Given Roach is in an interesting battle with the top seed. Given seemed to be doing most of the attacking but despite several close games Tess was able to return enough to win all the games in the first set. In the 2nd set Given seemed to attack even more but also got more consistent and ran out the winner of that set 6-1.
Given was totally dominant through the 2nd and up to 8-2 in the decider, she had the match all but won. She was attacking with strong ground strokes, good angles and rushing to the net to finish the point. Then she seemed to sit back and wait for Tess to make a mistake but Tess had already demonstrated in the first set that she doesn't make mistakes, you have to win your points against Tess. A couple of good lessons for Given for the future, a match is not won until the last point and don't change a winning strategy.