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Jan


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Katie seeming completely immune to scoreboard pressure. She couldn't touch Gordon's serve in the first set, until 4-5* down, when she got several break points. Broke back twice in the second set; then came back from 1*-5 down in the third.

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(14) Anna Blinkova (RUS) d. Maia Lumsden 6-2 6-1


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Maia has lost 6-2, 6-1, to Blinkova, who has had a very good run in the Euroclay season. Maia took only one of 12 break points - so it could clearly have been closer than that.

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Well done Katie. She seems to rise to the big occasion.



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Fantastic comeback, here we go again very Aussie Openesque start. I don't doubt her phenomenal resilience to pressure and capacity to comeback my only concern is stamina. Fingers crossed for the next round.

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DavidC wrote:

(8) Katie Swan d. Michaela Gordon (USA) 4-6 6-4 8-6

Great fight-back Katie well done biggrin 



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Very good from Katie.

Simply beating Michaela Gordon here would have been decent. But that's some comeback.

Though yes want to avoid much more of these.

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Next round doesn't get much easier, against Sebov, who has also had a very good clay court season.

OTOH, her first round doubles match couldn't be easier, against two French WCs who haven't been doing very well in Grade 4s.

I am surprised that whoever is doing Katie's schedule has opted for so few clay court tournaments - she entirely skipped the South American swing, to play Sharm instead, then has only played the two massive tournaments in Europe, Italian and French Opens, with no warm-up for either.

She was nearly caught cold again - came within match point saved today to only playing 2 matches on clay this year, before the Orange Bowl.

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Sebov beat Katie in 3 sets in Australia earlier this year avenging a 3 set loss at the Canadian Open. Their match is 4th on court 11. Emily is first on court 5 tomorrow, returning later for her doubles. Maia also plays doubles late on

R2 (L32)

(8) Katie Swan v Katherine Sebov (CAN)

Doubles R1 (L32)

Arbuthnott/Francati (GBR/DEN) v Lapko/Mihalikova (BLR/SVK)
(ALT) Pedretti/Sanford (BRA/USA) v Gasanova/Lumsden (RUS/GBR)
(WC) Girard/Romain (FRA) v (2) Kenin/Swan (USA/GBR)

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Not quite clear why Ms Swan, who had such a long match, is one of the few girls given a second round today, but there we are. Fantastic win against Ms Gordon. Brilliant stuff.

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Emily carries on where she left off in Belgium, taking the first set 6-1. Break down in the second, though...

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Emily comes through in a TB in the second

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...which she wins in the tie break.

Emily thru 6-1, 7-6(3)

Great stuff.

She next plays 15 seed Estable, an Argentinian, so a clay-courter, I presume.



-- Edited by wimdledont on Monday 1st of June 2015 10:48:27 AM

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YAY; well done Emily :D

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