(1) 242 Dragana Zaric YUG v 313 Maria Kondratieva RUS
WC 709 Amanda Janes GBR v (16) 306 Aiko Nakamura JPN

(2) 243 Dessislava Topalova BUL v WC 1084 Holly Bagshaw GBR
326 Kathrin Woerle GER v (12) 290 Capucine Rousseau FRA

(3) 245 Katarina Daskovic YUG v 330 Elodie Lebescond FRA
324 Hannah Collin GBR v (11) 287 Sophie Lefevre FRA

(4) 259 Jana Hlavackova CZE v 315 Giulia Casoni ITA
369 Lydia Steinbach GER v (15) 304 Nan Nan Liu CHN

(5) 261 Karolina Sprem CRO v WC UR Katie O'Brien GBR
319 Sophie Erre FRA v (9) 279 Anne-Laure Heitz FRA

(6) 265 Caroline Maes BEL v 336 Yevgenia Savransky ISR
WC 675 Anna Hawkins GBR v (10) 285 Antoaneta Pandjerova BUL

(7) 268 Petra Russegger AUT v 334 Lana Popadic CRO
366 Yan-Ze Xie CHN v (13) 298 Laura Dell'Angelo ITA

(8) 277 Stephanie Gehrlein GER v 365 Helen Crook GBR
357 Nicole Rencken RSA v (14) 300 Lauren Breadmore AUS

I don't like this draw, it will be extremely difficult for the Brits to qualify, but good luck to them aswell as Karolina Sprem, who I want to lose to Katie.

Good Luck to the Brits

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THE BRITS:D

Good luck Caroline!!!! :bounce:

Good luck to all the Brits :D

Good luck to Dragana, Aiko, Dessislava, Hannah, and Nan Nan!!!

In a change of plan, I am now going to watch tomorrow's play (as well as Saturday and Sunday).

To come through the qualifiers, my predictions are:

- Maria Kondratieva
- Kathrin Woerle
- Sophie Lefevre
- Nan Nan Liu
- Karolina Sprem
- Anna Hawkins
- Yan-ze Xie
- Lauren Breadmore

go lauren!

go maria!

Go Brits!

My predictions for the qualifiers are;
1. Amanda Janes (hoping)
2. Holly Bagshaw (the others in that section aren't very good)
3. Sophie LeFevre
4. Jana Hlavakova
5. Karolina Sprem (I hope that O'Brien would qualify though)
6. Caroline Maes
7. Yan-Ze Xie (quite an easy part of the draw, anyone could qualify)
8. Nicole Rencken

These will all probably be completely wrong.

Good Luck german girls!!!

Go Nicole! This is a strong tourney! Tessy didn't even get into quallies this week!

good luck to

Nakamura:)
Liu :)
Xie:)

Tough match for Lauren. Hopefully she can qualify this time!

Good luck to Karolina Sprem :)

best of luck to:

*Dragana Zaric :D
*Amanda Janes :D
*Kathrin Woerle :D
*Katarina Daskovic
*Hannah Collin
*Sophie Lefevre
*Sophie Erre

good luck to Karolina Sprem!

Good luck to Dessi Topalova and Antoaneta Pandjerova :D

Good luck to Aiko, Yan-Ze & Nan-Nan. :D

go go go:

Amanda Janes
Aiko Nakamura
Capucine Rousseau
Nannan Liu
Petra Russegger
Yan-Ze Xie
Helen Crook

Good luck

Dragana, Katarina and Giulia :D

Good luck Caroline :)

Way to go Ally BAKER and Sonya!!! Good luck in the next round :):)

Originally posted by ZverevaZvonareva
Way to go Ally BAKER and Sonya!!! Good luck in the next round :):)

Wrong Post!

Does anyone have any qualifying results yet?

ELODIE... PLEASE PUT A HALT TO YOUR DOWNFALL...

Good luck to all the british galls!

any results yet?

the last matches started around 3pm

Good Luck Breadmore hope you can win a couple of rounds

Maes (6) - Savransky 7-5 6-3 :)

Qualifying First Round

Kondratieva - Zaric (1) 2-6 6-4 7-5
Nakamura (16) - Janes 7-6 (3) 1-6 7-5
Topalova (2) - Bagshaw 6-3 6-1
Rousseau (12) - Woerle 6-4 7-6 (2)
Daskovic (3) - Lebescond 6-3 6-4
Lefevre (11) - Collin 6-2 6-1
Casoni - Hlavackova (4) 6-3 6-2
Steinbach - Liu (15) 6-3 6-3
Sprem - O'Brien 6-0 6-0 :o
Heitz (9) - Erre 6-2 6-2
Maes (6) - Savransky 7-5 6-3 :)
Pandjerova (10) - Hawkins 6-3 6-4
Russegger (7) - Popadic 7-6 (6) 7-6 (4)
Dell'Angelo (13) - Xie 6-4 6-2
Gehrlein (8) - Crook 6-0 6-3
Breadmore (14) - Rencken 6-2 7-5

oops i'll delete mine :)

