Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Week 41 - ITF ($25K) - Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France Hard

Michael D · All-time great

Live score has frozen with Maia serving again to stay in the match. Eden 6-3 6-5 0-15 disbelief

the addict · Tennis legend

Live scores back on
Eden 6-3 (5)6-7 0-2* Maia

Peter too · Tennis legend

Maia now seems to have got her 2nd serve working well in set 2 and after a couple of service games both 1st and 2nd serves seem to have improved in set 3.

!st set:- 1st serve 43% won 2nd serve 29% won

2nd set:- 1st serve 45% won 2nd serve 69% won

3rd set:- 1st serve 75% won 2nd serve 100% won

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 12th of October 2018 11:31:19 AM

SuperT · Futures level

Maia seemingly cruising at 5-0 - now back to 5-2. Great fight by both these girls. Wish we could watch it.

Michael D · All-time great

Yes indeed it seems to have been quite an astonishing match in many respects. So Maia, after being 2 MPs down in that second set pulls it out the fire - but not before Eden after being down 0-5 in that last set, pulled it back to 3-5 and had GPs to bring it back on serve.

QF: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 415 beat Eden SILVA (GBR) [Q] 485 3-6 7-6(5) 6-3

Edit: In fact Eden had a whole 5 BPs in that final service game of Maia's, with Maia eventually winning on her 2nd MP!

-- Edited by Michael D on Friday 12th of October 2018 11:21:44 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

duplicate.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 12th of October 2018 11:20:09 AM

the addict · Tennis legend

Well done Maia - I didn't think she was going to turn that round after I looked at the stats from the early part of the match.

SuperT · Futures level

I think that's Maia's best points tally since Glasgow in January, so good to see her back performing well again. And with two home based tournaments to come, hopefully she can retain a top 400 ranking into next year. Not discounting more to come here as well possibly....

Michael D · All-time great

It's those serving stats that Peter quotes that Maia has to work on - much more of the 3rd set, and much less of the 1st set! Her game tends to lack any real strong points, other than her all round tenacity, so she needs a serve that does offer her some easier points - rather like Gabi in that regard.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

It is US Open MDWC Harmony Tan up next for Maia as she, like Maia, won the battle of the compatriots.

Michael D · All-time great

Can't imagine Maia will get a win as easy as that of their last meeting, but a similar result would still be wonderful.

SF: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 415 vs Harmony TAN (FRA) 371 (CH:324 July 17)
H2H: 1-0 2017 $15,000 Wirral GBR Hard SF LUMSDEN 6-2 6-1

Michael D · All-time great

I think Eden is experiencing a deflationary letdown after letting go all those chances in the singles. She and Lissey win 1/9 BPs vs 6/9 for their opponents

F: Alicia Barnett/ Eden Silva (GBR/GBR) 1097 (524+573) lost to Katarzyna Piter/ Barbora Stefkova (POL/CZE) [1] 357 (239+118) 2-6 1-6

Michael D · All-time great

Maia should now get a SE to Joué-lès-Tours next week. Qualifying sign in is this evening.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Michael D wrote:
Can't imagine Maia will get a win as easy as that of their last meeting, but a similar result would still be wonderful.

SF: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) 415 vs Harmony TAN (FRA) 371 (CH:324 July 17)
H2H: 1-0 2017 $15,000 Wirral GBR Hard SF LUMSDEN 6-2 6-1

Tan had a very good run at RG, getting through to the final QR. Good money, good points.

She then lost in the first round of the next eight tournaments she played (one was the US Open, true, and she'd won the wildcard tournament to get there. But there were seven others events, several of them just 25ks).

And now she's had a decent run here. Not a great set of results overall though....

As people know, I'm not a major fan of Harmony's (although that's mainly in light of all the hype there was about her as youngster, she's certainly a decent enough player. But she's 21 now and about 350 or so, which bears out my scepticism, as the powers-would-be had it that she'd be top 100 by now).

However, I'm not a major fan of Maia's tennis either (can't see the comparisons to Katie B at all, even 3 or 4 years ago, which is the age I have a punt - Maia has good ball skills but she stands so much further back to hit the ball, and has such a rounded trajectory most of the time, that it's very difficult for her to impose herself). However, I do like her scuttling, dogged approach, and she reads the game well (as said, decent ball skills and match-play skills). Played a truly dire match at the Wimbly qualis this year though.

Will be interesting to see how the unranked 2001-born French girl does in the other semi-final. She also has had a lot of publicity over her teenage years.

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Saturday 13th of October 2018 11:09:13 AM