Week 1 - WTA125 - Canberra, Australia Hard

Lambda · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 1 - WTA125 - Canberra, Australia Hard

Rich2310 · Club Coach

Come on Harriet. Chance for her biggest title to date here.

Strongbow · All-time great

Harriet 4-2 down in the first set having just got a break - Can;t see me staying up till the end disbelief

markymc1983 · Club Coach

does anybody have a stream?

Blue_Belle · Strong Club Player

A break down in the second too

Peter too · Tennis legend

F: DART, Harriet (GBR) 120 (CH=84 2022) lost to PARRIZAS DIAZ, Nuria (ESP) 123 (CH=45 2022) 4-6 3-6

GAMEOVER · Pro player

Lambda wrote:
GAMEOVER wrote:

PaulM wrote:
And it looks like the latest withdrawals should sneak Heather into a top 32 seeding for qualies, which could make a big difference.
The latest shown is Harriet as 8th seed in qualifying and Heather at 32.

I make it Harriet 13th seed and Heather 29th seed using 1 Jan rankings.

This was my mistake as I was taking live rankings as opposed to the rankings of 1st January which are used. However Harriet and Heather will have risen one in qualifying as Brady pulled out and Juvan is now in. The majors used to consist of 106 direct entries 8 wild cards and 16 qualifiers . Now we have added 2 significant new categories. One is protected entry and the other is entries via withdrawals. For the AO initially there were 8 protected entries and there are currently 7 withdrawals. Of course it is better to withdraw before qualifying starts.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Bad luck Harriet, but a great week.

Crispy · Intermediate Club Player

Bad luck Harriet, but fantastic week nevertheless and I can see her back in the top 100 soon. I have a lot of time for Parrizas-Diaz, making her breakthrough in her 30s. Hope it inspires a lot of our players!

Mervatron2 · Futures level

Shame about the final reuslt but a good start to the year.

She qualified previously for the aus open didnt she? Hopefully can repeat this year.

LordBrownof · Futures level

I don't know if this was reported elsewhere but Harriet also was ill at the beginning of the week so even more impressive.

Rich2310 · Club Coach

All in all it's a good start to the year for Harriet and other British players.

indiana · Tennis legend

Mervatron2 wrote:
Shame about the final reuslt but a good start to the year.

She qualified previously for the aus open didnt she? Hopefully can repeat this year.

She's a pretty serial qualifier at the Aus Open. Qualified in 2019. 2020 and 2022. Had a DE in 2023. She's also twice qualified for the US Open. Must be our best GS qualifier over recent years.

Deucebag · Lower Club Player

Unlike a lot of the other British girls Harriet has the ability to play for most of the calendar without picking up too many injuries.
I would like to see her break into the top 100 and stay there for a while.

emmsie69 · ATP level

Pretty sure Harriet will be top 100 shortly. She's covered her points through Feb already so its all gravy for the next 7 weeks atleast.