Week 30 - WTA Premier - Stanford, CA, USA

wolf · Tennis legend

Week 30 - WTA Premier - Stanford, CA, USA

DavidC · Tennis legend

Borops started extraordinarily well against one of the best pairs in the world taking the first set 6-0 and breaking in the first game of the second. However an immediate breakback means that Raymond and Stubbs may have woken up

6-0 1*-2

daisy · County player

Borops bagelled Raymond/Stubbs in the first set.
biggrin

They also broke the #1 seeds at the start of the 2nd but the Americans broke back (helped by a df from Sarah on death deuce) so it's on serve with Borops *1-2.

Lolz - David beat me to it.
smile

-- Edited by daisy on Tuesday 27th of July 2010 06:49:30 PM

daisy · County player

Borops break again to go *3-2 and about to serve.

2nd set to #1's 6'4.
Borops had lots of chances to break but just kept missing out.
cry

match tie-break now

-- Edited by daisy on Tuesday 27th of July 2010 07:15:51 PM

steven · Tennis legend

*9-9 in the MTB, after recovering a mini break then saving a MP.

steven · Tennis legend

10-9* MP
10-10*
DF *11-10 MP on their own serve
YES!!

Beat the top seeds, 2010 Eastbourne winners and former world no. 1s - wow!

DavidC · Tennis legend

and get a famous win 6-0 4-6 [12-10] having been a m/b down on at least 2 occasions in the MTB

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Wow, that was pretty tense watching live score ! Well done the Borops

PockyTastic · Futures level

Excellent win for Sarah and Raquel, so often recently they have been on the wrong end of really tight matches, so it's great to see them coming out on top and against such top quality opposition.

wolf · Tennis legend

Wow...I had to stop following live scores at 1-2* in the MTB...so to some back to find they have won is incredible.

Fairly clear from watching live scores the only reason they didn't close it our earlier was nerves, they were actually dominating one of the best teams in the world for the most part.

From Sarah's twitter:

Jumped over a huge hurdle!played tennis2the standard we r capable of all way throu!beat stubbsy and raymond,top dubs team!

philwrig · Hall of fame

Truly exceptional result , hopefully this is the start of a huge tournament for them. It didn't look good when they were down 6-8 in the MTB but they brilliantly turned it round to get a win that was fully deserved.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Fan-bloody-tastic result!

Well done, Sarah & Raquel! 120 points in the bag! biggrin

The Beeb report also quotes her as saying "we deserved that"! wink

They face the US pairing of Lilia Osterloh & Riza Zalameda in the QF. I sincerely hope that, having done the hard work, they don't now go & fall flat on their @rses & go on to turn the 120 points into at least 200, if not more...

wolf · Tennis legend

Nice article on the match - http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_15620004?nclick_check=1

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Well done Borops! Now the hard part: building on it! Good luck.

DavidC · Tennis legend

Borops making a slow start in their QF

0*-3