Week 24 - WTA250 Nottingham, UK - Grass

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

RE: Week 24 - WTA250 Nottingham, UK - Grass

indiana · Tennis legend

Can we replace some of the Wimbledon men's MD WCs with women's MD WCs on the basis of a supply and demand issue?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
Can we replace some of the Wimbledon men's MD WCs with women's MD WCs on the basis of a supply and demand issue?

LOL

Grachka · County player

So close to a surprisingly routine win for Heather against a very inconsistent Niemeier, but then she threw in 2 DFs and a poor BH long to lose a 30-0 lead when she was serving for it.

Q Heather Watson GBR 6-2 5-3* Jule Niemeier GER

PaulM · Tennis legend

Heather recovers from *1-4 to 6-4 *5-2

Goes up 30-0. Double faults, which leads to a tentative second serve which is destroyed, which leads to another double fault. Backhand long.

Sigh

5-3*

Fortunately the German is unable to get enough first serves in, and most of her groundstrokes are landing half way up the net. Heather is through! (Shame she didn't play that badly at Wimbledon 12 months ago!)

-- Edited by PaulM on Monday 12th of June 2023 03:30:30 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, rather luckily JN played an awful service game

Well done to Hev - SO glad that Julie capitulated

(and collapsed in the first set - which shows it's other countries' player who collapse out of nowhere too)

All good

After three horrid three-set losses, we needed a win - bravo, Hev

Rich2310 · County player

Well done Heather. Nice straight sets victory to reach rd2. Three wins if you count her qualifying matches.

Grachka · County player

She gets by with a little help from her opponent, taking it on her second MP on the Niemeier serve. No doubt Niemeier not comfortable on the grass yet, but Heather played some nice stuff today and great to see her take it in straight sets (for once!).

Q Heather Watson GBR d. Jule Niemeier GER 6-4 6-3

Brendan F · Lower Club Player

Is it written that they HAVE to give a WC to Wickmayer? It may be harsh but if she's that good why isn't she in the top 100 now and in the MD by right? It's not our concern if the timing isn't right for her and it's not as if the other slams are sentimental enough to help out foreign players at the expense of their own.

Jan · Hall of fame

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Brendan F wrote:
Is it written that they HAVE to give a WC to Wickmayer? It may be harsh but if she's that good why isn't she in the top 100 now and in the MD by right? It's not our concern if the timing isn't right for her and it's not as if the other slams are sentimental enough to help out foreign players at the expense of their own.

Yes, pretty sure it's guaranteed, as is the other one (Ilkley, I think)

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

Well done, Heather.

Dallastone1 · Improver

Agree wholeheartedly.

French gave their women 6 WC ranked 109-189 and 10 in Qualifying.

We dont give out as many and then complain that we rarely have a win at Wimbledon outside of the usual suspects.

Grachka · County player

That policy for Ilkley and Surbiton is quite annoying. It might've made sense when there were fewer nailed-on cases for MD wildcards in the past, but I think you could justify WCs for all our ranked players down to Miyazaki (and probably Sonay too). They don't need the policy to encourage players to come either, since it's the grass season and there's a small window to get high level match play in.

indiana · Tennis legend

Brendan F wrote:
Is it written that they HAVE to give a WC to Wickmayer? It may be harsh but if she's that good why isn't she in the top 100 now and in the MD by right? It's not our concern if the timing isn't right for her and it's not as if the other slams are sentimental enough to help out foreign players at the expense of their own.

It's giving WCs to players that have produced the goods on grass going into Wimbledon. At least it's a reasonably relevant objective criterion.

And our main contenders were at Surbiton, did pretty well, but ultimately Wickmayer was the champion.