Great effort by Jodie but she just comes up short. She was up a break at *4-3 in the decider before Bandecchi won 3 games on the bounce. She did get fortunate with a horrendous net cord at 15-all in the final game
It looks a great effort by Jodie against the sort of opponent you wouldn't normally expect to encounter at all in a W35 but could in Slam qualifying. Very encouraging.
It looks a great effort by Jodie against the sort of opponent you wouldn't normally expect to encounter at all in a W35 but could in Slam qualifying. Very encouraging.
Absolutely, it was the kind of performance that made me think Jodie can get back to where she was and also that she's committed to it. Playing like that she's definitely got the chance to at least defend her points from QR2 last year. Then hopefully after keeping fit for the BJK cup she can play the indoor UK ITF tournaments in the autumn and really boost her ranking
Give such players somrwhere else to play next year, please. We're maybe lucky more didn't have her idea!
This coming week there are only two WTT events on hardcourts, both W15 - one in China and one in Brazil. Seven clay-court tournaments,one W75 and one W50. This really does need a totla rethink by the WTT.