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DF · Tennis legend

Week 31 & 32 - WTA1000 Montreal, Canada - Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

30 points for one round of qualifying. Huge opportunity (a first round main draw win is only 35 points!).

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Hmmmm..... Jodie lost the first set 0-6

Guess it can only get better

PaulM · Tennis legend

Jodie breaks, goes up *40-0, then descends into a petulant child, double faults on deuce, nets a forehand to get broken and continues to whine at the umpire.

3-3*

Garbage performance so far.

PaulM · Tennis legend

40-15*

Forehand error
Forehand error
Drop shot that lands on the service line and is whisked for a winner
Forehand error

*3-4

DF · Tennis legend

Jodie serving for the second set at 5-4

PaulM · Tennis legend

Misses another break point with a forehand into the net. Gets a second, better margins in this rally, higher, less close to the lines, and is rewarded for her all too rare patient aggression

*5-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Hmmmm..... Jodie lost the first set 0-6

Guess it can only get better

Well, at least I was right on that one - it certainly got better smile

PaulM · Tennis legend

Well done. Saves a break point and then two good points, again just giving herself more margins while still attacking, waiting an extra ball to pull the trigger. Just such basic adjustments all she needed there with a clear head to turn that round.

Now don't lapse at the start of the third Jodie. Stay focused!

0-6 6-4 0-0*

DF · Tennis legend

Jodie takes the second set 6-4 to satisfy CD wink

PaulM · Tennis legend

Ach that was a real chance. Had 30-0* in the opening game and wastes it.

*0-1

PaulM · Tennis legend

Wastes three game points with unforced errors and goes 1-5* down

Other than a period of about 15minutes in the second set this has been pretty amateurish. Very disappointing - not sure she could have had a better draw as a non-seed. Still only won 9 matches all season, needs to start building some results in these final couple of months with nothing to defend before everything drops off from October onwards.

-- Edited by PaulM on Saturday 26th of July 2025 04:27:03 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Emma gets her mate Ruse, Katie gets Zarazua. Excellent draws at this level, with all 32 seeds getting byes.

MrTSymonds · Lower Club Player

Can't see Boulter downing Ostapenko (round 2) in the form she's in.
Raducanu gets as good a first two rounds as you can get, but Anisimova in round 3 will be a tough call, but definitely one to prove you're at the level you want to be playing at.

Stearns, match cold due to a bye, will not be relishing an in form Raducanu in round 2.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Id be delighted for Katie to just make round 2 at this point.