Week 22 - ITF ($50K) - Nottingham, Grass

jb288 · Satellite level

RE: Week 22 - ITF ($50K) - Nottingham, Grass

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

LTA say Brengle beat Tara 3-6 6-3 6-2

According to the Beeb, Brengle won by 6-4 2-6 6-4... confuse

Josh · Challenger level

That was Katie's score and the first two sets were confirmed by Wolf. Looks like another example of top quality BBC reporting.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Josh wrote:

That was Katie's score and the first two sets were confirmed by Wolf. Looks like another example of top quality BBC reporting.

It's possible I confused the two, as they're shown one above the other.

That said, the Beeb says the Brengle/Moore score was 6-3 3-6 6-2... wink

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Either way, it was a good effort for Tara, considering she's been "in great pain" for 2 months now!

jb288 · Satellite level

Is that so? She was sporting a rather bizzare looking brace on her arm...kinda jazzy.

wolf · Tennis legend

Arrived just as Bally was finishing off Cav, breaking with a net cord and then serving it out. Amazing how Bally can get so pumped up for a 50K R1 after all her success this year, whatever gets her through I suppose.

Missed Rae's first set which she won but I continue to be very underwelmed with her every time I see her. Spears was very good at the net.

O'Brien and Keothavong just did what was required to win without playing particulary well from what I saw.

Borops doubles ability just about shone though in the tie-break, Borwell was the stronger player out of her and Kops-Jones in my view but I might be biased. She preferred to stay back a bit more than I expected and her lobs were effective, that said it doesn't take much to lob Moulton-Levy, who was fiesty and a lot of fun but two double faults in the tie-break didn't help.

Watching Kaite's first set and then Borops meant I pretty much missed both Anna and Tara, but Anne came down from 5-0 in the first set to get to 5-3 and had a point to get it back on serve.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Anne has just taken the first set comfortably against Naomi B by 6-2. wink

philwrig · Hall of fame

Anne comfortably takes the first set 6-2 against Naomi. Anything other than a comfortable win would be a surprise. Would love to see Naomi step it up in the second set as she clearly needs a confidence boost at the moment.

Vamos08 · Intermediate Club Player

Anne 6-2 3-0* up.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Pretty ugly from Naomi so far, real shame.
Anne leads 3-0* in second.

-- Edited by philwrig on Thursday 3rd of June 2010 10:51:41 AM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And the second set goes the way of the first: Anne by 2 & 2. smile

indiana · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:

Pretty ugly from Naomi so far, real shame.
Anne leads 3-0* in second.

-- Edited by philwrig on Thursday 3rd of June 2010 10:51:41 AM

You got a streaming link ?

indiana · Tennis legend

Anyway, given Naomi professes to really like playing on grass I hoped she might put in a really good performance.

Neither Anne or Naomi have really been in great form coming in but hopefully here this was more Anne being good than Naomi bad.

In any event, as has sometimes been discussed before for matches, a score like 6 - 2 6 - 2 can actually have been tighter and more of a fighting performance from the loser than you might think. It can also ( and more often ) be a very comfortable win throughout for the winner.

Anyway, be interesting to hear how both players played from anyone that saw the match.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: OBRIEN, Katie (GBR) WC 3 123 lost to GULLICKSON, Carly (USA) 242 6-7 2-6