Back on serve 3-2 Hev currently

Her match has been suspended due to darkness. 3-2 to Heather in the second set.

mbturner wrote:

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Ferro wanted the suspension and after a lengthy discussion with the referee Heather agreed. Probably thinking that Ferro has the risk of starting slowly and getting broken when they resume.

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Yes I agree, if anyone has the upper hand now its Heather. She is a set up and a game up, and even if they are back on serve 2nd set, there have been plenty of breaks so to have the extra game in the bank and for Ferro to have to defend her serve first up is an ok position for Heather to be in. It's been a very tight match so far - Heather is up on points just 64/61 and they are 4/4 on BPs, so those advantages are significant ones. 

Top seed Mertens has just beaten Kuzmova easily on centre court, so that's who the winner will play in the QF.

It'll not happen now, but it's a shame they couldn't just play out the rest of the match on that court under the lights, and just treat the interruption like a rain delay. It's 10.30pm in Hobart and Adeleide, and Bencic-Georges are still on going in the latter location, so it's not too late. As the final is Saturday, one of Watson/Ferro will have to come back to play Mertens the same day, so wrapping it up tonight would have avoided that, and they could have had the Mertens match as the final QF, to given them as much rest as possible.

Hev now has the break, fingers crossed she can serve it out.

Good stuff. 4 matches vs players in the top 100 so far this season, 4 wins.

Anything else is a bonus.