Week 34 US Open Qualifying

Jan · Hall of fame

Week 34 US Open Qualifying

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: DART, Harriet (GBR) 140 def Paquet, Chloe (FRA) 209 3-6 6-4 6-1
They met in 2018 and 2019 with Harriet winning on both occasions
Q1: MIYAZAKI, Yuriko Lily (GBR) 199 def SNIGUR (23), Daria (UKR) 125 6-3 6-2
Q1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 138 lost to YASTREMSKA , Dayana (UKR) (12) 111 3-6 2-6

Q2: DART, Harriet (GBR) 140 (CH=84 2022) v WICKMAYER, Yanina (BEL) (3) 86 (CH=12 2010)
They met in Surbiton in 2018 with Harriet winning 6-2 3-6 6-0
Q2: MIYAZAKI, Yuriko Lily (GBR) 199 (CH=169 2023) v SAVINYKH, Valeria ( ) 180 (CH=99 2012)
They met in Prague in 2022 with Valeria winning 5 & 2

the addict · Tennis legend

Neither draw looks very easy. Two experienced campaigners with decent current forms.

Yanina Wickmayer was ranked 140 with 488 points at the start of June before playing Surbiton, so has made good progress since reaching 770 points.
Valeria Savinykh has moved from WR240 on 299 points up to WR180 on 411 points in the same period.

seagull · Hall of fame

Boulter v Parry followed by Garcia

Burrage v Blinkova followed by Sabalenka

seagull · Hall of fame

Looks like all British players will be playing on same day (mens and womens)!

PaulM · Tennis legend

Harriet won 1 point in the first 3 games, but is on the board.

1-3*

Tough ask this.

DF · Tennis legend

Harriet lost 3-6 4-6

PaulM · Tennis legend

Gave it a fight but never looked the winner. Hope she can get a run of good events in the fall after a difficult summer.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Lily's match started, reached 1-1 40-40 and then the rains came down.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Posted by DF

Lily takes the first set 6-4

Jaffa · Challenger level

Theyve got Crawley V Babos on the live coverage and Im not exaggerating when I say its possibly the worst match Ive ever watched.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

6-4 3-1 - Lily could do this!

Strongbow · All-time great

JonH comes home wrote:
6-4 3-1 - Lily could do this!

Suspended cry

Lambda · Challenger level

Should Lily get through then I assume she'd have to play Q3 today also. The Q3 opponent for this match has only played 5 games of the 1st set of their Q2 match, so if Lily can wrap this up quickly she would have expended less energy today than her Q3 opponent.

Edited for clarity

-- Edited by Lambda on Friday 25th of August 2023 10:51:08 AM

DavidC · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
Should Lily get through then I assume she'd have to play Q3 today also. The Q3 opponent for this match has only played 5 games of the 1st set of their Q2 match, so if Lily can wrap this up quickly she would have expended less energy today than her Q3 opponent.
Edited for clarity

-- Edited by Lambda on Friday 25th of August 2023 10:51:08 AM

You may well be right that the organisers intend or intended (before today's delays) to ask players to play a second match today, given the US Open history (which includes I recall scheduling Andy Roddick for a round 4 match before all second round matches had started one rainy year), but personally I would find that very unsatisfactory. Playing 2 matches in a day is common in 1 week events to ensure completion, but this is a 3 week event (including qualifying) which is at the pinnacle of the sport, so has the time available to ensure that players are not disadvantaged in this way. The forecast for Saturday is good, so there is no need for organisers to disadvantage some players with long second round matches by asking them to play again.