Week 5 - ITF ($75K) - Launceston, Australia Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 5 - ITF ($75K) - Launceston, Australia Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Lisa won 7-6(3) 6-1

paulisi · Tennis legend

Points as well

indiana · Tennis legend

QR1: Lisa Whybourn WR 737 beat Angelina Gabueva (RUS) WR 653 (CH 423 06/13) 7-6(3) 6-1

QR2: Lisa Whybourn WR 737 vs (q1) Yuuki Tanaka (JPN) WR 364 (CH 361 12/15)

Nice win for Lisa though it's point singular so far. Goes to 3 points if she can take out the top qualifying seed and 5 points for qualifying.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Good to see Lisa playing again and winning.

DF · Tennis legend

Lisa 1-4 down against the top seed in Qualifying

PaulM · Tennis legend

Struggling today down 1-5* making lots of errors. Very quirky new service motion to protect the shoulder. Starts with her serving arm raised.

DF · Tennis legend

Broke to go 2-5

paulisi · Tennis legend

Is there a stream?

Long time reader · Lower Club Player

bet365 has a stream

paulisi · Tennis legend

Just caught the end. Very bouncy court.

I don't see too much wrong with Lisa's game, just needs to tidy up the unforced errors. Definitely under ranked.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 737 lost to TANAKA, Yuuki (JPN) 1 364 3-6 2-6

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Lisa (with Slovakian, Mihalikova) was due to play that rarest of encounters, a doubles qualifying round. However, they've just conceded a walkover.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Mihalikova didn't turn up!

Lisa had a lot of break points she couldn't take to make her singles closer, but I agree with Paulisi her game seemed to be back in place, just had a messy match.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Bit tough on Mihalikova, who's been understandably busy winning junior doubles, losing the singles final at the Oz Open.