The qualies has so many Brits in it that we are assured of at least 4 British qualifiers!

Sadly it seems that the live scoreboard is not in operation today, I'll phone throughout the day for updated results

I'll phone at 12.30, the 1st matches on court should be finished by then

VSandhi20 wrote:

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Oh...no Bally!

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Care to explain what's wrong?

Q draw:

Christina Wheeler v Jessica Jackson

Olivia Scarfi v Melissa Berry

Ekaterina Ivanova v Stamatia Fafaliou

Thaddea Lock v Tiya Rolle

Amanda Keen v Julia Bone

Natasha Hillyer v Georgie Stoop

Karen Paterson v Amanda Cunningham

Rachael Hall v Anna Smith

Claire Peterzan v Lauren Dossor

Anna Hawkins v Lindsay Cox

Sarah Coles v Sarah Stallard

Jade Curtis v Natasha Khan

Danielle Brown v Melissa Gibb

Elizabeth Thomas v Brenda Schultz-McCarthy

Ekaterina Kozhokhina v Claire Ricketts

Brie Whitehead v Rachael Dillon

Looking at the draw, I'm very much looking forward to these match-ups:

Curtis v Khan: Two extremely promising young guns go head to head. I was surprised that Jade decided to give RG juniors a miss but it's probably a good decision. Last year she had the best week of her pro career on grass when she reached the final of the Wimby wc playoff, upsetting several experienced British players who were ranked much, much higher. I don't know much about Natasha Khan's game, has anyone here seen her play ?

Possible rd2:

Keen v Stoop: Amanda seems to have changed her mind on retiring and appears to be playing full-time again now, since her return she's been on top form and her grass-court game should be too much for Stoop if this match occurs. I don't think that Georgie's really got the returning game to trouble Amanda and having been playing futures events on clay recently, she may find the transition to grass a little tough.

Paterson v Smith: 17 year old Anna Smith had some great results in GB 10K futures earlier this year, reaching the semis of Bath and the quarters of Bournemouth. She plays her best tennis on fast courts and Karen Paterson struggled in rd1 of qualies so Smith could cause an upset here.

Made a mistake about the Paterson result - Karen won 6-2, 7-5

Rest of rd1 results:

T Rolle [USA] [16] bt T Lock [GB] 6-4, 6-3

A Keen [GB] [3] bt J Bone [GB] 2-6, 6-3, 6-2

G Stoop [GB] bt N Hillyer [GB] 6-0, 6-2

C Peterzan [GB][5] bt L Dossor [GB] 6-3, 7-6[5]

S Coles [GB][6] bt S Stallard [GB] 6-1, 6-1

N Khan [GB][14] bt J Curtis [GB] 7-5, 2-6, 6-2

D Brown [GB][7] bt M Gibb [GB] 6-2, 6-2

B McCarthy [Hol][8] bt E Thomas [GB] 6-2, 6-2

C Ricketts [GB] bt E Kozhokhina [Rus][8] 6-3, 3-2 ret


Easy wins for Stoop, Coles, Peterzan and Brown over much lower ranked British opposition. This means that the anticipated Stoop-Keen match-up will happen in rd2. I'm very surprised that Amanda lost a set 6-2 against Julia Bone who's ranked much, much lower ! Performance of the day so far must go to Claire Ricketts for her superb victory over the Russian 8th seed ranked 200 places higher !