Week 20 - ITF ($60K) - Kurume, Japan Carpet

indiana · Tennis legend

Week 20 - ITF ($60K) - Kurume, Japan Carpet

steven · Tennis legend

Laura lost the 1st set

then won 8 games in a row to go a break up in the 3rd

... though it's now 4-6 6-0 *2-2 0-15

steven · Tennis legend

Back to 40-30 but then double faults - deuce - then gets broken for the 2nd time in a row

The other seed who was still standing has now lost, btw.

steven · Tennis legend

Laura broke back for 3-0 and now leads 4-6 6-0 5-4*, finishing the last game with an ace.

Rather bizarrely, given the breaks up to now, 14 points in a row went with serve (2 love holds for Laura, 1 then 30-0 for Imanishi), who at 40-15 has 2 points for 5-5 ... 40-30 ... 4-6 6-0 *5-5

steven · Tennis legend

Laura serving at *5-5:

15-0, 15-15, 30-15, 30-30, lots of 2nd serves in this game, 40-30, holds

... 4-6 6-0 6-5*

steven · Tennis legend

Imanishi serving to stay in the match:

15-0, 15-15, 15-30 ... 30-30, 40-30, 2 hours played now, deuce, ad-out *match point* ...

... MP saved - deuce, ad-in, deuce, ad-in again, 4th deuce, ad-out *2nd match point*, 2nd serve ... GS&M!

Laura wins from a set down and a break down in the 3rd, 4-6 6-0 7-5

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Impressive couple of wins!
Katie takes out the no. 1 seed and Laura comes out the right side of a close 3rd set for once.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Very impressive and quite exciting to watch those last few games. I think the Japanese girl finally conceded the match with a double fault, which was a bit of a shame but we'll take it

steven · Tennis legend

So, two GB v Japan semi-finals, with the Brits higher ranked in both cases

, Laura on the edge of the top 200 and Katie one win away from the top 250. Will it be an all-GB final, an all-JPN final, or (like both semis) one of each, I wonder ...

paulisi · Tennis legend

wimdledont wrote:
I think this surface also counts as a sort of ersatz grass - and if so Katie has won over 50% of her total points on grass, or eqivalent.

Before Wimbledon, I think she might get a WC to Notts, as she's fairly local - and Naomi is away in Manchesterr that week.

-- Edited by wimdledont on Thursday 18th of May 2017 02:07:37 PM

I'm sure we have this debate about the surface every year. Previously it has been classed as grass, but the players complained, it was too sandy. This year it has been classified as carpet.

I believe it is a synthetic surface, made to look like grass.

indiana · Tennis legend

Good stuff. Congrats to Katie and Laura, impressive in different ways

According to the stats Laura served 6 DFs in total ( 3 aces ), not bad over a long match, and I particularly noted the first set, albeit the one she lost. In that set she faced 13 BPs in all ( losing 3 of them ) and only served one DF ( 15/16 second serves in ).

And if the Japanese girl did DF on Laura's second MP it was evidently the poor girl's one and only DF.

the addict · Tennis legend

Fabulous results to wake up to, well done both of them.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Katy into the doubles semi finals.

Funny that she could hardly pick up any points at doubles and now seems to be making a proper go of it.

Spectator · All-time great

Well that's a very encouraging result for Ms Boulter. Well done! And well predicted, Mervatron. And good results for Ms Robson and Ms Dunne, too. Looking like quite a fruitful tournament so far.

On the surface, paulisi's recollection is also mine. I seem to recall EWS being particularly scathing about the so-called 'grass'

-- Edited by Spectator on Friday 19th of May 2017 06:18:18 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

indiana wrote:

And if the Japanese girl did DF on Laura's second MP it was evidently the poor girl's one and only DF.

I've checked the point by point record on ITF scores App and indeed it was