Week 2 - Australian Open women's qualifying

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Week 2 - Australian Open women's qualifying

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

WOOOHOOOOOO! Delighted!!! And to not even drop a set. Fab stuff.

Fingers crossed for a nice spot. Placement done sunday or tommorrow?

Julia Carrot · All-time great

6 - 1
7 - 6 (2)

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Placement later today.

I think there are two things for Savchuk to learn from this match:

a) Laura starts quickly - be prepared.
b) If your going to wear a dress that short, colour co-ordinate you underwear!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

It was bl'dy short wasn't it !!

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Well done Laura. 2nd set wasn't very impressive but fought back well from 3-5. Savchuk played a shocking tiebreak, gifting Laura 4 points with horrible errors. Movement still a big issue and some weird shot selections whenever she was near the net, seemed intent on hitting the ball straight back to Savchuk or giving her the easiest shot possible.

Peter too · Tennis legend

I didn't think Laura played as well in that match as she can play, for example in the 1st set of the 1st match. Her service was particularly below par but she still had enough in reserve to get over the line.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Excellent few days from Laura. Another great first set from Laura - she is still prone to the lapse in concentration mid way through the 2nd set as happened again today, but recovered it quickly and dominated the tie-break. In fact she wasn't really troubled throughout qualifying and she is definitely playing good enough tennis to deserve to be part of the main draw.

Hopefully that will be the last we see of Laura in grand slam qualifying as she closes in on tht top 100

philwrig · Hall of fame

Great first set, dodgy second, but because she had so much in hand still won it.
Interesting fact of the 6 non seeded players she could draw, she has beaten 3 of them ( Halep, Radwanska, and Martic )

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Odds are that Laura will be maintaining her run of tough first round draws - options are:

Kim Clijsters BEL 12
Jelena Jankovic SRB 14
Sabine Lisicki GER 15
Flavia Pennetta ITA 20
Daniela Hantuchova RUS 21
Nadia Petrova RUS 30
Sara Errani ITA 47
Petra Martic CRO 52
Simona Halep ROU 57
Marina Erakovic NZL 61
Urszula Radwanska POL 102
Mandy Minella LUX 110

indiana · Tennis legend

Certainly don't want any of the first 4.

I like Daniela and would have loved to have seen her achieve more in the game. Not seen her in a while, but I assume she is still a bit flaky at times. Would be interesting. But yes, really one of the latter names on that list, please.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 14th of January 2012 05:41:24 AM

Priesty · Challenger level

biggrin biggrin biggrin Well done Laura! Hope the fates are with us when they place the qualifiers .....

steven · Tennis legend

Jankovic, naturally (still, better than Clijsters & Lisicki, at least) - full details on the main draw thread

Ratty · County player

Oh joy, I'm first in with the meaningless cliches:

IT WILL BE INVALUABLE BIG OCCASION EXPERIENCE FOR LAURA. SHE'S GOT NOTHING TO LOSE, SO LET'S HOPE SHE CAN MIX IT WITH THE BIG GUNS AND USE THIS EXPERIENCE TO KICK ON TO THE TOP 100.

Or something like that.

smile

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Goldarn it, now you have left nothing for anybody else to say, you spoilsport

Well done Laura, and good luck in R1.