Harriet Dart's opponent is Iga Swiatek, seeded 7.
Regardless of any Rose Tinted Specs, that's quite some result!
First round winds for Katie Boulter at the Lyon Open and Heather Watson at the Monterrey Open. Emma Raducanu had to withdraw from the Monterrey tournament to allow time to recover from an injury in her last game which was the longest game this year in the WTA tournaments,
Heather Watson, Harriet Dart and Katie Boulter through the qualifiers and into the main draw at Indian Wells. They all face top 50 players in the first round. Emma Raducanu gets a bye to the second round if she plays.
Rankings at present are Emma 13, Heather 113, Harriet 122 and Katie 127.
Emma Raducanu to make her Billie Jean King Cup debut in April when GB play the Czech Republic.
The other GB representatives are Harriet Dart, Katie Swan and Sonay Kartal.
Emma and Sonay were rivals when they were younger. Sonay has been playing in ITF tournaments and has won some of them. Had been injured and is slowly rising in the rankings.
Katie Boulter is absent with a foot injury. Heather Watson will miss the tie in order to try to improve her ranking - when the next rankings are released Harriet Dart will now be the GB number two.
Emma Raducanu lost her second round match over 3 sets.
Heather Watson beat Elina Svitolina (ranking 20) over 3 sets to get to the third round, first time in the Miami Open for 6 years, and the first win over a top 20 player since 2020. She's against the 22nd seed Belinda Bencic.
Laura Robson has confirmed her retirement from tennis. She hasn't played for a long time due to injury, 3 hip operations, rehab so her retirement is not unexpected but it's now official.
Lengthy BBC article looking back at her career:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/61410385
Harriet Dart (court 12 10.00am), Heather Watson (court 14 noon) and Emma Raducanu (Court Simonne Mathieu 15.00) are due to play their first rounds matches at the French Open today. However showers are expected all day. As a result, there are likely to be a lot of disruption. Better weather forecast from tomorrow.
As Emma Raducanu has been on the WTA circuit for a year I thought I would look at the British player rankings for the year to date so excluding Wimbledon (as no ranking points this year) and the US Open.
She is still the British number 1 but down to a world ranking of 57. Heather Watson is 78, Harriet Dart 91 and Katie Boulter 139.
Jodi Burrage and Katie Boulter lost their matches today.
Harriet Dart won her delayed match from yesterday and her second match of the day to get to the quarter finals at Eastbourne. Result means that she'll be in the top 100 in the next set of rankings and is the British number 2.
Wimbledon starts today, Emma Raducanu in action though she keeps on getting injuries as she starts to get used to playing at senior professional level. Harriet Dart may be the British player to go the furthest this year, also Katie Boulter.
Although no ranking points this year, unlikely to have a dramatic effect on positions other than Katie Boulter dropping by around 10 places, Emma Raducanu's position won't change much and could improve by one.
Harriet Dart won her first round match, that will be overshadowed in the media by Emma Raducanu losing her second round match to Caroline Garcia, Caroline Garcia, a former top 10 player, won the Bad Homburg Open in Germany last week. She beat Bianca Andreescu who was the US Open champion in 2019.
Katie Boulter well beaten today in her third round match.
Heather Watson and Harriet Dart win their second round in the women's doubles. Heather back in action later in the first round of the mixed doubles. Heather has been in action at Wimbledon 6 days in a row and is back tomorrow in the fourth round in the singles.
