Does anyone have a decent stream link?

Ugh Jo. Mess from 30-0, well saved set point, double on game point, tame error to lose the set.

Major brain freeze on pretty much every big point. Serve generally looks very good but she, and Mlad, are very poor from the baseline today.

Missed opportunity this. Let's see if she can fight back.

I'm not finding it so un-enjoyable as others, and certainly not dire (! x7! that's pretty dire!)

Frustrating, and a familiar story with Johanna, where she manages to look the better player most of the time, being some rough edges away from a very fine player.
But proceeds to lose sets like that one, and the rough edges are taking a long time to polish up.
4-6

It should be noted, Kiki is a shadow of her former self, and seems rather to have lost her way somehow from being such a great prospect 18 months ago.

Coup Droit wrote:

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you're right insomniacfolder, I'll rein back the !!!s (it's a bad habit anyway) And the dire !!!!! was meant for both of them, not just JoKo.

But I stand by the dire (minus the !!!).

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If you ever see me play, I'll merit at least 7!

Jo distracted by a non out call that was miles in.

She needs to be drilling these put always for the rest of the week. That's about a dozen she's fluffed today.

I think this one is done, and it's not been great but the serve looks very good when it's on. She needs matches more than anything, she was a MDO here which made sense but I'd like to see her string some high challengers together to try and build momentum. Although the ITF schedule really limits what she can do in that respect.

-- Edited by PaulM on Monday 31st of March 2014 09:46:11 PM

Perhaps Johanna is planning a late charge.
She played some good points there to earn her first break.
Still a mighty big mountain to climb though.

4-6 *1-4

I've given up. Joko was good when she served well, but she was just making silly errors at crucial times and Mlad threw in a few big serves at crucial times.