[Territory]

Wow great effort by Storm! She must have a lot of confidence after doing well in AO juniors. Good win by Em Starr to beat a seed too.

Good to see Nina Catovic won her R1 easily. She hasn't played for ages. Tammi should be losing a set to Tyra.

And a bit disturbing to see Mirkovic pull out of her R2 match. Hope it's nothing serious!

Good luck to Tammi, Emelyn and Storm tomorrow! Would be great to have a couple of girls get through.

[Territory]

Isabella has withdrawn!

[TS]

Might be a good thing for Bella to w/d here? I bet her confidence has taken a mighty beating after the summer series, so possibly some hard training on the agenda?

[Chris93]

Storm ! Rajicic Vs Sema

[ozfan44]

Originally Posted by TS

Might be a good thing for Bella to w/d here? I bet her confidence has taken a mighty beating after the summer series, so possibly some hard training on the agenda?

Yeah by the time ao was over she looked so down on herself she was like stosur....like she just snapped under the spotlight and pressure...hopefully she can keep working on her game and get back on track....

[Territory]

Em Starr and Storm Sanders qualified!

[sutho12]

Storm & Em Starr quallied. Told u all em is good!! Both beat some good seeds to quallie.

Tammi lost, clearly her wc handouts during aus open series didnt help her game. Slumping massively imo..

[ozfan44]

Originally Posted by sutho12

Tammi lost, clearly her wc handouts during aus open series didnt help her game. Slumping massively imo..

Tammi sucked so bad in the doubles i saw her play with Storm.....some bagel girl like Sevvy Gallios would have been a better partner....

[Chilenaitor]

any livescores or livestream for wta?? or only livescores atp?

[Sam21]

Rogowska won 6-1 6-4. she cruised through the first set but went down 3-0 in the second and started getting a bit annoyed, the wind was pretty bad at times. i was near her coach and he thought the other girl was playing pretty well. Olivia got it right back to 3-3 and then just played steady to finish it off.

Storm lost 6-1 7-6 (3), but she did pretty well really. she was down 6-1 and 5-1 by making a lot of errors, Putintseva just looked steady but i didn't see the first set. anyway i was watching Jones and Millman on the court near Storm, and i saw that some of their rallies were going as long as two points of Jones-Millman so i went to watch Storm when she was 4-1 down. there were lots of Sanders forehand to Putintseva backhand rallies, and Storm was starting to get on top of most of them. Putintseva was going off her face by 5-2 and even got a racket abuse warning at about 5-3. she was also pretty unhappy when she broke a string on break point for Storm to get it back on serve at 5-4. Storm held easily for 5-5 and they both held for 6-6, no match points or set points. Putintseva upped the ante in the tie-break and Storm started making errors again. it was 3-3 but Putintseva won four points in a row after they changed.

Bobusic d Hadzic 7-5 1-6 6-1. only saw the third set but it looked like it was just Bojana being more solid than Azra from the back of the court. Boj had a good consistent deep ball as well as the occasional shot a few metres out. Azra hit some good shots when she was set up for them but made too many errors. good effort from Azra to get a set though.

Starr d whoever she played, she won the first, lost the second and won the third 6-3. i didn't know who she was at first and i thought she looked like Larcher de Brito because of her hair and her backhand looked similar from where i was watching. i was half watching this as well as Lu and Frost because the courts were next to each other. Starr actually looked pretty solid, much better than the 800-something player who lost in 25k quallies last year, and they had some good rallies too. the chick she played had one of those grunts that sounds like she's saying "air" but really long and dragged out and it just went on forever! Starr was relying on her opponent's errors mostly, but was good at finishing off a short ball and even coming into the net. the match went for a long time and Starr looked quite relieved it was over at the end.

i saw Sally playing too from a distance but i don't know whether she won or lost, but she did have a skit near the end where she missed a shot near the net, then yelled out "Sallyyyyyyy!!!", bent down on her knees and smacked her racket on the ground. also Khromacheva was happy to let everyone in Burnie know when she won a point by screaming out "allez!!! c'mon!!!!" so many times i lost count!

[Chris93]

Thanks for the reports. Good win for Starr.

[TS]

Khromacheva and Putintseva are both headcases. Hopefully they get beaten here.

Peers was playing Hubacek today. Doubt she'd lose to Alenka.

The player Starr played today is Jugic-Salkic, a doubles specialist in her 30s. Former top 100 singles player I think.

[sutho12]

Go starr!

[hessie]

R1

(1)Yurika Sema (JPN) d. (wc)Viktorija Rajicic (AUS) 62 64
Sally Peers (AUS) d. (wc)Alenka Hubacek (AUS) 67(8) 64 62
Sandra Zaniewska (POL) d. Richel Hogenkamp (NED) 61 60
(6)Arina Rodionova (RUS) d. Akiko Omae (JPN) 62 46 61

Irina Khromacheva (RUS) d. (4)Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR) 60 36 62
(Q)Carol Zhao (CAN) d. (Q)Chiaki Okadaue (JPN) 60 62
Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) d. (Q)Ayumi Oka (JPN) 62 62
Melanie South (GBR) d. (5)Aiko Nakamura (JPN) 62 62

(7)Bojana Bobusic (AUS) d. (wc)Azra Hadzic (AUS) 75 16 61
(Q)Emelyn Starr (AUS) d. Mervana Jugic-Salkic (BIH) 60 36 63
Monique Adamczak (AUS) d. Pemra Ozgen (TUR) 63 64
(3)Yulia Putintseva (RUS) d. (Q)Storm Sanders (AUS) 61 76(3)

(8)Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) d. Masa Zec-Peskiric (SLO) 36 63 76(5)
(Q)Shuko Aoyama (JPN) d. (wc)Karolina Wlodarczak (AUS) 62 36 62
(Q)Su Jeong Jang (KOR) d. Conny Perrin (SUI) 62 62
(2)Olivia Rogowska (AUS) d. (Q)Lesley Kerkhove (NED) 61 64

[petey_pan]

Sally was expecting a MUCH easier match than that. Jugic-Salkic is still a decent singles player and ranked 330 so really excellent win from Emelyn. Other results pretty expected.... those Russian brats need to be taught a lesson!