Week 17 - WTA1000 - Madrid, Spain Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 17 - WTA1000 - Madrid, Spain Clay

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

I think its a matter of when not if with Fran. Barring a horrible injury.

KK · Club Coach

Hopefully she will overtake Harriet soon. smile

KK · Club Coach

the addict wrote:
KK wrote:
Peter too wrote:
I remember Fran, early in her career, saying she wanted to prove that there was nothing to stop disabled people following their dreams and she wanted to prove it. She said her aim was to be world number 1. I doubt if she will make it that far but she has a very real chance of getting into the top 100 and that would be a massive achievement.
Does she get the 30 points for qualifying and 10 points for being in round 1 or is it just 30 points?
Just the qualifying points if she loses in the first round proper, but if she wins she would get qualifying plus 35 points for reaching the second round.

Not many points for beating 2 top 100 players, but kudos to be in the main draw of a WTA1000 event without a WC.

-- Edited by KK on Wednesday 23rd of April 2025 12:15:16 PM

DF · Tennis legend

Fran is watching Emma. Her match is on later.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Emma did well to win the 1st set, she was playing catch up all the way through to the last few points.

PaulM · Tennis legend

That's a great win.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR49 v Suzan Lamens (NED) WR73 7-6(4) 6-4

R2: Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR49 v Marta Kostyuk (UKR) [24] WR36
They met in Cluj-Napoca in 2021 with Marta winning 2 & 1. They met in Madrid in 2022 with Emma winning 2 & 1

B00thy · Intermediate Club Player

Peter too wrote:
R1: Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR49 v Suzan Lamens (NED) WR73 7-6(4) 6-4

R2: Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR49 v Marta Kostyuk (UKR) [24] WR36
They met in Cluj-Napoca in 2021 with Marta winning 2 & 1. They met in Madrid in 2022 with Emma winning 2 & 1

A good performance at times, and there is so much obvious room for improvement .. biggrin

Jan · Hall of fame

Well done Emma!!

the addict · Tennis legend

So Emma did considerably better than Katie against Lamens.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Ooooo I enjoyed that:/)

HarryGem · Club Coach

Good win against a decent opponent. Some good play by both players at times. Kostyuk is very beatable depending upon which version of her turns up. If Emma can serve well and keep the ball in play then she can win.
I think Emma has the most potential of our top women on clay. Her lowish sense of gravity and great movement ought to be a help on the surface.

Jajon · Club Coach

Watched that while working- love the public sector! Everything you read in the daily mail- well they got me! Good win though - also surprisingly strong tiebreak record recently (won 11 of her last 12 (sorry for the jinx))

-- Edited by Jajon on Wednesday 23rd of April 2025 02:58:05 PM

KK · Club Coach

Fran was 4 - 1 down. Now she has pulled it back to 5 - 5.