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Gravouil (age 19) is a completely different beast to little Lauren (age 14)

Théo, obviously, is female - the name is rare for girls in France but supposedly one reason her dad chose it was because he wanted a boy(!!!!). She was National Champion in the 13/14 years category, and runner-up another year.
And adults started off very well.
But seemingly it hasn't quite happened in the last couple of years. I don't know about any injury but her dad says that mentally she's weak (pleasant guy, her dad, what with one thing and another.....)

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Coup Droit wrote:

Gravouil (age 19) is a completely different beast to little Lauren (age 14)

Théo, obviously, is female - the name is rare for girls in France but supposedly one reason her dad chose it was because he wanted a boy(!!!!). She was National Champion in the 13/14 years category, and runner-up another year.
And adults started off very well.
But seemingly it hasn't quite happened in the last couple of years. I don't know about any injury but her dad says that mentally she's weak (pleasant guy, her dad, what with one thing and another.....)

Strikes me that her dad could easily give our Theo - who must have experienced some teasing at school about that name - some mental hang ups! I hope he is more supportive in reality than that glimpse suggests ... 

Our Theo took out Lea Tholey, another French girl and 4th seed in the first round, so I am expecting Emily to have a little bit of a mental examination herself later today when they play.   



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Not going well, 3-6
There was only one BP for the players combined in that set though.

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Emily levels up. She won more points in the set, but got out of some tricky situations; her 2/2 on BP was countered by only 2/8 for the Mlle. 3-6 7-6(2)

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Some lovely forehands down the line in those last few games.
And three cracking first serves at the back end of the tie-break.
Emily App definitely deserved to win on the 10 mins that I saw...
(not to mention that Theo G was definitely going for the 'Sulky Young Miss' award)

Emily wins the third-set tie-break smile



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Thursday 18th of January 2018 06:33:42 PM

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QF: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 7 713 def GRAVOUIL, Theo (FRA) 755 3-6 7-6(2) 7-6(4)

SF: APPLETON, Emily (GBR) 7 713 v KUNG, Leonie (SUI) 2 514 =CH 17o JCH=194
H2H 0-1 Fort-de-France 2018 4-6 6-2 4-6

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This win means that GB will start the week with three consecutive weeks where the ratio of wins per entry will be greater than 1 {1.167, 1.667, 1.143*}
We didn't achieve our third week with a ratio greater than 1.0 in 2017 until the first Week of Indian Wells, week 10; we didn't achieve three consecutively until weeks 42-44 (which began in the final week of the WTA regular season).

Emily won as many TB in this match as she did the whole of last year (she played 4, won 2); she's 3/3 in 2018 TB.

Ms. Kung thus becomes the first pesky to face off twice against Brits in 2018 - both Ms. Appleton.

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Congrats to Emily, I thought that would be a tough match and she did well to hang tough and come through against the sulky Theo. This also takes her up to at least 644 on the live rankings, meaning that post-Australian Open she will improve on her career high by at least 50 places.

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Emily and Caty take the first set of their doubles SF 6-2

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Had 5 unconverted BPs in the second set against one converted BP before converting their 6th BP, which was also a deuce point / set point against them.

6-2 *4-5



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6-2 5-5* 40-40 interrupted, as is the singles QF taking place on another court.

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The singles plays out before the doubles will be completed. And... off we go, 1-0*

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Emily was a breakdown for quite a bit of the first set, but won 4 on the bounce to take the first set 7-5

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Going the distance; Kung broke Emily's first service of set 2, and effectively kept that advantage throughout, 7-5 4-6 1-0*

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For the second week running, it's Kung phooey!
7-5 4-6 4-6

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