One thing I think would help a little is to put a players nationality on the scoreboard. They didn't do it on the outside courts at Nottingham and they don't do it at Wimbledon either. Always has annoyed me. Overheard conversations at Nottingham with people thinking the Skupskis were from Poland and Brydan from Belgium(!).

But it's good to see that Gabi is trying to battle back again in the second set. 2 breaks to 1 in her favour at the moment, with the pendulum swinging more evenly this set...

Bit of a mis-match in the doubles. Jos and Maria beat the Pitaks 0 & 0

The analysis of their match is very interesting actually, since it is very obvious where Gabi lost it. On overall points the score is 91-92 to Rybarikova, but the serving stats! In terms of aces and DFs, Rybarikova is 9-0 whilst Gavi is 1-13!!!! Now interestingly, once you take out the DFs, Gabi's second serve win percentage was far higher than Rybarikova's. In fact it was 16/26 = 61.5%

So percentage serve winners were

MK 1st serve - 72.2% GT 1st serve - 66.7%
2nd serve - 33.3 % 2nd serve - 41%
excl DFs - 61.5%

Breakpoints too MK won 5/7, Gabi 5/12

Rybarikova is currently WR107 and she is going to go back higher again. For Gabi to be so competitive against her is highly encouraging. Now just to improve that first serve snap and reduce the DFs.

Laura loses the first 6-4.

Blinkova had a better winning percentage on her 2nd than first serve in that set :S

Laura recovered from a break down and mini breaks down in the tie break to take the 2nd set 7-6(5)

-- Edited by Peter too on Wednesday 21st of June 2017 05:41:07 PM

indiana wrote:

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Well done Laura. Was at least *2-5 down and won the last 5 points for 7-5.

Set 3 ...

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 It was at least 6 points in a row, as it was 1-5 when I looked