[jasonbloom]

Lost 6:4 2:6 3:6, another close lost, return is good, serve is too weak, first serve and second serve both
But with these 24 points, she should be surely in USO Quali

[dusb2p]

Really? to be qualify into US Open?? She's still outside top 200

[jasonbloom]

Originally Posted by dusb2p

Really? to be qualify into US Open?? She's still outside top 200

128 compete in Q in UO, not 96 compete like other slams, the cut-off should be around 230, last year it was 242

[KMo]

Torro-Flor is playing out of her gourd right now (but that was winnable).

[KMo]

$50.000 Trnava

Originally Posted by Meelis

Singles Main Draw

(1)Dinah Pfizenmaier (GER) v (SR)Zuzana Ondraskova (CZE)
Reka-Luca Jani (HUN) v Dia Evtimova (BUL)
Elena Bovina (RUS) v Katarzyna Kawa (POL)
(7)Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) v Indire Akiki (CRO)

Doubles Main Draw

(2)Bovina/Savinykh (RUS/RUS) v (wc)Butkovska/Vajdova (SVK/SVK)

[KMo]

Officially on US Open Q list: http://www.tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=464428

[KMo]

US Open Q Draw

Originally Posted by Meelis

(13)Eva Birnerova (CZE) v Olga Puchkova (RUS)
Gail Brodsky (USA) v Elena Bovina (RUS)
Dia Evtimova (BUL) v (wc)Alexandra Kiick (USA)
Raluca Olaru (ROU) v (29)Yvonne Meusburger (AUT)

[jasonbloom]

Good draw, so possible to win one round at least

[Tennis Fool]

At least she had no visa issues like Lera S Anyway, loved to see Elena vs. Olga.

[Tennis Fool]

Originally Posted by Tennis Fool

Anyway, loved to see Elena vs. Olga.

And it will happen, as Elena vanquished Gail, 2 & 1, to win her first qualies match since 2010!

Interestingly, she and Olga have never played each other before.

[dusb2p]

Will she also play doubles?

[Tennis Fool]

Not sure

[Tennis Fool]

Elena narrowly lost to Olga, 62 67(5) 46.

[jasonbloom]

She lead 6:2 4:2 and then lose the tiebreak with a df, at least she win one match an gain 40 points. With this points, she will be around top 200, top 150 in the end of the year is still possible

[KMo]

Yeah, that one hurt but at least she got some good points from the first round which will help her get another shot in Australia.

Tennis Fool's report:

Originally Posted by Tennis Fool

Olga Puchkova vs. Elena Bovina
It's too bad that these two had to meet, because each won could have made the main draw playing others. This match was a level ahead of any other women's match I saw. Really could have been a Top 50 match--and you wonder why each is not there. Maybe they'll make there way back.

Both games are similar. Hard servers, hard hitters. However, their responses to play were markedly different.
Elena is quiet and plays within herself. Olga emotes to herself on every lost point, and gives a "Maroney's not impressed" look a lot In fact, it looks like the ump said, "We are no longer playing with tennis balls, please pass out the skunks!"

Also of note, Elena, who is the tallest woman I saw, was extremely fit, with no body fat. You could see each outline of muscles in her body. Olga, on the other hand, is not in the best shape.

However, sadly for Elena, I believe the match came down to stamina. The longer the match went, the more errors she began to produce. She needs to work on that if she wants to get back to the upper echelons of the sport. The question, can she do that at the cusp of 30?

I wondered how these two were able to concentrate. On the court next to them was Francesca Schiavone practicing with grunts (loudest of all grunts I heard), which often sounded like "Fuck Me!" and on the other side of Francesca, the building construction with the jackhammer.