Great fightback from Amanda to win that one, losing the 2nd set must have been really frustrating after holding serve so easily throughout but she did well to get on top again early in the 3rd.

An excellent win over a top 100 player who made a 75K final last week. Should give Amanda a lot of confidence !

She will now overtake Sarah Borwell to become British no 4 and move into the 240s

In rd2, Amanda plays 4th seed Eva Birnerova who's ranked 88. In rd1, Birnerova won her first match since the US Open, against a qualifier !! It's a great chance for Amanda to cause another upset as although Birnerova won a 75k indoors at the start of the year and had a great summer, her poor has been pretty poor over the last few months. Last week she got hammered 2 and 2 by Poutchek who's in the 120s and the week before she lost in rd1 of a 25k to Rodina [ranked 222] - 4 and 2.

Amanda playing Eva Birnerova of Czech Republic seeded four for this tournament. Currently ranked 88 in the world. She played a wildcard in the 1st rd and beat her in 3 sets. So it should be an interesting match since Birnerova has not had a lot of luck lately, she got knocked out in the 1st rd of every event since the US Open.

OOP shows Keen's match on Centre not before 2pm GMT.

-- Edited by VSandhi20 at 10:37, 2006-11-30

It's on court now....unfortunately Birnerova has had the better start, breaking Amanda early.

Birnerova leads 3-2 with the break

Birnerova serving:

15-0

15-15

30-15

30-30

Keen serving:

0-15

0-30

0-40 Amanda not serving anything like as well as in rd1, so far in this match

15-40

Game

Keen 2-5* Birnerova

Keen serving:

15-0

15-15

15-30

30-30

40-30

Deuce

Ad Keen

Deuce

Ad Keen

Game

Keen 2-6, 1-0* Birnerova

Come on Amanda. Fight back in this set!

Birnerova serving:

0-15

15-15

30-15

40-15

Game

Keen 2-6, *2-2 Birnerova