Lereesa started her Spanish ITF Grade 3 yesterday, She played a girl ranked 230 in the world from Hungaria Vinds Lukacs. Within 10 minutes Lereesa found herself 1-4 down in the first set, but managed to dig in her heels and started to fight her way back into the set and found herself serving for the set at 5-4, she held her nerve and serve to close it out 6-4!
Phew! Was exactly what Lereesa was thinkin and soon found herself 1-5 down in the second set! However the girl from Hungry was not so casual this time around, although Lereesa managed to claw back to 3-5 Lukacs won the set 6-3.
So it was then into the third set! Was a very nervy first 6 games with neither of the girls playin the sort of tennis they are capable of and we were tied 3-3 this was a long deuce game which Lukacs won and then broke serve to lead 5-3, just as she thought the Easterbrook wheels had fallen off she served three double faults and missed a short forehand that didnt even make it anywhere near the court! The momentum had changed and Easterbrook made some fantastic hustle's to level the score at 5-5! Again the Hungarian served another double fault and went bazerk at the crowd that had started to form at the back of the court! It was then that Lereesa started to be more aggressive when her opportunities came and dictated a few more of the points alongside some of her fantastic defence, she then closed out the match on her first match point to win the set and the match 7-5!!
It was not the most confident display of tennis but the fighting qualities Lereesa showed were admirable and was a great match to come through.
She then played this morning against fellow British girl Jo Horne who has been enjoying some very good recent domestic results and looked very confident in her first round yesterday.
However Lereeesa set her stall out early recognising and being effective off anything short that came her way and also being very consistent from the back off the court, Lereesa took the first set with ease 6-2.
Confidence then flowed as she ran into a 5-2 lead in the second set, Just as it looked as if Jo was throwing in the towel, she hit a string of winning returns and then first serves to take it to 5-4 Easterbrook! However Lereesa had no interest in letting this match go on any longer and closed it out at the second time of asking. So it finished 6-2 6-4.
So this puts her through to the quarter finals tomorrow against a highly ranked Polish girl.
So more tomorrow folks!
Pedro.
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