ETA: She meets Renata, so it will be a clash of Czechs for the q birth! Surprisingly, Lucie is 1-2 against Renata, and has never defeated her on hardcourt, but Lucie won their last meeting. Lucie has more at stake in qualifying. GL to her!
Yeh, Lucie's performance here should definitely help her confidence a lot, but she's still got doubles to play, so hopefully things will go well for her there too.
Lucie is back in one of her old stomping grounds this week -- she's playing in the Midland 100k. The Stadium court is being live streamed, so check out the links below to watch the action. For those of you who missed it, her doubles match with Siniakova is archived on the livestream.com site -- just click on 'Updates' in order to find the video of it.
Tough loss for Lucie today in the 2nd round against Lauren Davis. Lucie did well to push the second seed to 3 sets, but Lauren's consistency won the day. I was impressed with what I saw from Lucie though. Yes, she hit a few too many UE's, but you can see that she is really starting to gain a rhythm on her groundstrokes again. Oh, and her serve was definitely a weapon; she even hit one or two 2nd serve aces. I really think that she is on her way back to playing her best tennis again. As long as she stays healthy and positive, she'll definitely get there.