Week 40 - ITF ($100K+H) - Tokyo, Japan - Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Week 40 - ITF ($100K+H) - Tokyo, Japan - Hard

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Julia Carrot wrote:

finishing with an Ace

Strange way to finish due to retirement.

Was there a delay? I wasn't paying attention after the first set finished.

-- Edited by kundalini on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 03:02:59 AM

philwrig · Hall of fame

Oh no retirement, very strange, seemed to be a long break at the end of the first set, and to be fair it appeared a slightly below par effort from the start, which may indicate she went into the match with a slight injury. Hopefully nothing too serious and she can use up her last tournament before the end of the season. Funnily I was just thinking today that she had remained injury free for a long time for Laura.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

kundalini wrote:

Julia Carrot wrote:

finishing with an Ace

Strange way to finish due to retirement.
Was there a delay? I wasn't paying attention after the first set finished.

-- Edited by kundalini on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 03:02:59 AM

As Philwrig said, there was a delay between sets, but retirement seemed very quick after 1st game - I would guess its her wrist again - hope I'm wrong that took ages to heal last time.

Poor Laura, such a shame for her. She seemed to be in her 'element' on this trip East

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 03:12:12 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Laura is supposed to be playing doubles in a couple of hours time - guess that won't happen now.
Just wonder if the injury occured in that doubles match yesterday? just a thought......

philwrig · Hall of fame

Speculation, speculation, if the wrist had been a problem I would have thought she wouldn't have played the doubles. Sven Groeneveld posted a picture of Laura in action today on twitter and there is no obvious evidence of an injury strapped up, it might be something as minor as just feeling unwell. If the wrist had been a problem I would have thought she would have struggled to serve aces. Anyways I'm off to bed, hopefully the situation will be clearer in the morning.

indiana · Tennis legend

Oh, pity

Maybe Laura ran into a wall, the wall that seems to stop any of the girls quite getting into the top 200 at the mement

Seriously, I obviously hope it is nothing too serious. Not the absolute worst time of the year if it is going to be a matter of quite a number of weeks, being quite late in the year and when she just has is it one more tournament she can play.

steven · Tennis legend

From Mike Dickson at the Daily Mail:

"Apparently @laurarobson5 retired today due to a sore throat and a bit of dehydration, nothing to be alarmed about will play next in Osaka."

Probably as good as we could have hoped for (after knowing she had retired from her match, I mean)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Relief allround, makes sense to me as the stats of the match suggested a sluggish performance not those coming from an injured player.
Mike Dickson clearly has a contact inside the Robbo camp.
The Osaka entry is an interesting one because apparently she's not on the list.
Get well soon Laura.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Laura has withdrawn from the doubles.