Week 44 - ITF ($25K) - Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

steven · Tennis legend

Week 44 - ITF ($25K) - Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt - Hard

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

LOL

PockyTastic · Futures level

Naomi vs Tara is underway...

Naomi is a break up and serving for the 1st set at 5-3

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Now Naomi serving *5-5
The stats were almost all identical as I typed this.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

6-6 TB

PaulM · Tennis legend

This match is a bit of a mess really, with Tara saving set points to recover from 3-5* to *6-5 only to be broken to love

Naomi's first serve continues to be pretty ineffectual, but she takes the set tiebreak 7-3.

PockyTastic · Futures level

Naomi 7-6 3-5 Tara

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

One set each.
Naomi: 7-6(3) 3-6

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

9 aces, 0 DFs from Naomi.

0 aces, 12 DFs from Tara.

And yet Naomi has conceded 15 break points, and Tara has only conceded 9. . . .

Jaffa · Challenger level

Jesus, I bet it's a horrible match to watch with those stats!

steven · Tennis legend

Naomi was *4-2 up but has just been broken back. Still 9 aces 0 dfs for her but now 0 aces 16 dfs for Tara.

At 7-6(3) 3-6 4-3* & 15-0 to Tara on serve, they had both won 103 points.

steven · Tennis legend

More and more bizarre - Tara holds then breaks again, so will serve for the match.

steven · Tennis legend

At least 3 match points have come and gone - here's another one

steven · Tennis legend

Tara breaks a 5-match losing streak despite serving all the dfs in the match (16) and Naomi serving all of the aces (10):

L32: Tara Moore WR 302 beat (1) Naomi Broady WR 146 by 6-7(3) 6-3 6-4

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well, I can't help it but I'm really pleased for Tara.

Naomi had a wonderful Wimbledon, Tara's had nothing to write home about at all this year.

Well done to her. And, after all, one of them had to win . .