Week 21 - ITF (W25) - Goyang, Korea - Hard

RetiredGrinder · Newbie

RE: Week 21 - ITF (W25) - Goyang, Korea - Hard

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Yea. Took 4th match point.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Lee, who beat Alicia in that epic earlier in the week, is currently a break up in the deciding set against the Chinese top see. Winner of that plays Maia.

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

Only 3hrs 43mins.

QF: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) [4] 322 defeated Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS) [6] 313 (CH:283 April 19) 6-7(4) 7-6(5) 6-3

Michael D · All-time great

Wow, Maia's match was 3hrs 43mins! There was some comment about EWS playing the last match of the season last week i think - well her match was not as long as this one was, so think Maia and Anastasia take that record now!

QF: Maia LUMSDEN (GBR) [4] 322 beat Anastasia GASANOVA (RUS) [6] 313 (CH:283 April 19) 6-7(4) 7-6(5) 6-3

Duplicated - but after all that time, it's probably what Maia deserves wink

-- Edited by Michael D on Friday 24th of May 2019 07:38:51 AM

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

That match I mentioned is an absolute break fest. Lee is *3-2, but all 5 games this set have been breaks, and there's been so many throughout. The match is currently over 2 and a half hours and both of those have had long previous matches, so Maia might actually be fresher, particularly if it's Lee.

Edit - the top seed Zhang ended up winning that 7-5 in the decider in 3 hr 10, so that's who Maia will play. She also had a 2 hr 41 3 set match earlier in the week.

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Friday 24th of May 2019 08:29:46 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: LUMSDEN, Maia (GBR) 4 322 v ZHANG, Yuxuan (CHN) 1 237 CH=166 2016

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Just saw the odds are pretty much 50/50, Maia a tiny favourite at 4/5, but both odds on.

I was just having a quick look at Zhang's record on OER and 100 of her 238 points were from (pretty weak) W25 wins at the end of May and very early July, so without those, she would be well outside the top 300 - she's obviously earned them, but it's not as if she's in great recent form and hypothetically, if the rankings were say 10 months instead of 12, it would look different. She's actually 338 in the race which is well below Maia, although she does have a few notable wins this past year, so 50/50 looks about right.

Both were on court a long time today, and Maia actually finished a couple of hours sooner, so that shouldn't really make much difference and it would be great if she could add those extra 12 points and reach another ITF final.

indiana · Tennis legend

In the first SF (3) Natalija Kostic (SRB) beat Jennifer Elie (USA) by 4-6 6-0 7-6(1)

Looks fluctuating, that's not telling half if it. In the first set Kostic was *3-1 up and ended up losing it 4-6. In the 2nd set Kostic romped through 6-0 for the loss of only 3 points and won the last 18! In the 3rd set Elie was *5-2 up and had 3 MPs in all before it got back to parity and on into a TB which Kostic ran away with.

And now for Maia ...

-- Edited by indiana on Saturday 25th of May 2019 05:57:58 AM

paulisi · Tennis legend

First set gone 6-4

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

She has just broken, so will try to serve to level it. *5-3.

5-4*

-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Saturday 25th of May 2019 07:25:45 AM

paulisi · Tennis legend

Cannot serve it out - attempt to break...

paulisi · Tennis legend

Into a decider

paulisi · Tennis legend

Maia went a break down, but has just broken back 3-3

paulisi · Tennis legend

Maia breaks and serves for the match at 5-3