Week 43 - ITF ($75K) - Barnstaple, UK Hard

philwrig · Hall of fame

RE: Week 43 - ITF ($75K) - Barnstaple, UK Hard

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

The Barnstaple Open tweets suggest Bychkova is serving very well with lots of Aces, not giving Laura much of a look in

philwrig · Hall of fame

Looking pretty grim, Bychkova hardly losing a point on serve, Laura struggling on hers.
Laura broken 1-2*

philwrig · Hall of fame

*2-2

philwrig · Hall of fame

*3-2

philwrig · Hall of fame

At least Laura seems to be winning her service games more easily 4-3*. The couple of points that Sky have shown show Laura coming up with a few sloppy errors.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Bychkova serving for the match

Julia Carrot · All-time great

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tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Unfortunately fears that Laura might struggle today after yesterday proved to be correct. Sounds like she made a few too many errors against an opponent who was serving well.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Too easy for Bychkova 6-4 6-4.

Were the foot blisters a hindrance ? or is this further proof that Laura struggles to maintain her level day after day in a tournament ?
Needs to improve on that next year. It just looked to me that the focus wasn't there today, too many soft errors.

Still been a strong end to the year, and with a good offseason in Las Vegas, surely its only a matter of time before she breaks into the top 100.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Showed the MP on Sky, where again Laura was in control of the point, but couldn't handle a lowish midcourt ball, and pushed her FH long.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Anne 1-0*

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

philwrig wrote:
Too easy for Bychkova 6-4 6-4.

Were the foot blisters a hindrance ? or is this further proof that Laura struggles to maintain her level day after day in a tournament ?
Needs to improve on that next year. It just looked to me that the focus wasn't there today, too many soft errors.

Still been a strong end to the year, and with a good offseason in Las Vegas, surely its only a matter of time before she breaks into the top 100.

I thnk that often when Laura makes errors during a rally it is because she doesn't get the footwork right any over-relies on her excellent hand eye co-ordination, meaning she plays too many shots from awkward positions. Certainly if moving was causing her some pain today, and if she was a bit tired from yesterday that would have made her footwork worse.

Hopefully Anne will give us at least one GB semi-finalist - I'm feeling quite confident about this one (even more so now she's 2-0 up!)

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

I think it's 5 consecutive breaks in Anne's match so she leads *4-2

Edit: Now 6 cry 4-3*

Edit again: biggrin 7 breaks in a row *5-3

-- Edited by tony_orient on Thursday 27th of October 2011 12:18:52 PM

-- Edited by tony_orient on Thursday 27th of October 2011 12:19:40 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

The ITF site at present has Laura beating Bychkova 6-4 6-4
Is this just wishful thinking?