Hello everyone,
I can say there were some good matches in the early rounds (like you hadn't all already noticed). I was the last match to start so I got to watch most of them.
Jasmin and Kelly was a back and forth match pretty much the whole way. Jasmin pulled ahead 7-5 and made a jump shot on the 7 but scratched. After that, Kelly took control and won 9-7.
Line and Jennifer Chen waited on that match and you could kind of tell the time got to them. Line was ahead 3-1 but then Jennifer really turned it on and played well from there. I can't remember the final score.
As usual, Allison is in Allison form and rolling through everyone. She is playing really well. Karen is the same, playing really well. Ga Young and Xiao-ting are also playing well. Pan's match got over pretty quick so I didn't catch any of it.
My match with Gerda was kind of ugly. Neither of us played great. I can say that I know I made way too many costly mistakes and paid for them. The final score was 9-7.
I have to give a congrats so far to Eleanor Callado who is playing great and showed what she is made of by breaking and running out hill-hill against Helena. And Caroline Pao who is also having a great tournament so far. Both are really great people so it's great to see them doing well.
The losers bracket is going to be very interesting. Many of the top players are clustered together. Obviously this means some of them have to lose. Keeping the new ranking system in mind...there will be a shake-up.
As for me, I'm being lazy today so I'm not sure if I am going to watch matches during the day or not. I'll try to remember whats going on and give updates but for those of you who know me know my memory is a little iffy.
Yobagua...wish you could have made it down. Not too often you can catch the girls playing.
Sarah