Week 12 - WTA1000 - Miami, USA Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Week 12 - WTA1000 - Miami, USA Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Yeah Harriet can't do anything with these balls she's getting, and is becoming increasingly frustrated.

1-5*

the addict · Tennis legend

A bit of a recovery
3-6

PaulM · Tennis legend

Misses a break point in a very long game.

*1-1

PaulM · Tennis legend

This is just a really bad match up for Harriet unfortunately. She can't work out what to do and doesn't have the power to hit through Maria.

*1-3

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: DART, Harriet (GBR) (23) 122 lost to MARIA, Tatjana (GER) 248 3-6 3-6

Julia Carrot · All-time great

What a shame for Harriet.

emmsie69 · Top national player

Disappointing but I'm not hugely surprised after such a big week. Another learning curve, how to consolidate performances.

indiana · Tennis legend

I'd agree that I think it was more a match-up problem than a follow-up problem.

Crispy · Strong Club Player

time for some rest; hopefully it can mean she's fully prepped for Marbella and the clay. I think it's scheduled for Miami week 2, so can still add points to this period.

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

GAMEOVER wrote:
HarryGem wrote:
I'd say Emma has by far the toughest draw there. Siniakova won't be easy and right now, on current form, can't see her beating Halep. Would be very interesting if Harriet was the qualifier Siniakova faces.

Heather has a really good shot at getting through two rounds. Rus is absolutely the epitome of an average career player, most of whose points come from the ITF circuit. Svitolina is basically a walking bye most of the time. One match at a time but if Heather can't beat Rus then not sure where she will pick up points before the grass season.

Shame Harriet has to qualify but she should really beat Maria whose best days are a way behind her now. Not sure who Harriet would play in the final qualifier but if she wants to establish herself in the top 100 then these are the matches she needs to win.

-- Edited by HarryGem on Monday 21st of March 2022 02:43:48 PM
If Harriet beats Maria she would play either Trevisan or Yue Yuan

This was academic because Maria won.

PaulM · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
I'd agree that I think it was more a match-up problem than a follow-up problem.

Yes very much my view from what I saw. Frustrating as I don't think she'd have had trouble with a lot of other options there and would have fancied her in the final round. Qualifier slots are also much more friendly here than IW. But oh well.

Harriet is in the main draw for Bogota and very close to a seeding. So not sure if she will do Marbella. But it's a long fortnight to hand around over the Atlantic now so schedule may well change.

-- Edited by PaulM on Monday 21st of March 2022 05:46:50 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
I'd agree that I think it was more a match-up problem than a follow-up problem.

Yes - from what I saw Harriet looked bamboozled by Maria - tried coming forwards a lot but then backed off at the key moment - she was going round in circles really....

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

Petra Martic who beat Emma at Indian Wells last week , lost in the 1st round of qualifying as well.

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

GAMEOVER wrote:
If Heather could beat Rus she would play Svitolina . Svitolina is not at her best these days. As far as qualifying is concerned there are on paper some useful players here. That includes Harriet, Martic, Juvan,Claire Liu, Yastremska, Kalinskaya ,Qiang Wang, Bouzkova. This is a more impressive list than some of the players in the main draw. . Heather might be glad she is not in qualfying.

I think I put a curse on the qualifiers as the first 3 names on the list Harriet, Martic and Juvan all lost in the 1st round of qualifying.