Today was played the singles final of the Guadalajara $10,000 event. Carla Tiene against Graciela Velez.
Finally there was more people in the stadium, probably cos it is saturday.
Anyways...
Carla Tiene def. Graciela Velez 6-4, 6-1
The first set started with Graciela going up 40-15 on serve, then she started to make some errors and finished with a double fault so Carla broke. Carla then made errors and got broken. 1-1. Next 3 games were very long with at least 3 deuces in each one, Carla went up 4-1 and then held pretty easily for a 5-1 lead. Not good match at the moment. Graciela finally started to play decently and with some very good winners and good dropshots she made it back to 4-5, Carla was serving 0-30 and then a lucky netcord for her 15-30, 2 errors of Graciela and a very good volley for Carla gave her the first set 6-4. In the second set Graciela opened with a double fault and then 2 errors and a double fault. She seemed to have some kind of blisters in the hand and called the doctor, they took some time and then returned to court, Graciela had a break point but couldn't convert it, then held serve 2-1. Then Carla held pretty easily and Graciela started to play worst and worst with more double faults and double faults, she screamed a lot to her self but didn't helped. Carla was very consistent trying to keep the ball in the court and waiting for Graciela to make the error. Finally Carla won 6-4, 6-1 and she seemed very happy
At least my prediction of the winner was correct
Now both players travel to Cd. Juarez $50K. Erika Clarke was seeing the match with Graciela's coach
Nice tournament, hopefully next year there will be another one
Finally there was more people in the stadium, probably cos it is saturday.
Anyways...Carla Tiene def. Graciela Velez 6-4, 6-1
The first set started with Graciela going up 40-15 on serve, then she started to make some errors and finished with a double fault so Carla broke. Carla then made errors and got broken. 1-1. Next 3 games were very long with at least 3 deuces in each one, Carla went up 4-1 and then held pretty easily for a 5-1 lead. Not good match at the moment. Graciela finally started to play decently and with some very good winners and good dropshots she made it back to 4-5, Carla was serving 0-30 and then a lucky netcord for her
15-30, 2 errors of Graciela and a very good volley for Carla gave her the first set 6-4. In the second set Graciela opened with a double fault and then 2 errors and a double fault. She seemed to have some kind of blisters in the hand and called the doctor, they took some time and then returned to court, Graciela had a break point but couldn't convert it, then held serve 2-1. Then Carla held pretty easily and Graciela started to play worst and worst with more double faults and double faults, she screamed a lot to her self but didn't helped. Carla was very consistent trying to keep the ball in the court and waiting for Graciela to make the error. Finally Carla won 6-4, 6-1 and she seemed very happy At least my prediction of the winner was correct
Now both players travel to Cd. Juarez $50K. Erika Clarke was seeing the match with Graciela's coach
Nice tournament, hopefully next year there will be another one
