Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open (hard) - women

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

RE: Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open (hard) - women

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Azarenka played excellently today, didn't really give Heather a look in after the first 10 minutes.

Heather wasn't at her best but I think that was more because she didn't know how to cope with Azarenka.

DallasTone · Social player

Result was a lot more about Azarenka's play than anything else. Absolutely dominant. Heather looked out of ideas early on but was under pressure throughout. Some ridiculous stat that Vika won 85% of rallies with more than 10 strokes. Shame really.

indiana · Tennis legend

Pity, was always going to be hard, well far too hard likely, but that's a bit of a thumping.

To be fair, Heather did get what I imagine is a hell of a lot of points for a 6 - 1 6 - 0 scoreline, with Azarenka winning 56 points to Heather's 31.

That's not far off percentagewise the relative points when Laura beat Anna Floris 6 - 3 6 - 4 ( 66 points to 41 ) in Q2, although in that case the game scoreline in no way told Laura's general dominance ( quite something to drop serve twice when you only concede 10 points against serve in the whole match ! )

But at the end of the day it is games and sets that count and Victoria was sure ruthless in winning these, just not giving Heather any foothold, in a way Laura wasn't the other day.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 16th of January 2012 02:38:00 AM

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Elena is on the live scores, and is broken to 30 in her first game.

albino · Intermediate Club Player

0-3* down now.

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Elena has a BP but doesn't convert *0-4

-- Edited by albino on Monday 16th of January 2012 07:11:44 AM

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Two holds *1-5

Julia Carrot · All-time great

It's 91 deg there. Imagine playing in that.

albino · Intermediate Club Player

Elena holds t0 15 for the second time. Hopefully this bodes well for the second set.

Peter too · Tennis legend

They played each other twice before, in 2008 and 2009 and Stephanie won in 3 both times. However Elena has a much greater ranking advantage than before so in theory....

Peter too · Tennis legend

Laura now on court with live streaming.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Laura 0-1*

Apart from 1 ace Laura was having trouble getting her 1st serve in and lost the game from deuce.

-- Edited by Peter too on Monday 16th of January 2012 07:44:44 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

Jelena holds from deuce.

Laura *0-2

-- Edited by Peter too on Monday 16th of January 2012 07:48:55 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

Laura holds to 15. 1-2*