Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open (hard) - women

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

RE: Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open (hard) - women

cakj1234 · Lower Club Player

Abysmal so far. bad draw but expected better showing. best of luck for rest of year.

Peter too · Tennis legend

I got the impression that Laura was trying too hard. She had the shots to trouble Jelena but not enough of them went in.
Laura 3 aces and 7DFs
Laura 10 winners and 31 Unforced errors.
Laura 42 points, Jelena 64 points.

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

Anne gets bageled in the first set.......

steven · Tennis legend

That's 0-15 (for Brits in games since Laura last won one)

Listening to 5live, it sounds like Elena was having one of those (previously quite frequent but recently very rare) days when she has trouble finding the lines.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Disappointing that Laura fell away so badly after playing OK for the first half an hour, whilst never at her best. Previously when playing the top players she has managed to maintain her focus throughout the matches.

Overall still a good tournament for Laura as she did play well to qualify, but I would have hoped she would have been at least more competitive today. Whereas Azarenka played so well against Heather as to not give her a chance, Laura playing well would have been very competitive with Jankovic today.

rebel_rebel · Lower Club Player

Anne retires.

-- Edited by rebel_rebel on Monday 16th of January 2012 09:02:32 AM

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

steven wrote:
That's 0-15 (for Brits in games since Laura last won one)

After a run of 16 games lost earlier this morning by Heather and Bally cry

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Fairly gutting all round so far.

Glad Laura is playing in the doubles with AB. Would be wonderful if they could get at least one win.

steven · Tennis legend

Anne retires

Peter too · Tennis legend

Summary:-

R1: ROBSON, Laura (GBR) Q 133 lost to JANKOVIC, Jelena (SRB) 13 14 2-6 0-6
R1: BALTACHA, Elena (GBR) 53 lost to FORETZ GACON, Stephanie (FRA) 108 2-6 4-6
R1: KEOTHAVONG, Anne (GBR) 75 lost to BARTHEL, Mona (GER) 64 0-6 Ret.
R1: WATSON, Heather (GBR) 106 lost to AZARENKA, Victoria (BLR) 3 3 1-6 0-6

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Gosh what a disasterous day, after such high hopes that at least one would get through. Oh well, there's still Murray.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

It was all going well for about the first 5 minutes today but the less said about the rest of the day the better.

Not sure Judy Murray has much to go on for Fed Cup selection based on today's performances.

philwrig · Hall of fame

I thought Hev played OK just Azarenka is unstoppable at the moment.
Laura was just a notch below her best and couldn't convert game points, especially the game at 2-3* which was crucial, appeared a little nervous to me.
Bally struggling as well somewhat and apparently Annie K has food poisoning.

Fed Cup hopes not looking great you'd have to say, but sport does change very quickly, so keep the faith.

I had a bad feeling about today given that all our other 5 players were all playing on the same day before Muzzah tomorrow.
Hopefully the press won't be too harsh when they report tomorrow.

Jan · Hall of fame

ouch disappointing all round. Admittedly some tough draws, but hoped for a bit more than that.