Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Burnie, Australia Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

RE: Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Burnie, Australia Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Mel loses her service 1-1*

Peter too · Tennis legend

Mel loses her service again 1-3*

Peter too · Tennis legend

Mel breaks to love *2-3

steven · Tennis legend

I've been checking in on this match every 10-15 minutes and the momentum seems to have swung every time!

Peter too · Tennis legend

Mel *3-4

Peter too · Tennis legend

Mel *4-5

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
I just discovered, when checking just how good Bouchard was in her WTA activity, that she's the defending Burnie 25K champion, winning the event last year as a qualifier, when still 16, and beating the no 1 seed Sally Peers WR 153 in R1. I don't think it's been mentioned.
Beat three top 200 players during last year, although that early success was really her highlight.
So, she's a fair player, but c'mon, Mel, you can beat her.

No it hasn't - I'd noticed she had been an AO junior semi-finalist the last two years (and current junior no. 4), which seemed enough to make it clear that she was probably a fair bit better than her senior ranking of 305 suggests, so hadn't looked beyond that.

steven · Tennis legend

3 match points saved - come on Mel!!

Peter too · Tennis legend

Mel *5-6

steven · Tennis legend

... or not, another scoreboard switch and it turns out she only saved 2 - Bouchard broke to 30 to win 6-4 4-6 7-5

Peter too · Tennis legend

Mel comes back from 0-40 down to reach deuce but then loses it.

R2: SOUTH, Melanie (GBR) 323 lost to BOUCHARD, Eugenie ((CAN) 305 2-6 6-4 5-7

indiana · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
indiana wrote:
I just discovered, when checking just how good Bouchard was in her WTA activity, that she's the defending Burnie 25K champion, winning the event last year as a qualifier, when still 16, and beating the no 1 seed Sally Peers WR 153 in R1. I don't think it's been mentioned.
Beat three top 200 players during last year, although that early success was really her highlight.
So, she's a fair player, but c'mon, Mel, you can beat her.
No it hasn't - I'd noticed she had been an AO junior semi-finalist the last two years (and current junior no. 4), which seemed enough to make it clear that she was probably a fair bit better than her senior ranking of 305 suggests, so hadn't looked beyond that.

Oh, yes, I'd say undoubtably quite a bit better than her ranking suggests. She's been, like Laura was, age restricted for toiurnaments, and although has a full 16 counters, has no backup, and is having to count seven one pointers, i.e. rather than have a best 16 from 25 to 30 as many players do.

indiana · Tennis legend

Bah, poor Mel cry

Looks a reasonably encouaging start to the year from these two matches, although would of course have been so much better to have edged out young Miss Bouchard and possibly gone further still.

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, a pity Mel didn't quite make it today, but another match that suggests she is starting 2012 in fine form