Heat break?
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- September
- 7
I thought I was watching a women’s semifinal, but apparently they’re playing under high school tennis rules. The players are currently in the midst of a 10-minute “heat break” before starting the third set. They have only been on the court for an hour, but whatever. It does give me a chance to blog.
This match was always going to be the undercard to Venus-Henin, and Kuznetsova and Chakvetadze are playing their roles perfectly. Twenty winners and 50 unforced errors so far, plus four breaks of serve each. Kuznetsova ended the first set with a double-fault, while Kuznetsova somehow whiffed completely on an overhead in the second set.
Chakvetadze also won the first game of the second set and was up 0-40 in the second game, but Kuznetsova woke up and not only held her serve, but won the next six games. By the end, Chakvetadze was clearly waiting for the third set. Conserving energy, but it really gave Kuznetsova some big momentum. Of course, who knows what momentum is left after a 10-minute heat break, which is exactly what the high school players get.
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on Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 3:17 pm by Harold Gutmann.
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