Week 34 - USO Qualifying (hard)

Peter too · Tennis legend

RE: Week 34 - USO Qualifying (hard)

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Perfect response to being given a WC Laura - congratulations. So excited to see this recovery and being able to build on the Landisville victory is very encouraging.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Blooming fantastic !!

PaulM · Tennis legend

Well done Laura! Whatever clicked in her brain after she lucked out against poor Tara the other week, thank goodness. Wonderful to see!

christ · Futures level

Peter too wrote:
Four players in the main draw of US Open, it must be a few years since that happened.

Eight by my count, in the singles alone.

-- Edited by christ on Friday 26th of August 2016 09:30:58 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Yay

26 members signed in. Laura's been playing then ( and no other Brit just now, in singles anyway ). Whatever some folk say or think she does attract much interest.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 26th of August 2016 09:39:57 PM

dougie · Club Coach

Great to see her back and playing close to how we know she can. Was definitely worried a few months ago but seemingly making progress now.

philwrig · Hall of fame

PaulM wrote:
Well done Laura! Whatever clicked in her brain after she lucked out against poor Tara the other week, thank goodness. Wonderful to see!

I think even before the match against with Tara, and during that one, she was more determined, in particular tracking down balls, but now she's rediscovered the fluency in her game with the confidence of wins. Quite remarkable really, is it possible she could get on a similar run to Jo's, that's probably an unrealistic dream, but nothing's impossible.

indiana · Tennis legend

8 matches in a row won, will do rather well to add a further 7

philwrig · Hall of fame

Once the 1st set was won, the encouraging part was that Laura seemed to step up a gear, which augurs well for the MD, just got to avoid the top seeds.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Peter too wrote:
Four players in the main draw of US Open, it must be a few years since that happened.

The last time we had 4 women in the singles MD of the US Open was 1992, when our quartet were: Sara Gomer, (Q) Clare Wood, Jo Durie, Monique Javer

Let's hope we do better than 24 years ago, as only one of them back then got past R128. Clare Wood made R64.
Let's also hope for no repeat of the reason for one getting through back then; Clare beat Jo in R128 (with respect to Indy's point earlier about getting at least one guaranteed through).

the addict · Tennis legend

There are a couple of different clips on twitter of the set point in the first. Good confident forehand strikes - setting up the point nicely. She seems to get better with every match as the confidence returns.

Spectator · All-time great

Well done, Ms Robson. How to come back in style.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Brilliant effort from Laura. Who would have thought after losing to Chanel Simmonds a few weeks ago that Laura was about to start an 8 (or more) match winning run. She really has gone from being miles away from a competitive level to right there in no time.

Maria was a difficult opponent and looks like Laura really had to dig deep to win the first set before running away with it in the end.

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

Great to see Laura Robson re-discovering her form. Fingers crossed she gets a kind draw, there are some nice sections of the draw but some really horrid ones for qualifiers so we can just hope for the best.