Week 2 - WTA International ($220K) - Hobart, Australia Hard

wolf · Tennis legend

RE: Week 2 - WTA International ($220K) - Hobart, Australia Hard

jb288 · Satellite level

It'll be free on Freedocast: http://www.livescorehunter.com/live-streaming-video-tennis/

Quality is poor, but you can see the ball on the Errani match!

jb288 · Satellite level

Wow, Oudin's playing great, might not be too long til Bally's on!

airsmashers · County player

Dokic has taken the first set 6-4

airsmashers · County player

Dokic served 5 DFs during that first set but won 85% on first serve and first serve % was at a lowly 37%

-- Edited by airsmashers on Monday 11th of January 2010 04:07:27 AM

Josh · Challenger level

Lost 4 and 2 cry

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

Dokic was actually hitting very well, not a lot that Bally could do.

Although she was getting a disproportionate amount of poor line calls.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity, but it was a togh draw.

Onward to the Aus Open, and hope she gets a good draw there. 160 points to defend with last year's Q + L64.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Playing better than last year but the points picked up in qualies not great. Needs a win at Aussie open to maintain ranking.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Bally started off with break points in the 1st, she broke in the 3rd and had break points again in the 5th. Then Dokic remembered how to serve and double faults got replaced by aces. I think Dokic had about two aces in the first set and nine aces in the 2nd set.

jb288 · Satellite level

Watched the first set, and the drop in standards compared to the previous match (Errani-Oudin, both played some great tennis, some brilliant rallies) was absolutely vast. It was pretty horrible tennis, very few winners or long rallies, loads of errors from both. Dokic was often able to pull out some great wide serves (esp to the ad court) at crucial moments. Bally's '3rd shot' (return of return of serve) was too often a tame push back after a strong return from Dokic, and she wasn't getting a great deal of depth on many shots. Not a particularly impressive display from either of them, and certainly not worth staying up til 4am for! But a good week for Bally in all ;)

wolf · Tennis legend

^^^ Couldn't agree more with that description, awful match.

What worrys me is her coach saying on twitter it was a quality match, his standards must be pretty low if he thinks it was.

philwrig · Hall of fame

wolf wrote:

^^^ Couldn't agree more with that description, awful match.

What worrys me is her coach saying on twitter it was a quality match, his standards must be pretty low if he thinks it was.

Nseverino likes to look on the positive side !