Watson is British No.1
Monday 16th July 2012, 10:02AM BST.
(Picture by Stephen Pond/PA Wire)
HEATHER WATSON goes into this week’s Mercury Insurance Open as the new British No. 1.
The 20-year-old Sarnian has risen to No. 71 in the world rankings following her performances last week at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford where she reached the second round and gave fifth seed Yanina Wickmayer a real scare.
She went on to win her first WTA Tour title at the weekend when she won the doubles with New Zealander Marina Erakovic.
Watson is one of four Britons now in the world’s top 100, ahead of her Fed Cup teammates Anne Keothavong (76th), Laura Robson (91st) and Elena Baltacha (100th).
Watson will play Greece’s Eleni Daniilidou in the first round of the WTA Carlsbad event tomorrow, with the winner likely to meet Wickmayer.
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A fantastic achievement.
Good luck……..
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Well done,and thank you Melrose and Ladies College for instilling the requisite discipline to make this happen
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Ray
you really,really do talk b******t!
by your rational pupils from other schools can’t succeed at sport DO YOUR HOMEWORK! Heather’s success has more, much more,to do with the support of her parents e.t.c than what school she went to. The access to expert coaching for instance will have a mucher greater influence on a persons sporting prowess than the school they went to. Why do you always employ this elitist rhetoric?
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I’m assuming Matt Le Tissier must have secretly attended Ladies College and not La Mare de Carteret as rumoured.
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Ray – not sure how you explain Wayne Rooney then? ;-)
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Do they teach match fixing at la Mare then Sparty?.
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Watch out for that ulcer Kevin :)
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PLP
Like so many youngsters in the UK he was denied the opportunity to even sit the 11+
His teacher told him that he should aim for a career either as a footballer or a bone specialist as he had the head for it
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