Week 17 - ITF $25K - Phuket, Thailand - Hard

indiana · Tennis legend

RE: Week 17 - ITF $25K - Phuket, Thailand - Hard

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Well done Lisa. Really impressed.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Again Lisa shows those strong mental qualities, I think you have to nearly rank her alongside Hev and Bally when measuring those qualities.
Kumkhum is a major stepup but winning would now be a big bonus but why not.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Lisa keeps it tight, *3-2 15-15

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Deuce

Adv - Khumkum

4-2*

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*4-3 - Much better! Cmon Lisa!

-- Edited by murray_2k9 on Saturday 27th of April 2013 04:09:28 AM

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Lisa needs all her fighting spirit now....

6-0 *2-1 to Kumkhum

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

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0-30 - chance now surely

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15-40, 2BPs for Lisa.

30-40...big point now.

BREAK 4-4* Good stuff!

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15-40 Argh.

*5-4

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BREAK! 5-5 (deja vu there - identical points pattern to Lisa's previous break!) Hold and add some real pressure.

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*6-5. Unfortunately deja-vu there again.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

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GSM Kumkhum. Shame but good effort in the second set.

FI: KUMKHUM, Luksika (THA) 1 135 defeated WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 7 267 6-0 7-5

Keep the good form up next week Lisa!!

Spectator · All-time great

Nice comeback, even if not quite enough. A good week.

blob · All-time great

No disgrace in that result, against a player in Kumkhum very much on the rise, playing mostly WTA events with good success in the last 6 months, having beaten the likes of Keys, Svitolina, Daniilidou, Arvidsson etc.

The resolve and application shown in the second set is particularly encouraging, after nerves or acclimatising to the sense of occasion perhaps saw the first set run away, Lisa managed to show that she could trade against this quality of opponent.

Very well done to Lisa and wish her more continued success on the Asian tour and beyond.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Yes very encouraging second set, her ability to dig deep is a very important quality.

steven · Tennis legend

It's funny, I was just thinking yesterday, it's been a remarkably long time since I've got into trouble with Lisa for tweeting something that was supposed to be nice ... wink

DF · Tennis legend

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philwrig · Hall of fame

steven wrote:
It's funny, I was just thinking yesterday, it's been a remarkably long time since I've got into trouble with Lisa for tweeting something that was supposed to be nice ...

That did make me chuckle, yep Lisa sometimes does react in a curveball manner. Having said that it probably wasn't the most flattering of pictures.

steven · Tennis legend

Yes, I'm sure there are better pics of her, but she looked good in it to me despite the cap she objected to having to wear (otherwise I wouldn't have bothered tweeting it), but then it's usually the case that we think pictures of ourselves look worse (in my case, even worse LOL) than other people do.

steven · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
I can understand the desire to be 9x rather than 100 and 19x rather than 200.

I thought Tara might move up a place or two today, but sadly for her desire to be ranked 1xx, she is still WR 200

Having said that, it will probably feel like more of an achievement if it happens after a good week than after a week when she went out in R1, so maybe it's a good thing after all.