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And, a fifth gone! deuce #4...

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Emily has a rule never to spurn six match points... and she doesn't today.

Excellent stuff.

Our first time having 3 or more in a SF since week 13, when we had 4. We had a title winner that week; be nice to repeat that trick.

Well done Francesca & Emily

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Phew! Nearly three hours, but she won through in the end. Well done Emily. biggrin



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Brilliant - well done, Emily !

Manon won at Edgbaston in Feb of this year. And made the semis of a 25k in July. But has pretty much struggled apart from that.

Good chance that Emily will now get the very promising lass, one of those much heralded by the FFT, born in 2001 who's currently working her way through the draw very neatly.

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Cracking week for the pair. Keep it up

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QF: JONES, Francesca (GBR) 1092 def EHN, Rebecca (SWE) WC UNR 6-1 6-1
QF: ARBUTHNOTT, Emily (GBR) 8 767 def ARCANGIOLI, Manon (FRA) 2 379 3-6 6-3 6-3

SF: JONES, Francesca (GBR) 1092 v DRAZIC, Mariana (CRO) 7 759 CH=692 28/11/16
SF: ARBUTHNOTT, Emily (GBR) 8 767 v HALEMAI, Mylene (FRA) Q UNR 16yo JCH=174

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As above, Halemai (who has only just turned 16) is one of the big 'espoirs' of French female tennis.

She's actually half Australian, half French, I believe (or might even have both Australian parents: she certainly was born there and moved to France when she was 7, and talks about herself as being half-half).

She was detected straight away and got immediate FFT sponsorship, soon going up to 15-20 hours training per week.

She was second seed in the recent U16 national championships. But actually got knocked out in the Quarter-finals. (She won the title - and the doubles title - a couple of years back). Tall, strong, physical game - certainly a name to watch out for.

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Fran started well, but the seed has come back in to it.
Fran just served for the set, had one set point, but was broken on a fourth break point against, 5-4*

Emily just started, 1-0*

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Fran breaks right back to claim the first set, 6-4

Emily begins well with an immediate break, *2-0

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Emily already 5-0 up. Dare we dream of an all GB Final?

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Emily takes her third set point for 6-0 *0-0


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Both Brits are a break up in the second set - looking positive...

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Fran's match is tight though, whereas Emily's is not. It's now 2 breaks all in the second set with Fran, with the question being who gets the most breaks there...

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Fran will serve for the match at 5-3 now despite 10 double faults.

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Forget the serving for the match. Its breaking for the match at 5-4* that she has a better chance of doing... The critical stat being that at least Fran has held onto two service games this set, whilst her opponent still has only the one hold.



-- Edited by Michael D on Saturday 9th of September 2017 01:03:56 PM

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