Week 3 - Australian Open (women's)

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 3 - Australian Open (women's)

steven · Tennis legend

A hint of a possible turnaround? Hev plays her best game of the match to break back

4-6 *2-2

steven · Tennis legend

Hev holds and has a chance to break for 4-2 but the poor play returns and Pervak holds. Deuce on her own serve now.

steven · Tennis legend

30-30 on Pervak's serve. Hev gets ahead in the point but misses a sitter into the net ... gives her racket some mild abuse and eventuallly gets a time violation for not turning back to receive serve quickly enough.

Then she does get a set point but Pervak saves it.

steven · Tennis legend

5-5 and Hev seeems to be suffering from cramp a little, though trying her best not to show it.

Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

Hev likes to give that racket a little abuse....bit of a waste that....thought Hev could have got the set there but alas 5-5......

Montana Doug · Futures qualifying

Alas Laura Robson just went out of the First Round of the doubles 2&4.....come on Hev with the set here and now pls....

blob · All-time great

good luck hev can't delay anymore must get to work.

steven · Tennis legend

Hev holds for 4-6 6-5* and a few minutes later, it's tiebreak time.

steven · Tennis legend

0-1*

(and that's from Hev's good end

)
1-1*

*2-1

*2-2

3-2* ace - first point to the server so far!
3-3*

*3-4
*3-5

terrible error on an overhead
3-6*

3 mps
4-6*

after a 28-shot rally!
*5-6

goodness knows how she won that rally!
*6-6

3 mps saved!

steven · Tennis legend

7-6*set point
7-7* Hev goes wide after a longish rally
*8-7

Pervak goes wide, Hev has a set point on her own serve
9-7

Wow!

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Extraordinary

Peter too · Tennis legend

Houdini Heather performs another miraculous escape from 3 match points down. 7-6(7)

steven · Tennis legend

That set last over one and a half hours.

4-6 7-6(7)

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Wow, what a tie-break.

Pervak was waiting for Hev to miss on the match points at shet was never going to allow that to happen even in a 28 shot rally. Heather was much braver in going for her shots and it paid off in the end.