Week 26 - Wimbledon Ladies Qualifying, Great Britain Grass

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Week 26 - Wimbledon Ladies Qualifying

markymc1983 · Club Coach

Andrew Castle just stayed that a woman who was quite clearly not Su Wei Hseih was Su Wei Hseih. I just cant bear it will have to turn back to Eastbourne. Good luck Anna

markymc1983 · Club Coach

Crispy wrote:
Castle picks out random Asian woman in sunglasses in the crowd and asks if it's Hsieh... despite the fact she's about to play. GIVE ME STRENGTH.

He also said that she had lost despite her match not even starting yet

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Bai is an excellent player. Anna playing well, but her opponent looks very composed.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Anna is really nervous. Can see the tension in her swing. Has to dig in and keep this tight in the second. Bai playing good tennis.

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Bai's length has been excellent. She might have only hit one or two balls long in the match

Rich2310 · County player

Sadly seems to be slipping away now for Anna.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Such a shame. Anna not doing herself justice here at all and it's going to be over very quickly. Bai better than I expected but you can see the confidence has sapped away, she shouldn't have been broken at the start of this set with plenty of game points and it was just such a killer blow.

0-4*

-- Edited by PaulM on Thursday 29th of June 2023 02:17:08 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

No point sugar coating it, Anna was very poor today but that shouldn't take away from a fantastic 3 days. Two superb wins where she played great tennis, and showed what she is capable of

This will sting like hell, but will provide excellent motivation for the rest of the year I am sure. She won't want to feel how she does right now again, and hopefully the money helps give her a little breathing room with her planning too.

Once the dust settles she should be very proud of what she achieved this week.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q3: BROGAN, Anna (GBR) WC 370 lost to BAI, Zhuoxuan (CHN) 191 3-6 0-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
No point sugar coating it, Anna was very poor today but that shouldn't take away from a fantastic 3 days. Two superb wins where she played great tennis, and showed what she is capable of

This will sting like hell, but will provide excellent motivation for the rest of the year I am sure. She won't want to feel how she does right now again, and hopefully the money helps give her a little breathing room with her planning too.

Once the dust settles she should be very proud of what she achieved this week.

Yes, it was poor. And it wasn't that Bai was that good, either, IMO.

But, as you say, a very good week.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Such a shame I think Anna was a bit jaded today the two big wins looked to have taken it out of her but a good platform to show she can play with the top end ITF players. Hopefully push on into the top 300 this year shes got the game for it.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

markymc1983 wrote:
Crispy wrote:
Castle picks out random Asian woman in sunglasses in the crowd and asks if it's Hsieh... despite the fact she's about to play. GIVE ME STRENGTH.
He also said that she had lost despite her match not even starting yet

Hes a horrible man is Castle no redeeming features in his analysis. Why was he picked over others for a womens match. Laura or Naomi etc would have done so much better. In fact anyone would.

I nearly punched my iPad off the table when he said nobody cares about someone making the FQR they have to make the main draw. What a prat. He then finished by making a comment about the average British wage. Get him off our TV!

the addict · Tennis legend

Wickmayer has made it through qualifying so has her prizemoney AND 30 points. Still four matches going on, three of which may give the players to join Tauson in the lucky loser draw (Townsend, Yuan and Stefanini).

PaulM · Tennis legend

An enthralling match between Stefanini and Hseih sullied slightly by Hseih taking a MTO at 9-9* in the final set breaker after saving two match points.

Doesn't feel right.