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hoots


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Hi.New member here. I was at Didsbury this afternoon and saw Sam Murray's match from start to finish [2 1/2 hours very little between the players]. Really enjoyed the game which ebbed one way then the other. When Sam was 5-2 up with two breaks in the second set it looked all over,but the usual ''it's one thing getting up to the line,another getting over it'' thing then took place. As soon as it went to 5-3,part of me knew it was going to a third set. Baines was a very feisty and at times argumentative [with the umpire] player but she played with a lot of determination and skill. Her comments were usually wrong but a few were right . The best was ''if you didn't see that,then you shouldn't be in the chair''[she was wrong]. When Sam lost her serve twice at the start of the final set,it looked curtains,but she broke back immediately on both occasions. She then dropped her serve again serving for the match at 5-3 but showed great guts and spirit[as well as skill] to break Baines' serve and win[well deserved too].Very well done to her.

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Cheers Hoots - welcome to the board. To be fair to Sam, if you look at the record this season, she has really struggled in tight matches, so a big confidence booster.

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Hi, hoots

Always great to get courtside reports. Tx.

Are you going tomorrow?

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Thanks for the report, and welcome!

And I'm with CD: I'd love to see Samantha Murray 'do a Marcus'.

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Thanks for the welcome. I hope to.But if I do,it will only be between about 1pm and 5pm ,so I will almost certainly miss KS V KD and Harriet's matches which are sadly first on the two main courts at 11am  



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R1: (WC) Katie Swan WR 360 vs Katy Dunne WR 294
R1: (6) Naomi Broady WR 115 vs Ankita Raina (IND) WR 273 (CH 222 April 2015)
R1: Harriet Dart WR 278 vs Magdalena Frech (POL) WR 264 (CH 256 two weeks ago)
R1: (WC) Emily Appleton WR 884 vs (Q) Vivian Heisen (GER) WR 543 (CH 452 August 2016)
R1: (WC) Katie Boulter WR 252 vs (Q) Samantha Murray WR 661
R1: Gabriella Taylor WR 307 vs Lesley Kerkhove (NED) WR 192 (CH 163 in March)

Just Katie S vs Katy D and Harriet scheduled in singles for Tuesday. And naturally, as hoots indicated, for anyone wanting to go and watch Brits scheduled straight off at the same time

Thank you for the report, hoots, and welcome.



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That's a pretty good draw, with no Brit facing a seed in R1, and 2 of our wildcards facing qualifiers. In fact, with the highest ranked pesky opponent @WR192, in a 100k tournament, it's as good as it gets.

Good luck to all.

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Anyone likely to be there on Wednesday? Was going to go to Nottingham in the hope of watching Evo, Robbo or Jay but that won't be happening now.

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Kick-off time in Manchester....

I'm slightly worried about Harriet - Frech has a good game on grass (although she didn't do too well at Surbiton this year), and Harriet might find it tricky to get going again after last week.

My money's on Katy D over Katie S - probably wrong but .....

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I'm here, my first viewing of this sort of tennis.

Dunne won first set 6-4

Harriet won first set 7-5

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Owen42 wrote:

I'm here, my first viewing of this sort of tennis.

Dunne won first set 6-4

Harriet won first set 7-5

 Welcome! Good start.



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And an early break for KD in 2nd set... KD *1-0

Dart down 2-0 in 2nd set

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KS impressively breaks back to 15

Frech consolidates her break for 3-0

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Owen42 wrote:

I'm here, my first viewing of this sort of tennis.

Dunne won first set 6-4

Harriet won first set 7-5

 

Good for you, enjoy smile



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KD 6-4 3-1* KS

HD 7-5 *1-4 MF

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