Li extremely error strewn rather gifted that to Katie. Katie did enough rather than play well. On the few occasions when Li did sustain rallies, it was Katie that was inevitably eventually making an error, but Li was making a lot of early miss hits and generally Katie simply needed to keep her serves and returns in play. I would be surprised if Li continues to play this badly. She hits a good weighted ball when she does get it in.

Katie having her right ankle restrapped at the change of sets.

Edit: Ok can't spell miss hits as one word 

-- Edited by Michael D on Friday 26th of July 2019 05:18:31 PM

Back on serve 4-4*

So far Li has made 4 break points out of 8, Katie has made 7 out of 7.

Katie 6-2 4-6 *3-0

QF: SWAN, Katie (GBR) 256 def LI, Ann (USA) 3 172 6-2 4-6 6-4

SF: SWAN, Katie (GBR) 256 v PEREZ, Ellen (AUS) 7 197 CH=175 7/1 /19

Well, I'm going to rest on my laurels and say it was never in doubt

Ann Li, as above, is over-ranked and not a very scary prospect. And Katie has more pep to her game and was always going to win (well, nearly always......)

Ellen did US college tennis for three years. Graduated last year, I think.

And she's still doing classes of some sort - she posted a week ago:

@EllenPerez95
Jul 12

"How is one supposed to do a 5 page paper, a 3 page paper (have to read a book for it), 5 page powerpoint and 5 discussion articles by the 19th of July. Send help this isn't sane."

Supposedly it was some crash accelerated course, cramming a full course into just three weeks.

Lots of respect for those who manage to juggle everything and make it work.

But very good chance for Katie.....