Week 25 - Wimbledon - London (grass) - women's qualifying

Grachka · County player

RE: Week 25 - Wimbledon - London (grass) - women's qualifying

DF · Tennis legend

She is on court 18

indiana · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
I know it's maybe not the same, and maybe the women will really go south, but the excellent results in the men's (and the very close scores even in three who lost) are the reason (or one of them) that leaving the three spaces in the wildcard allocations here so annoys me.

We are very lucky to have a grand slam. Grass is a funny surface. Those wildcards should have been used (for Kylie, for Mimi Xu, for Emily App, for Freya, for some other country's youngster if need be). The experience and the possibility to rise to the occasion are part of what tennis is all about. And there's no excuse for not fostering it at quali level.

Indeed, indeed.

I have my views about Slam MD WCs in general. But qualies, should have gone for it , giving additional players a chance for the reasons you have given and with probably added uncertainty in covid times.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Phenomenal Eden!

Grachka · County player

Eva has been moved to Court 18 and is an early break down, but still in touch.

Ekaterine Gorgodze GEO *3-2 [WC] Eva Shaw GBR

emmsie69 · Top national player

Surprised they are still playing, it's not very light where I am, must be significantly better in Roehampton

Grachka · County player

Perhaps not needing to play for much longer...running away from Eva

Ekaterine Gorgodze GEO 6-2 *4-1 [WC] Eva Shaw GBR

Peter too · Tennis legend

Eva broke service but then lost her own again.

Grachka · County player

Ekaterine Gorgodze GEO d. [WC] Eva Shaw GBR 6-2 6-2

I could only see one player at any one time from the Eikeri-Niculescu feed, but Shaw looked like she had good shots, but inconsistent.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Eva lost 2 & 2.

I'd hoped for a closer score. But I didn't see the match, so no idea about how she played. At any rate, it took about an hour, and certainly wasn't a whitewash.

So, good on her, she's only 16 (just), hoped she enjoyed it.

Peter too · Tennis legend

From the scores Eva seemed to be fighting right to the end. She saved several match points in the final game and earned herself three more break points but couldn't quite convert them.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

From the stats

Eva hit more winners 18-12
but she had 33 unforced errors, which is more than half the 61 points Gorgodze won (compared with 8 from the Georgian).

I'd imagine she felt she had to up her level but it wasn't quite coming off. Hopefully she's got some good knowledge from this match on what she needs to improve on to be ready for the next level when that time comes.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

On Wednesday, Katie Swan and Naiktha are first matches, at 11 a.m.

Katie is on court 11, on TV

Matilda is 2nd on court 2

Tara and Eden are both fourth (nb 3.30) on 17 and 13 respectively

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
On Wednesday, Katie Swan and Naiktha are first matches, at 11 a.m.

Katie is on court 11, on TV

Matilda is 2nd on court 2

Tara and Eden are both fourth (nb 3.30) on 17 and 13 respectively

Naiktha is first on court 12.

so with the mens we have 9 players in action. In Eastbourne we have 9 mens doubles, 2 womens and 1 mens singles. So 21 players across two tournies . Whew.

wales1994 · County player

How can you watch these qualifying matches? I couldn't find them on BBC iPlayer