Week 19 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 19 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Fran broke yet again and had match point on Miyazaki's serve but is now 0-30 down serving for the match at 2-6 6-3 *5-2

steven · Tennis legend

Surviving a break point as she served for the match, Fran holds to record what must be easily her best win since her return from injury

L16: Eden Silva WR 1093 beat (7) Danielle Konotoptseva WR 772 by 3 & 2

L16: Francesca Stephenson WR 1101 beat (8) Yuriko Miyazaki (JPN) WR 834 (CH 829 last Nov) by 2-6 6-3 6-2

L16: (WC) Aimee Gibson UNR lost to Ekaterina Tretyak (RUS) WR 996 (= CH) by 3 & 4

L16: (6) Katie Boulter WR 772 beat (Q) Anastasia Tsyganova (RUS) UNR by w/o

QF: Eden Silva WR 1093 v (1) Polina Leykina (RUS) WR 383 (= CH)
QF: Francesca Stephenson WR 1101 v (3) Liudmila Vasilyeva (RUS) WR 654 (= CH)
QF: (6) Katie Boulter WR 772 v Teodora Radosavljevic (SRB) WR 1212 (= CH)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Excellent result from Fran and good to see we a starting to get a few more players competing to get onto Steven's top 25 list.

steven · Tennis legend

Lots of breadsticks flying around ...

Katie hands out another thrashing, 1 & 1

Eden won the 1st set against the top seed 6-1!

She is now serving to stay in the 2nd set at 5-6.

Fran is 1-6 *1-2 down.

steven · Tennis legend

Eden did make it into a 2nd set tiebreak but is 3-5* down

PaulM · Tennis legend

Eden served for the match at *5-4

steven · Tennis legend

*4-5, gets 1 mini-break back
*4-6, 2 set points for the Russian
5-6*, 1 left

Leykina takes the tiebreak 7-5

so into a decider they go

steven · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Eden served for the match at *5-4

Yes, just had a chance to track back on bet365 and noticed that She had been a break up early in the set too (in fact, she won 8 of the first 9 games of the match) - still, her form seems to have ticked up dramatically in the last few weeks. I hope the 3rd set doesn't just slip away now.

steven · Tennis legend

3rd seed Vasilyeva beat Fran 1 & 3

so the Russian will be Katie's opponent in the semis.

steven · Tennis legend

As in the 1st and 2nd sets, Eden goes 2-0 up early in the 3rd

paulisi · Tennis legend

Come on Eden - 3-0 up now.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Another break - 4-0 up. Surely Eden will win this now.

steven · Tennis legend

*4-0 now ... make that 5-0*!

steven · Tennis legend

Leykina holds to 30 then breaks to 15 - it's not over yet ... 6-1 6-7(5) 5-2*

-- Edited by steven on Friday 9th of May 2014 04:15:07 PM