Week 41 - WTA1000 - Wuhan, China Hard

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Week 41 - WTA1000 - Wuhan, China Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

I make that 18 wins and 11 defeats so far in the twelve tournaments they have played together, all at WTA250 above.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
I make that 18 wins and 11 defeats so far in the twelve tournaments they have played together, all at WTA250 above.

Over 60 percent win ratio, not bad

PaulM · Tennis legend

Ok Harriet has said she's playing in Japan next week so the issue can't be anywhere near as serious as it sounded. Which is a relief!

Peter too · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Ok Harriet has said she's playing in Japan next week so the issue can't be anywhere near as serious as it sounded. Which is a relief!

That is a relief. Hopefully she will not only be fit for Japan next week but also for the BJK cup.

9vicman · Satellite level

the addict wrote:
I make that 18 wins and 11 defeats so far in the twelve tournaments they have played together, all at WTA250 above.

For me it's also the calibre of players they've beaten:

Kenin/Mattek-Sands

Dabrowski/Routliffe

Muhammad/Pegula

Shibahara/Sutjiadi

Kichenok/Ostapenko

Stefani/Schuurs

Have always rated Mihalikova since she won the junior Australia beating Katie Swan, but she was unable to transform that form singles. Olivia deserves to have a good partner for someone of her ability.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
the addict wrote:
I make that 18 wins and 11 defeats so far in the twelve tournaments they have played together, all at WTA250 above.
For me it's also the calibre of players they've beaten:
Kenin/Mattek-Sands
Dabrowski/Routliffe
Muhammad/Pegula
Shibahara/Sutjiadi
Kichenok/Ostapenko
Stefani/Schuurs
Have always rated Mihalikova since she won the junior Australia beating Katie Swan, but she was unable to transform that form singles. Olivia deserves to have a good partner for someone of her ability.

It is a decent little list, isnt it - good for them and hope the upward tick continues

the addict · Tennis legend

Errani and Paolini lost in an MTB, and Mertens/Zhang were dumped out 1 & 0 so only three seeded teams left.
Still a very tough match - against the current #1 player. Scheduled for the third of three doubes matches starting at 5:30 am our time, so should be on sometime after 8:30

QF:- Tereza Mihalivikova (SVK) / Olivia Nicholls (GBR) CR95 (46+41) v Ekaterina Alexandrova (***) / Katerina Siniakova (CZE) CR83 (82+1)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

No one mentions it - where is Peng? Shame on the tennis community

RainDelay · Pro player

JonH comes home wrote:
No one mentions it - where is Peng? Shame on the tennis community

Glad I'm not the only one thinking this.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

To be honest it had gone off my radar and I was looking at the massive list of Chinese events at the moment and coming up - and its never been mentioned once by any player, the WTA, Ive not seen comment in the press - or on here etc.

Its been 3 years and shes not been seen.

the addict · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
Have always rated Mihalikova since she won the junior Australia beating Katie Swan, but she was unable to transform that form singles. Olivia deserves to have a good partner for someone of her ability.

She also won the girls doubles in 2016

the addict · Tennis legend

QF:- Tereza Mihalivikova (SVK) / Olivia Nicholls (GBR) CR95 (46+41) lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova (***) / Katerina Siniakova (CZE) CR83 (82+1) 5-7 4-6 cry

Very competitive though, lots of close games and they did achieve 5 breaks of serve.

indiana · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Heather's CH is 39 - Liv is about to overtake that.

The next match will be the big one. They face the winners of Errani/ Paolini [3] v Alexandrova/Siniakova who aren't playing today.

With Aldila Sutjiadi + reaching the Wuhan SF, Liv is now showing as live ranked 39, 'just' matching Heather's doubles CH 39. And it is showing that she would drop back to live 40 if Pegula + beat Sutjiadi + in the SF.

Whatever, that will still leave Liv taking out her current CH 41 on Monday.

She would have been looking at at least WR 34 if they had won that QF today. Though as ST was saying, she will still have a decent window well into next year to keep pushing up her ranking.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 11th of October 2024 12:31:18 PM

9vicman · Satellite level

Siniakova plus whoever is very tough to beat (although Liv managed to do so on grass earlier in the year). Alexandrova isn't a doubles player, but obviously has huge firepower off the ground, and they managed to beat Errani and Paolini.