Well its getting worse and worse for Laura sadly. I think retirement should be near. She doesnt need the money and comes from a well off family. I really doubt she wants to spend much time struggling at low level tennis.
Simply hasn't improved one bit since her comeback over a year ago. Well, she's in ITF qualies until and unless she gets her shit together to beat #400 ranked sub-journeywomen.
Has she forgotten how to play?Does she not care anymore.i mean i realise it's difficult to come back to the same level after such an injury,but it's been one year and she can hardly beat unranked players and loses to anyone ranked..800 or higher.
In the third set Bai was only getting 45% of first serves in (worse than Laura) yet won 92% of points on her second serve and didn't hit a double fault. Basically Laura's return game was terrible at the end.
I think it was because Laura's tired herself out, needlessly ending up in a three hour, three set battle yesterday against Kat Facey (who she bagelled in the first set). When today's one also went into a third hour Laura was spent.
Good for Katy and Laura. I'm not sure why people rone on aboyt retirement, the board is full of people who don't appear to actually play sport. Most professional athletes, good or awful play because they enjoy playing. Why do phenomentally bad teams and players have careers? Because they are paid to do sport for fun, who the fuck would give that up?
If people gave up with bad results we would have a ranking system that goes into the thousands and hundreds of ITF tournaments around the world. In Laura's case, she probably thinks she has 10 years and looking at the like sof Konta and Broady only getting their shit together in their mid-20's she has every reason to stick at this and believe the long term outlook is positive, even if it's in the future.
Aww. Laura strives on a big stage, it wouldn't surprise me if she'd be able to summon up the strength again in her next WC event on the main tour and play another competitive first set against an opponent. Whether or not she'd be able to close out a match, is another story.
She did make the sensible decision to come and play these ITFs. She could've tried to sneak into the draws on Stanford/Washington/Montreal the past couple weeks, events with Q draws barely full, but committed to slogging it here. I just don't think a player who has been thrust in the spotlight since her young age, can ever turn on her spirit for a 50K, as spoiled as it sounds. The second you start losing points to a Bai, or a Facey, in her perspective, I wonder if she doesn't start thinking about Wimbledon, and her place in the tennis world in years past. I know it's something she has to figure out, but I don't necessarily blame her. A sports psychologist might be handy at this point.
Was hoping Emily Webley-Smith would get the luck and snag one of the LL spots.
Check that, there were 3, and EWS has to play the same player that beat in the FQR Rogowska.
I sure there's a thread in GM about this rarity. There have been situations where a lucky loser ends up playing someone who beat them in the main draw, but it's not always the very next round.
I mean Robson is only 22 but.... she was off the tour so long, and it seems like it's had a irreparable effect on her game.
I'm not really sure how anyone as unathletic as Robson can compete in today's game at the top level either. The athletic/endurance criteria has gone up ten-fold in the last couple of seasons alone.
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