Week 16 - WTA500 - Stuttgart, Germany Clay

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Week 16 - WTA500 - Stuttgart, Germany Clay

paulisi · Tennis legend

There are no guarantees Emma will get a wildcard into Roland Garros.
Too many GS champs will require - Halep, Wozza, Osaka, Emma, Kerber
Plus they have a reciprocal arrangement and locals to promote

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Sorry, I meant because she is 5 out from the main draw (4 if Jodie doesnt play), can she enter qualifying with her ranking on Monday, or must she use her SR?

Lambda · Challenger level

It doesn't matter if she enters with her SR or not. If she enters qualifying with her SR and by the end of the 1st qualifying round her actual ranking at the entry deadline would have got her in to qualifying then the SR doesn't count as being used.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
There are no guarantees Emma will get a wildcard into Roland Garros.
Too many GS champs will require - Halep, Wozza, Osaka, Emma, Kerber
Plus they have a reciprocal arrangement and locals to promote

Good chance she's in as of right, no wildcard needed

And if - in fact - it IS needed, I think the FFT will prioritise her over Kerber (way more upside)

And over Osaka - with whom they have a very spiky past relationship (the fine, the withdrawal etc)

Probably over Wozniacki (who never did very well at RG)

In fact, over all of them bar possibly Halep, being a past RG champion (although there's still the drug thing to get round)

I'm pretty sure Emma will be in RG MD

Peter too · Tennis legend

Emma has apparently reported that she is on the way to Madrid, which suggests she may be playing there. Madrid don't seem to have issued an alternates list for the main draw. They have also only listed two wild cards. So it is hard to check who is playing.

-- Edited by Peter too on Saturday 20th of April 2024 01:43:46 PM

DF · Tennis legend

Peter too wrote:
Emma has apparently reported that she is on the way to Madrid, which suggests she may be playing there. Madrid don't seem to have issued an alternates list for the main draw. They have also only listed two wild cards. So it is hard to check who is playing.

Halep was one of those wcs but has now withdrawn from Madrid due to 'continued health reasons'.

Var · Pro player

DF wrote:
Peter too wrote:
Emma has apparently reported that she is on the way to Madrid, which suggests she may be playing there. Madrid don't seem to have issued an alternates list for the main draw. They have also only listed two wild cards. So it is hard to check who is playing.
Halep was one of those wcs but has now withdrawn from Madrid due to 'continued health reasons'.

Isnt it run by her management company IMG? Im sure Lambda said she would get a WC if she was fit.

-- Edited by Var on Saturday 20th of April 2024 04:27:31 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Peter too wrote:
Emma has apparently reported that she is on the way to Madrid, which suggests she may be playing there. Madrid don't seem to have issued an alternates list for the main draw. They have also only listed two wild cards. So it is hard to check who is playing.
Halep was one of those wcs but has now withdrawn from Madrid due to 'continued health reasons'.

Various things spring all to readily to mind.....

dodrade · Futures qualifying

GAMEOVER wrote:
GAMEOVER wrote:
Peter too wrote:
QF: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 302 (CH=10 2022) lost to SWIATEK, Iga (POL) 1 =CH 6-7(2) 3-6

They have played twice before with Iga winning 4 & 4 in Stuttgart in 2022 and 3 &1 in Indian Wells in 2023.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 19th of April 2024 06:44:00 PM
They met as juniors at junior Wimbledon 2018 and Emma only won 1 game on that occasion. Swiatek was unseeded at the time and went on to become the champion.
Following on from my comment about Emma and Iga meeting at junior Wimbledon(quarter finals) 2018 in a fore taste of what was to come Emma had beaten Leylah Frenandez in the 2nd round. There were a number of other players that year who went on to make their mark in tennis including Coco Gauff, Burel, Xinyu and Xiyu Wang, Avanesyan, Volynets, Fran Jones, Cocciaretto, Rakimova,Tauson, Stearns, Diane Parry, Osorio, McNally, and Qinwen Zheng. The exceptions were the runner up Leonie Kung and top seed Whitney Osuigwe.

-- Edited by GAMEOVER on Saturday 20th of April 2024 09:21:35 AM

Shows how different junior and senior tennis can be. Must be difficult now for Osuigwe to see all her contemporaries overtake her.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Osuigwe was never going to make it
I'd never seen such a truly sulky teenager who so obviously didn't want to play, when she was with her dad at Wimbledon qualies
He was going all guns, and she was dragging her feet something chronic

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Coup Droit wrote:
Osuigwe was never going to make it
I'd never seen such a truly sulky teenager who so obviously didn't want to play, when she was with her dad at Wimbledon qualies
He was going all guns, and she was dragging her feet something chronic

Thanks for that insight CD. This is one reason I love to see our players while we can still get up close and personal to them.

Var · Pro player

See Rybakina took down Iga in three sets yesterday. Interesting.

Tanaqui · Club Coach

Coup Droit wrote:
Osuigwe was never going to make it
I'd never seen such a truly sulky teenager who so obviously didn't want to play, when she was with her dad at Wimbledon qualies
He was going all guns, and she was dragging her feet something chronic

Thanks for the insight, CD. It sounds like not making it and getting out of tennis may have been the best thing for Osuigwe, if all the desire was coming from a pushy parent. We've heard enough horror stories over the years about the kind of deeply unhealthy situation that can be. (Not saying it actually was anything like that with Osuigwe and her dad, just that the dynamic you describe doesn't sound good.)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

To be fair, it was based primarily on sitting next to them at one lunch (and then the afternoon match)

And we all know that teenagers can be a little temperamental biggrin

So maybe they'd had words earlier or something

But it wasn't like the two of them weren't talking - honestly, Dad was holding forth at GREAT length about all the tennis aspects of her up-and-coming match, and tennis in general, and her tennis in particular - and she looked utterly bored witless (and really cross that she was having to sit through it all)