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Danny1312 · Intermediate Club Player

Week 26 - Wimbledon, Women's Qualifying - Grass

wimbledont · Intermediate Club Player

Emily had a couple of match points, but lost the second set TB 6-8.

Impressive stat of 11 aces.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Emily broke but played a horrible game to get broken back to 15

2-1*

wales1994 · County player

Joanne Garland has made the final round of quallies at her first Wimbledon... she's really pushing on!

PaulM · Tennis legend

Emily gets a break point, saved with an ace. And another. Saved with a good serve up the T. And a third, she's in this one, plays a dreadful drop shot.

*2-2

Danny1312 · Intermediate Club Player

4 more missed! Agh!

PaulM · Tennis legend

Ugh. Now Emily can't convert 40-0*. A little bit of good serving from Palicova but mainly just not committing to the shots on these big points. That's a fourth gone at advantage.

*3-3

Gar. She's created the opportunities she needed. It usually comes back to bite you...

PaulM · Tennis legend

4-3*

Elsewhere Shibihara led 5-1* in the second set, missed four match points before losing the tiebreak. Then led 5-2* in the third and has just had to save break points to hold for 6-5*. So the Japanese forum are probably more stressed than us!

Danny1312 · Intermediate Club Player

PaulM wrote:
4-3*

Elsewhere Shibihara led 5-1* in the second set, missed four match points before losing the tiebreak. Then led 5-2* in the third and has just had to save break points to hold for 6-5*. So the Japanese forum are probably more stressed than us!

Always feels like just GB players put people through the ringer biggrin but another BP missed!

PaulM · Tennis legend

And misses another break point with a return error. Palicova gets a dead net cord but Emily saves the game point only to make a terrible error at deuce. A short ball again, she just pushes it long when she had the whole court.

*4-4

PaulM · Tennis legend

Oh another bad miss on a short ball at *40-15, this time going for a dinky one over the net. Back to deuce, but a good serve for game point and then Palicova clips the top of the net and drops back on her side.

5-4*

PaulM · Tennis legend

Haha of course now Palicova holds to love

PaulM · Tennis legend

Matched by Emily. Great serving.

6-5*

emmsie69 · Top national player

Minor Jeremy Bates thing. All through the 1st set and up to 6 -4 in the tiebreak for the 2nd set he was standing in the corner above the court by some railings. At 6-4 in the tiebreak he moved to the path running parallel to the court.
I thought it very stupid.

Danny1312 · Intermediate Club Player

My god another 2 go begging! Not sure I've ever seen so many Break points come and go in a set...