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Week 18 - WTA 125 - Saint-Malo, France - Clay


Breaks again, then serves out to love with two aces and a beauty of a drop shot. Tessah's racket is launched.

6-2 0-0*

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I've been watching Tauson to be honest, but man, fair play, that's a cracking first set score. Hopefully she can keep that up.

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PaulM wrote:

Breaks again, then serves out to love with two aces and a beauty of a drop shot. Tessah's racket is launched.

6-2 0-0*


 Not watching but that's hilarious - thanks for the updates, Paul.



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Tessah off for an unecessary bathroom break. As she did after losing the first set to Sizikova yesterday.

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Seems to have done Tessah good. Can't remember what happens in 125 quals - would a potential deciding set be a normal set, or a MTB?

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PaulM wrote:

Tessah off for an unecessary bathroom break. As she did after losing the first set to Sizikova yesterday.


 That 1st serve as 30 minutes long, I can't believe she was allowed a bathroom break

 



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It worked as Tessah went up *0-5

Em got one break back and saved 5/6 set points but couldn't escape the game. If she had Tessah would have been under a bit of pressure.

6-2 2-6 0-0*

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Em broken from 40-0 at *3-2

Feels like a shifter that game.

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And so it proved. Em is broken to love to go down 3-5*, she breaks back to 40, but is broken to love again and goes out 2-6 6-2 6-4

Have to say, I didn't rate Tessah very highly before, and I certainly don't after her performances yesterday and today. She's very lucky to have made the main draw.


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Yes, real shame for Emily. She came a lot, lot closer than most people expected.

And interesting to hear your take on Tessa, Paul.

She's certainly been one of those in the 'disappointing' camp - a lot made of her in France, as a junior, and when she shot up the adult rankings quite sharply as a 19 or 20 year-old. But always SO many mistakes, and really hasn't moved on at all.

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Ten singles matches and two doubles matches on the order of play today. The first 9 singles matches have all gone to three sets. Em and Aliona are next up on court 2, but the match on there is only at 1-1 in the third, so going to be a late start.



-- Edited by the addict on Tuesday 4th of May 2021 04:41:02 PM

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From Emily on Facebook
"Doubs action coming up in a little while for me.....if you want to take a peek that's the link"

https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/xtmvbgnx/player.html

(Sorry, can't make the link work from here, you'll just have to copy and paste)



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Girls had *5-4 30-15 but broken although didn't do much wrong (Bolsova had a miss-hit on a short ball on that point but it was a bad bounce which was unlucky). Bolsova is a real fun partner.

Alla back from maternity leave and not lost any of that beautiful touch. She's doing a lot of the heavy lifting for a fairly poor Kalashnikova.

*5-6

Not that confident from here to be honest, feel they had to stick the set, but it's a good level overall.

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And breathe ........
38 points to 42, but the ones that mattered

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Em goes does 15-40 on serve, they save all three (clutch from both on deuce). They go up 5-2* in the tiebreak but Bolsova misses a put away at *5-5, but they dig in, save set point four and Kalashnikova throws a nervous double in for *7-6. Good first serve from Em, and Bolsova makes no mistake this time.

7-6(6) *0-0

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