4 of the 6 qualifiers will all be in the bottom quarter of the main draw, particularly grouped with the 2nd seed.

Q vs Q
Q vs (2) Dodin (FRA)

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 9th of September 2017 08:10:59 PM

At 5-4 in the 2nd Usue was serving for the match. Tara then broke, held to love and broke again to take the set.

-- Edited by Peter too on Sunday 10th of September 2017 12:15:35 AM

This is Tara's best performance for months, by the looks of it - still a lot to do to win it, but 5-7 7-5 *1-1 now

13 losses in a row. Yeeesh. Awkwardly, the first of which was against her doubles and (almost) life partner, Connie Perin. Gotta be a tough evening convo . Seriously though, I do feel for her. She's lost her way and the end of the season can't come soon enough. Here's hoping she can take a moment and re-engage her game.

Tara's from seems to have coincided with her engagement to Connie, you've got to wonder if the tennis and romance being so closely linked, travelling etc if this works. There have been few if any of these scenarios that work. Wozniacki with yon boring Golfer chap she plummeted down the rankings. Heather and Lloyd, went from nearly beating Serena at Wimbledon to outside the top 100 and Lloyd from a career high ranking to 200 places down.

The life of a tennis player is tough. Probably one of the toughest sports. Got to admire the ones like Andy and Serena that make it to the top even more.

What it is is fairly horrible serving, but that is certainly nothing new even when, with multiple double faults and breaks, Tara was getting much better results. And she may at times have had a bigger DF ratio than the overall one per service game here. How I am sure she wishes she could sort that serve.

But compared to many matches recently ( and although we don't know how Arconada played ) that does look a pretty decent performance otherwise, more especially with that serve handicap. I think one can both say of course serve is a very important part of the game but still recognise that the rest of her game, the form of that, has seemed more encouraging.

With the run she has been on it would have been great for her to get a result here. A win first though here the 12 points would also have been useful.

-- Edited by indiana on Sunday 10th of September 2017 10:33:34 AM