Fed Cup 2014 - Europe/Africa Zone Group I

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

RE: Fed Cup 2014 - Europe/Africa Zone Group I

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Yeeeeeessssssss!
JoKo you beauty!

Phew!

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

6-3 4-6 7-5

Just when you thought live scores couldn't get any more torturous!

Priesty · Challenger level

Well done JoKo great comeback biggrin

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Priesty wrote:
Well done JoKo great comeback

Yep. And a big well done to Judy too - the captain should get a fair bit of credit (unless, of course, it was her fault that it was all going so pear-shaped in the first place!).

But, seriously, well done Jo and Heather - and to the whole extended team.

steven · Tennis legend

Phil: "JoKo plays a spectacular passing shot, shot of the year material, to break *6-5."

A Latvian follower tells me Marcinkevica blows hot and cold, i.e. can cause upsets but just as easily lose to lower-ranked players ... and that she has a history of losing leads.

The story so far:

M1: Heather Watson WR 162 beat Jelena Ostapenko (LTA) WR 705 (CH 636 in Mar) by 5&1
M2: Johanna Konta WR 118 v Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) WR 216 (CH 215 last week) by 6-3 4-6 7-5

GBR 2 LAT 0

Edit: correction, see below

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 5th of February 2014 07:52:08 PM

briteny · Intermediate Club Player

So what next or finish today?

Jan · Hall of fame

WOW
Missed all the livescoring action during the 3rd set!
Well done Jo

jake270392 · Intermediate Club Player

Well done JoKo great fightback and in other good news, Hungary have taken the first set in the doubles!!

wolf · Tennis legend

steven wrote:
Phil: "JoKo plays a spectacular passing shot, shot of the year material, to break *6-5."
That was some Fed Cup singles debut for JoKo! A Latvian follower tells me Marcinkevica blows hot and cold, i.e. can cause upsets but just as easily lose to lower-ranked players ... and that she has a history of losing leads.
The story so far:
M1: Heather Watson WR 162 beat Jelena Ostapenko (LTA) WR 705 (CH 636 in Mar) by 5&1
M2: Johanna Konta WR 118 v Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) WR 216 (CH 215 last week) by 6-3 4-6 7-5
GBR 2 LAT 0

Jo played a singles match against Argentina.

steven · Tennis legend

wolf wrote:
steven wrote:
Phil: "JoKo plays a spectacular passing shot, shot of the year material, to break *6-5."
That was some Fed Cup singles debut for JoKo! A Latvian follower tells me Marcinkevica blows hot and cold, i.e. can cause upsets but just as easily lose to lower-ranked players ... and that she has a history of losing leads.
The story so far:
M1: Heather Watson WR 162 beat Jelena Ostapenko (LTA) WR 705 (CH 636 in Mar) by 5&1
M2: Johanna Konta WR 118 v Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) WR 216 (CH 215 last week) by 6-3 4-6 7-5
GBR 2 LAT 0

Jo played a singles match against Argentina.

Of course she did - oops. I'd wondered why it wasn't on my radar when the FedCup people tweeted it - that would explain why! LOL

Edit: Ah - I misread, they said first FedCup singles victory, which is correct.

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 5th of February 2014 07:51:37 PM

steven · Tennis legend

Sets won in the singles rubbers today:

GBR 4
ROU 3
HUN 2
LAT 1

Final point and celebration via the Hungarian Fed Cup twitter:

http://bit.ly/1isKLbv

LTA version from another angle:

http://telly.com/1HKTKAV

JoKo: "really happy to pull that out for myself and most importantly the team. Knew I had to keep fighting and Judy reminded me of that!"

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 5th of February 2014 07:54:39 PM

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 5th of February 2014 07:58:23 PM

wolf · Tennis legend

Netherlands are surprisingly cleaning up Group A and look almost certain to be the ones to face the winners of our group.

steven · Tennis legend

Phil with JoKo http://pic.twitter.com/Hwsf0WyhRc

The casual (American) observer could be forgiven for thinking those are Phil's 'pulling pants' (and hat) biggrin

steven · Tennis legend

Hev & Joss lead the Latvians' two singles players *4-1 - presumably the unfortunate Marcinkevica is well and truly wrecked, though that's not to say she won't get a second wind.

The HUN v ROU tie is going down to the 3rd set of the doubles rubber!