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the addict · Tennis legend

Week 43 - WTA500 Tokyo, Japan - Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Katie lost 2 & 1. She kept fighting and had several close games on Eva's serve.

9vicman · Futures level

A couple of very one sided losses for Katie despite the victories in between. Not something she's had in previous years except against the very best.

indiana · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
A couple of very one sided losses for Katie despite the victories in between. Not something she's had in previous years except against the very best.

Yes, I've generally seen her as a fighter, and tbf here while well beaten, as Peter too indicated, most of the games were tight.

indiana · Tennis legend

Further to my post re Katie's ranking at 20/10 in the wewk 42 Osaka thread:

"I see that Katie has got a mandatory Ningbo 500 zero pointer and the 30 points from this Osaka 250 for week 42.

So she drops 60 points to 1018 points at 20/10/25 with her Ningbo 60 points from last year dropping out and the 0 for Ningbo 2025 coming in. The 30 points from here are a non counter

I assume she hasn't played a required amount of WTA 500s. She now has 3 mandatory zero counters for this year - Doha 1000, Dubai 1000 and Ningbo 500."

...after her exit here she is now shown as :
Live ranked 79 at 27/10 on 877 points - i.e. 1018 - 195 + 54 ( her best non counter ), and
Projected ranked 94 at 03/11 on 744 points - i.e. 877 - 163 + 30 ( her next best non counter )

That's all her points off for this year and both LTR and OER are are showing her end of year points as 744. Looking like it might yet get kind of tight for Aus Open MD direct entry. Could maybe do with getting more than 30 points next week in the Hong Kong 250.

( Sonay and Fran both have over 900 points for this year so well in the Aus Open MD along with Emma )

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 20th of October 2025 07:23:36 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

L16:- Tereza Mihalikova (SVK) / Olivia Nicholls (GBR) CR54 (28+26) lost to TImea Babos (HUN) / Luisa Stefani (BRA) CR38 (16+22) [4] 3-6 6-4 7-10

Six breaks of serve in the first set, just one in the second and one mini-break in the MTB. Closer than last week, but I didn't think they ever looked like winning.