Week 7 - WTA International ($220K) - Memphis, USA - Hard

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

RE: Week 7 - WTA International ($220K) - Memphis, USA - Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

So its Rodina in the quarters, I don't think it makes much of a difference as Oudin has been in a major slump for a long time. Rodina was a convincing winner the last time they played on the green clay, but our Hev has improved so much since then that I make this 50/50.

Peter too · Tennis legend

What a strange tournament, all seeds bar one are already out. After two rounds only Marino, the 6th seed survives.

-- Edited by Peter too on Wednesday 16th of February 2011 11:59:23 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

So Oudin bites the dust then and fails to live up to the bookies' and my expectations. Looking now more into Rodina's recent record I must admit that knowing that, which isn't great, I would certainly still have taken Oudin to win that round.

As I said earlier although Oudin had lost an awful lot she wasn't losing to really lower ranked players, so I still don't think she was an unreasonable shout in theory. But I suppose one thing is that losing so much in itself may now be sapping some confidence in her game. She's not getting a hell of a lot of match practice either ! Maybe these are things to be factored in

Anyway, I hope Phil was off selling Oudin on the betting exchanges ! smile

Now real chance for Heather to progress further although I'll maybe not make any judgements for now about favouritism.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 17th of February 2011 08:53:31 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

We don't appear to have recorded Heather's eventual doubles result. Anyway they lost the MTB.

QF : Govortsova & Kudryavtseva ( BLR / RUS ) beat Groenefeld & Watson ( GER / GBR ) 6 - 4 4 - 6 ( 10 - 8 )

Josh · Challenger level

If Heather can beat Rodina then she'll be just 8 points and a few ranking places behind Safina! Who would have thought that 12 months ago??

stevemcqueen · Futures qualifying

Peter too wrote:

What a strange tournament, all seeds bar one are already out. After two rounds only Marino, the 6th seed survives.

-- Edited by Peter too on Wednesday 16th of February 2011 11:59:23 PM

Not only has just one seed made it through, but the QFs feature lowly ranked players. I bet this is some kind of record, but I'm not going to check!

Good luck Hev

Smidster · Challenger level

Heather 2nd on Grandstand - around 5.30pm UK

philwrig · Hall of fame

stevemcqueen wrote:

Peter too wrote:

What a strange tournament, all seeds bar one are already out. After two rounds only Marino, the 6th seed survives.

-- Edited by Peter too on Wednesday 16th of February 2011 11:59:23 PM

Not only has just one seed made it through, but the QFs feature lowly ranked players. I bet this is some kind of record, but I'm not going to check!

Good luck Hev

Yes not many seeds remain but this tournament had a very weak field from the start and the quality of the seeds was also poor.

philwrig · Hall of fame

The bookies make Heather slight underdog for todays match, and the key for Heather's success today for me will be her first serve. It desserted her after the first set yesterday and a repeat of that will probably see her lose this match.

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Great chance for Heather, but I would make Marino the favourite to win the title now.

markymc1983 · Club Coach

I see there are streams for the ATP matches at Memphis but not for the WTA, how annoying!

Miriambee · Futures level

There are WTA matches on Eurosport, not sure whether they are showing Memphis though.

philwrig · Hall of fame

20 mins to the start of Hev's match.

philwrig · Hall of fame

And they're off !!

-- Edited by philwrig on Thursday 17th of February 2011 05:42:44 PM