Week 34 - US Open - qualifying

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

RE: Week 34 - US Open - qualifying

philwrig · Hall of fame

Much tougher than I expected, but maybe last week took alot out of her and she's probably not had as much prep time on the Flushing Meadow courts as she would ideally have liked.
Will need to step it up in R2.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

AliBlahBlah wrote:
Whoop! A few bumps, but unscathed.
GSM 7-5 6-4

Well done Jo biggrin

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Naomi on very soon

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Naomi breaks for *3-1 Krejcikova struggling to land her first serve so far

Poor serving from Naomi including 2 dfs as she is broken 3-2*

Comfortable hold for BK *3-3

Another poor service game from Naomi, only one first serve, broken to 15 3-4*

-- Edited by kundalini on Wednesday 26th of August 2015 09:08:13 PM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

And broken again. Not a good day for Naomi it seems.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Naomi only getting in 36% of her first serves ......

PaulM · Tennis legend

Naomi really struggling. Shame

Jan · Hall of fame

Well done Jo

Come on Naomi!

PaulM · Tennis legend

No first serve = no chance.

Really hope she can get some rythym going in the second set. Shes good enough.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

The serving stats that set was probably down to nerves from Naomi more than anything else. Hopefully she can find some serving rhythm in the 2nd set, and quickly.

indiana · Tennis legend

Can make such a huge difference for Naomi, that serve firing and not firing ( and these can be poles apart ).

Recent events have shown what can happen if she has it consistently good.

However, if it is off, the worry must be that the rest of her game is generally still not good enough to pull her through ( and of course lack of confidence from the serve could seep through anyway ).

Really do hope that she can pull it round.

indiana · Tennis legend

tony_orient wrote:
The serving stats that set was probably down to nerves from Naomi more than anything else. Hopefully she can find some serving rhythm in the 2nd set, and quickly.

Maybe, except that in the past she has often "lost" that serve in much more "run of the mill" matches than this.

Anyway, we all hope !

-- Edited by indiana on Wednesday 26th of August 2015 09:25:33 PM

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Naomi breaks at the start of the 2nd set *1-0

Then 2 dfs get her into trouble but she saves 2 bps before eventually holding with a rare ace 2-0*

BK holds to 40 *2-1

long delay

Naomi holds from 15-30 3-1*

BK holds to 30 *3-2

Naomi finds a first serve to save one bp 4-2*

Naomi converts her 2nd bp in a long game *5-2

Naomi broken to 15 despite 3 first serves 5-3*

Naomi gets a set point 2nd serve but can't convert *5-4

On her 5th set point Naomi finally gets there 6-4

-- Edited by kundalini on Wednesday 26th of August 2015 10:19:38 PM

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

Happy to see Konta get through but her possible final round match worries me. Tamira Paszek could be a big problem, a former top 30 player who has had a lot of injuries and inconsistent but when shes good shes very good, hopefully if they both get through Paszek has one of her more inconsistent days!