Week 1 - WTA500 International - Adelaide, Australia Hard

Strongbow · All-time great

RE: Week 1 - WTA500 International - Adelaide, Australia Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 72 lost to TOMLJANOVIC, Ajla (AUS) 45 4-6 6-7(5)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Both Heather and Katie B with decent scores, and very close (on the face of it).

But no points for second place in tennis....... :(

PaulM · Tennis legend

Heather

Looks like there was very little in it from the live scores.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Yes, I watched quite a bit and thought Heather looked pretty good, from 'the off'.

the addict · Tennis legend

flamingowings wrote:
Q1: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 8 149 defeats STEFANINI, Lucrezia (ITA) 177 7-6(4) 6-1

FQR: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) 8 149 (CH=82 2019) v Daria Saville (AUS) 419 (CH=20 Aug 2017). She is coming back from achilles tendon surgery as she didn't play for most of 2021. She beat (4)Caty McNally in Q1.
(formerly Gavrilova - recently married Luke Saville)

Daria was in on a wild card. I assume she also has a special ranking as she's been out for so long, although she wouldn't need it in Australia as I'm sure she'd get wildcards wherever she wanted to play.

Steve J · Lower Club Player

Peter too wrote:
R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 72 lost to TOMLJANOVIC, Ajla (AUS) 45 4-6 6-7(5)

Better than I was expecting.

Does anybody know what Ms. Watson's current coaching arrangement is? She seemed to use one of the locals for her preseason block in Florida.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

From Steven:

With qualifying now finished, Katie Boulter is 2nd in line (behind Vögele) for a lucky loser place in Adelaide

Lambda · Challenger level

Have Heather and Katie lost their clothing sponsors? They both appeared to be playing in unbranded tops.

SuperT · Futures level

Katie's most recent photos from Adelaide on Instagram would suggest she's still a Nike lady.

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Lambda wrote:
Have Heather and Katie lost their clothing sponsors? They both appeared to be playing in unbranded tops.

The poster on Tennis forum who updates players' clothing sponsorship deals seems to think so.

From reading various articles on the subject, typically top 40 and potential stars of the future get paid, the rest get free clothing. So neither fall in the category of player that you'd expect to be paid at this stage.

the addict · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
From Steven:

With qualifying now finished, Katie Boulter is 2nd in line (behind Vögele) for a lucky loser place in Adelaide

No withdrawals showing at the moment.

I see that Daria Saville has drawn Iga Swiatik in the first round, with the winner to play Leylah Fernandez

dodrade · Futures qualifying

kundalini wrote:
Lambda wrote:
Have Heather and Katie lost their clothing sponsors? They both appeared to be playing in unbranded tops.
The poster on Tennis forum who updates players' clothing sponsorship deals seems to think so.
From reading various articles on the subject, typically top 40 and potential stars of the future get paid, the rest get free clothing. So neither fall in the category of player that you'd expect to be paid at this stage.

Perhaps Nike have given up on Katie now Emma's the new star of British Tennis, that said she would seem an obvious signing for Ellesse now Konta's retired.

HarryGem · Club Coach

PaulM wrote:
Heather Looks like there was very little in it from the live scores.

Too many unforced errors on key points I thought. Both players were ok and it was a tough draw for Heather, though, frankly, she's lucky her ranking is mainly there because of results two to two and a half years ago. Her 2021 was terrible and probably outside the top 100 really.

Typical early season match.

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

dodrade wrote:
kundalini wrote:
Lambda wrote:
Have Heather and Katie lost their clothing sponsors? They both appeared to be playing in unbranded tops.
The poster on Tennis forum who updates players' clothing sponsorship deals seems to think so.
From reading various articles on the subject, typically top 40 and potential stars of the future get paid, the rest get free clothing. So neither fall in the category of player that you'd expect to be paid at this stage.
Perhaps Nike have given up on Katie now Emma's the new star of British Tennis, that said she would seem an obvious signing for Ellesse now Konta's retired.

Yes Katie could go on and sign up for Ellesse and then advertise them as much as Jo did in the last 3 years.