Easterbrook Through To Semi Final's

Hey!
Another tough day at the office for Lereesa today. She was up against Paula Konia from Poland who upset the number 3 seed yesterday!
Lereesa had a very solid start making life difficult for Konia, she was 3-0 up hitting to a great length and forcing a lot of mistakes from her opponent. Konia started to raise her game and dictated a few more of the points but Easterbrook was determined not to let Konia back into the match and closed out the set 6-2.
Everybody who was watching thought there was still alot more tennis to be played in this match and they were right as Konia went into a 2-0 lead after her 15 minute toilet break at the end of the 1st set! Lereesa regained her concentration though and the momentum as she went into a 3-2 with an impressive display of accurate serving and aggressive returning.
Then at 3-2 40-15 up ready to ease away from Konia the umpire made an awful call to over rule a forehand winner from Lereesa and then a no call from the umpire to take it back to deuce! Just as quickly as the obsenities flew out of Lereesa's mouth she found herself 3-5 down!
However she regained her composure to level the score at 5-5 but after losing a closely fought game she had to try and push the set to a tie breaker! Which she did with a very solid service game.
So level again at 6-6, Lereesa had a very determined look in her eye at this point and came up with a unbelievable forehand angled passing shot to which Konia just dropped her racket and held up her hands and started to shout at her coach! (My polish isn't great but think it was something along the lines of how the hell did she do that!) Lereesa raced into a 4-1 lead taking every opportunity that came her way in the rallies to attack.
Lereesa then closed out the tie break 7-3 and to be honest never really looked like losing the tie break or the set for that matter as she played with great courage and determination today.

So its a rest day tomorrow as she prepares for her semifinal against number 5 seed Maria Meliuk from Belarus on saturday..
More soon!
Adios amigo's!!
Pedro.