Women's Qualifying Draw

[DBBN]

(1)Denisa Allertova v Ysaline Bonaventure
Miharu Imanishi v Andrea Hlavackova
(wc)Kimberly Birrell v Kateryna Bondarenko
Stephanie Vogt v (22)Laura Siegemund

(2)Misaki Doi v Mathilde Johansson
Risa Ozaki v Olga Govortsova
Aliaksandra Sasnovich v Alberta Brianti
Stephanie Foretz v (18)Mariana Duque-Mariano

(3)Lourdes Dominguez Lino v Alexa Glatch
(wc)Jessica Moore v (wc)Fiona Ferro
Eri Hozumi v Su-Wei Hsieh
Renata Voracova v (17)Lin Zhu

(4)Danka Kovinic v Virginie Razzano
Tatjana Maria v Gioia Barbieri
Viktorija Golubic v (wc)Olivia Tjandramulia
Nigina Abduraimova v (13)Cagla Buyukakcay

(5)Teliana Pereira v Elitsa Kostova
(wc)Sara Tomic v Ekaterina Bychkova
Ling Zhang v Alexandra Panova
Sesil Karatantcheva v (20)Magda Linette

(6)Yulia Putintseva v Julia Boserup
Yi-Fan Xu v Maria Irigoyen
Gabriela Dabrowski v Yuliya Beygelzimer
Lucie Hradecka v (15)Jovana Jaksic

(7)Luksika Kumkhum v Yafan Wang
Patricia Maria Tig v Julia Glushko
(wc)Naiktha Bains v Ons Jabeur
Junri Namigata v (19)Kristyna Pliskova

(8)Andreea Mitu v Claire Feuerstein
Anastasiya Vasylyeva v Hiroko Kuwata
Urszula Radwanska v Naomi Broady
Mandy Minella v (16)Paula Ormaechea

(9)Shahar Peer v Francoise Abanda
Marina Melnikova v Anastasia Rodionova
Louisa Chirico v (wc)Maddison Inglis
Shuko Aoyama v (23)Richel Hogenkamp

(10)Evgeniya Rodina v (wc)Priscilla Hon
Paula Kania v Anett Kontaveit
Kristina Kucova v Yung-Jan Chan
Kai-Lin Zhang v (14)Maryna Zanevska

(11)Misa Eguchi v Veronica Cepede Royg
Katarzyna Piter v Lyudmyla Kichenok
Akgul Amanmuradova v Nadiia Kichenok
Johanna Konta v (24)Anna Tatishvili

(12)Patricia Mayr-Achleitner v Fangzhou Liu
Barbora Krejcikova v Bianca Botto
Ana Bogdan v Petra Martic
Elizaveta Kulichkova v (21)Sharon Fichman

[DBBN]

Predictions - and I also will list some players I'm most hopeful will do well in brackets. I won't list everyone I like so don't immediately get offended.

Allertova (1) [Allertova, K-BOND]
Duque-Marino (18) [Sasnovich]
Zhu (17) [SWH, Glatch]
Maria [La Razz]
Karatantcheva [my misplaced faith in Thunder will never die]
Hradecka [Poots, Bagel-Z, Hrad]
Kr. Pliskova (19) [Glushko, Jabeur]
U. Radwanska [Mitu]
Peer (9) [this section is hilariously terrible in so many ways]
Zanevska (14) [Kucova, YJC]
Amanmuradova [just saying LOL if War of the Kichenoks happens]
Martic [I'm tired now]

[janie]

Martic :rofl:

[janie]

I note that USians are thin on the ground in this field. I hope Vicky Duval and, yes, Mel Oudin will be back soon to beef up our Hidden World presence in Slams.

[janie]

PS One reason I've missed this place is that I censor my rudest comments on Twitter too much. People are so touchy there! And the players themselves might see a tweet with their name and get all hurt! Also I have noticed that others do the same watering-down. But I get tired of all that Kimmyesque sweetness and light. I miss having a place to crab about players.

[Lady]

Hurley must truly be bored!!
I don't mind though. If I catch any AO action I'd always rather discuss it here if anyone is here.

[janie]

Lady's here!

[Lady]

I must say I love Hurley's new Andy Murray appreciation. Twitter is what made me love him as well.

[janie]

He's hilarious. I'm never going to root for him against Rafa or Roger, or Stan, or Delpo, but I have to admit I like him now, too.

[janie]

Sadly, Akgul lost to Tatishvili, but I'm very glad to see that the perpetually-injured Glatch advanced to Q3.