Week 33 - ITF ($25K) - Woking, UK - hard

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Week 33 - ITF ($25K) - Woking, UK - hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Katie 3-1 up in second set

steven · Tennis legend

Katie won her 4th game in a row then gave up one of the breaks to love and Jegiolka has just held serve - 7-6(3) *4-3

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good effort from Emily - especially having had to leg it across the Atlantic - although, if anyone can high-tail half-way round the world, fall off the plane and still play decent tennis, it's got to be her.

Glad it was short-ish too as she's got her next round coming up pretty soon today.

steven · Tennis legend

Katie is about to serve for the match 7-6(3) *5-4

steven · Tennis legend

15-40, 2 break points - well, it was never going to be easy.

1 saved
2nd serve
looked like a df
and sadly it was

7-6(3) 5-5*

paulisi · Tennis legend

and Katie fails to serve it out - 5-5

steven · Tennis legend

15-15 far too obvious dropshot from Jegiolka, Katie gets to it easily but fails to put it away and has to duck as it comes right back at her

Next point - even more obvious dropshot, which goes out anyway - 30-30

steven · Tennis legend

30-40 bp - both serves into the net and Katie will serve for the match again

7-6(3) *6-5

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, Jegiolka doesn't deserve to win if all she does is horrible dropshots !

OK Katie - now's the moment !

steven · Tennis legend

Katie ends up racing to get ball after ball and Jegiolka ends up with an easy winner - 0-15
Much the same again - 0-30

Katie's movement is better and her shots more flowing but she seems to not put the ball deep enough to make it difficult for her opponent - which is the thing Jegiolka is good at.

Wins the next 3 points though so it's match point ... missed.

Break point

Another dodgy dropper but I think it caught the net, which made it much more effective

Tiebreak time

Edit: You're right, CD, Jegiolka doesn't deserve to win LOL

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 13th of August 2014 12:09:22 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

Em's match has now reappeared on the ITF score board.

steven · Tennis legend

Tiebreak - Katie lost her first service point and it's now *2-4 at the changeover (there may have been other mini-breaks exchanged too)

2-5*

Lovely deep return leaves Jegiolka flailing and is just in

... 3-5*
but now the Pole has 3 set points - *3-6
... and only need 1

7-6(3) 6-7(3)

How Katie lost that set, I really don't know

steven · Tennis legend

Btw, Emily is now just one win away from overhauling Katy Dunne's 2014 ytd points total (Katy is currently 5th ytd), which is odd, given that Katy seems to have had a very good year and Emily a rather patchy one (though the Wimbledon QR1 win helped, obviously!)

YTD GB top 10:

1095 Heather
306 JoKo
299 Naomi
100 Tara
81 Katy
79 Emily
63 Samantha
59 Katie (level with Sam on 63 if she wins this 3rd set)
48 Eleanor
45 Amanda

PaulM · Tennis legend

Jeezo Katie has really blown this one. Was playing some good tennis to go a double break up in the second