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My original Sports India.com onsite report:
The match started quite bad for our girl, loosing the second game at own serve without winning a single point - so the
score was 0-2. Rushmi was able to recover from that, re-breaking Baker in the next game (again, no point for the server...), but she got broken
again after she was 40-15 in front in the next one. Baker tried to avoid Rushmi's great forehand topspins
and found a weak spot in Rushmi's double-handed backhand, which could not give any pressure at the beginning of the match. In the fourth
game, Baker won by scoring her first ace of the game. Though Rushmi was able to win the sixth game to change the scoreboard to 2-4, she
just seemed to have no chance to come back in this one - and lost her serve again (and the set) in the eigth game at 2-5. To be honst,
Baker was not that strong in the first set, but just too strong for a disappointing Rushmi, who looked highly concentrated all over
the match.
Rushmi made a clever decision and took a toilet break that meant eight minutes interruption to the match (as the court is far, far
away from the club house...). Baker completely lost her game and started with three double faults in a row
in the first game of second set. Rushmi converted the first one, had no serious problems to increase the lead to 2-0 and was able to
take profit of three more doubl faults in the next game, which made her take the third break point opportunity in the game.
What a bad start by baker: 6 double faults in two games, just 3 of 12 first serves succeeded, one of eight second serve points
won - 3:0 for Rushmi. Though Baker seemed to be able to recover slightly, Rushmi played highly concentrated on her own serve, which gave her an incredible
streak of 17 points in a row at own serve - meanwhile, the score was 1-0 for Rushmi at own serve after another break in the first game
of third set. I think, that Baker looked a bit better now, but there was no chance for her to come back - Rushmi just made a donut scoreboard
out of third set, winning the match with style by an ace at her fourth match point.
After a bad start, Rushmi really did great in that match and advanced to second round. A really pleasing
performance by her and a great fight to come back in the match. Baker lost her match because of her own mistakes and as she
just was not able to stay in her game just because of a toilet break.
Here are the (unofficial) Tennis-Foto.de statistics of the match:
Chakravarthi | | Baker
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2 | Sets | 1
| 18 | Games | 8
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18 28 28 | Points
1st set 2nd set 3rd set | 60
29 14 17
| 3 | Aces | 3
| 0 | double faults | 11
| 6/10=60% | break point conv. | 3/3=100%
| 47/62=79% | 1st serve conv. | 39/63=62%
| 31/47=66% | 1st serve won | 24/39=62%
| 7/15=47% | 2nd serve won | 5/24=21%
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