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Post Info TOPIC: Week 19 - ITF ($100K) - Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France Clay


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Week 19 - ITF ($100K) - Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France Clay


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Heather's on. All the other seeds in her half lost in R1.

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Great opportunity for Heather, but not starting well. A break down *2-4 and lost 10 of the last 12 points

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Broken again to lose the set 6-3. That's 3 breaks to 1 in the set - no aces or DF for Hev though

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QF: (2) Nicole Melichar (USA) & Anna Smith CR 150 (66+84) def. Laura Pigossi & Jil Teichman ( FRA/SUI) CR 354 (150+204) 6-2 7-5

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Heather led *5-2 in the second.

So obviously she started playing ridiculously tentatively and lost it 7-5, and with it the match. Pretty grim viewing. Ended on a double.

Disappointing after a good win in round 1. Lim's form has been about as good as Heather's, so I wouldn't say this week gives a glimmer of anything meaningful.

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Gutted for Heather. Was hoping she would really push on here in Aljaz style, oh well there is always another week! Actually, maybe she needs to take a bit of a break. It can't be easy mentally when you're going down the rankings.

I am glad to see Anna string a couple of wins together, hasn't been much of that for her this year so far!

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I went to check up on her coaching situation and see she appointed a new guy in Sept 2016. John-Laffnie de Jager.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/26/heather-watson-pulls-out-wuhan-open-tennis-dizzy-spells

He doesn't seem to be doing her any good.

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Yes, although you don't hear much about him. His twitter account still says he's the coach of another player despite a few recent tweets. Heather seems a little lost at sea right now, I hope she can get back to grinding out those wins soon.

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R2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 7 108 lost to LIM, Alize (FRA) Q 264 3-6 5-7

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Anna's doubles match has started, and she and Nicole have just taken the 1st set 6-2

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They then lost the second 3-6 and the MTB 8-10

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SF: (2) Nicole Melichar (USA) & Anna Smith CR 150 (66+84) lost to Kai-chen Chang & Su-wei Hsieh (TPE/TPE) CR 301 (237+64) 2-6 6-3 [10-8]

Pity, close one against Hsieh, former WR 1 and 2014 French Open champion partnering Shuai Peng (CHN), and Chang, former WR 65.

Still another welcome 50 ranking points for Anna to add to her recent 100 points for winning a round of the Stuttgart Premier event with Naomi Broady.



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