Week 20 - ITF ($10K) - Bastad, Sweden Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 20 - ITF ($10K) - Bastad, Sweden Clay

steven · Tennis legend

Fran has the opportunity to avenge a thrashing by Hamlin in a junior event in Denmark 5 years ago, when she was just 13!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Lucy better watch that he opponents Dad doesn;t attack her

steven · Tennis legend

Lucy lost the 1st set 6-3 but fought back to win the 2nd by the same score. She is now a break up in the 3rd 6-3 3-6 3-1*

Scores at http://www.tennisscores.de/livescore/itfswe/livescorer.html

steven · Tennis legend

It got even better - 5-1* in the 3rd - but Barbat has just broken to love to bring it back to 5-3*

steven · Tennis legend

R1: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) 560 beat BARBAT, Karen (DEN) 605 by 3-6 6-3 6-4

R2: BROWN, Lucy (GBR) 560 v SPREMO. Milana (SRB) 4 402

steven · Tennis legend

Fran seems to be having terrible trouble closing out sets at the moment - the last time I looked, she was 5-3* up serving for the 1st set ... now she seems to have lost 8 games in a row and is 5-7 *0-4 down

steven · Tennis legend

Hamlin won 10 of the last 11 games to win 5 & 1 ... gruesome

indiana · Tennis legend

Fran seems to be very inconsistent, week to week and indeed match to match confuse

steven · Tennis legend

If I remember right, she was the complete opposite (i.e. very consistent) at the start of the year but seems to have got very bogged down recently. Hopefully something will trigger a turnaround in the other direction before too long.

steven · Tennis legend

Lucy lost the 1st set 6-1, won the 2nd 6-2, went an early break down in the 3rd but has 2 break back points ... the first of which she takes

*2-3 (at least I think so, the "*" is being lazy about moving again!)

steven · Tennis legend

Now Lucy is a break up

1-6 6-2 *4-3

steven · Tennis legend

5-5*

steven · Tennis legend

It went to a tiebreak - Lucy went from a break down to a break up then a break down again but eventually lost 6-1 2-6 7-6(4)

Peter too · Tennis legend

F: BROWN(GBR)/SPREMO(SRB) 3 lost to ROMA(SWE)/ VIRTANEN(SWE) 3-6 7-6(4) [6-10]

-- Edited by Peter too on Thursday 17th of May 2012 07:13:02 PM

-- Edited by Peter too on Thursday 17th of May 2012 07:13:49 PM