With 110 points coming off from Shrewsbury, Elena needed a decent draw here and seems to have got it - R1 v a player she beat 4 & 3 in Toyota last year and the bottom seed (8) Szavay the closest seed to her in the draw.

She'll need to reach the semis here to make a net gain on the week though and another concern is that she's been complaining on Twitter about not having been able to sleep well since she got there and having practice sessions disrupted by rain.



-- Edited by steven on Sunday 19th of September 2010 01:11:42 PM

Elena leads *2-1 in the 1st set, having broken in game 1 and saved 2 bps in game 2.

Elena wins 63 64

Yes, decent draw but did the job.

Likely to get much tougher from now on, but let's not discount the possibility that she could win another couple of matches and gain points this week.  

Madeline wrote:

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I read elsewhere that day 2 has been rained off.

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The OOP for 21/9 has postponed across it and all those matches are rescheduled for the 22nd. 
Bally won't play her R2 match until Thursday by the looks of it.

Peter too wrote:

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R2: BALTACHA, Elena (GBR) 50 v SZAVAY, Agnes (HUN) 8 38

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Match started - not sure how much I'll follow

 

Bally 1-2 on serve (Bally held to love) ( Szavay held to 30 & 15)

Bally 3 -2 (breaks to love)