It's been an interesting day tennis wise: both finals were played today! And I discovered I can watch two matches at once (they're just cruel to make those finals overlap because I wanted to see both!)
We'll kick off with Eastbourne. It's been very windy over in the UK and it surely affected the final between Kerber and Paszek. It's a first a German or an Austrian reaches the final here and they both made an excellent impression in their previous matches, so I was excited to see who would take the title.
The obvious choice would be Kerber because she's the number eight and with 40 won dues already this year, she's on top of the 'most-wins' list before Azarenka and Radwanska. She definitely started the best, taking the first set: 7-5.
Paszek countered by taking the second set: 6-3.
The third set featured five match balls for Kerber at 5-3 on the Austrian's serve, all not used. Paszek always played her most incredible points at match point down, she just refused to give up! She made it through to 5-4 (with a lot of cheering on from the crowd) and it was up to the German to serve for the match. And there is not a better way to describe that game than the people at Eurosport were so kindly to do so: 'It was horrible!'. Easy balls going into the net, the serve was shaky and the break was practically handed over to Paszek.
So 5-5 in the third set, this was getting quite interesting! Kerber didn't crack in this game like the last and forced a break point on Paszek's serve but she swiftly rallied that out of the way. And then I witnessed an ankle twitch yet again (too many this year already!) from the Austrian. She played on and got it taped at the change-over. Kerber couldn't take advantage of her decreased mobility because of the wind and faultered yet again on her own serve. Final score Kerber - Paszek: 7-5, 3-6, 5-7.
It's unbelievable because Kerber had 5 match balls! I'm hoping Paszek's ankle is going to be alright, because she opens against Wozniacki in Wimbledon and with her form, that could result in an early upset!
Second final today: 's Hertogenbosch - Unicef Open between Urszula Radwanska and Petrova. This match was more one sided. Radwanska got an early break in each set but saw her lead disappear because of Petrova's good serving and hard hitting. Final score Petrova - Radwanska: 6-4, 6-3.
Petrova had a doubles final right after that with Maria Kirilenko against Vinci and Errani. It was very tight but Petrova couldn't haul in the double victory: 4-6, 6-4, 9-11!
And I must see, I love the trophees at this tournament, very Unicef Open like!
Be sure to keep posted, the draw analyse of Wimbledon is coming up!
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