Tennis A tennis match isn’t over until the last ball is hit. That must be Tara Moore have thought when she got a matchpoint in a seemingly losing 0-6, 0-5 deficit. The British picked up the point, game, set, and later the party: 0-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6-3.
At the Challenger-tournament in Sunderland seemed to be the French Jessika Ponchet on the way to a walk-over. The third-seeded tennis player was still three quarters of an hour necessary to matchpoint against Moore. To the thuisspeelster to a miraculous resurrection began.
Moore, the number 479 of the world, worked the matchpoint road and won six games in a row in a tiebreak out of the fire. Which she won and then the resistance of her verbouwereerde opponent was broken. After 2 hours, 16 minutes she stretched her arms triumphantly in the air.
Moore reached thanks to her comeback in the second round of the ITF tournament, where Thursday the German Yana Morderger or Elena-Teodora Cadar from Romania wait.
