WTA 250 Birmingham 6/19 - 6/25 2023

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Ed Salmon
@fogmount@mas.to
Venus Williams limps her way through the rest of the match after injuring her right knee early on, but takes advantage of pig-headed shot selection and flurries of unforced errors by Giorgi in the 3rd set to win, 76(5) 46 76(6) in 3h17m in Birmingham. #tennis

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[ashkor87]

After losing in R1 at RG, Krejcikova and Siniakova aren't playing together this week. Split before Wimbledon? Krejcikova is playing with Kostyuk in Birmingham while Siniakova is playing with Vondrousova in Berlin.

That's very interesting. Have they broken up?

Could be like McCoco..not getting entry into the same tournaments bcos disparity in ranking...?

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Kostyuk vs Potapova may finish just before the match would be called for darkness.
Potapova up 5-3 in the third and Kostyuk held to force her to serve it out at 5-4.

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Potapova needed four mp's but wins the match 6-7(6), 7-5, 6-4.

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Day 5 Order of Play

Ann Jones Centre Court
Starts at 11:00 AM

USA E. BEKTAS vs CHN S. ZHANG (7)
FOLLOWED BY
CZE B. KREJCIKOVA (1) vs ESP C. BUCSA
FOLLOWED BY
CZE L. FRUHVIRTOVA vs USA B. PERA (6)
FOLLOWED BY
UKR A. KALININA (5) vs GBR H. DART

Court 1
Starts at 11:00 AM

CAN R. MARINO vs CHN X. WANG
FOLLOWED BY
CZE T. MARTINCOVA vs BUL V. TOMOVA
FOLLOWED BY
POL M. LINETTE (3) vs CHN L. ZHU

Court 2
Starts at 12:00 PM

AUS S. HUNTER/USA A. PARKS (3) vs TPE S. HSIEH/CZE B. STRYCOVA

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Day 6 Order of Play

Ann Jones Centre Court
Starts at 11:00 AM

ROU S. CIRSTEA (8) vs POL M. FRECH
FOLLOWED BY
CZE B. KREJCIKOVA (1) vs CZE T. MARTINCOVA
FOLLOWED BY
USA V. WILLIAMS vs LAT J. OSTAPENKO (2)
FOLLOWED BY
USA C. MCNALLY vs RUS A. POTAPOVA (4)

Court 1
Starts at 11:00 AM

CAN R. MARINO vs USA E. BEKTAS
FOLLOWED BY
POL M. LINETTE/USA B. PERA vs BLR L. MAROZAVA/BRA I. GAMARRA MARTINS
NOT BEFORE 4:30 PM
GBR F. CHRISTIE/GBR A. COLLINS vs UKR M. KOSTYUK/CZE B. KREJCIKOVA (2)

[meganfernandez]

This will sting for a while - Emina Betkas celebrated victory vs Marino after hitting an ace at 5-4, 40-love in the third. But the chair called a let. Emina lost the match badly in a tiebreak. Had 5 match points in all.

She was a qualifier who had taken out #7 seed Zhang Shuai and was trying to make her 2nd straight quarterfinal on grass (both as a qualifier).

She should tell herself it's a blessing in disguise after playing more matches than she is used to - she could use some rest.

Didn't this happen to Serena once at the Aussie, in the 2015 final? She served an ace on championship point and it was called a let, and she just coolly served another ace. Vs Sharapova.

[ashkor87]

I guess that is why she is Serena...

[meganfernandez]

This will sting for a while - Emina Betkas celebrated victory vs Marino after hitting an ace at 5-4, 40-love in the third. But the chair called a let. Emina lost the match badly in a tiebreak. Had 5 match points in all.

She was a qualifier who had taken out #7 seed Zhang Shuai and was trying to make her 2nd straight quarterfinal on grass (both as a qualifier).

She should tell herself it's a blessing in disguise after playing more matches than she is used to - she could use some rest.

Didn't this happen to Serena once at the Aussie, in the 2015 final? She served an ace on championship point and it was called a let, and she just coolly served another ace. Vs Sharapova.

I guess that is why she is Serena...

I texted condolensces and my thoughts on the blessing in disguise to a coach in Indy who knows Emina, and he wasn't nearly as sympathetic. "She's young and healthy and her job is to win tennis matches. She should be putting the hammer down. No winnie no money."

[meganfernandez]

Another Venus miracle? She came back from the dead to force a third vs Ostapenko. Jelena was up a set and 5-3 and I think had match points. Venus won the set 7-5. I'm surprised Venus can even move after her 3-hour match, much less compete.

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Day 7 Order of Play

Ann Jones Centre Court
Starts at 11:00 AM

CHN L. ZHU vs CAN R. MARINO
NOT BEFORE 12:30 PM
POL M. FRECH vs LAT J. OSTAPENKO (2)
FOLLOWED BY
CZE B. KREJCIKOVA (1) vs CZE L. FRUHVIRTOVA
FOLLOWED BY
GBR H. DART vs RUS A. POTAPOVA (4)

Court 1
Starts at 11:00 AM

UKR L. KICHENOK/LAT J. OSTAPENKO (1) vs NOR U. EIKERI/RUS A. PANOVA

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Day 9 Order of Play

Ann Jones Centre Court
Starts at 01:30 PM

Final
CZE B. KREJCIKOVA (1) vs LAT J. OSTAPENKO (2)
UPCOMING
Final
AUS S. HUNTER/USA A. PARKS (3) vs UKR M. KOSTYUK/CZE B. KREJCIKOVA (2)