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philwrig


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steven wrote:

Remember Heather losing to Melanie Oudin at the start of the month, which seemed a pretty bad result given Oudin's recent form? Happily, it now looks like it was an Oudin revival rather than a Watson slump - the American has W 8 L 2 this month and has just won the Charlottesville 50K title.

 Mel has changed her training base and clearly that is paying dividends. Until that win against Hev she was heading into the abyss, so I am very pleased that she appears to be back on track.



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Good stuff from Heather and hope today goes well.

Sloane does have a good pedigree on Clay so not expecting a great deal but that why you play the games

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That was a very good win. As the match went on Heather was gradually getting on top of Sloane's 2nd serve and finally that seemed to make the difference between two very closely matched players.

Q3: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 5 113 beat STEPHENS, Sloane (USA) 1 78 4-6 6-4 6-2

 

Who would be best in the next round Gajdosova or Hradecka perhaps?



-- Edited by Peter too on Monday 30th of April 2012 02:59:33 PM

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danilidou would be all right.



-- Edited by Maza1987 on Monday 30th of April 2012 03:01:05 PM

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smile

What a fighter!!!

Well done Heather - a very tough match if LS is anything to go by!!!

4-6 6-4 6-2.

Wonder who she'll be up against in R1???

Gajdisova, Hradecka, Kanepi, Medina-Garrigues or Danilidou. 

There's a revised Drawsheet up on the WTA website with 5 Qualy spaces so someone must have dropped out???

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REVISED DRAW
Mona Barthel out, Hercog in as 9th seed and a bit of a reshuffle

Heather will play 1 of Gajdosova, Hradecka, (6)Kanepi, (3)Medina-Garrigues or Danilidou.
None of those are easy matches!!!

(1) Roberta Vinci (ITA) - (WC) Nina Bratchikova (RUS)
Ayumi Morita (JPN) - (WC) Maria Joăo Koehler (POR)
LL/Qualifier Polona Hercog (SLO) - Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)
(WC) Bárbara Luz (POR) - (7) Nadia Petrova (RUS)

(4) Petra Cetkovska (CZE) - Alexandra Panova (RUS)
Qualifier - Lucie Hradecka (CZE)
Vania King (USA) - Johanna Larsson (SWE)
Qualifier - (6) Kaia Kanepi (EST)

(9) Polona Hercog (SLO) (8) Mona Barthel (GER) - Tamira Paszek (AUT)
Olga Govortsova (BLR) - Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP)
Sorana Cirstea (ROU) - Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP)
Qualifier- (3) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)

(5) Jie Zheng (CHN) - Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)
Anastasiya Yakimova (BLR) - Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)
Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) - Qualifier
Elena Baltacha (GBR) - (2) Maria Kirilenko (RUS)


-- Edited by daisy on Monday 30th of April 2012 03:23:39 PM

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Ignore - answered in previous post.



-- Edited by daisy on Monday 30th of April 2012 03:22:01 PM

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Heather's match now up on livescore in Estoril.

AnneK into a 3rd set just now in Budapest and Jamie Murray's dubs match is up on livescore in Munich.
Gonna go cross-eyed soon.

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Hev 2-3* in the first set. hmm



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Sloane serving for the 1st set at *5-2.
Hev had chances to break back in the 6th game but missed out so Stephens went 4-2 and then broke Hev again.

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Phew, very long game just but Heather held on for 4-5. Stephens serving for the first set.

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heather really fighting to hold on to her serve.
already saved 5 bps in the 2nd set
2*-2 at deuce

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good holds
4-3*
a break here would be great

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C'mon ar 'ev

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sloane serving to stay in set 5-4*

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Sp not take by heather. Still deuce

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