(q3) Alberta Brianti (ITA) WR 70 and (q8) Kristina Barrois (GER) WR 91 are the seeds in Heather's section - which means she missed out on a seeding by 1.
Even more unlucky is Naomi Broady, who missed out on a place in qualifying by 2 places last week, 3 places here.
Elena will be in the main draw.
-- Edited by steven on Thursday 5th of January 2012 10:25:13 AM
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Naomi in Oz qualies, so would have had to withdraw once she had qualified anyway. Very decent draw for Heather, injury hopefully not going to be an issue.
Good chance for Hev to recoup some of the points dropping off after Auckland and for Bally to break back into the top 50. Maybe even get past a WTA quarter final for the first time.
Will be interesting to see how Heather goes here. Last year she started brilliantly, but it did take her a while to get back into form after her injury at the end of the season.
I think Heather is a player who thrives on match practice so hopefully she will win at least a couple of matches here to set her up for the Australian open
Naomi in Oz qualies, so would have had to withdraw once she had qualified anyway.
Not really - I believe sign-in for women's qualifying at the AO is not until Wednesday.
Ah right I thought it was maybe Monday. Still though playing two different tournaments in the same week does seem a bit strange. Naomi would effectively just be using Hobart as match practice for Melbourne.
Naomi in Oz qualies, so would have had to withdraw once she had qualified anyway.
Not really - I believe sign-in for women's qualifying at the AO is not until Wednesday.
Ah right I thought it was maybe Monday. Still though playing two different tournaments in the same week does seem a bit strange. Naomi would effectively just be using Hobart as match practice for Melbourne.
... which is exactly what she wanted, judging by her tweets this week.
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The Hobart qualifying has a load of folk that are down for Aussie Open qualifying, basically, apart from the Hobart qualifying WCs, all those that aren't already into the Aussie Open main draw.
Quite normal before slams, maybe more so early in the season before Aussie Open qualifying.
-- Edited by indiana on Friday 6th of January 2012 01:52:42 AM