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Michael D


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Well so far, Katy has ended up making faster progress than Sam. In Katy's first set, after the score reached *4-3 with no service holds, she then did hold and broke again, so won the set 6-3 with only one service hold in the set. Second set has been similar, but Katy again has the crucial holds (2 this time) and will serve for the match at 6-3 *5-3

Sam on the other hand struggled to win her first set 7-5 in over 1 hr 10 mins.

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Sam gets more of a taste for the kimchi diet in the second set. Still her 1st serve percentage was below 50% in both sets. Katy wins the battle to hold, with 3 holds to 1.
Gabi just on court now.

R16: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) [1] 213 def KIMCHI, Shavit (ISR) [Q] 987 (CH:971 Nov 19) 18yrs (JCH: 37 Jan 20) 7-5 6-0
R16: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 343 vs WALTERT, Simona (SUI) [4] 280 (CH:275 Nov 19) 19yrs (JCH:9 Jan 18) 6-3 6-4

R16: TAYLOR, Gabriella (GBR) 429 vs KHAZANIUK, Deniz (ISR) [7] 320 (CH:200 June 18)

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Gabi broken 4 times in that set, 9 DFs, 3-6.

2 more DFs in her opening game of the second set, certainly not helping herself. 1-1*



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Thursday 5th of March 2020 10:38:18 AM

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That does however look a pretty good win for Katy, and the 6th seed has just lost 5-7 7-6 6-4 in 3 hours to the #584, so Katy plays (a hopefully tired) Joanne Zuger in the QF, which sounds feasible.

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Gabi has only held twice in her 9 service games thus far, although she has managed to keep the DFs down slightly in this 2nd set, 'just' the 4 in the 4 service games, and 13 overall. 4-4*

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Gabi has improved her serve percentage considerably in the second set, but it is still three breaks all at 4-4*

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Another break. Think it's probably more a case of Khazaniuk breaking to stay in the set, rather than the more traditional Player X serving for it, ha. But hopefully Gabi does to force a decider.

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Khazaniuk did break to stay in the set, and Gabi had 2 BPs the next game, but took neither, so now it's Gabi that has to hold to stay in the match. She's had only 1 hold in the set so far so seems a tall order when forced to do it to stay in the match.

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Gabi defended 2 MPs, but rather inevitably not the 3rd. Her serving wasn't good enough today for her to have much chance of winning. Only 53% of 1st serves in with only 53% won, and then a massive 14 DFs basically to hand her opponent the match.

R16: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) [1] 213 def KIMCHI, Shavit (ISR) [Q] 987 (CH:971 Nov 19) 18yrs (JCH: 37 Jan 20) 7-5 6-0
R16: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 343 def WALTERT, Simona (SUI) [4] 280 (CH:275 Nov 19) 19yrs (JCH:9 Jan 18) 6-3 6-4
R16: TAYLOR, Gabriella (GBR) 429 lost to KHAZANIUK, Deniz (ISR) [7] 320 (CH:200 June 18) 3-6 5-7

Sam plays Chanel Simmonds next, who is always a danger at home. Katy has another Swiss opponent and on paper the easier match.

QF: MURRAY, Samantha (GBR) [1] 213 vs SIMMONDS, Chanel (RSA) [8] 342 (CH:158 May 13)
QF: DUNNE, Katy (GBR) 343 vs ZUGER, Joanne (SUI) 584 (CH:523 Nov 19) 19yrs (JCH:91 Nov 18)

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Hmm, no massive disgrace losing to Khazaniak, the 7th seed, in what would probably be a 50/50 or 45/55 all things considered, but this was the Israeli's first proper tournament of 2020 (not sure if she played Fed Cup), and she ended 2019 losing 7 of her final 8 matches (I guess not too dissimilar to Gabi outside of those W15s), so it hasn't been a great 6+ months for her.

Hard to see her massively pushing on either any time soon if she can't hold serve and isn't particularly dominant when she was playing those W15s.

Did we ever agree to that sub 10th player in the predictions in the end? wink cry



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Ace Ventura wrote:

Hmm, no massive disgrace losing to Khazaniak, the 7th seed, in what would probably be a 50/50 or 45/55 all things considered, but this was the Israeli's first proper tournament of 2020 (not sure if she played Fed Cup), and she ended 2019 losing 7 of her final 8 matches (I guess not too dissimilar to Gabi outside of those W15s), so it hasn't been a great 6+ months for her.

Hard to see her massively pushing on either any time soon if she can't hold serve and isn't particularly dominant when she was playing those W15s.

Did we ever agree to that sub 10th player in the predictions in the end? wink cry

Haha yeah, I think we'll all want that sub   biggrin



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Michael D wrote:
Ace Ventura wrote:

Hmm, no massive disgrace losing to Khazaniak, the 7th seed, in what would probably be a 50/50 or 45/55 all things considered, but this was the Israeli's first proper tournament of 2020 (not sure if she played Fed Cup), and she ended 2019 losing 7 of her final 8 matches (I guess not too dissimilar to Gabi outside of those W15s), so it hasn't been a great 6+ months for her.

Hard to see her massively pushing on either any time soon if she can't hold serve and isn't particularly dominant when she was playing those W15s.

Did we ever agree to that sub 10th player in the predictions in the end? wink cry

Haha yeah, I think we'll all want that sub   biggrin

 Yes her fall is quite remarkable in a way because it's only 2 years ago  that Gabi  was winning  $25k's  and  some of us (like myself) thought she should have played in the Fed Cup against Nara rather than Heather. Someone did explain later on why Katie Boulter was a better prospect than Gabi and serve did come into it somewhere.



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Only 18 people out of 41 picked Gabi in their top ten - Ace, Rosamund and myself included !

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the addict wrote:

Only 18 people out of 41 picked Gabi in their top ten - Ace, Rosamund and myself included !

Yes, others of us want the sub because we left Fran out wink

And hoping Maia will start playing again soon too.... 



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Sam and Fanny have won their doubles QF too 6-3 6-3

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