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« on: March 07, 2016, 05:36:44 PM » |
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British number two Heather Watson is up 31 places in the world rankings to 53 after winning the Monterrey Open. It was the 23-year-old's third WTA title of her career Click to see full-size image. |
 what is the ceiling for Heather in terms of world rankings? when would a top WTA player mature and be at their peak? Konta is 26th Broady 70th we havent had this since Wade and Barker have we? albeit a lobng way off that yet
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TheDazzler
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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2016, 05:45:42 PM » |
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Jo Durie was World top ten I think?
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TightEnd
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« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2016, 05:48:25 PM » |
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Jo Durie was World top ten I think?
she was, but we didn't have three players climbing the rankings fast simultaneously iirc.
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« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2016, 05:55:12 PM » |
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Jo Durie was World top ten I think?
she was, but we didn't have three players climbing the rankings fast simultaneously iirc. Oh I see, you mean mutiple players. Annabel Croft was around the same time as Durie. Maybe wasn't actually that good? I bet Mere rated her 
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« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2016, 05:58:04 PM » |
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Feels like in the women's game you can hit top 32 just based on consistency. If she has the tools to go top 16 not so sure.
On a related note is Laura Robson finished with her injury? Such a shame as she was beating top 10 players at Slams before injury struck.
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« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2016, 06:11:46 PM » |
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At the end of 1985, Britain had 5 players in the top 100. Annabel Croft 24 (21) Jo Durie 26 (5) Anne Hobbs 40 (33) Sara Gomer 77 (46) Virginia Wade 89 (2) Highest ever ranking in brackets. You can get full lists here: http://www.wtatennis.com/singles-rankings
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« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2016, 06:23:55 PM » |
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Laura Robson continues to struggle with her wrist and there are no signs of things turning around. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/26/laura-robson-pulls-out-of-mexico-tournament-wristShe is nominally on the list of entries for Indian Wells this week but I don't think that she is playing. She is responsible for my biggest ever odds win on a single match when she beat Kim Clijsters in the US Open at about 9/1 so I'm particularly fond of her. Hopefully she will make Nottingham this year.
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« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2016, 06:25:43 PM » |
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Angela Mortimer and Christine Truman must have been ranked fairly high.
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« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2016, 07:06:44 PM » |
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Laura Robson continues to struggle with her wrist and there are no signs of things turning around. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/feb/26/laura-robson-pulls-out-of-mexico-tournament-wristShe is nominally on the list of entries for Indian Wells this week but I don't think that she is playing. She is responsible for my biggest ever odds win on a single match when she beat Kim Clijsters in the US Open at about 9/1 so I'm particularly fond of her. Hopefully she will make Nottingham this year. She is also an absolute beauty!
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MereNovice
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« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2016, 09:24:07 PM » |
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For those wishing to watch a replay, here is the YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxoG3FrmlUIt starts at 43:35. Cliffs: Her family doctor prescribed her a drug called meldonium. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeldoniumShe has had a long standing illness and has been taking it for 10 years. She didn't read the new list that was sent from WADA in December. She takes full responsibility personally. There has been no decision on the repercussions.
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« Reply #11 on: March 07, 2016, 09:43:34 PM » |
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For those wishing to watch a replay, here is the YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxoG3FrmlUIt starts at 43:35. Cliffs: Her family doctor prescribed her a drug called meldonium. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeldoniumShe has had a long standing illness and has been taking it for 10 years. She didn't read the new list that was sent from WADA in December. She takes full responsibility personally. There has been no decision on the repercussions. Do you believe her Mere? I'm sure she has a full team around her and a 'mistake' like this seems implausible to me. I'm sure more detail will come out so not to jump to conclusions.
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« Reply #12 on: March 07, 2016, 09:55:59 PM » |
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For those wishing to watch a replay, here is the YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxoG3FrmlUIt starts at 43:35. Cliffs: Her family doctor prescribed her a drug called meldonium. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeldoniumShe has had a long standing illness and has been taking it for 10 years. She didn't read the new list that was sent from WADA in December. She takes full responsibility personally. There has been no decision on the repercussions. Do you believe her Mere? I'm sure she has a full team around her and a 'mistake' like this seems implausible to me. I'm sure more detail will come out so not to jump to conclusions. I'd very much like to take her at face value but, as you say, she has a large team and is known for her professionalism so it does seem like a really poor oversight. This appears to be the document that she didn't look at: https://wada-main-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/files/wada-2016-prohibited-list-summary-of-modifications-en.pdfIt is particularly unfortunate that there is a big issue with Russian athletes generally so that doesn't look good for her. However, if she can show that it has been a long term prescription from a "family doctor" I would guess some leniency would be shown. I also don't know whether the fact that this drug had only been ruled illegal for three weeks at the time of her testing would be taken into consideration. It seems to me that there is a difference between taking a drug that has been deemed prohibited for many years or for just three weeks.
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« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2016, 10:20:24 PM » |
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This is the same drug that two Ukrainian biathletes and a Russian cyclist have tested positve for this year, and it's expected to be the reason a raft of Ethiopian runners (who have a Ukrainian doctor) have also failed tests.
Let's face it, the authorities didn't suddenly stick it on the banned list for no good reason.
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« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2016, 10:28:21 PM » |
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Tennis girls.
Woof!
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