Week 15 - ITF ($25K) - Osprey, USA - Clay

SMC1809 · All-time great

Week 15 - ITF ($25K) - Osprey, USA - Clay

SMC1809 · All-time great

Laura must've sneaked a MD spot.

steven · Tennis legend

QR1: SLATER, Nicola (GBR) 1053 beat MOTYL, Yuliana (CAN) UNR by 2 & 3

She suggests she should have won 0 & 0 but is a bit under the weather and says that the match to decide her next opponent was a good battle, unfinished when she left.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 317 v ALBANESE, Lauren (USA) 5 216

philwrig · Hall of fame

Not a bad draw given that Albanese hasn't won a match since November last year. Probably in the easiest quarter of the draw.

Laura is also teaming up with the number one seed in the singles Yakimova in the doubles.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Nic Slater lost 6-4 6-1. cry

A little bit too much info maybe...

"2-0 up with a bunch of chances for 3-0 and then at 3-1 unimaginable amount of points for 4-1. freaking pissed! lost 4 and 1 coz went into self destruct...anyone who says girls have the choice of controlling their emotions during a certain time of month clearly arent girls!uugh! "

philwrig · Hall of fame

Yes I wondered that as well. Not sure how much of an excuse that is.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

I stopped paying attention to Nic's tweets (whinges) a loooonnng time ago!

djlovesyou · Strong Club Player

She's quite well reknowned for being pretty stroppy on court.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

First round of the doubles:

(2) Laura Robson & Anastasia Yakimova (BLR) WR 306 vs Gail Brodsky & Tetiana Luzhanska (USA/UKR) WR 786

A nice easy (

) opener for the girls! wink

philwrig · Hall of fame

Laura won with a strange scoreline. Usually she loses matches after winning the first set.
0-6 6-0 6-3.

Got to be happy with the win but it would be interesting to know what happened between the end of the first set and the beginning of the second.

SMC1809 · All-time great

I think she must've remembered she's left handed!

SMC1809 · All-time great

R2: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 317 v MOLINERO, Florencia (ARG) 307

Robson's victim in R1 beat Molinero twice last year. Also Georgie Stoop beat Molinero in February and last July. Laura will need to avoid a repeat of her first set today though.

-- Edited by SMC1809 on Tuesday 13th of April 2010 10:57:06 PM

wolf · Tennis legend

Difficult to tell how a good a win that was considering her opponent was on a 10 match losing streak, but pleased for Laura to win her first match since her lay-off.

Draw now opened up with both seeds gone from her quarter.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Link to a local newspaper report which confirms Laura had a cast on her left wrist for more than a month and quotes her as being nervous during her match.

Also shows a picture of her playing without any wrist strapping which is a good sign.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100414/ARTICLE/4141054/-1/NEWSSITEMAP?p=1&tc=pg