Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Canberra, Australia Clay

Peter too · Tennis legend

RE: Week 12 - ITF ($25K) - Canberra, Australia Clay

cwej · Lower Club Player

Katy Dunne's support sounds brilliant! Really nice of her to stay and support the whole 3 and a half hours!

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Nice to hear.

Lisa does like her long battling matches. Reminds me of Katie O'Brien

Peter too · Tennis legend

Lisa is warming up on court.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q3: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) 749 def KONIG, Pia (AUT) 4 448 2-6 6-3 6-3

paulisi · Tennis legend

Lisa draws the young 15yr old Aussie who got to the final last week and lost on a tie break.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

YAY, great win again from Lisa :D

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: WHYBOURN, Lisa (GBR) Q 749 v AIAVA, Destanee (AUS) SE 722 CH=642 1/2/16 15yo JCH=49
R1: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 338 v SANDERS, Storm (AUS) 297 CH=202 2014

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

I don't think I can remember a harder earned single point than Lisa's here. About 8 hours of slogging on court; twice from a set down to win!
Though the young opponent is very talented, let's hope Lisa's reward rapidly turns into more than the solitary point.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Katy in very Stormy seas, making heavy weather of a hurricane force opponent it seems.

0-6 2-4*

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

But is the Storm beginning to break? No, but Katy is! (how many times over the years, I wonder, has poor Ms. Sanders had to suffer some idiot like me making terrible puns like this?)
0-6 *3-4

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

From *15-40 Katy gets to the first of more deuces than I can count on the fingers of one finger, saving break point after break point after break point.
Eventually though, the dam of resistance breaks.
0-6 3-5*

It rather undoes the epic narrative arc of the struggle if you then just go and break to love, Katy!
Without any consideration for me reporting her plight though, that's just what happens.
Serve has been the frailty though, the Dunne second serve is being devoured (17.6% won)
Will it stand firm now?
0-6 *4-5

Yup!
0-6 5-5*

Another break, to 15! This is becoming some turnaround!
Keep on, stay the course!
0-6 *6-5

*15-30, *30-30, *30-40, Deuce!, Adv. Sanders
We sail into the fickle waters of Tie Break bay, and for fair winds to carry us to the shores of a deciding set.
0-6 6-6

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Tuesday 22nd of March 2016 01:39:30 AM

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

0-0*
*0-1
*1-1
2-1*
2-2*
*3-2
*4-2 This despite no 1st serves from Katy in the TB (or the last game)
4-3*
4-4*
*4-5 Nice big first serves be nice now, nope, it's a DF to give 2 MP
*4-6

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

I thought Katy was back in there, but, no.
GSM Sanders, 6-0 7-6(4)

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Meanwhile, in the doubles, Lisa and Sherazad have been battling the Japanese top seeds, they were a break up in the second, but pegged back, and just now overtaken.
3-6 3-5*

Lisa obviously didn't want to spoil her perfect record of losing every single doubles match on her long antipodean trip.
R1: Whybourn/Reix (GBR/FRA) lost to Hozumi/Kato (JPN/JPN) [1] 3-6 3-6
R1: Dunne/Stefkova (GBR/CZE) lost to Bondar/Lukas (HUN/CRO) 4-6 0-6

Edit: add in the Katy result

-- Edited by insomniacfolder on Tuesday 22nd of March 2016 09:20:31 PM