philwrig wrote:

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Looking at Crawford's match stats she clearly has a boom or bust game, so don't expect long rallies.

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 Might want to keep the ball away from her forehand. Not noticed return stats and rally stats before. I suspect Laura's 2nd serve is going to take a fair amount of punishment if the number of return winners in Samantha's qualifying matches is anything to go by. Hopefully Robson will win a higher percentage behind first and that will be enough to get the win. Crawford's typical first serve percentage seems to be around 50% which isn't too terrifying.

-- Edited by kundalini on Saturday 25th of August 2012 02:51:05 AM

Laura certainly goes in to her match as strong favourite and a complete contrast to her other grand slam draws, but it might not be straghtforward if Crawford rises to the occasion and Laura's serve is still not fnctioning well.

An average draw for Jo. Babos is a good player but she has a chance, certainly more so than Anne and Heather

philwrig wrote:

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Looking at Crawford's match stats she clearly has a boom or bust game, so don't expect long rallies.

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 If that's the case then it's good for Laura - if they both play in the same aggressive way I would expect Laura to do it better.

I think we can say Crawford's ranking is pretty misleading in that from here and looking at her history she is a 17 yo on the up.

However, I would be entirely confident that a reasonably functioning Laura will see her off comfortably.  I have always thought Daniilidou well capable still of very good results and also of horrid ones.  So maybe Daniilidou contributed rather a lot to Crawford's FQR win.  Now just don't want Laura to play horrid 

I do think Jo has more than a rank outsider chance, certainly not favourite but I wouldn't be amazed if she won against Babos.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 25th of August 2012 12:29:52 PM

all i know about crawford is that she is very tall. and presumably a big game.

babos is a very good young player and has already won a wta tournament. but it's not out of the realms of possibility that she could pull off an upset.

I just had a look at some of those stats on the US Open website on Crawford's matches.

In the last two, a couple of standout stats. Her forehand winners, which are huge compared to backhand winners, but so are the errors so she obviously goes for it from that wing.
Secondly about half of her points won when receiving are from return winners. Laura might need to start getting a few more 1st serves in then.