BIRMINGHAM AEGON Classic (WTA), 8/14 June: Main Thread - info. BRITS IN ACTION!!!

[Sallydaisy]

Just because it's the Grass Season ................




The Aegon Classic (replaces the DFS Classic)
Edgbaston Priory Club, Sir Harry's Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2UZ

Online information at the LTA website.
WTA site - for rankings and other information.
Singles Draw
Doubles Draw
OOP

BRITISH PLAYERS IN ACTION - SINGLES

DA Anne Keothavong [wr49]. 11th Seed. Plays Sofia Arvidsson in Round 1.

DA Mel South [wr 121]........... } Plays against compatriot
WC Katie O'Brien [wr109] ...} in Round 1. Winner plays [1] Jie Zheng

WC Georgie Stoop [wr182]...} Play each other in Round 1.
WC Elena Baltacha [wr108]..} Winner to face [5] Pavlyuchenkova
(in same 1/8th of draw as Anne K)

WC Naomi Cavaday [wr297]. Plays Julie Ditty [wr120] in Round 1 and then potentially [12] Tamasugarn or Coin

BRITISH PLAYERS IN ACTION - DOUBLES
WC Keothavong/Borwell v Chan/Yan in Round 1.

[Sallydaisy]

OOP Monday, June 8, 2009

Centre Court (from 11.00hrs)
1. Ditty vs. Cavaday
2. Sharapova vs. Dubois
3. South vs. O'Brien
4. Kirilenko vs. U.Radwanska

Court 1 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Spears vs. Broady (Singles Q Final)
2. King vs. Groth
3. Coin vs. Tanasugarn
4. Stoop vs. Baltacha

Court 2 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Krajicek vs. Poutchek (Singles Q Final)
2. Govortsova vs. Chan
3. Glatch vs. Mattek-Sands

Court 3 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Gullickson vs. Kops-Jones (Singles Q Final)
2. Daniilidou vs. Parra Santonja (Singles Q Final)
3. Sevastova vs. Wickmayer
4. Vinci vs. Brémond

Court 4 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Rodionova vs. Fujiwara (Singles Q Final)
2. Duque Marino vs. Osterloh (Singles Q Final)
3. Amanmuradova vs. Rybarikova

OUT: FQR, R1, R2, R3, QTR, SEMI, FINALIST, WINNER

[Sallydaisy]

Naomi Cavaday is a set up against Julie Ditty in the first round.
Cavaday had break points in the last game but Ditty held on to her serve.
Cavaday now serving at 6'2, *3'4.Naomi to serve for the match at 5-4.

EDIT - broken to 30. 5-5


Ditty holds for 6-5 and so does Cavaday so it's 6-6 and a tie-breaker.

Naomi serving first
1-0* breaks Ditty
*2-0
*3-0
3-1*
4-1* breaks Ditty
*5-1
*5-2 Ditty breaks back
6-2* breaks Ditty
7-2* breaks Ditty

GSM to Naomi Cavaday - a very good win for her!!!

[hfwardhouse]

Woohoo - well done Naomi

[Reeltime]

Anyone know if they've lost a court in Birmingham? Only 3 showing on LS

[Sallydaisy]

No idea, they're not listing the Court numbers on Livescore............

South v O'Brien is now underway and Katie holds serve in the opening game.

[Reeltime]

There's been nothing mentioned from Court 1, Naomi Broady was meant to be up 1st in the fqr.

[Reeltime]

Aha. LS now has court 1, half way through the 1st set of the 2nd match......... No word on Naomi though

[JAMES4578]

Great stuff Naomi Cavaday!

[Sallydaisy]

Mel and Katie are 1 set apiece..........