Week 39 - WTA International ($250K) - Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Hard

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

Week 39 - WTA International ($250K) - Tashkent, Uzbekistan - Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Blows 7 break points in dropping the first set 6-2

PaulM · Tennis legend

This match is all kinds of terrible.

Naomi goes up 3-0* but loses the break and misses more break points.

IK is just moonballing, and Naomi not able to deal with it. Both girls look exceptionally tight.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Shambolic volley miss from Naomi to go down 3-4*

Imploding.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Naomi looses an awful match 62 64.

Dreadful at both ends of the court. IK brought nothing other than 70mph serves and moonballs (tho she's very quick).

Should have done better both here and in Quebec, missed big opportunities.

Onwards!

DF · Tennis legend

Soon it will be downwards!

PaulM · Tennis legend

DF wrote:
Soon it will be downwards!

She's fairly safe through to Auckland in the top 100.

She's off to Beijing now, then Hong Kong and the WTA 125ks to finish the year. Really surprised she's not playing Linz and Luxembourg, as surface wise they play to her strengths, but hopefully she can have a strong few weeks to consolidate herself. Big points still up for grabs.

DF · Tennis legend

Thanks for the info.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

As much as Naomi has improved in the last 15 months, her off days are still pretty bad, and it sounds like one of those today. The good thing is that they tend to be one-offs rather than a run of bad matches, so I'm sure she will put this one behind her and move on.

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Thanks to PaulM for the match comments. Shame about the performance.

PaulM · Tennis legend

kundalini wrote:
Thanks to PaulM for the match comments. Shame about the performance.

If she'd played at a similar level to round 1, she'd have won this one fairly comfortably I think. Just struggled to hit through the big loopy shots and was pressing herself into silly errors.