OTW Extra Email Archive - June 2017
An update from Paris - and win tickets to Queen’s...
Wednesday 7th June 2017
In your Ones to Watch email today:
An update from Paris...
None of the six big-priced players in our French Open 2017 Ones to Watch report have made it through to the second week.
But as anticipated, this ‘Serena-less’ Grand Slam has once again provided a few surprises in the Women’s event...
Thursday’s semi final will see Jelena Ostapenko (100/1 pre-tournament) take on Timea Bacsinszky (50/1) – with both players looking to reach their first ever Grand Slam final.
It’s a big day for a number of reasons – tomorrow just happens to be both Ostapenko AND Bacsinszky’s birthdays...
Ostapenko and Svitolina breaking through...
Ostapenko turns 20 years of age, and this is proving a breakthrough event for the young Latvian. She featured as one of the ten up-and-coming players on our Ones to Watch in 2017 list.
Her opponent, Bacsinsky stands on the brink of her biggest career achievement to date on what will be her 28th birthday.
On the opposite side of the Women’s draw, 22-year-old Elina Svitolina faces tournament favourite Simona Halep this afternoon, playing for a place in the other semi final.
Svitolina also featured on our 2017 list and has reached the French Open quarter finals for the second time in three years.
The next few days in Paris should prove interesting. And with Wimbledon & the US Open and the rest of the summer schedule to come, this week should also tell us something about the mindset of the players. Both of those Women breaking through for the first time; and in the Men’s, the big-moment status of Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka who are all at the time of writing still in contention.
Win tickets to Queen’s...
The grass court season kicks off in the England after the French Open, and the annual Queen’s Club event is the major marker in the Wimbledon ‘warm-up’ schedule...
This time of year sees plenty of companies and websites giving away tickets to the big summer tournaments. The Independent is one of them – offering the chance to win a pair of tickets to Queen’s...
The competition is FREE to enter. All you have to do is answer the question (the answer is ‘150 years’).
I’ve already got my name in the hat. The comp closes tomorrow (Thur 8th June), so enter today...
As they say, you’ve got to be in it to win it. And it literally takes just a few seconds to enter:
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I’ll be back soon with more Ones to Watch for you as the summer of tennis and the build-up to Wimbledon continues.
Until then, enjoy the action in Paris...
Best wishes,
