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steven


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OEM is at the daw and reports:

L128: Elena Baltacha v Qualifier

L128: Anne Keothavong WR 108 v Vesna Dolonts (ex-Manasieva) RUS WR 101

Nice draws and although Dolonts has been improving a lot (the 101 ranking is a career high), Anne has good memories of playing her - the H2H is 2-0, booth in 2008, and she won the title in both tournaments, Capriolo 25K and Warsaw 100K+H. Elena beat Dolonts in Cagnes-sur-Mer earlier this month too.



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I think you could get long odds against Anne completing a hat-trick of beating Vesna and going on to win the title.

Must be a decent chance of at least one R1 victory here though. I was wondering, when was the last time a British woman won a main draw match at Roland Garros? I tried looking this up and failed to find any recent examples.

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tony_orient wrote:

I think you could get long odds against Anne completing a hat-trick of beating Vesna and going on to win the title.

Must be a decent chance of at least one R1 victory here though. I was wondering, when was the last time a British woman won a main draw match at Roland Garros? I tried looking this up and failed to find any recent examples.

 1994, when Clare Wood beat Gigi Fernandez 6-3 2-6 6-2 in R1. 



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Blooming heck !    The last day or two has been very revealing of awful  RG statistics.

Hopefully, Heather will sort out the 1983 last qualifier and then someone please sort out the 1994 last main draw winner.



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If Heather wins and draws Bally we can nail both of those today.



-- Edited by tony_orient on Friday 20th of May 2011 10:31:16 AM

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indiana wrote:

Blooming heck !    The last day or two has been very revealing of awful  RG statistics.

Hopefully, Heather will sort out the 1983 last qualifier and then someone please sort out the 1994 last main draw winner.

Blooming heck! The last day or two has been very revealing of the incredible number of statistics Steven is able to find! biggrin 



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Heather has two set points...

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took the first! 6-4 to our Hev!

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heather v bally *coughs*

i'm just sayin'

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If it did happen who would your money be on?

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maybe bally, 65-35 imo


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SMC1809 wrote:
indiana wrote:

Blooming heck !    The last day or two has been very revealing of awful  RG statistics.

Hopefully, Heather will sort out the 1983 last qualifier and then someone please sort out the 1994 last main draw winner.

Blooming heck! The last day or two has been very revealing of the incredible number of statistics Steven is able to find! biggrin 

LOL thanks - trying to make good use of the tedious searching I did on ITF a couple of years ago, thankfully I noted most of it down. (which also means if I made a mistake then, I'll be wrong now too!)



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Decent draws for both, of course its a 12/1 chance of Hev playing Bally assuming Hev qualifies so highly unlikely.
Anne will be the underdog on current form but the H2H is promising.

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Heather Watson GBR vs Stephanie Foretz Gacon FRA
Elena Baltacha GBR vs Sloane Stephens USA

6 straight 1st round defeats for Foretz Gacon so far - let's hope for #7 (and she's only reached the 2nd round on 3 of 12 total attempts)



-- Edited by RBBOT on Friday 20th of May 2011 03:15:57 PM

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Three players in the draw and three 1st round oppononts ranked outside the top 100.

Can't ask for much more than that

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