 28 (Jan 2015) beat Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) CR 71, CH = 35 (July 2017) 7-6(4) 7-6(3)

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R2: Heather Watson CR 58, CH = 28 (Jan 2015) vs (21) Anett Kontaveit CR 22 CH = 14 (April 2019)
H2h 2-3, Kontaveit winning the two most recent meetings Brisbane in 2018 and Wimbledon in 2019 in straight sets.

-- Edited by flamingowings on Tuesday 9th of February 2021 08:08:32 AM

DF · Tennis legend

Fran's match is starting

ROSAMUND · Futures level

DF wrote:
Fran's match is starting

Change of court because of long matches before

flamingowings · All-time great

Jo's match has also had a court change and will be starting soon

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Just to state the obvious :smile

Thrilled for Heather!

Fran was 0-3 down, no? And now back on serve?

Allez !

Jaffa · Challenger level

Fran is doing exceptionally well. Well in it.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Second set running away from Fran. Only won a couple of points

4-6 0-4*

She's shown some impressive stuff today though. Came out and gave it a go.

Jo *4-3 but in a scrap.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Fran loses 64 61. Not a bad effort at all, and very good for her to see where she needs to build to keep moving forward.

Jo missed two set points and called the physio after missing a smash.

*5-4 15-15

indiana · Tennis legend

Great exoerience for Fran but no doubt she will be disappointed by the thumping she took in the second set.

I expect she'll go away wirh the aim to be back, to be back better.

DF · Tennis legend

Konta has taken the first set but then retires in pain

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Konta has taken the first set but then retires in pain

oh, gosh, what happened?

PaulM · Tennis legend

Very unfortunate for Jo. Hope she's ok. She could have done with a couple of wins here and the draw for the first couple of matches was pretty generous.

Disappointing end to the day!

Jan · Hall of fame

Poor Jo

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Am I mistaken - in Frans match, set 2 and her first service game with the score at 0-30, it looked like a ball was a foot out but wasnt called. Fran complained to no avail so 0-40 then lost the game and eventually the set. I was watching Dans match so not entirely focussed but if so, it was a huge mistake.