Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Ewwwbourne

Sunday in the seaside town of Eastbourne left us with one of the best series of coaching timeouts. In what was Dasha Kasatkina's first grass court match ever against 2014 Wimbledon Junior Champion Jelena Ostepenko. After a break laden first set won by Kasatkina to say that Ostepenko was not pleased with this outcome or her surroundings would be putting it lightly.



Ostepenko then won the second set after disagreeing with many line calls on the hawkeye-less Court 1.
She was also unimpressed by Dasha's spin laden game.  

For Kasatkina a very well fought match for her first competitive experience on the surface. Her coach put it well when he said the most important thing is intensity. This was a great set of pointers of how you must play on grass.


Overall it was a very entertain match by all involved. Looking foward to these two playing each other in the future. As well as how Kasatkina's develops her game for grass in the future.

In her second round match today Ostepenko lost in straight sets to Cibulkova but not without more fan fair.









Hope you ended up enjoying your stay in Eastbourne Jelena.