Another good week from Emily, but no title today. I thought she might get a little closer than was in fact the case.
F: Emily ARBUTHNOTT (GBR) [5] 605 lost to Andrea GAMIZ (VEN) [2] 403 1-6 1-6
As you said earlier, Gamiz has been playing 50k and 25k clay tournaments all summer with not a lot of success (although she did take Cirstea to a tie-break recently). Still, a slightly disapointing result
While tennis is very much about games and sets and the ability to eke out these, particularly in close matches, is a major ability in itself, I sometimes find it interesting to look at the points distribution in big game winning scorelines.
The points here were 58-32 overall, so while of course very decisive at not far off 2-1 at least not nearly as overwhelming as might have lain behind such a scoreline.