I am really surprised she is not giving herself at least some time to celebrate a milestone achievement in her career. This scheduling just screams injury incoming but I guess she wants to strike while the iron is hot and give herself a chance to go deep another week. I just hope she doesn’t overdo it and pays the price later. A few days in a nice resort in Hua Hin to recover mentally and physically from the last two weeks seemed in order to me.

A similar situation (without having reached a final the week prior) ended in a straight set loss for Leylah Fernandez when she played Miami Qualifying the day after winning Monterrey in 2021. The craziest turnaround in terms of timezones was when Olga Savchuk played Indian Wells Qualifying the day after losing the Doubles final in Kuala Lumpur. At least the huge time difference gave her enough time for the journey.

 

A similar situation (without having reached a final the week prior) ended in a straight set loss for Leylah Fernandez when she played Miami Qualifying the day after winning Monterrey in 2021. The craziest turnaround in terms of timezones was when Olga Savchuk played Indian Wells Qualifying the day after losing the Doubles final in Kuala Lumpur. At least the huge time difference gave her enough time for the journey.

In 2018 Paige Hourigan won her first ITF title in Corroios-Seixal as a qualifier after playing (and losing) her first round qualifying match in Setubal earlier that day. Admittedly they're both suburbs of Lisbon, but the venues are around 40 minutes apart. And in 2017 Marina Erakovic had to travel more than a hundred kilometres to Ilkley to play a qualifying match (where she beat Alexandra Stevenson in a match which lasted two and a half hours) after losing the doubles final in Manchester that morning.

I'm sure there are plenty of similar examples that other posters can quote.

 

She's like a more wild, less MAGA version of Danimal.

 

Nah, I know people label her as a Karen but I think Yell will vote for Harris.

 

I think she isn't take a serious about Beijing qualify, just like pratice time. If she win it's a bonus.

She has a game to be top 30.

 

About as good an idea as that photoshoot

Seriously, it makes Kartal's victory all the more impressive.

 

And she wins in Beijing too, though this time through opponent’s retirement in final set.

Beats Zidansek for the second time in 3 days (they literally played on Saturday) after being 1-3 down in final set. It was a tougher match today but she is through to the FQR where she plays Polina Kudermetova for a place in the main draw. Tamara seems to have injured her leg?

Final score 6-2 3-6 4-3 ret.

That’s 10 matches won in 13 days.

 

Amazing comeback for Rebecca, she must be totally exhausted though so the next match will be tough.

 

Yeah she’s going to have to play her 12th match in 14 days tomorrow and then 13th match in 15 days immediately on Wednesday if she qualifies, as qualifiers always start first in the main draw.

 

Honestly way more impressed by the streak because of the fast adaptation you need to win on three week differents conditions... ( wind, heat, long travel... )

but quite less impressed by the players she beat ( except maybe Linette )

She has the self belief and is in the form of her life at the moment ! that never give up attitude is so refreshing

 

I think she has a chance to qualify for main draw too. Polina's been in good form but just the other day against BHM, she had multiple MTOs. She finished the match but she was clearly bothered by something physical--shoulder IIRC. She beats Linda Fruity in 3 but I think Sramkova handles here. Both had long round 1 qualifying matches so it'll be interesting to see who has more left in the tank in QR2.

 

She obviously is feeling quite good about herself so why not just keep going. Winning and doing well can be an addiction and if she loses in the final round of qualies maybe she figures that’s ok. I like her after only discovering her like a year ago but I forget where. I know this is obviously the women’s forum but just last year in 2023 Flavio Cobolli the Italian player played in the SF of a challenger in San Remo in the morning then drove the 30-40 minutes to Monte Carlo to play his 1st round match in qualies for the ATP1000 event there.

 

This is incredible. Despite low opponents level, amazing stuff.

 

why the heck is one of her insta pinned posts a pic of her sucking provocatively on a lollipop omfg

...from 2017. lol.

seems like a character.

 

I seriously don't know what she looks like. In every photo I see of her, I see a different person almost. I'm really scared of her now

 

She is the moment. Now come on now.

 

Good for her. I was rooting for Kartal last weekend, but I'm glad to see her do well. Hard work pays dividends.

 

6-6 5-5 a loss and she gets in a ll draw…

 

Another win in 3 sets !! Wow

 

She won.

 

Watch her beat Sabalenka in R2 now.

 

This is wild. Congrats Rebecca.

 

She needs to go back to the crazy hair.

 

12 matches in 14 days, 11 wins.

She will play her 13th match in 15 days tomorrow.

Also live ranking of 60, her new best

 

I hope she gets better clothes and sponsors, she has a killer look and should wear something that’s gonna maximize her on court look potential, which is huge.

 

she has to play as many matches as she can now, because when the magic wand effect is over she'll return the anonymous brainless ballbasher she's always been

 

Agree she has some magic at the moment and she will pay it hard, but she's not playing like a ball basher at all during this run but very controlled agression

not her fault if the half of her opponents are choking left and right

 

Sramkova plays her 13th match in 15 days and wins her 12th match in that time span by easily defeating Kalinina in the 1st round of Beijing, 6-4 6-0, serving a bagel too. 🤯

Her next opponent is Alexandrova.

Sramkova has a new career high ranking of 55 in the live rankings. She was ranked 136 only two weeks ago.

 

WTA 1000 Beijing R2: Sramkova def. Alexandrova 5-7 6-4 6-3

She’s won 13 and played 14 matches in the last 16 days.

New career high live ranking of 52.