Week 24 - WTA250 - Nottingham, Great Britain Grass

Neil Gee · Club Coach

Week 24 - WTA250 - Nottingham, Great Britain Grass

Deucebag · Intermediate Club Player

The level has dropped massively from both players. You can understand them being both a little bit tight.

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) WC 209 (CH=10 2022) v BOULTER, Katie (GBR) (3) 30 (CH=27 2024) 7-6(13) 3-6 6-4

F: BOULTER, Katie (GBR) (3) 30 (CH=27 2024) v PLISKOVA, Karolina (CZE) (6) 50 (CH=1 2017)

They have played four times before with Katie winning the two played on grass.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

No hug at the net. You would have thought there would be.

Neil Gee · Club Coach

That was one draining third set of tennis.

Good luck with getting your level back up for this evening's final, Katie.

seagull · Hall of fame

Katie now live ranked 33. A win in final would probably guarantee Wimbledon seeding (sounds familiar!)

Var · Pro player

Julia Carrot wrote:
No hug at the net. You would have thought there would be.

Never thought there was much love lost between Katie and Emma. Katies closer to Jodie.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Elegant Point wrote:
paulisi wrote:
DF wrote:
Pliskova awaits ........who?
Emma will win.
Wasnt that impressed with Pliskova, Katie or Emma should beat her...
Hoping for Katie to dominate - she needs the £££ more than Emma

Yes

Although I don't think Katie is short of a few bob either - but not quite in Emma's league biggrin

Anyway, Katie only won to prove her point to paulisi - the players do it deliberately to make fun and tease biggrin

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Sunday 16th of June 2024 02:47:41 PM

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Emma's first serve placement seemed pretty good this week until today when it became a series of serves straight into Katie's hitting zone.

Katie performed well apart from the occasional horror service game. Emma very poor today, barely any aspect of her game functioning at a reasonable level.

Well done Katie.

Lambda · Challenger level

Katie has now got more ranking points in 2024 (1096) than she finished with in 2023 (1073).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Harriet (and Diane) have taken the first set in the doubles (very close though )

Peter too · Tennis legend

seagull wrote:
Katie now live ranked 33. A win in final would probably guarantee Wimbledon seeding (sounds familiar!)

If she wins the final she will move back to 30 in the rankings.

Emma has moved up 44 places to 165 in the live rankings and Fran up 19 places to 230.

markymc1983 · Club Coach

As far as I can recall Katie is 100% in WTA semis and also 100% in WTA finals - lets hope she can maintain this record!

Var · Pro player

Mmm. Disappointed Emma didnt have her A game today as I thought Katie was Ok but not startling. Think that knee maybe hampered Emmas movement a little. Final will rest on who can recover the best in the time remaining. Katie at a disadvantage .

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Julia Carrot wrote:
No hug at the net. You would have thought there would be.

A bit disappointing but I guess both of them really wanted to win this one.