I don't think we saw close to the best of Gibbs this tournament. She played a lot of tennis last week, 8 matches to win Colorado from qualifying & then made it to finals of the doubles draw too. Then she flew in Sunday night, and then she was probably the only one in the tourney who had to play singles back-to-back days the first two rounds (Tue & Wed). She still competed well of course, but her serve & net play weren't really there in singles or doubles yesterday. Looking forward to see how she builds on these "experience points" in San Diego while benefiting from just a little more time off.
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