Week 33 WTA Cincinnati (hard)

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Week 33 WTA Cincinnati (hard)

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Radwanska breaks again to take the macth easily - aided, needless to say, by another DF.

Q2: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 19 89 lost to RADWANSKA, Urszula (POL) 2 46 3-6 2-6

Right.. Blue Meanie Time...

Laura held just twice in the match.
10 DF's in 9 service games 5 to either bring up a break point or concede the game.

If she continues to serve like this, she's going nowhere. She has a lot of points to defend (160) at the US Open as a Q + L64 last year. If the draw is unkind, and she loses in R128 she'll be back to ranked ~120. If she can't serve - like the last 3 months at least, that may be where she stays for the foreseeable.

Even in her run at Palermo and the smokescreen the Olympics provided, she fluffed ball tosses about 3 times a service game, and DF'ed more than once a service.

Also her first serve is becoming less of a weapon in when it goes in as a consequence - perhaps through taking the pace off to ensure no fault.

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Sunday 12th of August 2012 07:47:00 PM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Seems they're running late in Cincinnatti, so Laura won't be on for another hour or so.

Oh well I'll have to 'force' myself to watch The Goonies with my niece again instead.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Laura's match about to start. I'm sure Laura will not only be looking to win, but hoping to win in time to watch the closing ceremony biggrin

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Cool, match updates please.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

2 service games each, each girl serving at 25%. It's pretty ragged out there! 3 DF's already for Laura. What's that D:Ream song Prof. Brian Cox played on...
Laura has to improve this, not just today, she has hardly played a match in 3 months without this being a big problem for her, even when she wins.
*1-3

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Laura's points won on first serve is astonishingly low for her

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

kundalini wrote:
Laura's points won on first serve is astonishingly low for her

Yes, astonishingly Laura is serving the more consistently of the two. Radwanska can seem to deal easily with the Robson first serve though, whereas Laura has no answer on the rare occaison when Urszula makes a first serve.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

kundalini wrote:
Laura's points won on first serve is astonishingly low for her

I'm wondering if Laura has resorted to taking some pace off the serve just to get it in the court, as her first serve % was around 25% after the first 2 service games.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Laura wins a couple of games to keep the set alive, but I still think the long game at 1-3 will be the crucial one.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Cummon Robbo, gear yourself up!

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

A routine Radwanska break of the Robson serve. Erm, here's Jim with the weather...
2-4*

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Oh dear, back to the Olympic closing ceremony then

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Laura was 2-0* 0-30 on UR's serve then must have lost a minimum of 8 points in a row. Now 2-5. This is the sort of meltdown she used to have when she was 15.