And then there were two! That’s all we have left in the way of active players for this week, starting this afternoon in Tianjin. Vivian Yang is second on court for her quarter-final against seventh seed Dong Na, so likely to start between 3.30 and 4.30 pm.
Alex Klintcharov and Corey Gall will be back in Celje when they play their doubles quarter-final against Dennis Dragomirov from Germany and Sebastian Sorger from Austria. Start time is likely to be between 12.30 and 2 am. The winning pair will then have to play their semi-final, which won’t start before 3 am.
The order of play is actually quite unfair, because the winners of the two early quarter-finals, provisionally starting around 11 o’clock, get to play the winners of the two later matches, giving them an extra hour or two of rest.