Today wasn’t as exciting as the past two days, but was fun. Two full days of non-stop tennis, plus Monday night, my dad and I were pretty tired and the sun had fried our souls into nothingness. I still got to see quite a bit regardless though, and I don’t think the matches I missed were that exciting anyway.

First up on the day, Sam/Gypsy:

Sam came out absolutely firing. It was a whole lot of wow. Gypsy was playing well though, she was coming forward a decent amount and hitting some really solid volleys, would be curious to see her play doubles to be honest. Sam was equalling her in that category, and hitting insane forehand winners left and centre. Possibly insane blasphemy, but at points, especially with the way Sam hits the ball, it was Rafa-like.

Sam broke half way through the set and looked poised to hold on, but she faced a break point at ad Gypsy on her serve 54, and of course dinged a huge forehand winner, and that was the only break point she faced the entire match. In fact, I think it might have been the only time it went to deuce on Sam’s serve.

The second set turned into a blowout, as Gypsy started getting frustrated, and the shit hit the fan after a call that looked pretty blown that gave Sam 2 BPs. The next game one of the funniest things that I saw all week happeneed and Gypsy dinged a volley into the net, picked up the ball, yelled an entire long sentence in French, then went to tap the ball over the net back to Sam’s side, but she hit it so softly that it just hit the net, and screamed “SHIIIIIT!”, at the top of her lungs. She was so frustrated. And EVERYONE laughed, cause it was hilarious as hell. Especially cause it was over her not hitting a ball over the net WHILE PLAY WAS STOPPED. I love you Gypsy, you’re insane.

And then I saw this. I didn’t plan on watching Lena at all while I was there, I find her incredibly frustrating to watch, I don’t dislike her as a huan being or something, but her game drives me bonkers (and the Wimbley fail against Serena didn’t help) but since Sam was done so early, we headed to centre court to see this. Got there at the beginning of the second set, and Shahar was absolutely lighting it up. I’m not entirely sure why she doesn’t upset more top ranked players to be honest, she’s got mad game. Anyway, second set over with a breadstick, and Lena’s second set stats were beyond horrible. She didn’t hold serve once, served at 44% and won a whopping FIVE points on her first serve. Five. How is that even possible?

The weird thing about the third was that it was more of the same thing, but with just a bit more consistency from Lena, and it made the difference, as Shahar couldn’t keep bashing and getting winners, cause Lena was getting there and counter punching rather well. It wasn’t pretty though, don’t get me wrong. Lena got an early break, saved some break points, traded some breaks, and needed, again, FIVE match points to put it away on her serve. That’s apparently the magic number, cause she had four against JJ in Cincy and couldn’t win the match. Even the person in front of me, who didn’t know a whole lot of what was going on, noticed Lena refused to mix it up, and was content with just bashing the ball from the baseline, with VERY limited results.

After that, my dad and I were both super tired, and burned out from the sun, and decided we were out to get some off site food and head home. And to be honest, the OOP wasn’t that exciting since basically ALL my fave players lost yesterday.

At this point, I’d like to thank all of those who have promoed my blog and coverage whether it be through a blog, twitter, on forums, or whatever. I’ve gained a bunch of new followers (who I look forward to hearing from!) and readership has been WAY up this week, as I’m sure you can guess. I’m really hoping that people like the blog and will be interested in reading despite the fact that, no, I’m not going to be at another tournament until next year.

Unfortunately, life is totally getting in the way and killing my momentum. I might have some coverage of stuff tomorrow (yes, I’m at home now), but I am leaving Saturday morning to teach at a music camp for a week until Sunday afterwards, so I’ll be gone for a week or so, and missing all of New Haven, and yes, the Cincy and Toronto semis and final. I will catch up on all of it when I get back, and post a huge USO preview post, and should be catching a ton of the USO, especially on the second week. Once again, thanks for reading, and see you in a weeks time!