Hey Tennis Friends!
“Semifinal Day” is here at the Texas Tennis Open!
As I have been telling you, the finals are on Friday. Matches start at 7PM, so, make your plans to join me!
The final scores for the matches I featured are:
Roberta Vinci d. Bojana Jovanovski 6-0, 6-0
I think that Roberta nailed it on the head when she said that Bojana ” . . . didn’t play so well”. The match only lasted 53 minutes, and I was hard pressed to find any winning highlights from Jovanovski for the parts of the match that I was able to shoot.
I’m always surprised at the details that the players remember. When I mentioned last year’s match between these two, Roberta remembered that she was down in the second set, but came back to bring it to a third set win. That was 69 matches and tons of international travel ago! I can’t even remember my last league match and, as you know, I video them on my own website!
Liga Dekmeijere / Irina Falconi
d. Eugenie Bouchard / Aleksandra Wozniak 6-0, 4-6, [10-8]
An unbelievable see-saw match! Bouchard/Wozniak were up 3-0 in the second set, when Dekmeijere/Falconi came back to tie it up, and battle it out, then lose it. Then, in the third set tiebreak, Bouchard/Wozniak were up 5-0, and Dekmeijere/Falconi battled back, I believe, with the next six points in a row, getting up 6-5. At 9-6, Dekmeijere/Falconi, . . . Bouchard/Wozniak saved two match points before being eliminated.
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Tags: 2012, Aleksandra Wozniak, Bojana Jovanovski, Dallas, Eugenie Bouchard, Grapevine, Hilton DFW Lakes Hotel, Irina Falconi, Liga Dekmeijere, Roberta Vinci, Texas
You are incorrect in your comments about the doubles match tiebreak, Alex and Eugenie were UP 5-0 in the tiebreak and Dekmeijere/Falconi came back to take the lead 9-6, and it went 9-8 and then won 10-8.
Cheers,
Dave
Thanks for the correction, Dave. At 2:00 in the morning, after all that excitement, an editing of my show, I just copy/pasted the incorrect set of names 🙂
I have corrected it in my posting.
Happy to help you Marcus. I follow tennis very closely, especially Alexsandra, who I have met and interviewed, this year in Eastbourne at the Aegon International. Great person for sure! Enjoy the exploits of Maria Kirilenko and Vera Zvonareva, though she has had such a tough year with injuries and illness.
Aga is a sweet lady too. My main media role is an account advertising executive, but have covered all sports in my media career, dating back to 1969! Yes, I am an old geezer, born in London originally, living on Vancouver Island Canada. I will now follow you on Twitter. We have a grasscourt club where I live called the South Cowichan Lawn Tennis club, 125 years old. Presented five copies of the brochure to the LTA at Eastbourne in June.
Take care,
Dave
Just a little further note to the tiebreak, it went 5-3, then 6-3 and then 9-6, and 9-8 and finally 10-8. I dont think you need to lose any sleep over that though!