Maybe Maria is having a problem with her knee with returning, she also has a high serve % probably just spinning the ball in. Overall not a bad set just the one break. I must admit I was expecting worse
Jie has like one bad service game then the rest of the time shes unbreakable oh well Maria, least you made it somewhat competitive. Rest that knee for RG.
6-4 6-4,I expected a tougher loss.Of course,it's disappointing to see her lose in the 1st round but she had a bad draw and Zheng is not the kind of players Maria likes to play.
Unless Maria is injured, it's hard to understand her difficulty with Zheng's serve. I read that this is very slow clay and Zheng normally doesn't have a great 1st serve yet Zheng won 80% of points on her 1st serve. Zheng got 82% of her 1st serves in which sounds like she just spinned them in. I just don't get it. :shrug:
Having seen a lot of her matches lately I can safely say her knee isn't 100% I don't care what she says, moving is one of her strengths and it's been rather poor lately.