Week 30 - WTA ($220K) - Washington DC, USA - Hard

wolf · Tennis legend

RE: Week 30 - WTA ($220K) - Washington DC, USA - Hard

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Shvedova has had a poor season (she has a 4-12 record this year) so Bally is rightly the bookies favourite for this one, but she needs to play better than last week.

wolf · Tennis legend

Terrible game from Shvedova to start and Bally breaks straight away after putting her opponent in to bat first after winning the toss.

wolf · Tennis legend

Poor quality so far, Bally was broken but broke straight back and leads *3-2.

wolf · Tennis legend

Bally plays an ok-ish at best first set but takes it 6-2.

steven · Tennis legend

Bally saved at least 6 bps in the 8th game of the 2nd set (including from 0-40 down) and has now saved 12/13 bps in the match as a whole.

6-2 5-5* now

goldfish · Futures qualifying

Bally wins 62 76

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Bally wins 6-2 7-6

Having watched all of this match, the quality throughout was pretty low, but fair play to Bally for toughing out and saving all the break points in the second set then winning the tie-break.

Having won, she can now concentrate on playing better in the 2nd round

steven · Tennis legend

A scrappy match but it's the result that matters - even the commentator has picked up on the fact that Bally hasn't won back to back matches in a WTA main draw for a year - since this week last year in Istanbul, in fact, when she beat Schiavone in R2.

Peter too · Tennis legend

I don't know how Elena won that 2nd set, she wasn't serving well. She kept being behind, saved 11 break points to 2, went a mini break down in the tie break and then Shvedova double faulted for the 1st time in the set and somehow Elena managed to steal the set and the match. Ah well, a win is a win.

Maza1987 · Challenger level

when is heather's match due on?

SMC1809 · All-time great

After Razzano v Doi, which is currently 6-2 3-1, so maybe 30 minutes from now.

Peter too · Tennis legend

It should be after the Razzano v Doi match.

They do seem willing to switch matches using 3 courts, so Heather might get switched to follow Brengle which has just ended.

-- Edited by Peter too on Monday 25th of July 2011 11:53:52 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: BALTACHA, Elena (GBR) 6 57 v RAZZANO, Virginie (FRA) 81

Heather's match now on court.

-- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 26th of July 2011 12:11:58 AM

-- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 26th of July 2011 12:15:19 AM

Maza1987 · Challenger level

superb start
3-0

the match on centre has been suspended for poor light.
i wonder if heather's will be stopped soon