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Not the best of performances, but got there in the end. Some great points mixed with some really bad shots. Anyway, 12 points from last year covered, and on to the next round.

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Yes, I liked Beth's application. She knew she wasn't playing that well, especially at first, and the other girl was very 'tidy' - it was good to see Beth really buckling down and trying to play herself in. As people say, that's the 12 points covered, and also $2000 banked, which is a nice.

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Fantastic turnaround from Eden from 1-4 in the second to win the tiebreak 7-1. The set point she won was a blinder as well.
Hopefully this will put an end to the negativity; she certainly has every chance to win.

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Well, looksie, what have we here.....

Eden was 2-5 down in the second, really rather out of it, and suddenly her shots are going in, a bit more on her toes, the American can't serve it out - repeatedly - and we're back on serve, into a tb, and Eden waltzes through the TB and it's third set time...

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And Snigur's serve is a horror? Was it always like that - I can't remember.....

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Coup Droit wrote:

And Snigur's serve is a horror? Was it always like that - I can't remember.....

 I just witnessed this monstrosity. Good lord



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Eden has done it again - levelled at 5-5 from 1-4 down. She has pulled some great passes out of the bag.

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Coup Droit wrote:

And Snigur's serve is a horror? Was it always like that - I can't remember.....

 I'm sure it wasn't when I saw her at junior Wimbledon a few years back.



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Cracking win from Eden

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What a WONDERFUL roller-coaster of a match

The Asia fans must be beyond despair !

Eden did SO well to hang in, play her game, put the errors behind her, keep playing positively.

(The double fault at the end did help, I feel )

And Asia was SO impassive - it's strange.

Brilliant win

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And so it's Eden v Beth for a place in the MD ?

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jb288 wrote:

Eden has done it again - levelled at 5-5 from 1-4 down. She has pulled some great passes out of the bag.

And Muhammad double faults to give Eden the win! Some really elegant tennis, working the angles and hitting deeply and accurately. A really pleasing result, setting up a tie with Beth for a main draw place :D 

My big *however* is the mindset/open negativity. Muhammad twice threw away big leads, but you'd never have known it from her outward demeanour. I think Eden suffers from what I think of as 'toxic perfectionism', which is good in some jobs (surgeon, pharmacist), but terrible in others (teacher, sports person). It is totally absurd to be keeping up with someone way above you in the rankings and be looking stroppy when you net a return - *they* should be the one getting frustrated, because they're supposed to be winning! It just hands an advantage to your opponent totally unnecessarily. Maybe Liam can have a word wink



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Asia was pretty poor but well done Eden for hanging in and taking her chances.

A year ago Beth and Eden sneaked into Nottingham as alternates, beating Em and Sam respectively (Beth made a dog's dinner of her match and ended up having to save a match point). Neither at that stage looked like their singles was going to click into place (Eden especially was performing well below the promise of years ago). Now they both look seriously capable of getting up into the top 275 and perhaps making it to New York for qualies. Fabulous.

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Eden was also defending 12 points from last year. Now covered smile



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Lily *5-4

Ella comes through her opening service game after a few deuces 1-1*

Katie *1-0



-- Edited by PaulM on Saturday 4th of June 2022 01:36:08 PM

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