A lovely job of taking the (fallacious) stereotype of the plucky but ultimately ineffectual Brit, crumpling it up, and depositing it delightfully in the rubbish bin. Well done, Ms Robson.

It took a long time for Marina to get tight but when it happened Laura played well enough to take her chance. A bit alarming to see Laura blown away in the opening set. Marina was ridiculously good; big serving, brilliant forehand, great movement, super defence, backhand solid. I expected her to struggle with the weight of Robson's groundstrokes but she had no trouble at all.

Laura's first serve lacked the penetration it has had in previous matches on the grass this year. Average first serve speed down slightly. Only 67% won behind first, aces and unreturned first serve count much lower than you'd expect for a 3 set match. Even when she hit a good first groundstroke after her serve, Marina was able to keep the ball in play; in hindsight, as jake270392 mentioned during the match, Laura perhaps should have attacked the net when she had the advantage. 

Impressed that Laura kept fighting, though the crowd certainly helped her, as did the net and the incorrect call on set point in the 2nd set, when Erakovic had total control of the point, only to df when the point was replayed.