Week 30 - WTA Premier 5 ($2.7M) - Montreal, Canada - Hard

DF · Tennis legend

Week 30 - WTA Premier 5 ($2.7M) - Montreal, Canada - Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Heather good. 3-6 6-4

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

MTB, at the change, 3-3*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

*4-3 first lead of the match!
*4-4
4-5*
5-5*
*5-6
*5-7
5-8*
6-8*
*7-8 Bethanie took a shot she never should have gone for,and should have left to Heather
*7-9
7-10

Heather wasn't the weak link. Bethanie's returns and Srebotnik's general quality were.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

QF: Heather WATSON/Behanie MATTEK-SANDS (GBR/USA) 124 lost to Andreja KLEPAC/Katarina SREBOTNIK (SLO) 62 3-6 6-4 [10-7]

indiana · Tennis legend

Darn, so close but not to be.

On go these "Slovakians" the commentator kept going on about.

Reminds me that I'm looking forward to some of our own more challenged football summarisers dealing with England and Scotland having both Slovakia and Slovenia in their World Cup qualifying group.

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 30th of July 2016 12:27:15 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Anyway Konta time after Keys beats Pavlyuchenkova by the interesting score of 7-6(3) 1-6 6-0

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Keys played her tennis in the usual fashion, which I find almost unwatchable, just go for a line immediately, 100 errors, 100 winners, points 2 shots long.
She's virtually unplayable when it works. In the third, it all came together for Madison, but Pav should have closed her out in 2 sets.

Anyway, as you say (and no apologies for the shouting) COME ON THE JOKO!!!

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Kucova strikes first, doing to Jo exactly what she did to Bouchard in the last two thirds of that match.
Any suggestion that this would be in any way is has been disavowed.
2-4*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Jo saves a set point to hold, and cling on in the set, 3-5*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Jo plays a very good game to recover the break.
A thumping forehand winner, a scramble to a Kucova dropshot with a nice angled finish, an absolute genius dropshot from behind the baseline, and a strong return forcing an error.
*4-5

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Recovers from *0-40, but broken after deuce.
Far too many unforced errors.
4-6

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Looks unlikely to happen now, Jo making lots of errors, and can't decide on a gameplan, there has been serve volleying attempts, and a lot of play up the court, but she's just overhitting the baseline tonight far too often.
Kucova is also playing very similarly to the way Saisai Zheng troubled Jo in Stanford, all sorts of junk, often no pace, but Kucova tonight has lots of power when required to kill points, and she's playing very well.
It's looking one match too many.
4-6 1-3*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Kucova holds a very long game despite serving badly, she's played big points really well all night, and the crowd have adopted her.
Virtually last roll of the dice then.
4-6 *1-4

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Good simple hold. Pressure back to Kucova.
Come on Jo! 4-6 2-4*