Canberra Velocity’s women’s team crashed out of Asia-Pacific Tennis League contention with a hard-fought 2-4 loss against Korea in the national finals at Melbourne Park today.
Velocity’s wildcard player Chanelle Scheepers, ranked 79, proved too strong from the back of the court for So Jung Kim, ranked 514, winning 4-3 (5-0), 4-2 to give Canberra the early advantage.
Korea then levelled the tie when Min Hwa Yu saved a match point in the sixth game of the second set before beating Canberra’s Ashley Keir 1-4, 4-3 (5-1), 4-2.
Alison Bai, ranked 471, put Velocity ahead again with an impressive 4-2, 2-4, 4-2 victory against Sun Jung Kim before Tyra Calderwood lost her match against Ji Hee Choi, ranked 620, 1-4, 4-2, 0-4.
With the tie level at 2-2, Velocity needed to win one of the doubles matches in straight sets to clinch the tie.
However Keir-Calderwood could only manage three games in their match against So Jung Kim-Choi, losing 2-4, 1-4 and Scheepers/Bai went down in a third-set super-tiebreak against Sun Jung Kim-Yu 4-0, 2-4 (7-10).
Keir ranked 1130
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