Week 31 - WTA International $235K - Washington DC, USA - Hard

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 31 - WTA International $235K - Washington DC, USA - Hard

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

*4-3

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

4-4

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

*4-5

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

5-5

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

*5-6

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

Nik/Alison lose the first set 7-6 (6)

Sally · Grand Slam Champion

6-7 2-1*

philwrig · Hall of fame

Is it not 7pm our time? Unless I've completely read the OOP wrong.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Bet 365 are claiming to offer live streaming of Heather's match tonight despite it being out on Court 2 smile . It should be a good first match back after a few training weeks. Even if Mueller is better than her ranking suggests, she should be able to really challenge Hev.

Heather will be the first British player in three weeks to play a singles match at ATP/WTA level so this sort of represents the end of a mid season break (at least for our top ranked players).

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Hev 1-2*

Slow start but she should be able to get lots of errors from Mueller from the back of the court once she gets going, so nothing to worry about yet.

edit: I was half right but the other two points were clean winners as Heather breaks back

then Mueller plays a good game and regains the break. Hev still hasn't found much consistency from the baseline.

-- Edited by tony_orient on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 06:38:21 PM

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

philwrig wrote:
Mueller has a big game, but is prone to alot of errors, Hev just requested her coach down 3-4*

Mueller has a decent serve and return & is good at the net but hasn't shown any ability to hurt Heather in the baseline exchanges. Hev just needs to get into the points which she is now doing consistently.

The courts are supposed to be pretty fast at Washington which definitely favours Mueller though.

impressive from Mueller as she plays her best game of the match to force the tie break.

Hev established a 4-1 tie break lead but Mueller fought back to win it 7-5 with a thumping return on set point.

Quality of the match improved markedly as the set went on.

-- Edited by tony_orient on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 07:02:29 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

My wild guess is that maybe Duckworth was down for an earlier start, but requested a bit of extra time to prepare and maybe just maybe they switched those matches around.

A bit odd that they are only streaming court 2, but I'll take it and great scheduling for us Brits.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Should be relatively comfortable now....

ok then maybe not...

-- Edited by tony_orient on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 08:16:57 PM

philwrig · Hall of fame

It is being streamed but you are watching it from the sky and at an angle, still better than nothing I suppose.