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19 year old Ayumi Morita (JPN, 103) was ranked as high as 65 just 6 months ago. |
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She's known for her strong, flat and consistent two-handed groundstrokes. |
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She is mentally tough for a young player and is quick, with excellent footwork and movement around the court. |
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Despite a fairly poor start to the year she has been competitive against top players and had a good straight sets win |
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in round 1. |
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She will be very motivated for more success this week. |
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Zi Yan (CHN, 400) is a doubles specialist that has been ranked as high as 40 in singles but has shown nothing like |
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that sort of form in the last couple of years. |
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In recent months she's had losses against players ranked 198, 249, 206 and 362 and has been thrashed by better |
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players such as Chang (102) 6-0 6-2 and U Radwanska (62) 6-1 6-2. |
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Yesterday I underestimated the seriousness of her opponent Melinda Czink's injury which clearly effected her
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during the match, and Yan was able to pull through in a 3rd set tie-break in a match that lasted almost 3 hours. |
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Both players have similar styles but Morita is a far more consistent singles player as their rankings suggest. 1.57 |
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looks very good value to me. |
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