Wow!

Petra certainly helped Jodie out with a truly shocking serving display in the 3rd set but Jodie kept her error count very low after getting broken in the first game of the final set.

Wins it with an ace after saving bp with an ace, 3 super backhand winners in the final game.

I only started watching late in the first set but Petra looked good to me until late in the 2nd set. Jodie was making too many blunders, allowing Petra to stay ahead. Once those disappeared, Jodie found it a lot easier to hold serve, helped by 6 unreturned 2nd serves in her last 11.

At times the game looks very easy for Jodie. Though the bounce smash followed by smash miles long was painful to watch.

wales1994 wrote:

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Is this her biggest ever win??? Great performance from Jodie, Martic a bit sloppy. But Jodie played some great tennis - very much deserved.

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It is! A fantastic win from a set and 3-5 down  and only her second win against a top 100 player (after Zhu in Nottingham earlier this month) and this win takes her to within touching distance of the top 150.

A big test next against world no. 4 Badosa, but the Spaniard doesn't have a great record against Brits - W6 L6, but she has only won 2 of her last 8 against GB players, though all of those were before her big surge into the top 50 and then the top 10.

The Brits who beat Badosa in 2018-19 and might have some tips for Jodie (though they might be a bit out of date, admittedly!):

Eden Silva (Loughborough W25 in 2018)
Katie Swan (Nottingham WTA QR2 in 2018)
Harriet Dart (Oslo W25 FINAL in 2018)
Emma Raducanu (in the QFs at Bolton W25 in 2019, when she then went out to Jodie herself in the SFs)
Katy Dunne (Les Franqueses del Vallès W60 FINAL in 2019)
Heather Watson (Beijing QR1 in 2019)

 

 

steven wrote:

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wales1994 wrote:

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Is this her biggest ever win??? Great performance from Jodie, Martic a bit sloppy. But Jodie played some great tennis - very much deserved.

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It is! A fantastic win from a set and 3-5 down  and only her second win against a top 100 player (after Zhu in Nottingham earlier this month) and this win takes her to within touching distance of the top 150.

A big test next against world no. 4 Badosa, but the Spaniard doesn't have a great record against Brits - W6 L6, but she has only won 2 of her last 8 against GB players, though all of those were before her big surge into the top 50 and then the top 10.

The Brits who beat Badosa in 2018-19 and might have some tips for Jodie (though they might be a bit out of date, admittedly!):

Eden Silva (Loughborough W25 in 2018)
Katie Swan (Nottingham WTA QR2 in 2018)
Harriet Dart (Oslo W25 FINAL in 2018)
Emma Raducanu (in the QFs at Bolton W25 in 2019, when she then went out to Jodie herself in the SFs)
Katy Dunne (Les Franqueses del Vallès W60 FINAL in 2019)
Heather Watson (Beijing QR1 in 2019)

 

 

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WHAT!? She'd only beaten one top 100 player before?? Surely that can't be true! That stat has shocked me

Harriet starts well then loses 6 games in a row. Poor tennis.

3-6 0-0*

-- Edited by PaulM on Monday 20th of June 2022 04:39:41 PM

I've always thought Harriet is essentially a B-grade Madison Brengle. I don't mean that as a horrible comment. Just that they both have some of the worst serves on tour, particular the 2nd serves, no real weapons. Just players who are gritty, put their all in and are making up for a lack of weapons / natural talent with effort.

Brilliant win for Jodie, and her grass season keeps getting better and better. I'll probably give this place a wide berth, either way, tomorrow 

 

A pretty ugly match between a pusher and a counter puncher, but Harriet gets there in the end. 3-6 6-1 6-4

She really struggled having to generate her own pace, but found a way and that's what matters!