Week 28 - WTA ($220K) - Palermo, Italy Clay

Julia Carrot · All-time great

RE: Week 28 - WTA ($220K) - Palermo, Italy Clay

Jan · Hall of fame

well done Laura!!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Good grief !! The match on court 2 has been suspended for Heat !!

philwrig · Hall of fame

Very pleasing effort, one thing I have noticed is that Laura appears to play well against younger opponents, but this was a demolition job.
Will play an Italian next so should be streamed.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:
Good grief !! The match on court 2 has been suspended for Heat !!

Yep its about 92 in the shade, so very hot, hence why they are not starting before 4pm local time. Laura doesn't mind the heat and maybe the other girl was a little tired after playing for the 4th day on the trot in this extreme heat.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I was thinking this would be a struggle with Laura coming straight from Wimbledon to play on clay but that was a very impressive thrashing.

Laura is putting in good performances a lot more consistently now and should be on a streamed court tomorrow unless Vinci loses today.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

philwrig wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
Good grief !! The match on court 2 has been suspended for Heat !!
Yep its about 92 in the shade, so very hot, hence why they are not starting before 4pm local time. Laura doesn't mind the heat and maybe the other girl was a little tired after playing for the 4th day on the trot in this extreme heat.

I think it was just Laura who was too hot for her opponent today biggrin

Julia Carrot · All-time great

philwrig wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:
Good grief !! The match on court 2 has been suspended for Heat !!
Yep its about 92 in the shade, so very hot, hence why they are not starting before 4pm local time. Laura doesn't mind the heat and maybe the other girl was a little tired after playing for the 4th day on the trot in this extreme heat.

I'd just assumed the whole of Europe was grey and damp at the moment !!

Reeltime · Satellite level

Damn, I thought I'd catch the end of Lauras match... Well done, very impressive win

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

yep, well done Laura.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 113 beat IVAKHNENKO, Valentyna (UKR) Q 240 6-1 6-0

R2: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 113 v VINCI, Roberta (ITA) 2 27

philwrig · Hall of fame

Can Laura crack the da Vinci code ?

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Laura up tomorrow not before 21.30.

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Will be a good test to see how close Laura manages to make it tomorrow. A couple of 4-6 sets to Vinci and I am starting to get carried away (arguably) and believe LR could be a fixture in the top 50.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

She has the game to be top 10 I reckon, but not yet the mentality.