Amanda :sad: :fiery: - you should of won this
Holly :sad:
Hannah :rolleyes:
Anna :sad:
Helen :sad:
Lauren :D <--- She's the Ozzie version of Lucie Ahl apparently!

dear me, what terrible results again for the brits.
It looks like amanda should have won,but should do better next week in the 10k's
Hannah has been terrible all season, so it's just as i expected.
Very suprised by Katies score, but very good for Karolina. (Laughable)
Lets hope for some better results in the main draw

Holly deserved better than the score suggests. She fought really hard in the rallies, against the 2nd seed Topalova, but just couldn't get the winners. Hannah was indeed terrible.

I was also very disappointed with Nan Nan Liu. She doesn't seem to have progressed much, if at all, since she played in the four British challengers at the start of last year.

Finally, I thought this in Hull, and her performance today confirmed that Nicole Rencken could do with losing a few pounds! Several people who I was talking to today thought exactly the same thing. She was playing well enough, but just wasn't quick enough around the court.

Lebescond was very hot-tempered in her defeat, regularly contesting line-calls. Tournament referee Jane Harvey had to be called on court twice in that match.

I took lots of photos. It will however probably be a couple of days before I get a selection of them on to my WTAworld gallery.

Also, the MD wildcards are Jane O'Donoghue (as previously announced), Karen Paterson and Lindsay Reilly. Also there's a junior exemption wildcard for Jarmila Gaidosova (as at Southampton last week).

Brits:rolleyes:

Lydia :bounce:

Originally posted by bluepastures
Holly deserved better than the score suggests. She fought really hard in the rallies, against the 2nd seed Topalova, but just couldn't get the winners. Hannah was indeed terrible.

I was also very disappointed with Nan Nan Liu. She doesn't seem to have progressed much, if at all, since she played in the four British challengers at the start of last year.

Finally, I thought this in Hull, and her performance today confirmed that Nicole Rencken could do with losing a few pounds! Several people who I was talking to today thought exactly the same thing. She was playing well enough, but just wasn't quick enough around the court.

Lebescond was very hot-tempered in her defeat, regularly contesting line-calls. Tournament referee Jane Harvey had to be called on court twice in that match.

I took lots of photos. It will however probably be a couple of days before I get a selection of them on to my WTAworld gallery.

Also, the MD wildcards are Jane O'Donoghue (as previously announced), Karen Paterson and Lindsay Reilly. Also there's a junior exemption wildcard for Jarmila Gaidosova (as at Southampton last week).

Nicole :sad:

Did you really think Nicole needs to lose some weight? I saw her playing in Mt. Gambier, and she looked quite OK there. She was moving round the court fine, and she didn't look fat! Unless she put on some kilo's over Christmas? :confused: I always thought Grandin would be better if she lost a bit of weight.

COME ON LAUREN QUALIFY THIS WEEK PLEASE

Dragana is going to drop a lot in the rankings :sad:

Well done Dessislava, Antoaneta and Katarina :)

sarah...I agree, Grandin could definately benefit from losing a bit (but still she's doing OK regardless!)

Lauren :D Paul, Lauren is quite petite and a great scrambler. She has no real weapons, just uses her brains and hangs in every point. Dont know what to make of the Ahl comparison as Ive never seen Ahl play...

Karolina :)
Giulia :)

Karolina :) :)

Karolina:D

Finally convincing wins for Dessislava and Antoaneta :D
Go Girls :hearts:

Katarina, Giulia :)

Dragana :sad:

Giulia :D
Sophie lefebvre :D

any results from today?

Nakamura BT Kondratieva 6-4, 6-4
Rousseau BT Topalova 6-3, 6-3
Lefevre BT Daskovic 6-4, 6-7, 6-3
Casoni BT Steinbach 6-1, 6-1
Sprem BT Heitz 6-1, 6-3
Maes BT Pandjerova 6-2, 6-3
Russegger BT Dellangelo 7-6, 7-6
Gehrlein BT Breadmore 6-3, 6-1

Originally posted by bluepastures
Casoni BT Steinbach 6-1, 6-1

:sad:

Maria :sad:
Sophie :D
Lauren :sad:

Caroline :) :bounce:

Well done Caroline :bounce:

Maria :mad: :fiery:

pfff.....Brits. typical.

wd Caroline :D

NO BRITS QUALIFY:rolleyes:
cant blame them though, no Brits got on TOP 8 seed,
good luck in the MD....:)

Katarina :(

Giulia :D