Whatever happened to Sam Crawford? Was the Brisbane run a big fluke? Although beating Bencic and demolishing Petkovic doesn't sound too impressive considering the season they're having.
Whatever happened to Sam Crawford? Was the Brisbane run a big fluke? Although beating Bencic and demolishing Petkovic doesn't sound too impressive considering the season they're having.
^ The pictures above were taken the day before on Friday, practice day.
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Bianca's defense was awesome. I thought she would have more trouble against Sam's heavy serves but no, most of the time she was returning it nicely and deep. Lots of nice winners, well, enough for her amount of UE I thought. She finished both sets by raising her level, but got tight failing at serving for the set at 5-4 in set #1. She was perfect in the TB winning 6 points in a row from 0-2 down.
In set #2, Bianca was down a break. Fought well to overcome her opponent's rising confidence. She finally broke Sam to make it 5-5, Then it was like Sam knew she wasn't going to win because Bianca was turning every shot into offense. Crawford was just missing too often long or wide being rushed.
She was the only Canadian to win her first qualifying match today, and was the only Canadian to win a match (pre qualifying) last year as well. (as a 15 year old)...
*To add a note on the stress fracture, not sure how bad it was before the AO junior, but she was definitely forced to withdraw (being the #1 seed) from Aussie Junior (after winning her first two matches) and never played Roland Garros.
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