Week 5 - WTA International ($235K) - Pattaya City, Thailand - Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 5 - WTA International ($235K) - Pattaya City, Thailand - Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

Hev's dubs was cancelled due to rain which commenced shortly after her match finished.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Forecast for tomorrow is none too clever either.

steven · Tennis legend

Do I sense the pitter pattaya of rain drops?

Oh dear, it's been a long day ... ashamed

philwrig · Hall of fame

Only dubs scheduled for tomorrow, probably around lunchtime or later.

I'll refrain from commenting about the above post ;)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Well a win is a win. Keep going Hev

philwrig · Hall of fame

Rain all day means that all matches have now been cancelled.

Owing to the backlog of matches they are now forced into an early kickoff tomorrow which sadly means Hev who is third on will probably start before 6am our time, dubs later.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

First match on is resuming in the third set too, so little chance of Heather's match starting at a nice time. And I was thinking the Australian Open marked the end of WTA tennis at unsociable hours.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

two early breaks are followed by 3 comfortable holds - 3-2*

and now two uncomfortable holds - 4-3*

-- Edited by tony_orient on Thursday 31st of January 2013 10:37:23 AM

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Turning in to quite a battle now at 4-4. I fancy Hev to break if she can hold here though, it seems like the sort of set you want to serve first in.

And Sevastova holds to love for *5-5, so I'm not going to try and predict what will happen any more!

Heather comes through another tight game for 6-5* - can she pressure the Sevastova serve this time?

No. Tie-break time.

2-4* at the change of ends in the tie-break (though Hev has recovered one mini-break from 1-4)

*2-5 Ace from Sevastova

*3-5

3-6* Time for Hev to think back to the tie-break v Pervak

4-6*

6-7 (4-7) cry Another Ace from Sevastova - she hit one ace all set up to 4-2 in the tie-break and then two more to seal it.

Hev can still turn this around but if she does it will be a long match, which isn't ideal given the backlog of matches in this event.

-- Edited by tony_orient on Thursday 31st of January 2013 11:10:21 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

A wash-out in Pattaya again. There was some play (including Ivanovic (1) getting knocked out ) but the match before Hev's stopped mid second set.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

They are now at least playing again in Pattaya, with the match preceeding Heather's just about to start a final set.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Ah ! And it's only half 4 in Thailand so there's hope she will play.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Daniela Hantuchova was obviously concious of how far behind the tournament schedule is and kindly wrapped up the deciding set in 20 minutes so Hev should be on soon.

Peter too · Tennis legend

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