Fran and Naiktha are the only seeds to make the QF, and one will obviously go tomorrow. Haddad Maia still lurking though, and she took out the top seed Cepede Royg earlier todau in what could have been a WTA match 3 or so years ago.

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Doubles catch-up

L16:- Naiktha Bains(GBR) / Conny Perrin (SUI) CR475 (238+237) [1] def Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) / Carole Monnet (FRA) CR537 (335+182) 6-1 6-1

QF:- Naiktha Bains(GBR) / Conny Perrin (SUI) CR475 (238+237) [1] LOST TO Yuliana Lizarazo (COL) / Aurora Zantedeschi (ITA) CR968 (399+569) 5-7 7-5 6-10

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 Just proves doubles is bit of a lottery!

R2: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) 5 252 (CH=199 2020) v ZANTEDESCHI, Aurora (ITA) Q 665 (CH=656 2021) 6-3 5-7 6-0
R2: JONES, Francesca (GBR) 2 213 v CAVALLE-REIMERS, Yvonne (ESP) Q 468 7-6(3) 6-7(4) 6-3

QF: BAINS, Naiktha (GBR) 5 252 (CH=199 2020) v JONES, Francesca (GBR) 2 213 (CH=206 2021)

Fran and Naiktha have played each other twice before with Naiktha winning both in three.

It's on the streamed court tomorrow. Play starts at 4.30pm UK where the local WC is up first, and then Fran-Naiktha follows on.

Bogota Quali sign in is by 4pm today so neither one will be making that unless they have already withdrawn

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indiana wrote:

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No it doesn't.

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 What does make it more of a lottery is sudden death deuce and match tie break third sets. This applies to singles when it is used too, eg mtb in 15k qualifying, and quite a lot of junior tournaments, both itf and lta. The supposed better player, higher ranked, or whatever, can usually win a full third set but can easily lose a mtb after managing to lose a set earlier. The format does maybe make players tighten up, maybe become better at tie breaks, no bad thing...

The worst thing was the lta fast 4 format with sudden death in tie breaks. The number of times I've seen it get to 9-9 in a mtb, then anything can happen and often does, unlucky net cord, bad call by an opponent, or just a silly error but with no opportunity to come back. Luckily they have now got rid of sudden death tiebreaks, caused far more problems than the odd minute or two it might save in time.

I know both players know the format before starting, that isn't my point, just that messing about with scoring system makes it more of a lottery.

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 Yes, if you're the weaker player, you would definitely choose to have sudden death deuce.

But as to MTBs messing with the scoring system and making it more random, it's true. But so do normal tie-breaks. We never used to have them (yonks ago). They also favour the weaker player. They also 'mess' with the traditional system. So why have one and not the other?

I'm 100% in favour of MTBs. I feel that 10 points is long enough. If you get an unlucky dead ball at 9-9, then it's tough but you shouldn't have been at 9-9- in the first place. Exactly as if you get an unlucky one at 5-5 in the normal tie-break. 

Presumably this day and age they can sign in online ? Surely ?!