Week 6 WTA Premier (637k) Open GDF Suez, Paris, France

sd51rby · Lower Club Player

Week 6 WTA Premier (637k) Open GDF Suez, Paris, France

sd51rby · Lower Club Player

Naomi had originally drawn Jill Craybas, but withdrawals had seen the American bumped up to 9th seed. Good chance of a win and some decent points here. Mattek-sands in the seed in the second round.

alex03maccy · Grand Slam Champion

Naomi 6-1 *1-2

RCD · Intermediate Club Player

Naomi now 6-1, *5-2 up and getting a fair few aces in!

RCD · Intermediate Club Player

And Naomi serves it out for a 6-1, 6-2 victory!!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Great start from Naomi.

Good to see her mixing it up between ITF's and WTA events. It will do her the world of good in the long run

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 185 beat BERGOT, Audrey (FRA) 321 6-1 6-2

Q2: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 185 v MATTEK-SANDS, Bethanie (USA) 68

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

2 dfs from 40-40 cost Naomi the break. Broady's 5 dfs out of 12 2nd serves has been the difference so far. Not surprisingly, Naomi does well when she lands her first serve but has struggled against Bethanie's first serve.

Naomi breaks for *3-1 in the 2nd set having lost the first 3-6. Starting to win points against Mattek-Sands' first serve.

Then holds for 4-1* despite only landing one first serve in that game. BMS holds for *4-2

-- Edited by kundalini on Sunday 5th of February 2012 02:11:13 PM

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

An ace to finish the set, having struggled to find her 1st serve during those last 2 service games and missed out on 4 2nd serves in a row from BMS from 0-15 the previous game. Quite a change from the first set, Naomi doing much better on her own 2nd serve, just a single df in the set, but having little impact against Bethanie's 2nd serve, yet winning 50% returning her first serve.

3rd set: BMS holds *0-1

Naomi broken to 15, losing 4 points against her 2nd serve 0-2*

BMS saves 3bps in a game full of 2nd serves *0-3

Naomi has completely lost her rhythm on 1st serve in her last 4 service games. Broken to love 0-4*

Naomi with 3 bps. She breaks to love *1-4. Neither player can find their first serve in this set.

Naomi saves 2 bps with first serves then lands her first ace of the set yet is broken again despite a series of first serves 1-5*.

BMS holds to win 1-6 Naomi failed to win a point behind her 2nd serve in the set.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands df Naomi Broady 6-3 3-6 6-1

-- Edited by kundalini on Sunday 5th of February 2012 02:58:17 PM

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Tough match but all good experience

Peter too · Tennis legend

Naomi now on court.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

How's she doing?

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Naomi 3-5*.

murrayman650 · ATP level

4-3* (40-40) Mattek Sands- Broady*

adv Mattek Sands

5-3

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

BMS takes the first set by 6-3.