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RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - oldalum - 10-22-2018
Quote: 7-5, 6-2 would fit the bill nicely. . . .you were off by one game -- I'm worried you're losing your touch! :)
And Gordon pulled it off 7-5, 6-1
so what was the big Hauger post-loss celebration about? I doubt it was celebrating the privilege of getting to play on the revered Cardinal courts
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-22-2018
From the official Stanford story: “Lampl defeated California's Olivia Hauger 6-1, 6-4 in the other semifinal, improving to 3-1 career against her Golden Bear rival.”
Of course, you faithful CardBoard denizens know Lampl was already 3-1 against Hauger, and now she’s 4-1 (2 wins as a freshman, 1 as a sophomore, and now one as a senior). Official team websites these days, sheesh!
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-23-2018
(10-22-2018, 05:46 PM)oldalum Wrote: so what was the big Hauger post-loss celebration about? I doubt it was celebrating the privilege of getting to play on the revered Cardinal courts
Beats me. I turned it to that court and they looked to be at the net having a discussion with the chair umpire. After the discussion ended, Lampl slowly walked across the court to pick up something, seemingly dejected, while Hauger walked to her coach and gave him a high five. Maybe Lampl had been chastised for excessive celebration or something?
Good news, folks. The guys who do the play-by-play for Stanford's home dual matches will do play-by-play for this match, so starting at 11am, you can tune in and get some decent coverage with the video! And the Stanford/Ole Miss men's match (the last dual at Taube last year) has had its scores wiped from the site, so perhaps that means we'll get live scoring of this one, too. Not sure if that'll extend to the doubles final, but I'm guessing the play-by-play guys will keep one eye on that match, too.
Link here: http://streamingtennis.com/Cardinal/index.html
I'm really happy for Caroline that she's in this position. She had a slight edge over Lord her freshman year, but Lord overtook her sophomore year and hasn't looked back, but if Caroline can become even more of a force at the #3 spot in the lineup, then look out.
My same rationale from the semi holds for the final, I suppose--I want our best players to play like it--but I can't be unhappy with Lampl looking like she's taken a leap in her senior year. In this tournament, she's knocked off the #9 and #34 players in the country, and she's about to play #10. (I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure beating Fung counts as her best win of her college career, rankings-wise.) Meanwhile, Gordon is going to be playing a good player (Lampl is #47 right now, after all) for whom everything is going right. If Caroline keeps that momentum going, I'll be really interested to see how her passionate, high-energy style affects Michaela and her more even-keel on-court persona.
Over for the doubles final, Cal's win in the semi over Oregon makes things nice and simple. From a conference perspective, Madurawe/Yee winning isn't helpful, because that pair won't go to Fall Nationals, and it'll merely open up another at-large spot rather than go to the runner-up, so it'll likely mean less Pac-12 representation at that tournament (which, in turn, affects how good our conference's teams are believed to be, influencing early team rankings). And the tennis world already knows Stanford is really good, as demonstrated by four singles entrants and two doubles teams at Fall Nationals already, and the national championship trophy we just won, and our inevitable preseason #1 ranking. So, you could argue that improved perception of our Pac-12 challengers would be better for us in terms of strength of schedule and all that than winning this title. (I'm not saying I would have been rooting for us to lose--far from it--but this would have been a silver lining if we'd lost.) But we've got two Cal Bears across the net, so we don't need to think about anything other than that. And really, titles matter. Always. The idea that we're a resurgent doubles power that can win regional doubles titles with a team of two players who won't crack the singles lineup is very pleasing.
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-23-2018
FYI, the singles final is on Court 1, and the doubles final is on Court 3, but if you select the Broadcast tab, you'll get commentary (along with an insanely annoying buzzing sound). In singles, Lampl is wearing white and Gordon is in red, while our doubles team is in all white (Cal also .
It's 4-3 Gordon in singles (all games have been breaks of serve except for one Gordon hold, so while it's technically on serve with Lampl up next, she hasn't held serve yet). Stanford was up a break in doubles at 4-3 in the first set, but Cal broke right back to even it up at 4-4.
One error in the commentary, FYI. Not to correct a Hall of Famer, but former coach Frank Brennan stated that Kristie Ahn was a more highly-touted recruit than Nicole Gibbs, and while that was true in their junior year (when Brennan would have been more involved in recruiting them as a volunteer assistant), Gibbs emerged the consensus #1 recruit in the Class of 2010, while Ahn peaked at #5. (Both Gibbs and Ahn were ranked as the top recruit as high school sophomores at various points throughout that year.)
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-23-2018
And Gordon breaks Lampl again to take the first set, 6-4. A lot of exciting shots from Lampl in that first set, with great court movement, but a lot of unforced errors as well. Gordon, by contrast, covered a lot of ground and did very well, but didn't find much of a rhythm on her serve, though she didn't have to get outside herself.
Cal won three straight games in doubles to take a lead in the first set, 6-5, with Yee serving to force a tiebreaker.
Gordon leads 6-4, 1-0 after holding to open the second set. It's weird to watch Lampl be so restrained in a match--perhaps she just doesn't feel like shouting so much when she's playing a teammate--so perhaps playing Gordon is keeping Lampl from emotionally getting into the match.
A tiebreaker now for the first set in doubles!
Cal takes the tiebreaker 7-1 and leads 7-6.
