15-40*

Tara lost 111-104 on points but was 13-1 on DFs. She needs a sofa

indiana wrote:

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Strongbow wrote:

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Tara lost 111-104 on points but was 13-1 on DFs. She needs a sofa

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That's probably one of Tara's more reasonable recent DF efforts given the length of match. The one on the 5th BP at *5-5 was most unhelpful though.

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 Having "watched" it on Livescores I'm glad it wasn't streamed

The jump to 25k curse strikes again for Emily again but that's not a particularly great score line. I know we do need to take odds with a pinch of salt, especially when it's a bit lower level, but I still do think they can act as a bit of a gauge / indicator - the pre-match odds were 4/5 opponent, 10/11 Emily, so very very close and not like Emily was a 7/2+ outsider.

There's nothing really from her recent results to suggest that Anastasia is a decent prospect either, she'd lost 5 in a row coming into this and has had some heavy beatings these past few months like 0 and 0 vs Kiick, 2 and 2 to Ann Li, 2 and 2 to Asia Muhammed (those 3 are obviously currently levels above Emily) but also 3 and 1 to a 15 year old Connie Ma (14 at the time) who I'd not heard of, so it is a bit disappointing that it looked pretty comfortable.

Jaggy1876 wrote:

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Ive said this before but shouldnt Tara serve underarm. She cant serve for toffee and underarm serving would cut out the double faults.

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Gets it in but to no doubt generally get thumped back past her, whereas even with 13 DFs her second serve points won here were 48% (24/50) which isn't that bad overall and suggests it was pretty decent when it went in. She actually had a slightly better second serve points % won ( 48 to 47 ) than her one DF opponent.

Love her to find some DF solutions ( and as I said it can be worse than here, really costing her, and with no doubt lower % second serve points won ) but I don't see underarm serving as any sort of general way to improve the winning of points, just possibly but still debatably as a surprise at an important point if the serve has totally gone to pieces ( Billy Harris sneaked one in a couple of weeks ago when successfully serving out a match in spite of 3 DFs in that last game ).

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 4th of October 2018 01:31:53 AM

Jaggy1876 wrote:

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The odd one here and there when the first serve doesnt go in then could work surely. Its kind of like playing a drop shot in that the odd one takes the opponent by surprise and would garner maybe the extra point that would make a difference in close matches.

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 As I said "possibly but still debatably".