Week 5 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

DF · Tennis legend

RE: Week 5 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Both girls are serving huge and not too much between then apart from a sloppy service game from Gibbs with a gift of a DF to give Naomi the set.

If Naomi continues to serve this well and big, she'll win.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Barely a point going against serve right now - 6-4 6-5*

DF · Tennis legend

TB

PaulM · Tennis legend

Superb!

DF · Tennis legend

Well Done Naomi!

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Naomi's serve continued to be impregnable in the TB to get a 6-4 7-6 win. Only one break in the match - a stereotypical Naomi win, though in reality she doesn't get that many victories like today that are so reliant on holding serve.

DF · Tennis legend

She won 6-4 7-6 (4)

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Nice to get the win. The standard of returning of 2nd serves was shocking by both players otherwise we might have seen more breaks or at least bps. Naomi won 12 points with unreturned 2nd serves. Nicole 8.

In the 2nd set Nicole won 11 second serve points in a row.

Impressed by Naomi's aggressive play, though at times the execution wasn't perfect.

-- Edited by kundalini on Wednesday 3rd of February 2016 07:56:01 PM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Very efficient, probably masks how good a win it was. Gibbs is a decent player - the most decorated NCAA Div I player of all time.
Apart from the obvious serving power and variety, I thought Naomi's groundstrokes were noticeably solid today, and the length in most of the second set was very consistently good and deep, perhaps even improving right at the business end.

Maybe there's something in this 'altitude training' up Hawaiian volcanoes?

paulisi · Tennis legend

Boom Boom Broady.

Keep serving like that and she will cause everyone problems. Returns need some work and Naomi is definitely shying away from the forehand, but on the whole looking very promising.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Jaksic next and Naomi beat her in straight sets in November at Carlsbad 125

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

R1: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 112 defeated Nicole GIBBS (USA) [6] 103 6-4 7-6(4)

R2: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 112 vs. Jovana JAKSIC (SRB) 182 (CH 102 05/2014)
H2H 1-1
2015 $125K Carlsbad, CA, USA - Hard - NB[4] - R1 NB won 6-3 7-5
2013 $25K Tarakan, Indonesia - Hard, Indoor - JJ[4] - R1 JJ won 6-4 6-4

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

If you missed the match and wanted to view it, you can still watch the full recorded match, for at least the next week, here: livestream.com/livesportsllc/events/4771863/videos/111357414

Deano13 · Social player

Great win for Broads! Does she have any points to defend this week?