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Yesterday's First Round Matches
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July 20, 2011 - Spent 13 hours at the courts today ....no real predictions for tomorrow's matches...
1st Round Match Evaluations:
Abbey Foster lost 3-1 to Chloe Pearson from England. Abbey tried her hardest and was in a very winnable match but in the end Chloe managed to pull away in the fourth. Abbey will gain a lot of great experience from this match that will go a long way toward helping her continue to improve throughout the tournament.
Hollie Naughton overpowered and outperformed Laura Kutsch from Germany to win her first round 3-0 convincingly. She then went on to play Nouran El Torky of Egypt, where Hollie fought hard and was right in the match but El Torky snuck away at the end of each game.
Michelle Gemmell played a terrific fist game against 9/16 seed Yan Xin Tan from Malaysia. Michelle hit penetrating length, did not let a volley go and then used her deception at the front to tour the Malaysian around. But as Michelle began to tire, she volleyed less and was stuck in the back of the court, allowing Yan Xin Tan to step up and use her terrific backhand volley drop and offensive boast to win the second, third and fourth games.
Danielle Letourneau really found her length and used her strong volleys to keep Lume Landman from South Africa running around. One of the highlights of the match was Danielle hitting 5 ACE serves in a row to start off the third game! Lume played great squash to get herself back into the match but Danielle managed to close out the game 12-10 to win 3-0.
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