Week 38 - WTA ($220K) - Guangzhou, China - Hard

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

RE: Week 38 - WTA ($220K) - Guangzhou, China - Hard

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Woohoo second set Laura!!! 7-5!

indiana · Tennis legend

Stunning. Breaks to 30. 1 set all !

Laura Robson, match player extraordinaire smile

Priesty · Challenger level

Second set Robbo 7-5 c'mon!!!!

Gotta go and see my dad now and he doesn't have Eurosport

Armchair · County player

Wow, Laura looked absolutely out of it and then after that massive service hold seems to have found her game. Fanstastic

murrayman650 · ATP level

Laura wins 2nd set 7-5

NotAClue · Lower Club Player

Helen40 wrote:
NotAClue wrote:
Also, http://atdhenet.tv/50106/watch-wta-guangzhou-final is rock solid for me.
I just tried this in my local library, but it wouldn't let me because
'A virus (JS.Agent-48) was found in the downloaded file.'
so just beware..

Thanks for the heads up warning.

For the record, as well as my usual live filters scans, I additionally ran three full virus/malware/phishing scans each using a different top range program - one passsed through a VM (virtual machine), a deep threat scrubbing tool, and a sepearate specialist anti-malware.

Thankfully nothing found. Would be interested in which AV the library runs.

Amazing fightback determination from Laura

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

10 minute break for the extreme heat policy.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

great fight back.

btw is this heat policy on on the WTA tour? at what temp does it kick in?

BritInMilwaukee · Improver

Long time lurker ... figure this is as good a time as any to join in the conversation and the fun

Brilliant from Laura right when she looked out of it, one thing you can say is that she doesn't give up and make this easy

By the way, I don't know if this has been mentioned but Hsieh's only tour level final was won by retirement in the third set so she has never been in a situation like the one she was in with all those championship points before ... just a thought that the pressure of actually having championship points maybe got to her a bit (not taking anything away from Laura in the last few games though)

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Not sure if the extra 10 minutes break gives Hsieh time to recover her composure or more time to think about those match points

NotAClue · Lower Club Player

Count Zero wrote:
great fight back.

btw is this heat policy on on the WTA tour? at what temp does it kick in?

It's contingent upon heat and humidity combined.

2012 WTA rulebook page 354 covers it.

It can come in at about 70F if the humidity is close to 100%

murrayman650 · ATP level

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adv Robson

1-0

indiana · Tennis legend

Yes, Laura is ahead, 1 - 0 * and to me Hsieh is now looking not as consistent.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

I've got a livescore up, but the chinese stream is about ten minutes behind