Week 35 - US Open women's main draw

Danjn · Lower Club Player

RE: Week 35 - US Open women's main draw

wolf · Tennis legend

Bally fights from 15-40 down at 5-5 to hold.

So strong.

wolf · Tennis legend

Kvitova takes the first set 7-6(5), with three mini-breaks to two in the tie-break.

wolf · Tennis legend

Bally missed a bp in the 3rd game, saved one in the 4th, but is broken in the 6th game of the second set.

Bally 6-7(5) 2-4*

wolf · Tennis legend

Bally saves a match point and forces Kvitova to serve it out.

wolf · Tennis legend

Kvitova wins 7-6(5) 6-3

From what Overend was saying on 5live tennis twitter, it was a good match and Kvitova had to play a superb match to win.

All Bally needs to do is win Commonwealth Games Gold and capture a WTA title in the fall to cap off an sensational season. Easy then.

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes pity. Kvitova may have been suffering from a lack of wins since Wimledon ( though some quite tight defeats ) but we do know she can raise her game in Grand Slams, not just at Wimbledon but in the US Open last year.

I can imagine if they were both playing near their best it would have been a really good match though you would have backed Kvitova to win. I had hoped for Bally that Kvitova would be a fair bit below her best given she hadn't been getting wins but looks like this was not the case.

But as wolf says, assuming Bally has indeed played well but lost, she can hopefully take that form on for the next two or three months to cap what has been a really great year for her.

indiana · Tennis legend

Positive comments from Elena on twitter http://twitter.com/ElenaBaltacha such as :

"I absolutely put everything into it out there but she was just too good for me today!now sitting in dopping..!!xx"

and

"yes I really feel I'm a different player now..loads more to achieve!!thanks for supporting!!x"

Count Zero · Tennis legend

doping? surely thats not the answer

philwrig · Hall of fame

From all accounts a very high quality match with Bally playing her absolute best and Kvitova regaining her Wimby form( smell an upset against Kim in next round given Kim's poor form so far ).
Bally within touching distance of top 50 and will play two more tournament before Commonwealth
games. Hopefully will snare sufficient points in the first one before Shrewsbury points comes off.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Chang has just lost spectacularly to Wozniacki, and Sevastova a set down against Kuznetsova so some of Bally's threats to the top 50 are falling to the wayside.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Bondarenko had 2 match points against Cibulkova before losing, so that's another threat gone.

SMC1809 · All-time great

Sevastova lost a few minutes ago, and so too has Radwanska. However, Radwanska was beaten by Dominguez Lino who still remains a threat to Bally's top 50 position.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

lol. and i remember thinking heather drawing dominguez lino was a superb draw.
that;s tennis for you.

philwrig · Hall of fame

If Heather had got past Lino she would have had a great draw.