Gabbie had a long day of tennis on Friday. She started with a round of 16 match against Jasmine Minor from Mundeleine. The match was a very tense three setter that was moved indoors because of rain. Indoor scoring is No-Ad scoring, so when games reach 40-40, the next point is a sudden death point that decides the game. The closeness of the match is best explaind by a single statistic rather than by the final score: Gabbie and Jasmine played 14 sudden death points in three sets, and Gabbie lost 9 of them.Both girls were nervous in the first set and there was a succession of service breaks and sudden death game points. Gabbie was down a break twice and found herself at 2-5. She rallied with a service break and a hold of serve to get to 4-5. But Jasmine was able to hold on and serve out the set 6-4.Gabbie served to start the second set, but the same pattern continued with several close games and four service breaks in a row. At 2-2 Gabbie held serve with a service winner for a 3-2 lead. She slowly found her form and earned herself another service break for 4-2. Then Gabbie held for 5-2 and broke Jasmine with a blistering forehand up the line winner to take the second set 6-2. Finally, after 90 minutes, the match was even at one set apiece.The third set also began with several service breaks. The games were hard fought and close, but Gabbie fell behind 0-4 before she was able to start a rally.Gabbie is still in the tournament after winning her matches in the fifth and sixth round of the backdraw

Posted on October 31st, 2008 by ghanck
Filed under: HS Girls Tennis