Week 13 - ITF ($60K) - Croissy-Beaubourg, France Hard

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Week 13 - ITF ($60K) - Croissy-Beaubourg, France Hard

Jan · Hall of fame

AliBlahBlah wrote:
(sotto voce) Yes, Laura!!! Whatever you just did, keep doing that! 6-1

Yes, whisper it, but yes please Laura!

I have to go out now - fingers crossed for good news later.

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

AliBlahBlah wrote:
(sotto voce) Yes, Laura!!! Whatever you just did, keep doing that! 6-1

Agreed smile

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

1st serve points won went from 83.3% to 50% between the two sets.
Meanwhile the Bulgarian 1st serve % went from 46.2% to 100%
Come on, same as the first set Laura.
6-1 3-6

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

2 breaks a piece in the final set, 6-1 3-6 *3-3

PaulM · Tennis legend

Led *2-0 40-0 in the third, lost the next 5 points to be broken, then was broken again

2-3*

Breaks back

*3-3

Goes down 0-40. Gets back to deuce. Break points 4 and 5 saved. Game point...

4-3*

Wakey · Junior player

Awful game by Shinikova there to get broken to love. Don't think she got a first serve in the whole game based on the scoreboard. Laura leads 5-3

PaulM · Tennis legend

Breaks to love

*5-3

0-15
0-30
15-30
30-30
30-40
40-40
adv Robson

GSM Laura 6-1 3-6 6-3

Well done! Really thought she'd messed it up when she was broken from 40-0 at *2-0 and went a break down. Dug in deep to save 5 break points in the 7th game.

Good job, now PLEASE follow it up!

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

BOOM!

Wakey · Junior player

Laura saves a break point to serve it out. Her serve seems to be getting better at least on the scoreboard. There was a point where if she didn't get her first serve in she may as well have conceded the point. Either it would be a double fault or a weak second which put her on the backfoot but she seemed to be winning a good number of her second serve points today

-- Edited by Wakey on Tuesday 28th of March 2017 10:00:03 AM

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Well done Laura - it's been a while since she has come out the right side of a close match and I'm fed up of her losing matches where she has dominated part of it. If she could replicate the first set performance a bit more often...

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Wakey wrote:
Laura saves a break point to serve it out. Her serve seems to be getting better at least on the scoreboard. There was a point where if she didn't get her first serve in she may as well have conceded the point. Either it would be a double fault or a weak second which put her on the backfoot but she seemed to be winning a good number of her second serve points today

-- Edited by Wakey on Tuesday 28th of March 2017 10:00:03 AM

Bizarrely, Laura's second serve was her big strength today - 58% won to her opponents 33%. She won 19 of the 27 points where her 2nd serve was not a fault.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

That was just the second time this year that Laura has lost any set in a match but still gone on to win it. (2-6)
Her second best ranking win of the year, and second top 150 win. Her other was also in France, at Andrezieux-Boutheon in week 4 (Burger).

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

R32: Laura ROBSON (GBR) 213 defeated Isabella SHINIKOVA (BUL) [8] 145 6-1 3-6 6-3

Repeat of the last match scoreline, and the final tournament result, would be lovely.
R16: Laura ROBSON (GBR) 213 v. An Sophie MESTACH (BEL) 236 (CH 98, Jan. 2015)
> H2H 2-0* (1-0 seniors)
> 2016 Landisville, PA, 7USA - ITF $25K - Hard - QF - Robson by 6-3 0-6
> 2010* Junior Wimbledon - GS - Grass - LR(WC)[8], ASM[11] - R16 - Robson by 6-4 7-6(2)
*Junior result

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Jossanna under way, 1-0*