I doubt any of us are expecting 2017 to be the year of a resurgence in Em's single career, sadly, so a 6-3 6-3 defeat feels about right. Just didn't get anywhere near enough first serves in to be truly competitive today (41%!) and threw in far too many doubles (7). If she'd escaped the 7th game in the second set might have got a bit of momentum but never mind.
Plenty of girls in this draw she's still capable of beating, but not a good draw after a couple of rough seasons in singles. Fields get stronger over the next 2 weeks as well, so hopefully not unfair to focus on how her doubles performances look.
She'll team up with Alice again for the QF tomorrow.
-- Edited by PaulM on Wednesday 8th of February 2017 10:45:27 AM
Probably Matteucci who was involved in a 2hr single loss this morning. But either way hopefully nothing serious and both are ok
That's really unfortunate, Em needs to win titles at this level to even gain 3 points, but the match time, momentum and confidence that would have come from doing so would have been really useful (and I don't like to be overconfident but I think they would have stood a very good chance of doing so!).
She's sticking around in Sharm next week. Hopefully more positive
-- Edited by PaulM on Friday 10th of February 2017 01:25:22 PM
