Girls: US Open Juniors - Grade A (Week 36)

DavidC · Tennis legend

Girls: US Open Juniors - Grade A (Week 36)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Not a bad draw in a very tough field.

Osomec · Junior player

Laura has the second highest senior ranking in the field after Karolina Pliskova. Top seed Daria Gavrilova, whom Laura could meet in the semi-final, is ranked 661st.

-- Edited by Osomec on Monday 6th of September 2010 01:19:54 AM

PockyTastic · Futures level

Play is underway and Laura is already 4-1 up in the 1st set.

indiana · Tennis legend

She's quite good, her smile

PockyTastic · Futures level

Robbo takes it 6-2.

Osomec · Junior player

Laura won 6-2, 6-1.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

very good

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

An-Sophie Mestach was beaten by qualifier, Robin Anderson. No excuses for not making the quarter finals at least now.

-- Edited by RBBOT on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:07:20 PM

DavidC · Tennis legend

R2

(Q) Chanelle Van Nguyen (USA) v (8) Laura Robson (GBR)

The two were on opposite sides in the Maureen Connolly Trophy at Eastbourne, so will know each other's games.

-- Edited by DavidC on Monday 6th of September 2010 06:12:46 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

She was on Sky being interviewed a short while ago, and felt the match was a little bit tougher than the scoreline suggests, she also said she was using the match to practice a few things e.g serve and volleying. She said she had three more tournaments to play this year and also off the court her new passion is fantasy football.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Laura it would appear has also finalised her schedule for the rest of the year.
Playing WTA events mostly in Japan.
She will need something like 40 or so ranking points in these 3 tournaments to gain direct entry into Aussie open qualifying, anything less will mean she will fall short and as she has used up her full entitlement of tournaments, she won't even be able to accept a WC.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/sep/06/laura-robson-schmiedlova-girls-us-open

indiana · Tennis legend

Thanks for the link Phil, interesting article.

Interesting to see that Laura says she is looking to try out some things in a match environment in the first couple of matches here more than just interested in trying to win love and love ( so don't bet on that

) before she feels it gets tougher later on when basically she is indicating her full concentration will then be just on winning. Sounds sensible.

Osomec · Junior player

Laura Robson is playing at 4pm UK time on Tuesday, and she and her American opponent have been put on the Grandstand Court, capacity five or six thousand. I don't know how many people will choose to watch, but this will potentially be Laura's first experience of playing in front of a large crowd that wants to see her lose.

Josh · Challenger level

philwrig wrote:

She was on Sky being interviewed a short while ago, and felt the match was a little bit tougher than the scoreline suggests, she also said she was using the match to practice a few things e.g serve and volleying. She said she had three more tournaments to play this year and also off the court her new passion is fantasy football.

I think she's being kind there, it was as comfortable a win as the scoreline suggests and Laura was never in any trouble. She only played one bad game when serving for the first set but broke back straight away and probably could have won even easier if on very top form.