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indiana


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Wow, what an absolutely cracking day.  For all 4 to win with 3 beating seeds ranked well above them is tremendous.

So far that will take Jade to a career high, probably about WR 520 on Monday week.

As for Tara she does seem to really find her game at this time of year.  I felt so sorry for her with the overall year she had last year, andt particularly the strong end to it, when she missed out on the AEGON funding team.  Has not had the year I would imagine she hoped for after last year's big rankings rise, but  certainly lately looking much better again.

Will be interesting to see how she competes against Jo, who seems in very good form, and hopefully relatively OK re niggles.



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L16: (Q) Jade Windley WR 564 beat (7) Kristina Kucova (SVK) WR 174 (CH 103 in 2009) by 3-6 7-6(4) 7-6(3) biggrin
L16: Johanna Konta WR 304 beat (3) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) WR 160 (CH 59 in 2010) by 3 & 3 biggrin
L16: Tara Moore WR 343 beat (5) Julia Glushko (ISR) WR 166 (CH 162 last week) by 4-6 6-4 6-3 biggrin 
L16: (2) Anne Keothavong WR 96 beat (WC) Mathilde Cor (FRA) WR 1009 (CH 974 last month) by 2 & 3

QF1: (Q) Jade Windley WR 564 v (1) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) WR 92 (CH 87 in Jan)
QF2: Tara Moore WR 343 v Johanna Konta WR 304
QF4: (2) Anne Keothavong WR 96 v Victoria Larriere (FRA) WR 208 (=CH)

The tournament site gives Jade a great write-up (they use last week's rankings instead of the current ones):

"La plus belle rencontre a eu lieu en fin de soirée. La slovaque Kristina KUCOVA, 170ème [No 7] et la britannique Jade WINDLEY, qualifiée, 584ème, se sont livrées à un duel épique et de toute beauté. Au bout de 3 heures 11 de lutte, Jade s'est brillamment qualifiée au jeu décisif du dernier set. Quel match!"

"The best match of the day took place in the late evening. The Slovak Kristina Kucova WR 170 (seeded 7) and the Brit Jade Windley (qualifier) WR 584, engaged in an epic duel of great beauty. At the end of a 3 hour 11 minute struggle, Jade qualified for the next round brilliantly in the final set tiebreak. What a match!"



-- Edited by steven on Friday 30th of September 2011 12:11:48 AM

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QF: KOSTOVA (BUL) / VRLJIC (CRO) (4) defeated MOORE (GBR) / SHINIKOVA (BUL) 7-6(7) 7-5 cry 
QF: JUGIC-SALKIC (BIH) / KEOTHAVONG (GBR) (2) defeated FITZPATRICK (GBR) / WINDLEY (GBR) 6-3 7-5 smilecry

SF: KOSTOVA (BUL) / VRLJIC (CRO) (4) Vs JUGIC-SALKIC (BIH) / KEOTHAVONG (GBR) (2)



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Joko won first set 63, tb in the second according to gbtg.com

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JoKo wins 63 76

I did expect johanna to have a little too much heat for tara, but still a good week for her. I hope next year she can crack 300.


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There is a live scores page on the tournament site. Anne due on a 13:30 followed by Jade: 



-- Edited by RBBOT on Friday 30th of September 2011 12:01:50 PM

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philwrig wrote:

Great to see Tara playing better, I expect a much tighter match with Jo this time around.

 

Yes, and it was  smile     Hopefully indeed that much tighter scoreline is mostly down to Tara continuing to play at a higher level than she was a few months ago.



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Anne 3-2 up but not sure who is serving.

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Anne 3-3 in the first set. No indication of who is serving. Winner will play 6th seed Malek.

3-4

4-4



-- Edited by RBBOT on Friday 30th of September 2011 01:50:08 PM

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5-4 to Anne. I guess she served first.

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6-4 :)

6-4 1-1

6-4 1-2

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6-4 2-4

6-4 3-4

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6-4 3-6 :(

 

6-4 3-6 0-1

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6-4 3-6 1-2



-- Edited by RBBOT on Friday 30th of September 2011 03:01:38 PM

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C'mon Anne -

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I had actually been hoping that Anne was serving 2nd in sets one and two ( the first set scores didn't really give much indication ) when Anne was 4 - 3 behind in the second set.

Now I rather hope she was serving 1st and is serving 2nd in the final set ! 



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2-2 I think she started serving second and is serving first this set. Otherwise the 2nd half of the first set was nearly all breaks.



-- Edited by RBBOT on Friday 30th of September 2011 03:08:45 PM

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Hmm, can't see much evidence either way on the scores I've seen and it would mean at least a couple of breaks in the final set as against potentially no breaks if she is serving second.  

But maybe you've seen more than me just on the thread and anyway it's probably not the greatest idea to judge this by seeming amount of breaks in a women's match smile

Edit :  Ah, maybe you know more,  but just on the scores I see above  :

1st set :   at least 2 breaks to 1 either way to Anne.

2nd set :  at least 2 breaks to 0 against if she served first, 2 - 1 if she served second 

Ah, great mysteries  smile



-- Edited by indiana on Friday 30th of September 2011 03:27:39 PM

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