Week 39 - WTA250 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (Hard)

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 39 - WTA250 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (Hard)

emmsie69 · Top national player

1st set 6-3

emmsie69 · Top national player

and now 4-1 down 2nd set

PaulM · Tennis legend

Broke at 1-5*

*2-5

PaulM · Tennis legend

A half chance at 30-15* at 3-5* to get back in serve, but it's into a third.

6-3 3-6 1-0*

emmsie69 · Top national player

And now a break in the 3rd, hopefully she can wrap this one up tikkety boo

emmsie69 · Top national player

which she promptly hands back

emmsie69 · Top national player

33% 1st serve percentage is not going to win this match.

DF · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
33% 1st serve percentage is not going to win this match.

Struggling. Although she does not seem to be in pain from the arm as she has been in previous tournaments.

the addict · Tennis legend

emmsie69 wrote:
33% 1st serve percentage is not going to win this match.

Sofascore shows 50% for the whole match, with 6 aces and 9 DF. But only 42% for the third set, nowhere near what she needed

PaulM · Tennis legend

Loses it 7-5 in the third. Krunic is no mug but these are the events Katie needs to be picking up wins in to move back to the top 100. Longer you get stuck in this 150-200 range the harder it is to get out.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Oh well off to IW, hopefully another week will help her get some form going. Beginni g of 3rd set she was at 33% and 4 DF, don't think she served anymore DF and her serve % increased, might just be a lack of confidence in her shoulder throwing her serve action slightly off.

the addict · Tennis legend

SuperT wrote:
the addict wrote:
Peter too wrote:
kundalini wrote:
Katie Boulter play Krunic tomorrow. It's on the order of play, though I can't find an updated main draw.
I really don't know why the WTA attempt to run a website. They are so useless at it they would do better to pay someone like ITF to run it for them.
It's really infuriating that they can post the draws on the app, but never seem to post any draws on the website until the main draw is actually in play, which can be at least two days after qualifying starts.
The ITF manage to post the draws quickly, often within one hour of qualifying sign-in.
I agree it's hopeless. I use the TNNS app a lot and they always have the PDF draws for ATP matches which shows points, prize money etc which I found very helpful, but they're never available for the WTA matches, presumably because they're not available of the WTA site.

Found this link via the TNNS app - it has links to live draws (for this tournament at least !), as well as to the still-non-existent official WTA draws.

https://downloadtennis.com/

the addict · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Doubles

L16:- Vera Lapko (BLR) / Lidziya Marozava (BLR) CR374 (271+103) v Rutuja Bhosale (IND) / Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) CR423 (219+204)

L16:- Jaqueline Cristian (ROU) / Ekaterine Gorgodze (GEO) CR417 (309+108) v Samantha Murray Sharan / Valeria Savinykh (RUS) CR327 (164+163)

Sam and Valeria won 6-3 6-4 as previously reported. Their next opponents won't be known for a couple of days.

Em and Rutuja play tomorrow (Tuesday), sixth and last match on Centre Court.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

PaulM wrote:
Loses it 7-5 in the third. Krunic is no mug but these are the events Katie needs to be picking up wins in to move back to the top 100. Longer you get stuck in this 150-200 range the harder it is to get out.

A real missed opportunity given the rest of the field, I hope she doesn't end up marooned outside the top 100 like Harriet.