Shuai hold to 15

C'mon LAURA

Maybe time for another

Left to finish off the lunch

And Shuai held to love 4 - 5*

C'mon Laura, take it to the TB and win that, please.  I mean I've got things to do. places to go 

I wouldn't despair if she doesn't though.  As she said herself at the US Open the big thing is she's been much fitter for longer than she has known in the past and that should certianly help her here.

Yikes. A tie break would have been SO much better

I'm afraid that had a certain amount of inevitability about it. In a physical match Laura still doesn't have the physical fitness to match the top players. The game at 5-1 in the first set was key as it made the first set a marathon one.

philwrig wrote:

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I'm afraid that had a certain amount of inevitability about it. In a physical match Laura still doesn't have the physical fitness to match the top players. The game at 5-1 in the first set was key as it made the first set a marathon one.

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It had no ruddy inevitability about it at all ( excuse my language ).  You yourself had her being "killed" in the first set when it came back to 5 all, but she still won that set and the second set looks to have been very competitive.  As I've already indicated I'd far from rule her out now with her improved fitness, though I would make Peng favourite.