TENNIS star Emily Webley-Smith continued her comeback from injury by reaching the final of the $10,000 tournament in Evansville Indianapolis, USA.
In the first round she took on the American Sarah Fansler.
After losing the first set 6-4, Webley-Smith, who is a product of Almondsbury Tennis club, settled into her game to take the next two sets 6-3, 7-6 and move forward to the second round where she met another American Brook Bollender.
This turned out to be another tough contest, but Webley-Smith showed her continued improvement on fitness to take the final set 6-2 and move into the quarter-finals.
Thornbury-born Webley-Smith, then met Chieu-Yu Hsu, also American, and came through this challenge successfully taking the final set 6-4.
She was now through to the semi-finals where she came up against the Slovakian Zuzana Zemenova and she knew this was going to be her toughest contest to date.
This proved to be the case when she went down 6-1 in the first set but Webley-Smith is improving with every game, and clawed her way back to take the second set 6-3.
This meant it was all to play for in the final set and she shone through winning 7-5 and so completed her path to the final.
Alas, that was to be Webley-Smith’s last success as she went down 6-3, 6-4 to the talented Megan Moulton-Levy.
However, this was only her second tournament since she broke her leg in Australia and was out of the game for six months and even though she is without sponsorship at the moment, her efforts to move up the world rankings seem assured.
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