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Coup Droit


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indiana wrote:

Not saying Harriet shouldn't have won today, well for a start I didn't see any of the match.

But rankings are most certainly valid yesterday, today, tomorrow. They generally indicate coming into a match how much better one player has played compared to another over the last 12 months. That disparity re general level is unlikey to just disappear  ( though of course it can some days, or tennis life would be very boring ). As a generality though ' not particularly valid'  is just codswallop   

I wss thinking that more pertinently here grass may have been the real leveller but I see that Bartunkova was a Wimbledon girls' RU in 2023 so has proved adapt on the surface.



-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 2nd of June 2026 02:06:58 PM

 Not particularly valid on a given day, I said, not in general, Mr Codswallop biggrin

As in, if you're 100 in the world you obviously will not beat all players ranked 101 and below and lose to all those ranked 99 and above

You're not even expected to

The range is pretty wide

And today, the actual tennis said that this was a match that should have been one on Harriet's outlier wins, to counteract when she loses to someone ranked 220



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Katie misses four break points but playing well

*3-4

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Katie seals a very good set of tennis with a slice ace out wide 7-6(4).

Alicia misses a couple of break points and played a poor following game to go down 1-2*, but she steadied herself and broke back for *2-2



-- Edited by PaulM on Tuesday 2nd of June 2026 07:21:03 PM

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Thanks for the updates PaulM, I'm just following the scores on the WTA site. Great to hear Swan is playing well against a known grass courter. I see 80% first serves going in. Clutch serving seems to have got Swan to the first set tie break, and then after taking the minibreak, Swan kept Tomljanovic at bay to close out the 1st set. Now Katie up 3-2 in the 2nd, and play suspended for the evening. A good position to be in for the resumption tomorrow.



-- Edited by foobarbaz on Tuesday 2nd of June 2026 07:58:22 PM

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Suspended for the day.
Katie 7-6(4) 3-2
Alicia 4-6

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If we wanted to find out if Katie could compete at a high level again (having been playing ITFs) I think we have our answer. Fantastic so far against a 2x Wimbledon quarter finalist and former top 40 player

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To summarise

R1:- Nikola Bartunkova (CZE) WR69 [5] def Harriet Dart (GBR) WR171 [WC] 3-6 6-3 7-5

R1:- Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR) WR288/JCH=5 [WC] def Emerson Jones (AUS) WR136/(JCH=1) 3-6 6-1 7-5

To finish
R1:- Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) WR100 [7] v Katie Swan (GBR) WR203 [WC] (4) 6-7 2-3
R1:- Taylah Preston (AUS) WR127 v Alicia Dudeney (GBR) WR281 [WC] 6-4 0-0
Winners play each other

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L16:- Mika Stojsavljevic (GBR) WR288/JCH=5 [WC] v Elvina Kalieva (USA) WR135

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Schedule seems a bit odd tomorrow, finish round one singles, but only play a couple of seconds rounds, and try to complete two rounds of doubles.

I thought they'd be trying to get round 1 and 2 of singles done as a priority.

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The WTA order of play is out of date - doesn't show Katie or Alicia to finish.

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Great win for Mika although it does seem she was saved by the rain yesterday.

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dodrade wrote:

Great win for Mika although it does seem she was saved by the rain yesterday.

Was a rather profitable comeback today, not just for Mika   



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PaulM wrote:

Schedule seems a bit odd tomorrow, finish round one singles, but only play a couple of seconds rounds, and try to complete two rounds of doubles.

I thought they'd be trying to get round 1 and 2 of singles done as a priority.

the addict wrote:

The WTA order of play is out of date - doesn't show Katie or Alicia to finish.

It doesn't but neither does the revised order of play issued at 9.51pm on the ATP and LTA sites and they include other suspended matches. I think they are still trying to keep the women's doubles final on Friday (mens Saturday), so trying to get back on schedule with doubles. Singles can still be caught up, weather permitting, with R1 to finish & R2 Thursday, QF as scheduled Friday. With Katie and Taylah in doubles it might also be difficult to schedule their to finish singles matches without impacting on the doubles schedule.

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I think your right Lambda. Suspect they will also be happier to call singles play at lunchtime if it's wet and then start clearing doubles matches indoors, which they've done in the past.

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Well doesn't look promising for any early play today - cover is on Centre Court and it looks very wet.
The order of play hasn't been updated overnight, so could completely go out the window unless the weather improves.

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Almost every year it rains this week. One can almost predict the rain for my garden by the fact that it's Birmingham tennis ( live only about 18 miles away). I used to attend but don't bother now.

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