Stircrazy wrote:

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And now has a good chance on paper of progressing to the QFs:  doesn't look as though this has already been reported, so I'll flag up the fact that the Russian second seed, Alla Kudryavtseva (WR 75), was beaten 6-2 2-6 3-6 today by the South African with the silly first name, Chanelle Scheepers (WR 149 compared with Bally's 126).   Mind you, that may make her dangerous... not...

 

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 South Africa's best junior is also called Chanelle. Must be quite a common name down there.

Poor show in the doubles today:

Jade Curtis & Anna Smith lost 7-6(5) 6-7(3) [1-10] to Klemenschits & Krauth

Madison (another silly first name *rolls eyes*) Brengle & Georgie Stoop lost 3 & 3 to Glatch & Grandin

Naomi Broady & Liz Thomas lost 6-4 2-6 [10-12] to the second seeds, Ditty & Gullickson

At least Jade & Anna & Naomi & Liz appear to have put up a fight!

*  Just realised:  those results mean that Sarah Borwell, the fourth seed with Angela Haynes, is the only Brit left in that particular competition!

-- Edited by Stircrazy on Tuesday 2nd of June 2009 08:33:51 PM

Can't believe the amount of marathan matches today it was utterly ridiculous. Dan Evans was going spare waiting for his match to come on centre court.

Match of the day was Cavaday v Haynes went on for about three hours. Naomi came out firing hitting a number of winners to go into a *3-0 lead. Went to check on Georgie and when I came back it was 5-5, Haynes resorting to getting everything back and hoping Cav would miss. Closed out a tense TB despite missing one sp when the wind suddenly picked causing her to miss with a fh. At 3-6 in the second set TB Haynes just went for it and hit a few winners and at 5-6 Naomi hit a great second serve but the return was right back at her feet and Haynes was aided by a horrific call by the line judge at 6-6. I thought there was no chance for Cav after that but credit, the work she has clearly being doing on her fitness paid off, she stayed in it holding serve, broke and recovered and closed it out on her fifth match point. Her groundies were good today but to be critical I thought her serve was too easliy read.

Georgie dominated her match except for the start and the finish. Went 5-1 down first set and won 13 of the next 19 games to lead 4-6, 6-3, 4-1 and then just started to play horribly and lost 6-4 in the 3rd. Way to flakey for my liking. Her opponent Perry liked to mix it up and serve and volleyed and regular occasions.

Camerin v Broady went on for ages too lots of long rallies. I felt Naomi didn't use her physical advantage and played into the hands of the Italian who liked a long rally. I can see so much more potential there if she is willing to use it.

O'Brien somehow won in straight sets, went 5-1 up and had the usual Katie brain-fart and was very nearly broken for 5-5. Second set looked much more secure, saved 2 sp at 5-6 and won the TB in emphatic style. Weidemann has a two handed forehand and a one handed backhand, absolutely brilliant. Can see why she got through qualies she kept her length very deep.

Baltacha played her usual brand of attacking grass court tennis from the little I saw.

Didn't see much of the doubles but Broady and Thomas should have knocked out the 2nd seeds, Liz very nearly pulled them through in the MTB but not to be.

Thanks very much for the vid and summaries! Mels match looked tighter than I expected! Glad that Naomi has clear areas to improve on, it means a ranking climb looks likely :D

naah, Naomi to win!!!

It's 6/4 Naomi, 1/2 Katie.

Probably some pretty decent value there.