Week 6 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 6 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Crawford is the reigning US Open girls' champ. She qualified for the senior event too and lost 3 & 6 to Laura in R1.

These two are the no. 2 and no. 3 Samanthas in the world behind Stosur LOL

wolf · Tennis legend

Sam first on centre court 3pm UK time tomorrow - should be streamed on USTA Pro Circuit website.

wolf · Tennis legend

R1: (2) Falconi/Sanchez (USA/USA) v Alves/Murray (BRA/GBR)

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Should be an interesting match tomorrow.

Based on their current rankings Murray will have to win to retain the No.2 Samantha ranking.

wolf · Tennis legend

(Our) Sam down 0-2*

Stream - http://www.usta.com/Pro-Tennis/Pro-Circuit/pro_circuit_live__midland/

-- Edited by wolf on Tuesday 5th of February 2013 03:22:06 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Sam actually won more points on Crawford's serve (57) than she won on her own serve (52) - in the match as a whole, she held 7 times and broke 8 times while Crawford held 8 times and broke 7 times. There's no 1st serve % stat on the ITF live scores page, which also gives the tiebreak score as 7-2, when it was definitely 7-3.

-- Edited by steven on Tuesday 5th of February 2013 05:41:26 PM

wolf · Tennis legend

Murray missed a couple of bp chances in game 3, but breaks to love in game 5 and holds so it's 3-3*.

steven · Tennis legend

Murray breaks and is serving for the 1st set *5-4

steven · Tennis legend

'Our' Sam takes it 6-4

and looks in good shape. Crawford seems to be hitting harder but with less accuracy.

blob · All-time great

mmm agree Murray looks in good shape and form. nice to see her play live despite the weird and jerky production and choices of camera shot

2-0 up in the second now. thought this would be a very tough match, hope Murray can close out efficiently

PaulM · Tennis legend

Sam has gone totally off the boil. Some horrendous miss-hits/errors

korriban · Challenger level

Looks like a loss of 6 games in a row from 6-4 2-0 up (having in turn won 8 of the previous 9 games). Complete loss of form!

Hopefully another set will turn things around again.

airsmashers · County player

Sam now serving for the match

*5-4

steven · Tennis legend

She df'd on her first match point and didn't get the second either. Crawford breaks for 5-5

"neither player is playing like they want to win this match" say the commentators.