Week 31 - ITF (W60) Lexington, USA Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Week 31 - ITF (W60) Lexington, USA Hard

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

I don't think Katie should be too despondent if she loses this match

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Nice to have a livestream here seeing as Amazon Prime is not showing us Andy and Jamies match.

livestream.com/procircuit/lexington2019

the addict · Tennis legend

Interim summary .....
Katie lost the first four games, then it went with serve 2-6
Katie won the first four games, then it went with serve 6-2
Final set .............

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

Tie break at best. *5-6.

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

Whatever the result here Swan is an absolute quality tennis player.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

BIG shame that for Katie.

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Katie loses having had match point. Feel as if I might as well have had a very early night tonight - 3 matches, so close, all lost

Strongbow · All-time great

foobarbaz wrote:
I don't think Katie should be too despondent if she loses this match

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

Things not often seen anymore : unicorns, non-avian dinosaurs, penny-farthing bicycles, level playing fields, .....etc

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

Kim [Q] and Han [4], both Kor, play out a surreal semi-final at half pace, with umpteen service breaks, and the seeded player Han retiring/conceding with no obvious injury, and [on reflection hardly surprising] the sturdily built qualifier Kim, who ran about like an express train for 3 sets against our valiant Katie Swan (and in doing so hardly missing a return), is through to the final.

Now, if I was a betting man, which I'm not, I might have been able to make a few bob on such events as these.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

I didn't see any of this match, but was keeping an eye on this result just to see how she backed up that win.

I mean she is ranked 492, and while fairly young, not ridiculously young (like a 17/18 year old just starting out with obvious big potential), and she lost in quals her last 2 events, hasn't really done anything of note this year, and the last time she played Han just 2 months ago, she literally only won 2 games, so I wasn't sure if it was just a one off performance last night. But guess we can't gauge too much from the above observation.

The commentator did say last night that she and Han often travel together. However, with the retirement, you couldn't really profit from this encounter as it would have been a void bet (unless you cahed out pre retirement). However, she was a massive 7/1 to beat Katie yesterday, so you could have profited there.

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

Far be it for me to suggest an element of staying under the radar has been practised, but I am inclined to imagine wool being pulled over eyes.

foobarbaz · Strong Club Player

Cindy Shmerler (who knows a thing or two about tennis) was the commentator for the quarterfinal between Swan and Kim, and said during that match it was by far and away the best quality tennis played in the whole tournament, in fact she said it was as good as WTA level tennis. The number of times that Katie thought she had hit a winner, for the ball to still come back, well it seemed unreal. Furthermore the win was achieved with Kim having only an average first serve.

the addict · Tennis legend

I saw the latter part of the match. I thought Katie played very well, and Kim played out of her skin - definitely not to her ranking. But you'd think that was a one-off performance, not to be repeated in the next match