I wasn't saying that she was a terrible grasscourter or something, just that she had problems with her timing on the grass. Could just be that she still hasn't quite adjusted to it/needs to play more on grass as timing is usually one of her strengths.


Maza1987 wrote:

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^^thanks for the reports.
you said "more on that later" with regards to the ballboys. what did you mean?

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And they were just really bad. They kept on dropping balls, forgetting to pick up balls, they were slow, kept on putting the wrong scores on the scoreboard etc. The umpires kept on having to stop the players in the middle of their service motions to tell the ballboys to do something. This was happening on almost every court as well. Here's a link to the full report: http://www.tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=411813

Heather lost the first set 2-6. She really needs to hold onto her serve because Pironkova is serving at 90% and I saw her vs Henin at Roland Garros a couple of weeks ago and she was serving most of her serves at 190kmh+. Come on Heather!

 

Heather making a comeback from nowhere 4-1* in second. Come on Hev.

5-2. Another comfortable service game, break her!

Heather drags it back and it's 4-2*

Mel down *0-3 though

Mel breaks back for *3-4

And Heather wins 2-6 6-3 6-4

Weird match but I'll take it.
I've said this before and I'm sure I'll say it again but this is further proof that Heather is a quick learner. She has very quickly learnt how to be effective on this surface.
She plays the winner of Mel/Jovanoski.
Where Mel is starting to make a comeback 3-6 3-0*

Q2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) WC 346 beat PIRONKOVA, Tsvetana (BUL) 3 81 2-6 6-3 6-4
Q2: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 222 lost to JOVANOVSKI, Bojana (SRB) 109 3-6 4-6
Q2: RAE, Jocelyn (GBR) WC 499 lost to MIRZA, Sania (IND) 8 94 1-6 2-6

Q3: WATSON, Heather (GBR) WC 346 v JOVANOVSKI, Bojana (SRB) 109

It will be interesting to see if Heather can do better than Mel against Bojana.