Week 6 - Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 6 - Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard

Andy Parker · Club Coach

Sad to see Jo Ko go out like that - more injury woes for her, but sensible to pull out if she knew she couldn't play anywhere near maximum

I thought Fran did pretty well in the first set against Shelby Rogers, who is an experienced and quality opponent.

After the nerves of the first three games led her to overhitting everything, she had a really good spell, and although she fell away after losing her serve at the end of the first set, that good spell in the first set should give her confidence that she is not far away from being good enough to play in the top 100. She should also take heart from the fact that she qualified for a major - all in all a tough day at the office and a steep learning curve for her, but still lots of positives to take from the match.

-- Edited by Andy Parker on Tuesday 9th of February 2021 10:01:49 AM

flamingowings · All-time great

JonH comes home wrote:
DF wrote:
Konta has taken the first set but then retires in pain
oh, gosh, what happened?

Tape on her abdomen, hints to something there.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Abdomen would make sense given she called the trainer after struggling on a smash.

indiana · Tennis legend

goldfish wrote:
Am I mistaken - in Frans match, set 2 and her first service game with the score at 0-30, it looked like a ball was a foot out but wasnt called. Fran complained to no avail so 0-40 then lost the game and eventually the set. I was watching Dans match so not entirely focussed but if so, it was a huge mistake.

Sack Hawk-Eye confuse

Andy Parker · Club Coach

It wasn't obvious what caused Jo Ko to retire, but she clearly couldn't serve properly due to whatever problem she had and Juvan was too good and the match too early for Jo to struggle on in the vain hope of stumbling across the line.

An abdominal injury, like flamingowings says, would lead to the lack of movement in her serve, so that sounds likely. It was still a surprise when she suddenly shook hands though.

DF · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Abdomen would make sense given she called the trainer after struggling on a smash.

Yes and struggling with her serve

Peter too · Tennis legend

Heather has a doubles match tonight at about 3 am.

ROSAMUND · Futures level

Apart from Jo there were a couple of retirements in the mens as well.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

In terms of the hard quarantine, taken from tennisforum, 12 of the players affected won their R1 match, and 12 players lost, 4 of them were playing each other, so effectively 8 wins and 8 defeats:

1) Bianca Andreescu wn8 WON
2) Belinda Bencic wn12 WON (Davis)
3) Victoria Azarenka wn13 LOST
4) Elena Rybakina wn 18 WON
5) Maria Sakkari wn22 LOST
6) Jennifer Brady wn 23 WON
7) Alison Riske wn24 LOST
8) Angelique Kerber wn25 LOST
9) Anett Kontaveit wn26 WON
10) Yulia Putintseva wn28 WON (Stephens)
11) Ons Jabeur wn30 WON
12) Veronika Kudermetova wn36 WON (Kostyuk)
13) Svetlana Kuznetsova wn37 WON (Strycova)
14) Barbora Strýcová wn38 LOST (Kuznetsova)
15) Sloane Stephens wn40 LOST (Putintseva)
16) Heather Watson wn58 WON
17) Katerina Siniakova wn59 LOST
18) Anna Blinkova wn61 LOST
19) Barbora Krejcikova wn66 WON
20) Paola Badosa wn67 LOST
21) Sorana Cirstea wn72 WON
22) Lauren Davis wn75 LOST (Bencic)
23) Marta Kostyuk wn78 LOST (Kudermetova)
24) Christina Mchale wn82 LOST

8 of the 32 seeds lost at the first hurdle (including 4 from the above), although not all of them actual upsets.

Tennpar · Club Coach

goldfish wrote:
Am I mistaken - in Frans match, set 2 and her first service game with the score at 0-30, it looked like a ball was a foot out but wasnt called. Fran complained to no avail so 0-40 then lost the game and eventually the set. I was watching Dans match so not entirely focussed but if so, it was a huge mistake.

Agree goldfish - that ball was well out and others on that base-line looked very tight cry

Really enjoyed Heather's match - I don't thing I've ever seen her play with such confidence and so consistently before smile

Sad for Jo cry

emmsie69 · Top national player

Oh my word, just saw it, shocking. www.eurosport.com/tennis/australian-open/2021/it-was-definitely-out-francesca-jones-fumes-after-controversial-line-call-error_vid1420325/video.shtml

-- Edited by emmsie69 on Tuesday 9th of February 2021 08:12:37 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

Agreed!

the addict · Tennis legend

I gather that Hawkeye only covers the area close to the line, so if the ball is that far out the umpire is supposed to call it - unless they are asleep in the sun of course ........

emmsie69 · Top national player

the addict wrote:
I gather that Hawkeye only covers the area close to the line, so if the ball is that far out the umpire is supposed to call it - unless they are asleep in the sun of course ........

I have a vague recollection of that happening to Lendl at Wimbledon when they had those service line things.

Cyclops

-- Edited by emmsie69 on Tuesday 9th of February 2021 08:46:26 PM