Greenwich Open
I arrived in New York on the Monday. Danny was with me and so I was really looking forward to the week in Greenwich. We were staying with the Scott family and always feel very well looked after there.The first round matches were on Monday. I have been feeling abit ill with a cold and so I didn't do much hitting before the tournament started. My first round match was against a qualifier who was drawn as Lauren Siddall. We hadn't played for a while and she is Playing quite well so I was up for the match. I played well and managed to get off in 3 games.
My next round match was against Tania Bailey. It was a tough quarter final line up as Tania has been world number 4. I played well during the match. I just wanted to play as well as I could. I won in 5 games, it was abit up and down as Tania was abit tired but kept on pushing hard. I was pleased to get the win in the end though 3-2.
My semi final match was against Omneya. Currently ranked number 7. It was always going to be tight. She had a really long match the day before and so I thought I was in with a good chance. I played well and went 2-0 up. Then I think I got abit edgy and she started moving and playing alot better. Before I knew it I was at 2-2. It was really tight in the 5th game. I went 10-8 up and she played 2 amazing rallies to level at 10-10. I had one more match ball at 11-10 and lost it. She played really well but I was disappointed not to be more positive on my matchballs. I finally lost 13-11 in the 5th. I was really gutted but thought I might have an opportunity next week in Cleveland to play her again if we both won.
For the rest of the trip Danny and I had a great day sight seeing in New York before he left and I flew to Cleveland.