I want to make this thread to congratulate Florencia Molinero for her first ITF Women title!! She won 10K Nazare, Portugal title winning over #1 seeded Joana Cortez 7-5 3-6 6-0!!! Congratulations!
Her way to her first ITF Women Title:
1st round: (4)Sophie Lefevre (FRA) 6-2 6-4
2nd round: Chantal Coombs (GBR) ?
QF: (8)Stefania Boffa (SUI) 6-1 6-0
SF: (2)Carla Tiene (BRA) 6-1 6-4
F: (1)Joana Cortez (BRA) 7-5 3-6 6-0
Flor was very solid against Arvidsson. Very various game, great FH, all court game, effecient BH slice, decent serve and return (she actually hit some very good returns ) Played like top 100
However, Larsson defenetely was watching this match and learned much from that. From the very start she started to serve to BH only and when she was serving to FH Flor did not expect that as she was always in the left. Johanna was ready for that BH slice and most often replied with another slice. On service games Flor played on good level but on return games it was a disaster.
I think there's no hope for progress even to top 150 with this backhand which I would say the worst I've ever seen (after Jidkova ). Now I can see how she could beat good players like Dubois or Malek and lose to Rottmann or Zaja soon. Outside the slow clay, her poor BH will let her down even further, so her calendar should be built based on clay tourneys only.