Week 37 - WTA International ($227K) - Quebec City, Canada - Hard, Indoor

the addict · Tennis legend

Week 37 - WTA International ($227K) - Quebec City, Canada - Hard, Indoor

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

10-9* Abanda flashing cross court winner past an advancing Naomi
10-10*
*10-11 Marand serves , rallies, tries to drive it down the middle. Bovina gets it and dumps it at Naomi's feet who nets.

Could've been, but they can't really complain, they were mostly vastly the inferior team.
Naomi will need to serve better tomorrow, her direction was off, and her serve wasn't really travelling through the court and being effective until very late in the second set.
R1: Naomi BROADY/Sanaz MARAND (GBR/USA) 213 lost to (WC) Francoise ABANDA/Elena BOVINA (CAN/RUS) UNR (763 + UNR) 1-6 7-6(3) [12-10]

Naomi's singles is second after 16:00 UK tomorrow, on the same, streamed, court.

The best thing about the match though was the almost military team display formation precision at the change overs of the teams of ball kids!

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Hopefully that will have helped Naomi tune up for her singles R1 and she can repeat the Madrid outcome against Dodin :)

PockyTastic · Futures level

Shame for Naomi, but I'm personally really pleased for Bovina after all of the long long injuries she's had for over a decade.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

The match preceding Naomi's has just finished. So, live on stream in ~10-15 minutes.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

2 points against serve in the first 4 games, 6 aces (4 for Dodin).
I think it's safe to say serve is going to dominate. Naomi is trying to get to net a lot though to put pressure on. *2-2

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Solid stuff from Naomi there, served well, and on return just put the ball back in play, a bit of pressure, and let Dodin miss the court. Which she did, often. 6-2

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

But, having offered no evidence that it was a possibility in set one, Dodin breaks Naomi to 15 to start set two. 2-6 0-1*

PaulM · Tennis legend

And that looks like being enough to decide this set

4-5*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

2-6 4-5*
Naomi has only won 2 points on the Dodin serve so far this set, both on 2nd serve. Odds on a deciding set, it seems.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Really could go either way. Their games today are very similar, same strengths, same weaknesses.
One poor service game could be the match.
2-6 4-6

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Naomi 46% in deciders (60% in 2016); Dodin 52% (2016 47%).

indiana · Tennis legend

Fortunately we are at 6-2 4-6

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Dodin falters, broken to love. Will one break be enough?
It almost wasn't immediately, but Naomi recovered from *0-40 to hold after a fifth deuce, with some big serving.
As the American's commentating on WTT might have said, 'That was clutch!'
6-2 4-6 3-0*

indiana · Tennis legend

Naomi broke for *2-0 then promply went down 0-40 on her serve, saved these 3 BPs plus another 2 in the course of a 16 point game, finishing with I believe her 4th ace of the game.

6-2 4-6 3-0*

Edit : ie basically what Ali said

-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 13th of September 2016 06:12:33 PM