I think that's probably right. Looking at her R1 opponent, Dulgheru is WR 29 but has lost her last 5 tour matches (stretching back to October) in straight sets and while she went 2-2 in Fed Cup, her wins were both against players outside the top 250 (Babos being the higher-ranked of the two) and she lost the other two in straight sets too.

The vast majority of her points were gained on clay and grass by the looks of it - she won Warsaw, reached R3 at RG, reached the semis at Rosmalen and reached R3 at Wimbledon, then semis at Budapest, all in the space of a few weeks.

Dulgheru also has a quite bizarre record against Brits - she played three Brits in 2009 and ...

- lost to Elizabeth Thomas in 3 sets in Sutton qualifying on hard
- lost 4 & 2 to Katie in Minsk on carpet
- double bagelled Anna Smith on clay in Bari

The match before Bally's is into a second set, but the protennislive scorebaord isn't providing scores for Court 1. However, Bet365 are, so best head there for updates.

Elena now playing, serving first, gets to 40-30 but loses the next 3 points

0-1*

Hopefully someone else is around and can do updates because I'm snowed under with work so unfortunately any updates from me will be very intermittent.

Edit: Good, I'll leave you to it, SMC ... let's hope the news gets better soon!

-- Edited by steven on Monday 14th of February 2011 12:21:58 PM

Bally on the board, holding to 15. 1-2*

Two holds and its 3-3

Two more holds *4-4

0-15
0-30
0-40
15-40
30-40
40-40

Adv Dulg

*5-5. A shame that Bally couldn't convert any of those chances.


-- Edited by SMC1809 on Monday 14th of February 2011 01:00:29 PM