10-05-2018, 08:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2018, 08:58 AM by ColoradoTree.)
Main draw singles and doubles action yesterday, and it continues today.
Singles
More background on Gordon's loss (as the 8th seed) to UNC's Alexa Graham. Graham lost to Arbuthnott in the NCAA Round of 16 last year, and it wasn't close (6-3, 6-1), so this is a real disappointment for her. Gordon is a good deal better than Graham, as shown by her first-set bagel, but for whatever reason, she couldn't close it out.
As Lorcan noted, great wins from Arbuthnott and Lord. I'm particularly jazzed by Arbuthnott's win. To get an upset win like that, and to do it in the way she did--bouncing back after getting blown out in the opening set, fighting in the second set and winning a tiebreaker to force a decider, and then imposing her will in the third--is really encouraging. Great fight.
Lord has a tough one today vs. 6th-ranked and 4th-seeded Anastasia Rychagova of Kansas, while Arbuthnott gets 8th-ranked and 6th-seeded Katarina Jokic of Georgia. When Stanford beat Georgia 4-0 in last year's NCAA quarterfinals, Gordon had taken the first set from Jokic at 6-4, but was down a break in the second at 3-4 when the match was abandoned. A win for either player qualifies them for ITA Fall Nationals in November.
What's next: Lord vs. Rychagova (KU) at 10:45am; Arbuhnott vs. Jokic (UGA) at 10:45am.
Doubles
Gordon's disappointing day continued, as she and Arbuthnott--ranked #3 and seeded #1--lost in their first match to an unranked pair from Kansas, 8-5.
Lampl and Yee, by contrast, are rolling. They're through to the quarterfinals after beating the #16 team in the country, Clemson's Leduc/Navarro, 8-3, and then knocking off #6 Christofi/Coppoc of Georgia (the 4th seed), 8-2. One more win from them and they'll be through to ITA Fall Nationals. Arbuthnott/Gordon, by contrast, need to either make the finals of the consolation bracket, win Northwest Regionals, or else get a few wins here and at that tournament and hope to squeak by on ranking.
What's next: #17 Lampl/Yee vs. #7 Golovin/Richardson (LSU) (last year's national champions) at 9:00am today.
(Note: for those of you trying to get updated scores from the ITA's vendor site, it's dreadful. You can't see results for hours, so you're often better off looking at the opposing team's twitter account, though that wasn't much use yesterday.)
It was a rough day for the rest of the Pac-12 in singles, which had 7 entrants in the 32-player field. Just 2 advanced to the second round--both from Stanford.
A better showing in doubles, however. Three of the five Pac-12 pairs in the 24-team field are still alive, with ASU's Baptiste/Hattingh and USC's Kulikov/Valdes joining Lampl/Yee in the final eight.
Singles
More background on Gordon's loss (as the 8th seed) to UNC's Alexa Graham. Graham lost to Arbuthnott in the NCAA Round of 16 last year, and it wasn't close (6-3, 6-1), so this is a real disappointment for her. Gordon is a good deal better than Graham, as shown by her first-set bagel, but for whatever reason, she couldn't close it out.
As Lorcan noted, great wins from Arbuthnott and Lord. I'm particularly jazzed by Arbuthnott's win. To get an upset win like that, and to do it in the way she did--bouncing back after getting blown out in the opening set, fighting in the second set and winning a tiebreaker to force a decider, and then imposing her will in the third--is really encouraging. Great fight.
Lord has a tough one today vs. 6th-ranked and 4th-seeded Anastasia Rychagova of Kansas, while Arbuthnott gets 8th-ranked and 6th-seeded Katarina Jokic of Georgia. When Stanford beat Georgia 4-0 in last year's NCAA quarterfinals, Gordon had taken the first set from Jokic at 6-4, but was down a break in the second at 3-4 when the match was abandoned. A win for either player qualifies them for ITA Fall Nationals in November.
What's next: Lord vs. Rychagova (KU) at 10:45am; Arbuhnott vs. Jokic (UGA) at 10:45am.
Doubles
Gordon's disappointing day continued, as she and Arbuthnott--ranked #3 and seeded #1--lost in their first match to an unranked pair from Kansas, 8-5.
Lampl and Yee, by contrast, are rolling. They're through to the quarterfinals after beating the #16 team in the country, Clemson's Leduc/Navarro, 8-3, and then knocking off #6 Christofi/Coppoc of Georgia (the 4th seed), 8-2. One more win from them and they'll be through to ITA Fall Nationals. Arbuthnott/Gordon, by contrast, need to either make the finals of the consolation bracket, win Northwest Regionals, or else get a few wins here and at that tournament and hope to squeak by on ranking.
What's next: #17 Lampl/Yee vs. #7 Golovin/Richardson (LSU) (last year's national champions) at 9:00am today.
(Note: for those of you trying to get updated scores from the ITA's vendor site, it's dreadful. You can't see results for hours, so you're often better off looking at the opposing team's twitter account, though that wasn't much use yesterday.)
It was a rough day for the rest of the Pac-12 in singles, which had 7 entrants in the 32-player field. Just 2 advanced to the second round--both from Stanford.
A better showing in doubles, however. Three of the five Pac-12 pairs in the 24-team field are still alive, with ASU's Baptiste/Hattingh and USC's Kulikov/Valdes joining Lampl/Yee in the final eight.