Oh Alicia, from 5-2* up in the decider, she loses 6-4 1-6 7-5 (no match points, but lost 8 points in a row from *5-3)
Not a great result....
Bit worse than that PaulM. From 5-2 deuce lost 10 points in a row, and another run of 7 in a row - only 5 points in the last 5 games. Must be some kind of injury, as she couldn't have run out of gas after just a couple of hours. Such a pity, was looking good for the win and a ranking point.
I doubt it was an injury if she then went and played the doubles pretty soon afterwards. Or that she ran out of gas. More like just match play got to her.
As you say, a real shame it got away from her. Maybe that article about finding the nasty side was quite apt.......work in progress....
True, true. The doubles hadn't started when I posted that. It might well be the match play - it seemed to happen at Sutton against Lucy - she was playing OK, then all of a sudden got bageled in the final set. Hopefully she will move on from this.
Yes. Having seen Mia lose against Lucy Brown a while back and against tiddler Ola Pitak this year, she is certainly one of the more 'fragile' players out there
And has a dreadful record against GB players, having also lost this year to Emily Arb, Beth Grey (twice), Sam Murray, although she did just sneak past Georgie Axon in a third-set t-b ....