10-22-2019, 08:49 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-22-2019, 09:32 AM by ColoradoTree.)
Arbuthnott/Blake get UW's Gallagher/Kopcalic in the final. That duo won a match tiebreaker for the third set against what I'd figured to be a weaker Oregon team, but this is also the same pair that beat Gordon/Shin 8-4.
The doubles final will be first, at 11:00am. Singles is scheduled for 12:00pm.
The most important thing, of course, is that despite Cal's surfeit of seeds, neither the singles nor doubles title will be won by Cal today.
So far, Kozyreva has steamrolled everyone she's played, except for Arbuthnott, who she beat 6-3, 7-5. Every other match has seen Kozyreva drop 4 games or fewer, which makes me look at Arbuthnott's performance in a slightly different light.
Gordon's path has been similar. Aside from the match against Ivanov (which she won 6-4, 7-5), she's dropped 1, 5, 1, 2, and 3 games, respectively, in each of her matches.
Last year, not only was Kozyreva leading Gordon, but she had other good results, too. She lost to San Diego's Solymar Colling and Oregon's Shweta Sangwan in tight matches, and beat Santa Clara's Maddie Pothoff handily, but it's her unfinished matches that are most impressive. She was two games away from beating Gordon, one game away from beating USC's Salma Ewing, and she had split the first two sets against UCLA's Jada Hart before the match was abandoned. She doesn't get the kind of quality matches playing in the WCC to really get her ranking up, but the preseason ranking this year (#68) is a much better reflection of her quality than her unranked status when she played Gordon last year. Don't get me wrong, Gordon is better, and if both play as well as they can, Gordon should win. But it's tennis, so one never knows.
Kozyreva shouldn't want for quality matches now, of course, since she'll have her hands full at Fall Nationals, as both she and Gordon have now qualified, regardless of today's result. Arbuthnott/Blake still need a win, though.
The doubles final will be first, at 11:00am. Singles is scheduled for 12:00pm.
The most important thing, of course, is that despite Cal's surfeit of seeds, neither the singles nor doubles title will be won by Cal today.
(10-21-2019, 09:02 PM)oldalum Wrote: Gordon played Kozyreva (from Russia) last January, and was losing 4-6, 3-4 when the match was halted. So she'll have her hands full. A competitive matchup for us in doubles too.
So far, Kozyreva has steamrolled everyone she's played, except for Arbuthnott, who she beat 6-3, 7-5. Every other match has seen Kozyreva drop 4 games or fewer, which makes me look at Arbuthnott's performance in a slightly different light.
Gordon's path has been similar. Aside from the match against Ivanov (which she won 6-4, 7-5), she's dropped 1, 5, 1, 2, and 3 games, respectively, in each of her matches.
Last year, not only was Kozyreva leading Gordon, but she had other good results, too. She lost to San Diego's Solymar Colling and Oregon's Shweta Sangwan in tight matches, and beat Santa Clara's Maddie Pothoff handily, but it's her unfinished matches that are most impressive. She was two games away from beating Gordon, one game away from beating USC's Salma Ewing, and she had split the first two sets against UCLA's Jada Hart before the match was abandoned. She doesn't get the kind of quality matches playing in the WCC to really get her ranking up, but the preseason ranking this year (#68) is a much better reflection of her quality than her unranked status when she played Gordon last year. Don't get me wrong, Gordon is better, and if both play as well as they can, Gordon should win. But it's tennis, so one never knows.
Kozyreva shouldn't want for quality matches now, of course, since she'll have her hands full at Fall Nationals, as both she and Gordon have now qualified, regardless of today's result. Arbuthnott/Blake still need a win, though.
