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Var


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Hopefully we may see Hannah at Eastbourne? In qualies?

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Var wrote:

Hopefully we may see Hannah at Eastbourne? In qualies?

 If she has a wildcard into Wimbledon main draw ? biggrin

Hopefully smile



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Good experience for Hannah

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Jodie and Sonay lose 6-2 7-6(3)

They led 4-2 40-15* in the second set. Another good effort against a top pair.

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Poots is WR32, so should be a Wimbledon seed, and on the little I saw, Hannah was certainly not completely outclassed, though it was apparent that Poots has a lot more experience and court craft.

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Poots is WR27, but down 5 on live ranking W32

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Dart and Jones have swapped breaks, 1-1...

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Fran 7-5

Sonay and Jeanjean, who has already beaten Heather and Mika in qualifying, are on serve at 4-3*, with holds coming much easier for Sonay - lots of deuces and break points on the French woman's serve...

 

edit Sonay 5-3 as I was typing...



-- Edited by wimbledont on Tuesday 17th of June 2025 11:26:58 AM

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Fran takes the first set 7-5


after dramatics from Harriet trying to intimidate the umpire to sympathise with her and change a point in her favour smile



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DF wrote:

Fran takes the first set 7-5


after dramatics from Harriet trying to intimidate the umpire to sympathise with her and change a point in her favour smile

 no



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It's almost sad watching how much Harriet has regressed since the Australian Open.

I'm keen to see Fran finally break the top 100 so would be quite happy for her to go on and win this and keep nudging in the right direction, but once Harriet loses her round 3 points from last year's Wimbledon it's not obvious to me how she gets anywhere near the top 100 again playing like this. The sheer desperation, stress and anxiety which I think is underpinning some of this behaviour is borderline worrying (I know some will say it's seems to stem from an almost sense of entitlement/being spoilt).



-- Edited by PaulM on Tuesday 17th of June 2025 11:32:33 AM

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Few close games but Fran winning all the mini battles to move 4-1* up in the second. Obviously worried about cramping, she's not sitting at changeovers and has just got a couple of tablets from her team.

Sonay just broken in the second, 6-3 2-2*. Had points for *3-0.

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Yes, she does seem remarkably uptight - I don't know whether playing a fellow (and lower ranked) Brit makes it worse?

The am-dram stuff is a little silly, really, though she's hardly the only one to indulge in it - the sort of 'how-could-I-ME-possibly-have-missed-that???? I-make-that-shot-in-my-sleep'

But, yes, she does look rather 'desperate' to play well

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Fran struggling with her hand now, gets a time violation. But holds for 5-2*

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Fran struggling with her hand now, gets a time violation. But holds for 5-2*

 Yes, shaking it out a lot.

Cramps? She's got some gels and sports drink stuff from her coach

And a pill of some sort from the MTO physio

Harriet is not impressed



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