Day 10 Women’s Match Racing:
Racing remained close between teams competing in the stage two Round Robin with the competitors aiming to increase their standings before the end of the repechage round on Tuesday.
It was a good day for New Zealand’s Stephanie Hazard, with wins against Great Britain’s Lucy Macgregor and Finland’s Silija Lehtinen.
With the wind again proving to be fickle, the course was changed to a four lap configuration, meaning the races had to be broken up a bit with a gap between the first two and last two matches.
Increasingly bad weather in the late afternoon forced the race committee to postpone the last two matches of Flight 74 until Tuesday.
At the end of Monday’s racing, the top teams in stage two were Macgregor (GBR) on 9 wins and 2 losses, with the two Australian teams close behind, both on 8 wins and 3 losses.
France’s Claire Leroy will go into quarterfinals in top spot after winning her two matches against USA-1 in the seeding matches held earlier in the day. Anna Tunnicliffe (USA-1) will be second in the Gold Group, followed by Ekaterina Skudina (RUS) in third and Mandy Mulder (NED-1) in fourth position.
Stage two Round Robin repechage continues on Tuesday with the remaining flights scheduled from 1200 local.
Gold Group Seeding Determined
Day 10 of Women’s Match Racing began on Monday 12 December in Fremantle’s Inner Harbour with racing to determine the seeding for the top ranked Gold Group going into the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
After winning her two matches against USA-1, France’s Claire Leroy will go into the quarterfinals in top position followed by Anna Tunnicliffe (USA-1) in second spot.
“It was all down to my crew,” Leroy said, "Elodie (Bertrand) said there was more wind to the left side of the course and we gybed there to get to it and win the second match."
Rounding out the top four of the Gold Group is Ekaterina Skudina (RUS) in third spot. She beat Mandy Mulder (NED-1) in two of their three matches, leaving Mulder in fourth position.
The grandstand took on a Christmas feel as they got back into the stage 2 round robin repechage in the afternoon, with strains of Christmas carols playing at the request of the Danish team.
Most matchups were fairly close all day, with the competitors aiming to increase their standings before the end of the repechage round on Tuesday.
It was a good day for New Zealand’s Stephanie Hazard, with wins against Great Britain’s Lucy Macgregor and Finland’s Silija Lehtinen.
With the wind again proving to be fickle, the course was changed to a four lap configuration, meaning the races had to be broken up with a gap between the first two and last two matches.
Increasingly bad weather in the late afternoon forced the race committee to postpone the last two matches of Flight 74 until Tuesday.
At the end of Monday’s racing, the top teams in Stage 2 were Macgregor (GBR) on 9 wins and 2 losses, with the two Australian teams (Souter and Price) close behind, both on 8 wins and 3 losses.
Stage 2 round robin repechage continues Tuesday with the remaining flights scheduled from 1200 local time.
(From the Perth 2011 website: www.Perth2011.com)
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