Week 2 - Australian Open women's qualifying

Peter too · Tennis legend

RE: Week 2 - Australian Open women's qualifying

Jan · Hall of fame

0-3 down in the 3rd cry

Jan · Hall of fame

Make that 0-5. The match is running away very quickly.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Oh dear

Jan · Hall of fame

Naomi loses 3rd 0-6.
Shame after a promising start.

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

and Riske wins with a bagel in the final set. 2-6, 6-3, 6-0.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Laura's on the show court again tomorrow. Great for us to be able to watch but............

philwrig · Hall of fame

Tough draw for Naomi, but for a set and a half she was on par with her opponent.

Peter too · Tennis legend

In the last set Naomi got 9 first serves in out of 22 and her overall percentage dropped to 48%. As her service is normally a strong point of her game something clearly wasn't working.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Good win for Laura, was fairly comfortable as expected but to get the win inside of an hour is a good effort. Her opponents didn't get started till 20 minutes ago - wouldn't it be a shame if the winner had to endure a three hour battle late at night before playing Laura.

For anyone who didn't see Laura's first round match, it is available on the Australian Open Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/australianopentv#p/l/0/XxdWTJx8VRY

A shame Naomi couldn't stay in the match after such a good start but was always a tough ask against Riske.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

No nearer to finding out Laura's opponent with Bertens and Savchuck locked at 3-3 in the deciding set.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q2: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 14 133 beat FLORIS, Anna (ITA) 173 6-3 6-4
Q2: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 195 lost to RISKE, Alison (USA) 17 137 6-3 2-6 0-6

Q3: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) 14 133 v SAVCHUK, Olga (UKR) 184

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

So it's Savchuk in the final qualifying round, after she surprisingly beat Bertens. The scheduling has to favour Laura as she was only on court an hour today and finished 5 hours before Savchuk.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

philwrig wrote:
Big test to come [for Laura] in FQR where I expect it to be Bertens.

Did you have any money on that, Phil? As you probably already know, she succumbed to Savchuk a short while ago after a bit of a marathon (two hours 20 minutes! wink ) by 4-6 7-6(8) 3-6. How do you rate Laura's chances of qualifying now?

philwrig · Hall of fame

Stircrazy wrote:
philwrig wrote:
Big test to come [for Laura] in FQR where I expect it to be Bertens.
Did you have any money on that, Phil? As you probably already know, she succumbed to Savchuk a short while ago after a bit of a marathon (two hours 20 minutes! ) by 4-6 7-6(8) 3-6. How do you rate Laura's chances of qualifying now?

I did have a small wager on Bertens, but still came out on top from yesterday and today.

Laura is probably the favourite but I expect a tight match and one that basically could go either way.