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To be fair to Heather, looking at the WTA site, her 10 losses between Acapulco in February 2020 and losing to Harriet in Monterrey in March 2021 were all to top 100 players ( 91, 49, 61, 13, 82, 49, 64, 33, 36, 22 ). Her 4 defeats from then have been to 153, 95, 231, and 127, so 3 to > 100 in Harriet, BJK Cup and here, with just her BJK Cup WR 432 win. So rankingswise more of an issue lately.

These 10 wins and 14 losses from Acapulco 2020 on :
vs ranks 1 - 50 : 0 / 6
vs ranks 51 - 100 : 3 / 5
vs ranks 101 - 150 : 1 / 1
vs ranks 151 - 200 : 2 / 1
vs ranks > 200 : 4 / 1

Overall 3 top 100 wins and 3 outside top 100 losses, probably overall looking about WR 100 form. But more concerning lately.



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R64: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 15 18 (CH=4 2017) def PUTINTSEVA, Yulia (KAZ) 30 6-4 6-2

R32: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 15 18 (CH=4 2017) v SEVASTOVA, Anastasija (LAT) 54 (CH=11 2018)

They have met four times before, winning two apiece.

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Peter too wrote:

R64: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 15 18 (CH=4 2017) def PUTINTSEVA, Yulia (KAZ) 30 6-4 6-2

R32: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 15 18 (CH=4 2017) v SEVASTOVA, Anastasija (LAT) 54 (CH=11 2018)

They have mset four times before, winning two apiece.

 I thought some of the tennis in the 2nd set was some of the best I've seen Jo play for quite a while. Controlled aggression which was just way too much for Putintseva.

 

The match against Sevastova is quite interesting and potentially tricky. I've seen a couple of her matches this year and she's looked a quite good. She's pretty decent on clay and won't give Jo a lot of pace.



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Just looking at the draw, Jo is really in a very open quarter. Would be great to see her take advantage!

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Match has started. Many unforced errors from both.

2-2

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Jo made a terrible start but played well to get the break back from *0-2 0-30. Was broken in the next game then another couple of errors, especially off the backhand return.

*2-4

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Dreadful drop shot at 30-30, but she saves the break point, and then another to keep in contention.

3-4*

The court looks very slow and heavy, Jo is not able to put balls away that would be clean winners otherwise, and with Sevastova being quick and with good hands that extra ball is regularly what's doing for her.

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PaulM wrote:

Dreadful drop shot at 30-30, but she saves the break point, and then another to keep in contention.

3-4*

The court looks very slow and heavy, Jo is not able to put balls away that would be clean winners otherwise, and with Sevastova being quick and with good hands that extra ball is regularly what's doing for her.

 Surprised its slow, I guess its colder than normal ?



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Konta showing brilliant strokes then stupid unforced errors. The errors seem to be winning!

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Well the limited crowd are well wrapped up and Jo is in long sleeves and leggings!

Misses two break points, should have had the second but couldn't get the ball away and then couldn't control the volley.

There's some really good tennis in here but it's very patchy, not timing the ball well consistently and loads of errors long. The kicker out wide on the Ad-side looks nice though.

Saves 4 set points but not the fifth

3-6 0-0*

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A really long game, but Jo lost the first set 3-6

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Sevastova gets the first set 6-3

Her best shot was the dropshot

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A bit of her own worst enemy now, but these drop shots from the Latvian are gorgeous.

*2-5

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R32: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 15 18 lost to SEVASTOVA, Anastasija (LAT) 54 3-6 3-6

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Had plenty of break points in the final game but one ballooned second serve return aside, they were excellently saved. I don't think she could have turned the match round but would have been nice to see how the Latvian coped under more pressure.

I feel a bit more relaxed about where Jo is at having seen her two matches here. Today was a bit messy but there was enough good stuff in there to give heart, and it didn't feel the sort of painful unenjoyable nightmare many of her losses have been over the last year or so.

Plus, Sevastova is precisely the sort of tricksky, quick, clever defensively player Jo struggles with at the best of times (see also Jabeur).

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