[Curcubeu]

Shitty draw, but Alexandra has game.

She will skip Miami and Indian Wells to prepare further on the clay and come back stronger in Europe in April/May.

[Tennis Fool]

^ Nope, she's in the qualies of Miami!

First round is against Stefanie Voegele, who she's 1-0 against. This is their first meeting on h/c.

[Curcubeu]

Why skipping Indian Wells, but playing Miami?

Good luck, I guess, but I don't expect much.

[Uncurv]

She'll lose in 2 sets, most likely, But what the hell, good luck to her!

[Uncurv]

She lost quite gracefully, I wasn't expecting this much

[Mitten Kitten]

ouch

[Curcubeu]

Respectable scoreline. Voegele was #2 seed in qualifying.

She should keep her focus on clay, though. This is where she will have to win her matches and ranking points in the coming months.

[Curcubeu]

Will play Osprey 50k next week, then directly into Charleston MD after Watson withdrew.

[Curcubeu]

Osprey 50k, Main Draw:

(7)Mathilde Johansson (FRA) v (wc)Irina Falconi (USA)
Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) v (JE)Katerina Siniakova (CZE)
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO) v Marta Sirotkina (RUS)
(2)Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) v (wc)Chiara Scholl (USA)

Great section.

[Uncurv]

Back to the 50K

[Djezonfly]

Indeed, but Siniakova might be the toughest player in this section actually

[Curcubeu]

That girl has never played on green clay before by looking at her stats, I don't know.

Anyway, this seems to be a very fast court judging by the results in qualifying.

[Uncurv]

46 63 16, in a 50K, on clay, just lame... bye bye top 200

[Adrian.]

Originally Posted by Curcubeu

That girl has never played on green clay before by looking at her stats, I don't know.

Anyway, this seems to be a very fast court judging by the results in qualifying.

and Alex lost to Domachowska last year on green clay

not that bad loss anyway

[Uncurv]

Actually quite expected loss, since out of her last 18 matches she only won 3...
But to lose to no. 821...