Week 34 - US Open women's qualifying - Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

RE: Week 34 - US Open women's qualifying - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Ugh - Naomi broken serving for the set for a 2nd time

6-7(6) 5-5*

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Easy come, easy go! Back to evens.

steven · Tennis legend

Ouch

QR1: Naomi Broady WR 146 lost to (wc) Tornado Alicia Black (USA) WR 566 (= CH; 16yo junior WR 4) by 7-6(6) 7-6(2)

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 20th of August 2014 12:06:34 AM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Loses 76(6) 76(2)

Lost her break at *54 with two horrific volleys, a woeful lob and a huge double. Tiebreak was a shambles.

Tornado absolutely deserving of the win. Already a more complete, and to be honest, better, player than Naomi Who had her strengths completely neutralised and couldn't hit through, instead racking up a string of errors.

tornado went walkies for a bit but regrouped well. Naomi heads to Quebec where she should be looking to cause damage on the fast indoor surface.

Naomi is defending nothing in September, so whilst this was a missed opportunity (however I agreed with the bookies that Tornado was the favourite) she still has opportunities to move up before Lagos x2 drop off.

-- Edited by PaulM on Wednesday 20th of August 2014 12:16:30 AM

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

Naomi had her chances and she seemed to capitulate a little when facing any sort of success. Certainly a strange one that. One to forget and definitely one to remember for Tornado.

indiana · Tennis legend

Sounds like really poor reaction to some calls by Naomi. She certainly must know you get them, and sometimes at important times, what often more counts is your reaction. Strange.

Tornado seems a real prospect with clear areas to work on, such as serve. Still was a decent draw and opportunity for Naomi and I'll be surprised if Tornado qualifies.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Reasonable effort by Naomi off a non ideal preparation. Black clearly a prospect but you do wonder how much that serve will hinder her progress.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

In the Main Dra, Hev has Sori Cirstea up first (who is in awful form).
Winner to play Govortsova or seventh seed, Genie (who is injured and in pretty poor form too.)

Not bad.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

JoKo has a great R1 draw against Shahar Peer.
Winner to play Muguruza (very tough) or a qualifier.

philwrig · Hall of fame

AliBlahBlah wrote:
In the Main Dra, Hev has Sori Cirstea up first (who is in awful form).
Winner to play Govortsova or seventh seed, Genie (who is injured and in pretty poor form too.)

Not bad.

Cirstea clearly is massively better than her current ranking but as you say completely out of form, plus Hev also has her number in the H2H. Genie isn't in form but it is a GS, and she definitely raises her game for the big tournaments, her injury is relatively minor I think.

philwrig · Hall of fame

AliBlahBlah wrote:
JoKo has a great R1 draw against Shahar Peer.
Winner to play Muguruza (very tough) or a qualifier.

Nice draw, probably 50/50ish, but the Mug is in top form so I agree would be very tough in 2nd round.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Of the qualifiers, there are:

3 teenagers : Ashleigh Barty (18), Francoise Abanda (17) and Ons Jabeur (19, by 5 days)

2 over-30s : Anastasia Rodionova (32) and Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (32)

Average age: 22.9 years

and:

3 Chinese
2 Ukranians
2 Russians
2 Australians

NB A little shout out for Mirjana, known as the centre of horrific stories about abusive fathers, probably the worst I've ever heard, and someone who she did not play at all for virtually four years and did not play a single major in the eight years between 2002 and 2010. Done it all on her own since then. Well done doesn't really cut it but well done all the same.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 23rd of August 2014 11:48:46 AM