Want to build on this serving discussion - just a worrying thought in the back of my mind re Laura.

Just realised that Laura's coach is Mr Krajan, whose most famous charge was Dinara Safina......she who developed chronic serving yips while he was coaching her, having been an excellent server previously.

To be fair Safina went to #1 while he was her coach, but I recall Mrs Safina (her Mum and first coach) absolutely ripping him to shreds, claiming that her rise was already happening before he arrived as a result of previous coaching (not her, someone else) and that he brought absolutely nothing to the party, except for ruining her serve and destroying her confidence!!!!

Some pinch of salt needed here, as the Safin family are famously outspoken and, well, eccentric.

But slightly worryingly, Laura was playing her best tennis last year literally 1 or 2 weeks after he took over, and I find it almost impossible to believe that kind of impact can be attributed to him at all. It's true that her tactics appeared to have been tweaked for the better which I'm sure he influenced, but her movement and consistency, even on serve, was good (for her anyway!) post Olympics - and that doesn't happen overnight.

However, in my opinion both of these have got massively worse from the very first moment we saw her at the start of 2013. Her tactics are back to her old ways, her confidence and her serve has disappeared. I know she has been somewhat ill for while, but all these big one-sided third set defeats would suggest that either she doesn't have a tactical plan for these situations; or that she does have a plan but is ignoring it to shoot from the hip like in junior days (perhaps more likely); or that her fitness and stamina have deteriorated badly (because they were excellent at the US Open). The second and third of these things often go together.

Unless Laura was physically spent in the third set yesterday (which would be worrying and explain all the above), I think it is IMPOSSIBLE that Judy was instructing her to go for outright winners so early in points in that last set, especially as she was missing so often - having just won the second set, why would anyone go into all guns blazing, last chance saloon mode?! But that's precisely what she did....once again. I think its a fitness issue (mental and physical) and I think she almost can't resist pulling the trigger even out of position.

I am worried that Coach Krajan may have been rumbled........am I over-thinking this?