Week 9 - WTA250 - Lyon, France Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Week 9 - WTA250 - Lyon, France Hard

steven · Tennis legend

The Brits are playing quite well against a much more experienced pair, but the main difference between the teams is that Olivia's serve has been broken all four times, though she's playing very well at the net and that's been helping Alicia to hold serve a lot more easily.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

On French federation coach I know always says: If you can't hold serve in singles, it's coz you can't serve; if you can't hold serve in doubles, it's cox your partner can't volley

wolf · Tennis legend

Final: Laura Siegemund & Vera Zvonareva (GER/) CR 187 (141+46) beat Alicia Barnett & Olivia Nicholls CR 307 (147+160) 7-5 6-1

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

the addict wrote:
First set gone 5-7. Three breaks to two, so lose. Not as good a match as the SF so far.

Could we have a whip-round to buy Zvonereva some decent kit ?

Vera has won nearly $15,000,000 in prize money in her career so she should have enough money to buy a decent kit. Siegmund and Zvonerava won the doubles at the 2020 US Open.

jb288 · Satellite level

Coup Droit wrote:
On French federation coach I know always says: If you can't hold serve in singles, it's coz you can't serve; if you can't hold serve in doubles, it's cox your partner can't volley

I'm not sure this is true on this occasion. Olivia is weaker off the ground than Alicia (and stronger at the net), and the opponents quickly clocked this - lots of balls targeted at Liv's groundstrokes, with limited opportunities for Alicia to intervene.

PaulM · Tennis legend

An excellent week and did themselves proud in the final.

indiana · Tennis legend

jb288 wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
On French federation coach I know always says: If you can't hold serve in singles, it's coz you can't serve; if you can't hold serve in doubles, it's cox your partner can't volley

I'm not sure this is true on this occasion. Olivia is weaker off the ground than Alicia (and stronger at the net), and the opponents quickly clocked this - lots of balls targeted at Liv's groundstrokes, with limited opportunities for Alicia to intervene.

Yes a saying which will be true some of the time and not true at other times

dodrade · Futures qualifying

PaulM wrote:
An excellent week and did themselves proud in the final.

Shame about the result but a great WTA debut, hopefully lots more to come in the future.

I assume they still get more points for this than they would for a W25 title?

indiana · Tennis legend

dodrade wrote:
PaulM wrote:
An excellent week and did themselves proud in the final.
Shame about the result but a great WTA debut, hopefully lots more to come in the future.
I assume they still get more points for this than they would for a W25 title?

A few more. 180 points as against 50

Strongbow · All-time great

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Lambda · Challenger level

LordBrownof wrote:

Katie's match has started. Interesting to hear that she's no longer with Jeremy Bates but with Iain Bates (no relation) full time now.

In the last few days, the LTA have updated Katie's coach on her player profile to be LTA WOMEN'S PERFORMANCE COACHING TEAM, so it looks like Iain isn't her dedicated full-time coach. Now, if only they could update the coach on all the other womens player profiles.