Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Glasgow, Great Britain, Hard Indoor

Jaffa · Challenger level

RE: Week 5 - ITF ($25K) - Glasgow, Great Britain, Hard Indoor

wimdledont · Challenger level

They're underway...

wimdledont · Challenger level

First set dropped 3-6.

Very competitive, with Maia 1/6BPs; Chloe 2/10.

Michael D · All-time great

Nothing if not a battler Maia, evens the match up taking just a solitary BP in the second set, but more importantly having none against her. 3-6 6-3

wimdledont · Challenger level

Match levelled 3-6, 6-3, after Maia takes her fourth set point.

She won the first 12/12 points on her first serve in the second set.

wimdledont · Challenger level

Impressed with Paquet, still holding on despite being an hour and a bit late for l'heure du dejeuner.

3-6, 6-3, 1*-2

wimdledont · Challenger level

Maia breaks first in the third 4*-3

wimdledont · Challenger level

A love hold apiece, so Maia will serve for the match @ 5*-4

wimdledont · Challenger level

Takes her second MP, to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Up to around 420 in live rankings, splitting Sam and Tara as GB11.

Spanish opposition for the final undecided, but looks formidable - either BAD who was RG Junior champ, and making R3 of Miami back in 2015, before injury cramped her style, or GAR, who has just won a 60k, is undefeated in 2018, and who would have been No2 seed here if they used up-to-date rankings for the seedings.

Michael D · All-time great

Fantastic from Maia, a brilliant turnaround after that first serve - not another BP lost for the whole match and wins 3-6 6-3 6-4
Onwards to the final now.... biggrin

Strongbow · All-time great

-- Edited by Strongbow on Saturday 3rd of February 2018 01:50:16 PM

Michael D · All-time great

Yes, that second match is highly competitive at the moment, also a set apiece with Garcia-Perez #8 seed being broken right at the end of the 2nd set. Score 6-3 5-7 there so far, Badosa-Gilbert serving first 3rd set.

Michael D · All-time great

The 30 points Maia has gained for reaching the Final is by far her biggest points scorer so far in her career. Those have been just the 12 pts gained for her two 15k wins last year. In a 25k event before this week she has only reached the L16.

blob · All-time great

Very well done again Ms. Lumsden

Looking at the pictures Scottish Tennis have posted, Maia really seems to have done some hard extra conditioning work over the winter.

Another come-from-behind win. Maia now has two on her own, and so too do each of Tara and Johanna.

Through the end of this week (week 5) in 2017, we had just two wins after our player lost the first set (which was 2-97 2.02% of such matches by that date in 2017)
In 2018, we already have 11 total wins coming from behind. (11-32 25.58%)

In 2017, it took us until week 8 to reach 11 such wins - that acceleration was due mostly to a lot of GB events in that period wins in QR1 of those.

On the filpside, our opposition continue to outpace us in this regard. They win 26.32% of matches where the GB player wins the first set in 2018 matches: GB are 28-10 in such instances.
This is considerably worse than at the same point in 2017, where the figures were GB 86-10 (Opponents won 10.42% of matches where GB won the first set)

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) WC 524 def PAQUET, Chloe (FRA) 259 3-6 6-3 6-4

F: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) WC 524 v BADOSA GIBERT, Paula (ESP) 248 CH=193 28/9/15