Week 12 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 12 - ITF ($10K) - Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Hard

TomTraubert · Futures level

emily breaks as vitalia served for the match still plenty to do tho *2-5

TomTraubert · Futures level

scoreboard must be wrong
diatchenko is serving again, but score still shows 2-5*

emily must have held - she defo saved at least one MP

if she held its 3-5*

PaulM · Tennis legend

Em had a small chance with a break point at 1-1* in the second set, but after she wasn't able to take that opportunity Vitalia seemed to take control of the match. Really good effort though, the Russian had to work hard to close that out.

TomTraubert · Futures level

3 MP saved but not a fourth (em also had a BP to get it to *4-5 but it went by)
7-5 2-6 3-6

-- Edited by TomTraubert on Friday 21st of March 2014 01:49:10 PM

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 1 224 beat LE ROUX, Madrie (RSA) 605 6-1 6-2
QF: WEBLEY-SMITH, Emily (GBR) 5 417 lost to DIATCHENKO, Vitalia (RUS) 479 7-5 2-6 3-6

SF: BROADY, Naomi (GBR) 1 224 v SAVORETTI, Alice (ITA) 731

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Diatchenko had 19 double faults (no aces) and still won. That should not be allowed

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Sadly Emily struggles to compete with top. 500 players and sadly again I think she is probably overranked these days.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Didn't Diatchenko beat Naomi last week though, and was a solid top 125 player before her break ?

PockyTastic · Futures level

philwrig wrote:
Didn't Diatchenko beat Naomi last week though, and was a solid top 125 player before her break ?

Yep Vitalia is on the come back trail, so no real disgrace in this defeat for Em (though Vitalia's DF count suggests she wasn't at her best).

TomTraubert · Futures level

em can take some solace in the dubs final having won against the #2 seeds 0&2
theyll play the top seeds for the title

-- Edited by TomTraubert on Friday 21st of March 2014 04:41:44 PM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

1 break a piece in Naomi's SF: *2-2

Miriambee · Futures level

now 4*-2 up.

steven · Tennis legend

5 games in a row for Naomi since going that early break down - she takes the 1st set 6-2

steven · Tennis legend

... or, er, not - the score has just been corrected from game Naomi to deuce confuse