[ColoradoTree]

Nice start for the women. Not taking anything away from St. John's, but I really don't understand the logic behind having them travel 3,000 miles to play a match in a non-revenue sport where the outcome technically was decided in about an hour but realistically was decided before they ever left NYC.

I think a lot of the lower ranked automatic bid teams are based on the East Coast, the Northeast in particular, and there just aren’t enough top seeds on the East Coast to accommodate them, so someone was getting shafted. It was just a question of which team, and St. John’s drew the short straw.

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I watched several of Lord's games.  Way way too many unforced errors.  She can't beat a decent number two playing like that.

I saw enough of Arbuthnot to decide she can't lose at #4 playing like that.  She was overpowering.

 Yeah, it was sloppy enough that you wonder if she was just getting frustrated to be playing a grinder that obviously wasn’t as good as she was. We had a discussion on here about Arbuthnott a couple of weeks ago, noting how she’s content to extend points when she’s playing a grinder like that, and not feel rushed to end the point early. But when you KNOW you’re better, frustration can easily set in, and you start making uncharacteristic mistakes, and then you get in your own head, and you can get in a tailspin. Let’s hope this is all it is, and Lord will elevate her play when necessary! (We’ll find out in a few hours, either way.)

I am pumped about how Arbuthnott looked, though. And Lampl.

[ColoradoTree]

Nice start for the women. Not taking anything away from St. John's, but I really don't understand the logic behind having them travel 3,000 miles to play a match in a non-revenue sport where the outcome technically was decided in about an hour but realistically was decided before they ever left NYC.

I think a lot of the lower ranked automatic bid teams are based on the East Coast, the Northeast in particular, and there just aren’t enough top seeds on the East Coast to accommodate them, so someone was getting shafted. It was just a question of which team, and St. John’s drew the short straw.

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I watched several of Lord's games.  Way way too many unforced errors.  She can't beat a decent number two playing like that.

I saw enough of Arbuthnot to decide she can't lose at #4 playing like that.  She was overpowering.

 Yeah, it was sloppy enough that you wonder if she was just getting frustrated to be playing a grinder that obviously wasn’t as good as she was. We had a discussion on here about Arbuthnott a couple of weeks ago, noting how she’s content to extend points when she’s playing a grinder like that, and not feel rushed to end the point early. But when you KNOW you’re better, frustration can easily set in, and you start making uncharacteristic mistakes, and then you get in your own head, and you can get in a tailspin. Let’s hope this is all it is, and Lord will elevate her play when necessary! (We’ll find out in a few hours, either way.)

I am pumped about how Arbuthnott looked, though. And Lampl.