British Tennis Forum

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 24 - WTA500 HSBC Championships Queens Club, London - Grass

indiana · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Jodie and Sonay had a couple of set points in a long first set breaker, but ended up losing to the top seeds 7-6(8) 7-6(1).

Fairly easy to see them getting the nod for a Wimbledon wildcard, don't think their best of combined will be good enough to make it directly.

Might Katie & Jodie play together at Wimbledon?

I'm sure they too would need a WC. It's more, as someone mentioned, that the Katie / Emma and Jodie / Sonay partnerships here were possibly largely to ensure that we had one direct entrant pair. Plus I don't see Emma playing doubles at Wimbledon.

Neil Gee · County player

Emma playing to a good level although to be fair there isn't a whole lot coming back at her. 6-1, 4-1

PaulM · Tennis legend

Fran loses 62 64

Jan · Hall of fame

Emma's match a much more relaxing one for British fans!
Enjoyed that

MrTSymonds · Junior player

And we have a new British number 1!

indiana · Tennis legend

As mentioned earlier would be the case if she won her R1 match, Emma goes live GB #1.

I am sure that they are rather more interested in their global positions but for now fight, fight for GB #1 Feel free to join in, Sonay.

Current live rankings:
37. Emma 1351
38. Katie 1326
49. Sonay 1138

indiana · Tennis legend

MrTSymonds wrote:
And we have a new British number 1!

Well, live rankings one as you brought up earlier was on the cards. Katie could still hold on to official #1. She needs to go at least one round deeper than Emma.

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Liked the aggressive approach on 2nd serve, mid to high 90s mph, until surprisingly went rather passive late on. Several good Raducanu backhands crosscourt. Still a bit passive at times during rallies. A couple of awful forehand errors after good serves. Otherwise a decent performance.

the addict · Tennis legend

Today's results

R1:- Francesca Jones (GBR) WR122 [WC] lost to Mccartney Kessler (USA) WR44 2-6 4-6

R1:- Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR41 [WC] def Christina Bucsa (ESP) WR98 [Q7] 6-1 6-2

R1:- Heather Watson (GBR) WR163 def Yulia Putintsava (KAZ) WR31 6-4 6-3

R1:- Katie Boulter (GBR) WR38 def Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) WR71 [Q2] 7-6(4) 1-6 6-4

Doubles
L16:- Lyudmyla Kitchenok (UKR) / Erin Routliffe (NZL) CR14 (11+3) [1] def Jodie Burrage (GBR) / Sonay Kartal (GBR) UNR (240+UNR) [WC] 7-6(8) 7-6(1)

the addict · Tennis legend

Updated draw and rankings

L16:- Emma Raducanu (GBR) WR37 [WC] v Rebecca Sramkova (SVK) WR41

L16:- Sonay Kartal (GBR) WR50 [WC] v Amanda Anismova (USA) WR15 [8] (Playing today on Centre Court)

L16:- Heather Watson (GBR) WR164 [Q] v Elena Rybakina (KAZ) WR11 [4]

L16:- Katie Boulter (GBR) WR34 v Diana Shnaider (***) WR12 [5]

Doubles

QF- Lyudmyla Kitchenok (UKR) / Erin Routliffe (NZL) CR14 (11+3) [1] v Emma Raducanu (GBR) / Katie Boulter (GBR) UNR (UNR+476) (Playing today on Court 1)

L16:- Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) / Olivia Nicholls (GBR) CR66 (34+32) v Ellen Perez (AUS) / Shuai Zhang (CHN) CR27 (15+12) [3] (Playing today on Court 5)

the addict · Tennis legend

Some thoughts from yesterday at Queens

Very well organised, loads of volunteers around and it wasn't overly crowded. A bit gloomy to start with a little drizzle round 12 noon, but gradually brightened up nd the day ended quite hot and sunny - I forgot to take a hat and am quite red-faced today for the first time in over 30 years. Food available wasn't bad but very pricey as expected. All part of a good day out though, only spoilt by delays on the Jubilee line on the way home.

Saw most of all three matches on Centre Court, apart from a couple of times when we went for a walk round. Katie looked nervous and wasn't at her best - a bit inconsistent, but still beat a tricky opponent. Emma was excellent and didn't give Bucsa a sniff of a chance in that 1 & 2 win. Krejcikova was disappointing, clearly short of practice on the grass and Sramkova took the opportunity with some big hitting. Emma shouldn't have a problem with her though.

Nice on-court interview with Liv between matches. On our wander round we passed Routliffe and Kitchenok returning from prctice and immediately afterwards Jodie and Sonay who must have been practising at the same time. Out on the practice courts were Qinwen Zheng, Shuai Zheng and Elena Ribakina.

I have loads of photos (as usual) and it will take a while to sort out the good ones.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Watched Katie and Emma's games yesterday, and was surprised at the difference in the levels.

I'm not sure if it's my ignorance, but Katie's match seemed slower and more contained, not too much risk taking, whilst in Emma's match there seemed to be more going for winners, and just seemed like a better level match, more energy and more fun to watch.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Helen40 wrote:
Watched Katie and Emma's games yesterday, and was surprised at the difference in the levels.

I'm not sure if it's my ignorance, but Katie's match seemed slower and more contained, not too much risk taking, whilst in Emma's match there seemed to be more going for winners, and just seemed like a better level match, more energy and more fun to watch.

I watched them both too

I agree with some of what you say but I did think, though, that Ajla was FAR stronger than Bucsa

The balls that Katie and Ajla were hiting were far heavier and weightier - I agree it looks a little more ponderous but Emma was able to be a lot more energetic because she had lighter balls to attack

Enjoyed both matches though

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Coup Droit wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
Watched Katie and Emma's games yesterday, and was surprised at the difference in the levels.

I'm not sure if it's my ignorance, but Katie's match seemed slower and more contained, not too much risk taking, whilst in Emma's match there seemed to be more going for winners, and just seemed like a better level match, more energy and more fun to watch.
I watched them both too
I agree with some of what you say but I did think, though, that Ajla was FAR stronger than Bucsa
The balls that Katie and Ajla were hiting were far heavier and weightier - I agree it looks a little more ponderous but Emma was able to be a lot more energetic because she had lighter balls to attack
Enjoyed both matches though

Thanks for this, I didn't pick up on it, just saw Emma's whizzing past Busca.

I agree that Aja was better than Busca, but also wondered if that was because Emma was hitting it faster as I know that they had had that long close match in Singapore earlier in the year.