Week 10 - WTA Premier ($5.4M) Indian Wells, USA Hard

wimdledont · Challenger level

RE: Week 10 - WTA Premier ($5.4M) Indian Wells, USA Hard

Jan · Hall of fame

Hev drops serve from 40-0 up
1-3*

Jan · Hall of fame

CSN ran away with the match and won the 3rd set 6-1

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Strange match. Heather had patches of playing superbly, serve was excellent, backhand cross-court really aggressive. Then it would all go to pieces for a while. Total collapse in the 3rd set. Seemed exhausted.

CSN looked very ordinary most of the time so an opportunity missed from that respect.

-- Edited by kundalini on Tuesday 17th of March 2015 08:38:09 PM

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I did my best but not even not watching helped. Good luck in Miami.

Sim · County player

I think losing her serve from 40-0 up was a huge mental blow and then the fatigue set in as well and she was completely out of it for the last 3 games.

Still overall went head to head with a player who is in form and in the top 10 for race to Singapore this year for 2 sets.

Lots of positives to take from this week.

Hev now has no points to defend until May (given she will at-least replace the 10 from Miami last year next week) so great chance to improve her ranking.

philwrig · Hall of fame

What a shame, 1st set was massive, and but for CSN's MTO pretty confident Hev would have bagged it.
But CSN proved why she's been winning alot of matches this year, never got rattled and raised her level when it mattered. When Hev starts grunting its never a good sign and a few games later she ran out of gas. Key here is that Hev builds from this and we don't get a Hobart reaction.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

That was one that got away; great week though :)

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Shoulda, coulda, woulda there

paulisi · Tennis legend

Only saw sets two and three. Dominated and deserved set 2, ran out of gas early in set three.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

paulisi wrote:
Only saw sets two and three. Dominated and deserved set 2, ran out of gas early in set three.

Heather deserved the first set too (probably would have won it but for the MTO and CSN then putting on a hobble to play with her mind); I'm also not convinced CSN should have been allowed to challenge the line-call at 6-5 in the TB having played the ball and netted...but I need to let all that go and move on! furious

Hopefully Heather will take all the positives from Indian Wells and have another good run in Miami smile

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Yes, agree with Vohor, but for the MTO the first set belonged to our Hev. The break in proceedings and subsequent limping around the court by CSN put Heather off her stride just enough to switch the momentum.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I think it was the fact that during the game straight after the MTO, CSN could hardly move at all and it looked as if there would be an imminent retirement. Then one game later she was moving at 100%.

indiana · Tennis legend

No comment on CSN for I didn't see it, but MTOs are too often used tactically by many women players.

Hopefully the next time Heather is facing a wounded soldier, absolutely legitimate or otherwise, she will deal with it better.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

For the record:

L16: Heather WATSON (GBR) 43 lost to Carla SUÁREZ NAVARRO (ESP) 13 [12] 6-7(5) 6-3 1-6

Heather spoke in an interview with Russell Fuller on Radio 5 about how she just got flummoxed by the MTO and let it get to her. She also mentioned that she hadn't been feeling well most of the week, and had no energy in the final set.