Week 33 - WTA Premier 5 ($2.5M) - Cincinnati, USA Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 33 - WTA Premier 5 ($2.5M) - Cincinnati, USA Hard

the addict · Tennis legend

Players coming back on court, match to start shortly.

Jan · Hall of fame

Good luck Jo - too late for me sadly.

LordBrownof · Futures level

4-1 up. As per - going for everything. Domi served a few double faults to hand her the break. Looking sharp though.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Domi breaks back - game for of missed first serves and a few errors from Jo. 4-3*

LordBrownof · Futures level

Wow. Great game - lots of winners and Jo breaks! *5-3.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Jo wins the set and immediately breaks to start the second 6-3, *1-0.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Broken back. Too few first serves and too many forehand errors. 1-1.

LordBrownof · Futures level

2-2. I'm not sure I've seen Jo hit so many groundstrokes into the net. Not playing terribly, just a few more errors than you would like.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Domi ahead 3-2. Looks much more solid now and serving better. Jo will need to up for first serve % and make sure she gets the first strike in.

As an aside, Domi constantly being told off for taking too much time.

-- Edited by LordBrownof on Thursday 17th of August 2017 10:25:31 PM

LordBrownof · Futures level

Chances chances chances. Still on serve though. Domi now 4-3 up and looks the better player in this set.

LordBrownof · Futures level

She digs in and digs out the game to go 4-4, then in a tight one breaks Domi! She'll serve for it at *5-4.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Does it to love! 6-3 6-4.

Great win. When you consider that Venus said these were some of the slowest hard courts she'd played on, this is a good win and few matches for Joko. She'll play Halep, who you gotta think is probably pretty sick of playing Jo at this point.

-- Edited by LordBrownof on Thursday 17th of August 2017 10:59:26 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

R3: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 7 7 def CIBULKOVA, Dominika (SVK) 11 11 6-3 6-4

QF: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 7 7 v HALEP, Simona (ROU) 2 2 =CH
H2H 3-2
Fed Cup 2014 1-6 4-6
Wuhan 2015 6-3 3-6 7-5
Miami 2017 3-6 7-6(7) 6-2
Fed Cup 2017 1-6 3-6
Wimbledon 2017 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 6-4

indiana · Tennis legend

Not been watching but Cincinnati is traditionally fairly quick, so really changed it ?

PS: At further rain delay in the second set of Isner vs Tiafoe ( Isner 7-6(4) 4-4* up ) Isner has so far served 21 aces and Tiafoe 8. Now I realise we're talking Isner but still ... Maybe Venus meant slowest "for Cincinnati"? Or are they indeed genuinely slow? Actually on also looking at the Karlovic vs Tsonga serve stats from the previous round I doubt it quite apart from Karlovic winning that match and still being around.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 17th of August 2017 11:34:32 PM