Re: Julia in East Asia 2012 - Tokio
well, couldn´t expect her to win against Bartoli but I expected a bit more tbh!
No one was able to watch the match but Marion is obviously able to play some great tennis, especially on a surface like that, so I guess we can believe Julia here, it´s just really tough for almost every player to beat Bartoli from the baseline when she has a good day.
But stats tell us also that Julia just didn´t serve good enough today, only 1 ace, only 61% won on 1st serve, you have to serve better if you want to win such matches. 2nd serve got killed by Bartoli anyway, no surprise.
On the other hand Julia´s return was too weak, as usual, Bartoli´s serve was for sure not great today, 12 DFs, only 48% 1st serve in but seemed like Julia only was able to break when Marion helped her with DFs.
15/34 on Bartoli´s 2nd serve, but if you don´t count the DFs Marion made 15/22, that´s just too much...
We´ll see what Julia can do next week, she isn´t in awful shape at least, she played a good match against Soler last week before he turned nuts, easy win against Niculescu, she could win some matches with a good draw, let´s hope for it, she needs some points and confidence before the season is over.
Start of 2013 won´t be easy for her, many pts to defend, Melbourne will probably be her last GS for a while where she will be seeded...