Week 45 - WTA250 - Linz, Austria Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 45 - WTA250 - Linz, Austria Hard

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

Emma is seeded to meet Simona Halep in the final.

Pancho P · Lower Club Player

Likely to play Xin yu in Rd 2, just outside top 100.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Pancho P wrote:
Likely to play Xin yu in Rd 2, just outside top 100.

confuse

I'm not sure how you've come to that conclusion smile

(she may well play her, but at the moment, there's less than a 50% chance)

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Sunday 7th of November 2021 02:45:10 PM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It could well be Wang now that the 4 qualifiers have booked their place in the main draw, and have subsequently been placed. Emma faces the winner of Xinyu Wang vs Kozlova.

Pancho P · Lower Club Player

Just going by what your lot said on TF Ace, ha, ( or 1 person did anyway )

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Pancho P wrote:
Just going by what your lot said on TF Ace, ha, ( or 1 person did anyway )

Haha. It is looking a lot more likely now anyway - she is a 1/2 favourite to win her R1 match, but at the time, she hadn't won her FQR match (and lost the first set), and there was a 50% chance that she would have landed in that Emma Q vs Q spot, and a 50% chance that she wouldn't, plus had her R1 been vs a different Ukrainian qualifier (Tsurenko), she probably wouldn't have been favourite to make R2.

It will be an interesting match if it happens. She's a year older than Emma, and had better success at the Jr slams, and is now starting to win a few more matches on the WTA scene and slowly moving up the rankings. Still pretty erratic though.

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

Whoever plays Emma will already have played 3 matches before Emma plays her first. It's like the US Open in reverse fir Emma. ' ,

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Xinyu Wang landed her last 6 first serves, taking her overall first serve percentage to 50% in her win over Kozlova. In her two qualifying matches, her first serve percentage was 54.4% and 51.9%. The WTA stats have her average first serve percentage for the season as 51.3%. She looks talented in the rallies, good use of drop shots and volleys, very fast across the court but there were times in the first half of the match when her returning was awful; she won 4 points on return in the opening set.

So can Emma punish her 2nd serve ?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

how fast are the courts in Linz, relevant to that point about punishing second serve...

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

JonH comes home wrote:
how fast are the courts in Linz, relevant to that point about punishing second serve...

Slower than US Open, much faster than Indian Wells. Perhaps slightly faster than Transylvania. The bounce seems normal. I've watched a fair amount of 3 matches and a few points from 2 others, so the sample size is quite small.

-- Edited by kundalini on Monday 8th of November 2021 03:40:17 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

Emma is 4th on centre court tomorrow after an 11.30 start (UK 10.30). The 2nd match is not before 2pm (UK 1pm) so Emma is likely to start around 4pm (UK).

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 1 20 =CH v WANG, Xinyu (CHN) Q 106 =CH

-- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 9th of November 2021 07:49:53 PM

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

GAMEOVER wrote:
Emma is seeded to meet Simona Halep in the final.

Somehow it seems wrong that Emma is seeded higher than Simona.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Helen40 wrote:
GAMEOVER wrote:
Emma is seeded to meet Simona Halep in the final.
Somehow it seems wrong that Emma is seeded higher than Simona.

Halep is winning matches but hasn't won a tournament this year. Meanwhile Emma has won one really big one. Emma has only got to keep playing and winning a few matches to keep climbing the rankings, at least until next year's Wimbledon. Rankings should have settled down, one way or another, by this time next year.