Girls: French Open Juniors 2009

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

RE: Girls: French Open Juniors 2009

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 *3-2 Krunic/Zaniewska
The Eastern Europeans battle back from 0-30 and 30-40 to cling on.

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 3-3* Krunic/Zaniewska
Bit of a see-saw set this one with both teams getting opportunities in return games. This time K&Z take it and break back to love. I hate clay...

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 *3-4 Krunic/Zaniewska
Easy hold this time and 'Orson' are just 2 games from defeat.

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 4-4* Krunic/Zaniewska
R&O stave off 1 BP to hold

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 *4-5 Krunic/Zaniewska
R&O fight back from 40-15 down but can't get the break.

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 5-5* Krunic/Zaniewska
Living dangerously the girls win 4 straight points from 0-30 down to hold..just.

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 *5-6 Krunic/Zaniewska
Ugh 3 points quickly come and go and 'Orson' are facing 3 GPs...and the girls are back serving to stay in it.

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 6-6 Krunic/Zaniewska
Easy love hold.

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 7-6(3) Krunic/Zaniewska

*0-1
*1-1
2-1*
3-1* MB for R&O
*3-2
*4-2
5-2*
5-3*
*6-3 2nd MB and 3 SPs.

Phew!

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Robson/Orlik 4-6 7-6(3) 10-2 Krunic/Zaniewska

1-0*
1-1*
*2-1 MB for R&O
*3-1
4-1*
5-1* 2nd MB for R&O
*6-1 3rd MB for R&O
*7-1
8-1*
8-2*
*9-2 4th MB and 7 MPs

Well that was a bit of a rollercoaster! 2nd set could have gone either way and it looks as if it killed the morale of K&Z.
Up next, it's American 7th Seeds Capra and Embree who just destroyed 2 handy French girls 6-2,6-2.

Laura gets to face Zaniewska again in the singles tomorrow 2nd on Court 3. Hopefully will be smoother progress!

-- Edited by Aeneas on Monday 1st of June 2009 05:44:16 PM

Aeneas · Lower Club Player

Right, thought I ought to have a detailed look at Laura's next opponent now she's our sole representative in the singles draw:

Zaniewska- Juniors #35, Seniors #1080
The 16 year old Pole has already been beaten by Robson earlier this year at Nottinghill in the warm-up to the Aussie Open, but is best suited to clay. Won a Grade 2 event in France beating talented 15 year olds Kolar and Gavrilova as well as top 50 Savinykh and then reached the semis in last week's Grade 1 event in Belgium defeating #16 Cepede Royg in three sets before falling to Hogenkamp.

Looks like a tricky customer, but hopefully Laura will have done her homework on her and today's matches will have built on her confidence from the QF in Italy a fortnight ago.

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

I was just looking at the stats on the Roland Garros site - Laura served 11 aces in her singles match? That's 3 more than Safina and Azarenka put together for the tournament.

Smidster · Challenger level

Latest Score in the final set

Robson 6-7 (10) 6-1 1-1*

Smidster · Challenger level

1-3*