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tony_orient


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I think WTA qualies and some bigger ($75k+) ITFs are a good mix for Naomi right now. She wouldn't have expect to be ranked so highly when deciding her schedule, but that's a nice problem to have!

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Story so far ...

R1: (7) Naomi Broady WR 127 beat (Q) Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR) WR 619 (CH 209 10/14 ) 6-2 6-2

R1: (SR) Lisa Whybourn WR 1134 lost to (2) Anna Tatishvili (USA) WR 109 (CH 50 10/12) 6-4 7-6(6)

R2: (7) Naomi Broady WR 127 vs (WC) Julia Jones (USA) WR 563 (= CH)

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Julia holds to 30 *0-1

Naomi with a couple of aces, holds to 15 1-1*

Julia holds to love *1-2

Naomi holds to 30 2-2*

Julia saves 3 bps in a lengthy game. Naomi yet to win a point returning first serve in this set *2-3

Naomi with her first df, and her 5th ace, holds to 40 3-3*

Julia holds to 15 *3-4

Naomi loses 2 first serve points yet holds to 30 4-4*

Julia holds to 30 *4-5

Naomi recovers from 15-30 to hold 5-5*

Julia saves 4 bps *5-6

Naomi recovers from 0-30, taking the next four points 6-6

Tiebreak: 

0-1 0-2 1-2 2-2 3-2 4-2 5-2 5-3 5-4 6-4 6-5 6-6 7-6 7-7 8-7 9-7

Naomi didn't make it easy for herself, missing 7 bps in the set, then wasting 3 mps, including 2 on her own serve, before taking the 4th. 

Serving stats good, 67% first serve percentage, winning 78/55, 10 aces and 3 dfs



-- Edited by kundalini on Thursday 24th of September 2015 05:54:24 PM

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indiana


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Certainly Naomi isn't shy about entering tournaments with 34 tournaments showing in the current rankings list.

Of the top 200, only An-Sophie Mestach (36), incidentally the top seed here, and Tatjana Maria (34) show at least as many tournaments in the last year.

Even Emily W-S ( further down the rankings but renowned as a serial tournament player ) "only" has 32.



-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 24th of September 2015 04:58:48 PM

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Tiebreak time in the second set

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Well Done Naomi on winning the tiebreak and with it the match

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Naomi made this more nerve shredding than it needed to be after missing 7 BP chances in the second set, then the tie break became very edgy with her missing several MP's before finally ending the drama!

I think she needs to be a bit more ruthless on BP chances but given the tiebreak drama she did well to hold herself together and not let this go into a 3rd set.

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indiana wrote:

Certainly Naomi isn't shy about entering tournaments with 34 tournaments showing in the current rankings list.

Of the top 200, only An-Sophie Mestach (36), incidentally the top seed here, and Tatjana Maria (34) show at least as many tournaments in the last year.


 I suspect economics must drive Naomi's tournament selection. Not as though she has apartments in Manchester, London and Miami to retreat to for a training block, or lots of sponsor events to turn up at. She tends to travel around the world but do several events in one region if at all possible; hence the high number of tournaments entered. She's not really a good enough player to risk a limited schedule. 



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indiana


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Naomi ( 441 points so far ) will now have more ranking points than Johanna ( 440 ) had on 20th July, and will now probably move ahead of Johanna's ranking then, WR 126.

Johanna is now WR 63. Now I wouldn't mind a similar path for Naomi

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Good to see Naomi getting through that tight second set :)
Mestach following her onto court 2...

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Well Done Naomi smile

Up against the top seed next - still brilliant biggrin



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R2: (7) Naomi Broady WR 127 beat (WC) Julia Jones (USA) WR 563 (= CH) 6-1 7-6(7)

QF: (7) Naomi Broady WR 127 vs (1) An-Sophie Mestach (BEL) WR 105 (CH 98 01/15)

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Naomi played An-Sophie in Turkey in 2013 and lost 6-3 6-7(4) 3-6

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Mestach is really awful to watch! Very ordinary shots but frustratingly hard to put away in a rally. She also has really irritating habit of bouncing the ball very excessively before serving (anything from 15-30 bounces).

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Grachka wrote:

Mestach is really awful to watch! Very ordinary shots but frustratingly hard to put away in a rally. She also has really irritating habit of bouncing the ball very excessively before serving (anything from 15-30 bounces).

 Yes I remember the ball bouncing from a couple of months ago - I watch a match she was playing in but had to stop after about 15 minutes because it was so annoying. It's like she has watched Djokovic and thought 'he bounces the ball 10 times before every point and is world No. 1 so if I bounce the ball 20 times I will be even better...'



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