Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open, Women's Main Draw - Melbourne, Australia - Outdoor, Hard

flamingowings · All-time great

RE: Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open, Women's Main Draw - Melbourne, Australia - Outdoor, Hard

Jan · Hall of fame

Fab news! Well done Heather!
Tough one for Harriet.

Aberdaberdonian · Club Coach

Shame about Harriet, but no great surprise.
But yay to Heather, which considering how inconsistent her game can be, was a bit of a surprise.

flamingowings · All-time great

Heather's top reminds me of those rocket iced lollies

flamingowings · All-time great

Wtf has happened to Sabalenka? Painful stuff

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brilliant (and a long way from a given) from Hev
No surprise re Harriet
Thrilled for Sam Stosur, in front of the home crowd, in her last event
Noted that Hailey Baptiste (who Sam Murray came SO close to beating in QR1) put out Garcia today in R1 of the main draw.

Pancho P · Lower Club Player

Sab s all or nothing. At the moment nothing

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

flamingowings wrote:
flamingowings wrote:
L128: Tough ask.
(Q) Harriet Dart WR 125 LOST TO (7) Iga Swiatek (POL) WR 8
3-6 0-6
L128: Heather Watson WR 95 defeated Mayar Sherif (EGY)
6-3 7-5 6-2
Yay, so pleased to see a Heather main draw win!

*******
L64: (29) Tamara Zidansek (SLO) WR 29 (=CH) vs Heather Watson WR 95

Heather played Zidansek in Adelaide recently with Zidansek winning in 3 sets.

Jajon · Club Coach

flamingowings wrote:
Wtf has happened to Sabalenka? Painful stuff

She had service yips so badly in her last match probs ruined her confidence :

https://twitter.com/ninjaga20/status/1480715882028429313?s=21

The Twitter thread is kind of funny kind of sad

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

Jajon wrote:
flamingowings wrote:
Wtf has happened to Sabalenka? Painful stuff
She had service yips so badly in her last match probs ruined her confidence :

https://twitter.com/ninjaga20/status/1480715882028429313?s=21

The Twitter thread is kind of funny kind of sad

Sabalenka won in 3 sets .

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

GAMEOVER wrote:
emmsie69 wrote:
Wow Coco lost to a Wang. Think it's the Wang that Harriet beat a couple of weeks ago.
It's a different Wang. Harriet beat Xin Yu Wang a couple of weeks ago. The Wang who beat Coco is Qiang Wang. Qiang is the player who beat Ash Barty at the 2019 US Open and Serena Williams at the 2020 Australian Open. Also she beat Jo Konta 6-4 6-0 at Miami 2019 winning 10 games in a row. Qiang was in the top20 in 2020. To add to the confusion there are three Wang's in the main .draw.

Xinyu Wang who Harriet beat a couple of weeks ago is through to the 2nd round to play Sabalenka. Xiyu Wang is also through to the 2nd round to play Krejcikova so all 3 Wangs' are through to the 2nd round. ,

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

Another former champion to go out in the first round was Angie Kerber on her 34th birthday. She was beaten by Kaia Kanepi .

the addict · Tennis legend

Emma now on court and the warm-up has started.
Coverage on Eurosport 2

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Emma now on court and the warm-up has started.
Coverage on Eurosport 2

Radio Five Live doing live commentary as well on the main station, not Extra

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

JonH comes home wrote:
the addict wrote:
Emma now on court and the warm-up has started.
Coverage on Eurosport 2
Radio Five Live doing live commentary as well on the main station, not Extra

It's on both the Radio 5 live main station and extra.