Week 12 - WTA1000 Miami, USA Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 12 - WTA1000 Miami, USA Hard

Priesty · Challenger level

Lost 6-3 7-5.

indiana · Tennis legend

I take no responsibily for any 10ps lost.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Yep, first set exactly 30 mins, second set exactly 60 mins, and I would imagine plenty of trademark fight in the latter. Couldn't watch unfortunately, so can't really comment more than that, but I think it does look a decent enough effort.

Apologies for anyone who signed up to Unibet today expecting to see it, no idea what happened there, but sure enough, Baptiste vs Minnen, the following Q match on Court 7 is there, and available to stream, which is pretty annoying:

www.unibet.co.uk/betting/sports/event/live/1007457418

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I see the 19 year old Chinese X Wang's have both got MDWCs again this year, like they had in 2019. When you see Jack with his MDWC, Kyle, Jay, Katie B, Heather, and Laura all benefitting, some a number of times, in recent editions, and Emma with IMG links (they have a big say in WC allocations) www.facebook.com/IMGTennis/posts/congratulations-emma-raducanu-official-for-winning-your-first-ever-25k-title-tod/1401803840002103/, I wonder if she was initially earmarked for a WC of some sort here this year, but turned it down due to her academic commitments / pandemic?

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Peter too wrote:
R1: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 17 18 (CH=4 2017) v Bye
R1: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 319 (CH=82 2019) v PLISKOVA, Kristyna (CZE) 78 (CH=35 2017)
R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 65 (CH=38 2015) v Qualifier

Jo's next opponent will be Robin Montgomery or Magda Linette, she hasn't played either before.
If Katie wins her next opponent will be Elise Mertens.
If Heather wins her next opponent will be Yulia Putintseva. The record is 2-1 to Yulia.

Jo plays Linette next who beat Montgomery 6-1 3-6 6-0. One of those lob sided type of scores.

Robin Montgomery(another promising young American ) is slightly younger than Coco Gauff being born on 5th Sep. 2004 to Gauff's 13 th March 2004.

-- Edited by ROSAMUND on Tuesday 23rd of March 2021 07:44:23 PM

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Jo plays Magda Linette next. Looking on Wikipedia Linette has a British coach in Mark Gellard. Is anybody familiar with him as a coach?

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Ace Ventura wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
PaulM wrote:
Brilliant! I really didn't expect that third set - she'd invested so much fight and energy to get that first set and save so many break points in the second before Zhu finally got in front that I thought the Chinese woman would get a lift and motor on. But Harriet really dug in, attacked every point, and absolutely deserved the win. Even when there were a couple of sticky moments (missed a point or two for *5-1) she dusted down and moved on.

Really classy performance, delighted for her. Some beautiful hitting, lovely winner to finish it.
Sounds like you were watching a stream ? I couldn't find one.
Betting sites are covering quals, and thus, the usual dodgy sites like jokerlivestreams and the like will cover them. I've mentioned them a few times, so it'll come across like I'm a rep or something, but honestly, signing up to Unibet, depositing a fiver, and just watching their streams, not actually betting if you're against / don't like that sort of thing is really handy for a tennis fan. You can get the matches full screen, the quality is fine, you don't need worry about virus', your stream isn't going to cut off and you have to start scrapping around for another.
WTA qualifying coverage used to be few and far between, and only a few select tournaments would have streams, but since the turn of the year, I think Unibet has had qualifying coverage for every WTA event, and it's been a godsend. I had Harriet on my phone full screen last night and then casted it to my telly, and the quality was pretty much spot on, and had another match on the laptop.

Thanks so much. I am enrolled with Bet 365, but I realise now my credit had dropped below the statutory fiver and hence it perhaps didn't make Harriets stream available to me, I've topped up now

I've just now read on the rest of the conversation and I see that it wasn't covered anyway, hey ho

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Tuesday 23rd of March 2021 07:59:46 PM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ROSAMUND wrote:
Jo plays Magda Linette next. Looking on Wikipedia Linette has a British coach in Mark Gellard. Is anybody familiar with him as a coach?

http://www.tennisviewmag.com/tennis-view-magazine/article/mark-gellard-life-professional-touring-coach-part-one

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

www.tennisviewmag.com/tennis-view-magazine/article/interview-coach-mark-gellard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Julia Carrot wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
PaulM wrote:
Brilliant! I really didn't expect that third set - she'd invested so much fight and energy to get that first set and save so many break points in the second before Zhu finally got in front that I thought the Chinese woman would get a lift and motor on. But Harriet really dug in, attacked every point, and absolutely deserved the win. Even when there were a couple of sticky moments (missed a point or two for *5-1) she dusted down and moved on.

Really classy performance, delighted for her. Some beautiful hitting, lovely winner to finish it.
Sounds like you were watching a stream ? I couldn't find one.
Betting sites are covering quals, and thus, the usual dodgy sites like jokerlivestreams and the like will cover them. I've mentioned them a few times, so it'll come across like I'm a rep or something, but honestly, signing up to Unibet, depositing a fiver, and just watching their streams, not actually betting if you're against / don't like that sort of thing is really handy for a tennis fan. You can get the matches full screen, the quality is fine, you don't need worry about virus', your stream isn't going to cut off and you have to start scrapping around for another.
WTA qualifying coverage used to be few and far between, and only a few select tournaments would have streams, but since the turn of the year, I think Unibet has had qualifying coverage for every WTA event, and it's been a godsend. I had Harriet on my phone full screen last night and then casted it to my telly, and the quality was pretty much spot on, and had another match on the laptop.

Thanks so much. I am enrolled with Bet 365, but I realise now my credit had dropped below the statutory fiver and hence it perhaps didn't make Harriets stream available to me, I've topped up now

This resulted in a full blown betting conversation, haha. It actually just appears to be Unibet (not Bet365 anymore) covering WTA quals as of 2021, so you wouldn't find them on B365 unfortunately (my usual place). That said, Unibet seemingly covered every WTA qualifying match today, bar Harriet vs Martincova, which was pretty annoying. No idea why it didn't show Harriet, it had the next women's quals match on the same court directly after it, but Unibet defo does seem to be the place to go these days for WTA quals.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

JonH comes home wrote:
www.tennisviewmag.com/tennis-view-magazine/article/interview-coach-mark-gellard

Thanks for that . Able to read up about him. Must admit I had never heard of him until now. Didn't feature in British coaching circles.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Buzarnescu threatening a comeback in the decider against Friedsam, in the battle of the former top 50's who have been struck down by injuries.

That is the final Q match. The 11 qualifiers thus far, and potential Heather opponents are:

Stojanovic, Cocciaretto, Baptiste, Zarazua, Danilovic, Kucova, Martincova, Bolsova, Samsonova, Pironkova, Dodin

Edit - Buzarnescu recovers from 2-5* in the decider to take the final 5 games and seal the final Q spot, so you can add her to the 11 names above.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 23rd of March 2021 08:28:09 PM

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Priesty wrote:
Lost 6-3 7-5.

A real shame after her efforts yesterday.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Nina Stojanovic for Watson.