Indeed Laura won, but for all anyone's doubts about her she since her return she is surely better than that scoreline and some of the stats suggest. To me it just raises questions again about her finding inordinate difficulty in raising herself for "lesser" occasions. But sh's likely to have to do just that in the coming months.

She's capable I am sure of proceeding further here with the appropriate focus.

Agree such a pity about a serve that not only shouldn't be such a liability, but has previously looked as if it could be a real weapon. Getting that working better would no doubt so help her confidence and other area of her game.

Nice to see that decisive win for Em. As I suggested earlier her QR1 proved nothing, such was the opposition, but this QR2 win is encouraging. Hopefully she remains painfree and that can lead to consistently better form, leading her to continue to play singles just as long as she wants to.

tony_orient wrote:

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Laura obviously has some major problems with the serve, and I think it's probably psychological more than anything but I'm just guessing. 

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I don't think it started out as a psychological issue, she was having issues as far back as atleast 2012,  she had a growth spurt around this time and it seemed to throw her serving motion off BUT it certainly did become a major case of the yips and the extra pressure to come back from the injury just seems to have compounded the issue

RBBOT wrote:

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Laura's opponents have been playing NCAA college tennis, hence the lack of rankings.

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Sadly not the reason. Today's opponent has played 16 separate ITF events in the last 52 weeks (the other Facey sister 14 events), from $10K to $50K. For comparison, Laura has played 18 events in the same period.
Neither of the Facey girls has accrued sufficient wins to get the requisite counters, or single points total required for a ranking. It wasn't for want of trying though.

Edit: Correct the number of events for the second Facey, from 4 to 14

philwrig wrote:

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Star of the day was Em, who unlike every other winner today, played a very quick match, Freya took over 2 hours to win 6-4 6-2. Katy looks good as well and Freya slowly improving too. I'm assuming there's no ball boys etc., and the players are using lots of time between points, otherwise the length of matches here, just don't make any sense.

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 I agree with your thinking, the matches are pretty long by comparison to, say, matches on the British Tour with similar scorelines. But the 31 minute match was exceptionally fast - no hanging around in the sun there !