Meanwhile, back on singles, Gordon was up 3-1, 40-15, in the second set, but Lampl won three straight points to get back on serve at 3-2 down.
Current Associate Head Coach Frankie Brennan has just joined the broadcast team, so this is as close as you're going to get to hearing the coaching staff talk about current players. Good stuff on the differing styles between Gordon and Lampl.
Gordon breaks Lampl again and quickly consolidates to go up 6-4, 5-2. Lampl serving now to stay in the match.
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-23-2018
Lampl holds to get it to 5-3, and Gordon will serve for the match. Lampl is fighting, though.
In doubles, Stanford had been down 0-2 in the second set but have evened it up at 2-2.
Lampl isn't done yet, as she just broke Gordon with some fantastic, loose shotmaking to get it back on serve at 5-4 Gordon. Lampl will now serve to stay in the match.
No problem there, as Lampl holds solidly to get to 5-5, and then stays aggressive to force Gordon into some mistakes and ultimately a break, and Lampl now leads the second set 6-5, and she'll serve for the set.
Cal now up 4-3 in the second set in doubles.
Lampl tightened up a bit serving for the match, and Gordon forces a second set tiebreak, which Lampl currently leads 3-2. Lampl is really dictating so far in the tiebreaker, and was playing a perfect fourth point until she dumped one into the net.
Cal up 5-4 in the second set in doubles, so it's getting tight....
Lampl pulls out the tiebreaker 7-5 to level the match at one set apiece.
In doubles, Stanford has taken a 6-5 lead in the second set, and will try and force a third set on Cal's serve coming up shortly.
Stanford takes the second set, 7-5, and the doubles final is even at a set apiece! I wasn't sure if they were going to play a ten-point match tiebreaker or a full third set, but it's a supertiebreak, and Stanford has a 4-2 lead.
In singles, though, it's a full third set, with Gordon breaking Lampl to take a 1-0 lead.
Madurawe is really owning the lines in doubles. They're playing well right now, I think up 9-4.
Gordon consolidated and broke again, so it's 3-0 in the third set.
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-23-2018
Stanford wins the doubles, with Madurawe/Yee winning 4-6, 7-5, 10-5!
Lampl just got a crucial hold to stay in the match, but Gordon leads 4-1 and is serving now.
Lampl isn't moving quite as well, though, and Gordon is just always there.
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - oldalum - 10-23-2018
Frankie Brennan's commentary is really enlightening. Learning a lot from him.
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-23-2018
(10-23-2018, 01:35 PM)oldalum Wrote: Frankie Brennan's commentary is really enlightening. Learning a lot from him.
It's great to get a window into the program. We so rarely get to hear stuff like that, so I'm eating it up.
And Gordon pulls it out, 6-4, 6-7, 6-2! Lampl just didn't quite have enough in the tank at the end, and her leg was bothering her, but she never stopped going for shots. My takeaways:
* Gordon is such a good all-court player. Not sure she did anything that great today, but she was very good across everything (except serving, where she didn't seem to have her pace fully in hand).
* Lampl's forehand is terrifying. She can hit it anywhere from anywhere, and with incredible pace. Goodness, what a weapon that is. I mean, we've known this, but I haven't had the chance to watch a Lampl match from beginning to end before, and it sure stands out.
* No one served terribly well. It's early yet, though, so that's not a big deal.
* What a great run for Lampl. If she's going to be this good going forward, this year could be another special one.
* Gordon wins her second ITA Northwest Regional championship in a row. Not too shabby.
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-23-2018
FYI, I was eyeballing results from other regionals, and there were enough surprise results that Shin could sneak in as an at-large berth. Sending five singles players to Fall Nationals would be quite something, to say the least.
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - oldalum - 10-23-2018
Interesting that for the trophy picture they put Yee and Maduraw between Gordon and Lampl! Reminds me of Frankie Brennan's story about how Nicole Gibbs and Mallory Burdette had to play each other in a tournament for the singles championship (I think; Gibbs won), and after the match they had to keep them separated for an hour, then they gradually started bringing them together so that they could play their doubles championship match (which they won).
This was my first look at Madurawe and she is impressive. If we can avoid the injury bug we are going to have a great team this year.
RE: Women's Tennis Preview Vol. II: Northwest Regionals - ColoradoTree - 10-23-2018
(10-23-2018, 03:52 PM)oldalum Wrote: Interesting that for the trophy picture they put Yee and Maduraw between Gordon and Lampl! Reminds me of Frankie Brennan's story about how Nicole Gibbs and Mallory Burdette had to play each other in a tournament for the singles championship (I think; Gibbs won), and after the match they had to keep them separated for an hour, then they gradually started bringing them together so that they could play their doubles championship match (which they won).
This was my first look at Madurawe and she is impressive. If we can avoid the injury bug we are going to have a great team this year.
That story was great! I wondered the same thing when I saw the picture, but I also thought it could have just been that Lampl and Yee are close friends/classmates/usual doubles partners, so it would have been natural for them to gravitate to one another when it was time to take the picture. Also, I wonder if Gordon and Madurawe know each other from junior tennis, too (they're both from the South Bay, with Madurawe from Sunnyvale and Gordon from Saratoga). Gordon and Arbuthnott managed a smile together last year, but Lampl is, ahem, a bit more fiery than Arbuthnott, so I wouldn't be surprised!