wolf wrote:

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Laura Robson (GBR) beat (4) Tzipi Obziler (ISR) 6-3, 6-3

After seeing Laura play on Wednesday, I thought to myself, 'definately will be top 100, should be top 50, could be top 10.' After seeing her today I will change that to 'definately will be top 50, should be top 10, could be no.1'. She played some seriously good tennis today. Seriously. Her backhand is like a dream. Her forehand is extremley useful. Her serving is effortless. And on her returns she takes the ball so early she immediately forces her opponent on the backfoot. And that is not to mention her incredible composure and lack of stage fright. Today she must have hit between 20-30 winners. She only had to save two break points, both in the first game of the second set. The veteran Oblizer didn't show much of her experience, continually hitting to Laura's backhand, her strength, and continually getting punished.

Laura..Laura..

Is her shoulder alright??  

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wolf wrote:

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Now a note on the organising of this event. Firstly, I have to praise the organisers for having the intiative to have an evening session, it clearly drew the crowds in. But now for the criticism. It is £6 to get in for each of today, Saturday and Sunday. Now I don't mind that, but to pay that I want to see as much tennis as possible. I don't want to see a sign saying 'officials and guests only' suddenly appear on a door today, which was put there to prevent people from going on the balcony above the courts, meaning I couldn't watch Court 4 (legally). Now I went in anyway, sod the rules and all that, but a more withdrawn person than myself, or someone who hadn't already come this week wouldn't have done the same as me. And also if you look at the OOP of play for tommorow, you will see that both semis are running at the same time (noon). That is a total JOKE. They clearly think everyone wants to just come in and see Laura. Obviously they are attracting publicicty just because of Laura's exploits, but that doesn't mean that this is now the Laura Robson tournament. There are people like myself who just want to come and watch some tennis, and Laura being there has just been an added bonus. I would have love to have seen the whole of the other semi, but as it is it looks like I am driving all the to Shrewsbury just to see one match, and maybe the end of a second if the first one finishes before the other.

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steven wrote:

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5-2 now, lots of errors from Laura in this 1st set.

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Oh poo! lol. Must be a little nervous. Hope she can come back a little in the second set