[1] Tesni Murphy (WAL) 3-0 [8] Millie Tomlinson (ENG) 3-0 11-5, 11-4, 11-9 (44m)
Very good quality match, with the players working pretty hard, Tesni making 2 errors the whole match, and Millie 4! When you think that the last game alone was 17m.
Millie was disappointed with her performance, I wasn’t. I thought she really took the game to Tesni, forced her to get into long rallies and offered us a really nice match to watch.
Millie : I’m not happy with my performance today, very disappointed really. My length wasn’t good enough on the backhand side, I was leaving it in the middle, and she was just making space and then hit it nicely, I was putting myself in trouble there…
Tesni
“I played her earlier this year at Germany and we had an absolute scrap, so I knew exactly what to expect. We played in juniors together and she always beat me. Millie is so experienced and it’s so good to see her playing at this high level again, because she has obviously had many injuries over the years.
“I handled it really well in the first two games, but she came back at me really well in the third game and challenged me with a few different tactics.
“I think the main thing when it gets scrappy is to just go back to the basics. I think I play really well when I keep the ball straight, and Millie wants it open and in the middle.”
