Week 6 - WTA International ($500K) - Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Hard

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

RE: Week 6 - WTA International ($500K) - Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Hard

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Em+'s doubles match is on now, and on a streamed court.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Broken from 30-0

0-2*

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

They break back to make it *3-4

PaulM · Tennis legend

Namigata isn't very good....

Weird set, played ok, opponents not great but couldn't make anything happen.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

PaulM wrote:
Namigata isn't very good....

Weird set, played ok, opponents not great but couldn't make anything happen.

Yes. Only saw 6 or 7 points but in all of them Namigata was ineffectual, at best. Nervous maybe ? (and as I type she's just hit a decent return that wins the point - maybe she'll relax in the second set).

PaulM · Tennis legend

Namigata has a ball toss to rival Ivanovic's. All over the place.

Secured a great break but Junri double faulted on game point

4-6 1-1*

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Voegele double faults on deuce to hand a break over. 4-6 *3-2

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

Kounosuke wrote:
Voegele double faults on deuce to hand a break over. 4-6 *3-2

Same as above, but with Pliskova serving. 4-6 *5-2

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

A couple more breaks of serve and Em+ win the 2nd set 6-3

MTB time.

-- Edited by Kounosuke on Tuesday 9th of February 2016 10:41:33 AM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

the two double faults from the japanese player have hardly helped our cause but it's 6-6 as they turn....

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

They had a MP, and it was all very close, but Em+ on the losing end...

PaulM · Tennis legend

Oh drat! Really could have won that. I thought they had it at *8-7 but they played two quite poor points to lose the initiative at just the wrong time which was a real shame. Namigata threw in a double at *6-5 as well which didn't really help when her ball toss went off at 90 degrees. Didn't do anything wrong on their match point at 11-10*.

Real heartbreaker, and it means that Em has lost her last 6 match tie breaks, which isn't a nice run to have.

Definitely a big, and important, chance missed, their opponents weren't really "into" the match. Those 60points would have been a nice boost after losing Midland, but Em overall played pretty well (although her first serve lacked a bit of bite) today, very sharp around the net.

Sore one, but needs to dust down and hope for some magic next week in her beloved India.

-- Edited by PaulM on Tuesday 9th of February 2016 11:34:37 AM

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Argh; Em really needed those 60 points :(

PaulM · Tennis legend

6-4 3-6 13-11 for completeness cry

As CD said was very, very close but no cigar. 4th seeds have been shown the exit door, so to rub salt into the wounds it would have been a local pair in the quarters doh

-- Edited by PaulM on Tuesday 9th of February 2016 12:21:47 PM