Yase Watson There are some happy memories of playing in Japan, but this is unlikely to be among them.
It is in this country that at the 2012 Japan Open, she became the first British woman to win the WTA Tour Championship in 24 years. She defeated Zhang Kaizhen in the final in Osaka, but her singles match in Tokyo will be in the Olympics. After being dropped by German player Anna-Lena Friedsam in the morning at the opening ceremony of the tennis tournament, she did not surpass the first round.
Naomi Osaka The match was originally scheduled to start at the center court of Ariake Tennis Park, but her duty to light the torch late at the opening ceremony on Friday delayed her match until Sunday.
As home favorites are enjoying a well-deserved break, Watson-the only female representative in the UK to participate in these Olympics after Johanna Konta’s withdrawal-and Friedsum were sent to Stadium 1 for an intense 33 degree After nearly two cruel hours of heat fighting, this is the world’s 119th team who won 7-6 6-3.
In this case, trying to play a good serve seems not a particularly shrewd plan, but both players agreed. It took Friedsam almost six minutes to complete her first game. Sen did the same, sweating two breakpoint upgrades when she made the save.
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Continue like this. For most of the first group, grit and rust are equally important. Watson’s amazing shooting percentage was 3-3 when the door creaked when he saw the goal point, and when Friedsam was faltering on her first serve, the door opened a little, but the Englishman The second can only be sent to the center of the net and held before the Germans fight.
Friedsam’s next serve brought another missed opportunity, another break point-this time a wonderful return from an awkward squat and a more dexterous touch. The winner-beg .
After those panics, Friedsam responded with her most dominant serve game to date, putting the pressure on Watson with a score of 6-5 and a score of 0-30, which seems like Can explain the problem, but the four unanswered people brought the long-term inevitable tie-break.
There, Friedsam seized the early advantage and never let go. Watson fought hard with a few fiery aces, but the shooting time was short, the lob was too long, the forehand was wide, and in one After many hours of sunshine, the game began. toil.
It is a bit unfair to call what happened next as a crash, because even though Friedsam immediately won the game at the start of the second set for the first time-and ultimately decisively-broke the first one.
This was Watson’s only service error before the final game of the game. At that time, she failed to get any break point that could tie the score to 4-4, and she finally gave up.
