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Friday, April 2, 2010

Miami: Battle of the Belgians, Part 24





The 24th meeting between Allez Bitch and Mum Train was a scrappy mud-fight. No there were no histrionics as both women are all business out on the court. Mum Train was up 3-0 in the second, until Allez Bitch remembered that she's clay court specialist and tried to counterpunch her way back. Allez Bitch put up a good fight before fading to Mum Train who had the match on her racquet for almost two and half hours. It took Mum Train 4 match points before she finally coverted to even their head to head record of 24 meetings: 62 67(3) 76(6). I tweeted that Mum Train would fail to convert on triple MP, because Mum Train had overhit all night on pressure points.



Stats wise, MumTrain could have played a cleaner match and closed it out in two, but her errors let Allez Bitch come back.


























































Henin Clijsters
Aces 2 1
DF 8 10
1st Serve % 59 63
1st Serve % Pts Won 39/69 (57%) 47/74 (65%)
2nd Serve % Pts Won 23/47 (49%) 18/43 (42%)
Winners 19 37
Unforced Errors 44 63
Break Points Won 5/11 (45%) 7/14 (50%)
Total Service Points Won 62/116 (53%) 65/117 (56%)
Total Points Won 114/233 (49%) 119/233 (51%)




It was not JuJu's night as it was obvious that her legs weren't quite there. She netted quite a few serves and overheads because she clearly could not get enough leg lift. After one long rally won by Mum Train on a winner after pulling JuJu off court, JuJu was clearly gassed.



As a certain dork from Switzerland once said, "Thank God the hard court season is over!" Time to move on to clay!

PS Vamos Rafa! It's your Masters tournament to win. You're overdue.

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