Duan played the best match I've ever seen her, such a few errors, amazing serving and big hitting, especially to Nicole's BH which is a great tactic so hat off to her, she can go far if she continues playing like this.
OTOH Nicole didn't even play bad, not her best performance for sure but I'm satisfied with such tournament after a long time, she was unfortunately not so good at key moments which cost her the match. Also struggling with injuries (elbow and foot injury), please heal everything and come back stronger in 2016. Her movement is definitely still not so good due to her foot injury from April. I think she will call it a season and come back stronger in 2016
This!
She's got Kitchenware next then Racquet-Flinger Pereira. Picking up more points here would be massive.
She's also the Golden Flower who I think would most benefit from a COMPLETELY different training regime, to correct her shortcomings and bring out the best of her.
BFCD is slow unlike the other Golden Flowers Yanina Wang, Jolin Zhu and Zekda Yang are more likely to be Top 75 Ying-Ying doesn't like to run and can only win in China or on super fast surfaces
Didn't watch the match but still a bit disappointing. Flav is out as well so her road to QF could be easy if she won
Duan is just a really bad mover and it seems that Nicole didn't spot out this and move Duan enough I guess. (I don't really think Duan could over-power Nicole easily) Well but at least it's another WTA MD appearance so it's not that bad. Hope she would work on her game and improve Still out of Top 250 atm
Over a year into this comeback, and not even Top 250??
I think Nicole and her team need to have a sit-down and discuss where she wants to go with this. Why is her serve so weak, why is her BH so weak, why is she not playing more events?
I think Nicole and her team need to have a sit-down and discuss where she wants to go with this. Why is her serve so weak, why is her BH so weak, why is she not playing more events?