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kundalini


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Those dfs seem to have totally thrown Bally. Think she's won one point out of last 14. Gets another. Still a break down

*1-4

Struggling to get any first serves in play. Broken for the 5th time in a row

1-5*

Someone has retired. Must be Bally given the flow of the match 



-- Edited by kundalini on Wednesday 10th of April 2013 10:13:46 PM

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For her to even be in a winning position against a player like Sharon on her first match back is pretty good going. I find it hard to be disappointed.

 

just hope she hasn't done any damage



-- Edited by PaulM on Wednesday 10th of April 2013 10:19:48 PM

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Fichman is in fine form, especially on clay, having benefited from the same South American Fed Cup incepted block that helped Genie past Laura in Charleston.

She came through tough qualifying at the two clay WTA events in Acapulco & Bogota - pushing Schiavone to a tough third set in the MD of the latter - and also the 125K in Cali

She also won a $25k on clay in Port St.Lucie at the start of the year.

She lists her favourite surface as clay and plays there most of the time - only 2 matches for her this year have not been on clay (and both of those were losses)

Including Fed Cup, she is 17-5 on clay in singles this year.

Now, Elena has repeatedly shown herself to be a great fighter, utterly redoubtable and admirable.

I hope she wins and like Kevin Keegan, will 'love it' if she does.

But I think this one may be too much first time out.

Had she had a few kinder rounds behind her, to ease back in, then, maybe - though this $25k is quite tough. But the draw here has been very unkind.

Hope I'm wrong

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I agree with Tony that she will play today even if she doesn't win, but will have a big letdown either in the following round or later on in the tournament.
Fichman has good clay court form, but Bally is a class above her at her best.

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Despite Elena tweeting an hour ago that she was next on court, and both matches that were then in progress having finished, Elena is still not on court - they've leapfrogged her in the live scores.

The official USTA OOP is also singularly unhelpful, having not been updated, it is still displaying Tuesdays details.

Ho hum, becoming a virtuoso thumb twiddler...

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Under way

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Already showing the customary fight, rallies from *15-40 in her opening service game to take it.
1-1*

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exchange of breaks *2-3

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4-4*

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Bally breaks!
Impressive stuff in a close set.
Serve it out
*5-4

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Ack!
5-5*

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Impressed she's being this competitive early on, on what is her weakest surface. breaks for 6-5

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Bally breaks again and earns another chance to close it out: *6-5

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RainDelay wrote:

Impressed she's being this competitive early on, on what is her weakest surface. breaks for 6-5

Ditto. Already I would suggest this is a successful return no matter what happens.... but, let's be greedy



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So far so good, I really didn't expect anything less from Bally.

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