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

Jan · Hall of fame

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

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

What a win. Brilliant from Laura. biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

This match was following a predictable pattern, Laura starting well but then her experienced opponent started taking over the game.

But then Laura started cutting out the errors and being more patient in the long rallies and turned it around.

I did think victory over a top 30 opponent was coming for Laura, but not on clay. She has channelled her Wimbledon disappointment in the best possible way.

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 113 beat VINCI, Roberta (ITA) 2 27 6-3 7-5

QF: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 113 v SUAREZ NAVARRO, Carla (ESP) 5 41

philwrig · Hall of fame

Its a damm shame the draw hasn't opened up, clay specialist CSN next, who was impressive today.
Laura was completely dominant in that match, and it was just whether she could keep her composure which she did, really dealt well with Vinci's sliced backhands. Got to alot of dropshots as well, also played a top dropshot herself, nothing to be critical about.

wolf · Tennis legend

First WTA QF and career best win as well :D

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Fantastic result. Someone nudge Ms. Parish.

Now, minutes after that wonderful moment for tennis, we potentially have the other extreme - Muzza on Mock the Week

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

CSN is brilliant, will use lots of clever spin and make Laura play a lot of balls.

Laura needs to keep her groundies at the same level they were today and be prepared to do a lot of chasing. Its not an unwinnable match but logic dictates CSN in straights

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

thegingerlightbulb wrote:
I hope i'm wrong but I can't see anyway in which robson will win this match. Every time there is a rally Vinci will win the point. Robson has a lot of power but poor movement, and she still seems to make very poor shot selections.

wink

Glad you were wrong!

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

thanks RBBOT, just run down to video it

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Well done Laura, for me your biggest win in that you carried on fighting and came good

thegingerlightbulb · Intermediate Club Player

murray_2k9 wrote:
thegingerlightbulb wrote:
I hope i'm wrong but I can't see anyway in which robson will win this match. Every time there is a rally Vinci will win the point. Robson has a lot of power but poor movement, and she still seems to make very poor shot selections.

Glad you were wrong!

Yeah me too :)

To be fair I started watching the match after the first 4 games at the worst point of the match for Laura. But after that she was brilliant

philwrig · Hall of fame

This sudden improvement in her movement has basically come from nowhere. I started to see something tangible at the Fed Cup, but today Vinci was hitting decent dropshots which Laura would have been nowhere close to getting to this time last year. It justs gives her so many more options, mainly that she doesn't feel she needs to hit a winner off every shot. I wonder whether as well subconsciously she didn't want to have to go through US open qualifying again, which gave her further inspiration.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

She's on tomorrow not before 17.30 BST.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I'm hoping Laura can keep up her record of winning on my Birthday today. Her previous July 13th wins have been against Tammi Patterson and Fran Stephenson at Woking though, so today's match is a bit of a step up in difficulty.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Apparently will be shown live on ESPN from 5.30pm tonight, luckily I'm a subscriber although it's not up on the tv schedule yet.