I wonder what's happened to Harriet. She posted a pic at the venue yesterday, and there was also a pic with Kontaveit (although not sure if that's an old one), but she's not in the Q draw, and not ranked high enough to get in directly. Would be a shame if she is a late withdrawal.

Lambda wrote:

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Harriet withdrew from all ITF events for weeks 41 and 42 yesterday as well, so presumably injured?

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 How many times have we asked if she is injured or not this year? I think it's at least 3 times. 

Of course she did have wrapping on her thigh last week. 

Raducanu working with Bates this week. Which is a little upsetting...

Pancho P wrote:

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Interesting opponent for Katie ( age 16 ). Seems to remember Brant won a few matches at the open ?

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          That was in Q though, ha. Katie strong fav here with tennis explorer. Never under estimate a teenager though... me thinks.

DF wrote:

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Looks like Harriet has had a wc into the main draw according to dart rankinking

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 From the BNP Paribas official site (posted Thursday 30th September)

"On the womens side, 18-year-old American and four-time doubles champion Catherine McNally will head to the desert as a main draw wild card, as will Americans Claire Liu, Katie Volynets, Katrina Scott and 2020 Orange Bowl Junior champion Ashlyn Krueger. 18-year-old Elsa Jacquemot of France received the final womens main draw wild card.

2021 US Open Champion Emma Raducanu was previously awarded a main draw wild card.

Qualifying wild cards into the 2021 BNP Paribas Open on both the mens and womens sides will be announced in the coming days."

Looks like we will have to wait for the draws to come out.

emmsie69 wrote:

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Has Kim withdrawn and she's nabbed that one?

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 The WTA reported on Friday that Kim had a WC - but then the WTA aren't always up to date with their news (not as bad as the draws though!)

the addict wrote:

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DF wrote:

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Looks like Harriet has had a wc into the main draw according to dart rankinking

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 From the BNP Paribas official site (posted Thursday 30th September)

"On the womens side, 18-year-old American and four-time doubles champion Catherine McNally will head to the desert as a main draw wild card, as will Americans Claire Liu, Katie Volynets, Katrina Scott and 2020 Orange Bowl Junior champion Ashlyn Krueger. 18-year-old Elsa Jacquemot of France received the final womens main draw wild card.

2021 US Open Champion Emma Raducanu was previously awarded a main draw wild card.

Qualifying wild cards into the 2021 BNP Paribas Open on both the mens and womens sides will be announced in the coming days."

Looks like we will have to wait for the draws to come out.

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 Not the first time they have made mistakes with wild cards. However they do have the option to give 8 wild cards and Harriet and also Zavatska appear to have been added to the list according to dartsrankings . As you say we will have to wait for the draws to come out.