Naomi got a dodgy call at 4-1* 30-15 (and then imploded a little bit) which would have given her 2 bps for a double break and I doubt she'd have lost from *5-1

Well, being wiped out  6 - 0  6 - 1  by Sirotkina was certainly the most seemingly significant result at the time in a rather dodgy looking couple of weeks.

But yes, given Sirotkina's ongoing results including today beating Groenefeld  6 - 0  6 - 2, make it retrospectively most certainly not quite so bad.

Anyway, as Phil said, with Mel's first round win against Barthel, hopefully today was just mainly a good competitive match for positive form reasons from them both.

Be interesting to watch Mel and Naomi's progress in the coming weeks and see if they can push on.

-- Edited by indiana on Thursday 24th of March 2011 05:03:02 PM

SF:  Lucy Brown & Fran Stephenson lost to Timea Babos & Anne Kremer (HUN/LUX) by 0 & 5

They are and Mel won the first set 6-3.

In a set of 6 breaks of serve, Mel got the crucial hold in game 8.

0-3* now

What a crazy match this is - 12 breaks in 17 games is odd even by WTA standards. Kostova took the 2nd 6-2 and is now the marginal favourite to win with the bookies.