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Helen40


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PaulM wrote:

For what its worth, I thought Jo was a better shout for winning this event than Laura, who I think will struggle with Zheng today.

Hope I'm very wrong though!!

 I agree, I hope she will prove us wrong. It would be nice if Jo has a presser. I would guess that it was just a match too far.



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Jan wrote:

4-1*

I have to go out for a bit now - please keep it up Laura!

 Me too.

 

But no fears. I think she's got this well in hand . . ..



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Pity for Jo today, but a very good week.

And that looks another perfectly decent performance today against a higer ranked player playing at home.

All the best now to Laura.

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Laura said she would need to play better and it looks as though she is. Hope she can keep this level up, but I suspect Zheng will work her way back into this and it will become a real scrap.

With King awaiting, and Meusberger having taken out Cornet, it's a real shame Jo couldn't quite turn her match around, we could have been very close to an all-GB final.

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This is Laura's tournament to lose. There is no-one of any calibre left in the tournament now.

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Guys she's 0 - 2 down in the second. I'm worried now.

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Don't say that, Laura's still very British when it comes to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Julia Carrot wrote:

Guys she's 0 - 2 down in the second. I'm worried now.

 don't need to worry any more - just a minor blip



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paulisi wrote:
Julia Carrot wrote:

Guys she's 0 - 2 down in the second. I'm worried now.

 don't need to worry any more - just a minor blip

 I am still worried though, if honest.



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4-4

Cummon robbo, pull your finger out and finish her off!

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Gee, I do get a bit tired about stuff such as predictable GB tiebreak loss or predictable GB snatching defeat from victory.

There have been many great fighting wins this year and I don't see any evidence of ( nor am I aware of any evidence of ) a comparatively bad GB record in that regard.

Indeed, there was one amazing couple of days not too long ago when a host of GB players fought back to win from a set down.

Thankfully our players seem to show a generally more positive attitude.


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4-5

Nooooooo

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It was certainly easy to get the impression a few years back that Brits often snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, though whether they ever did it significantly more often than those from other countries, I don't know - viewing from their perspective, the French probably think their players are the best at that 'trick'!

Over the last year or two though, I can remember significantly more Brits battling to victory from the jaws of defeat than the other way round

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This picture made me laugh -

instagram.com/william_leung_

 

Scroll back from the 1st one.  It's the court drying one.  The comments are quite good also.  Re Laura using 'dirty' words.



-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Thursday 19th of September 2013 06:30:35 PM

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I would agree steven that we are certainly getting better, certainly Robbo has done that. She is still pretty unpredictable at matches she 'should' win though - not good for my stress levels.

5-5 now and 30-40 on Zheng's serve.

5-6 Zheng held.

Robbo's last game was to 0, so hopefull she can wrap the next one up too and win the TB.

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