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Samantha succeeds at the LAAC
Well it wasn't quite the marathon of yesterday, but it was another
intense battle between two determined women, and once again it was
the Mexican who came out on top.
 Samantha
Teran will rarely change her game plan - drive it low and hard, run
after everything - and few can beat her at it. Although Louise Crome
tried to mix it up where she could, the heat and the unrelenting
pressure from her opponent made it difficult to do that for any
length of time, so she found herself embroiled in so many of those
gruelling rallies that Samantha thrives on.
Samantha started quickly, forcing the pace as ever, and went 8/1 up
relatively quickly, but not easily. Seventeen hand-outs came and
went before Louise broke the deadlock, but it was too late and on
her twelfth game ball the top seed took the lead.
A quick 4/0 lead was enough to see her home in the second, and the
same was true for Louise in the third as she reduced the deficit.
Once again in the fourth Samantha took the early advantage, not
quickly this time though, she got the better of several brutal hard
driving rallies. 5/0 always looked like a winning lead though, and
she kept up the pace and the momentum, this time needing only two
chances to finish it off and claim her 11th career title, her fourth
of the year.
 "Louise
is difficult to play, she has very good technique and hits the ball
hard so I had to really work to win. I think I played better than I
did yesterday, I had to think more, otherwise it would have been
even longer.
"It took a long time to win the first, but even with so many
handouts I didn't let it get to me - she was winning the points, I
wasn't losing them, so there wasn't the pressure you can sometimes
feel at times like that.
"She played very well at the end of the second, I was happy to win
that one, but in the third I made some mistakes at the start which
cost me that game.
"This is my favourite event - Bob is great, we keep in touch all
year, it's not too far from home and there's lots of Mexicans here
to support me, we even went out for some Mexican food last night!"
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 "I
knew that Samantha would be driving the ball hard and low, that's
her game.
"So I changed my game plan for today and I was trying to slow it
down and control it, but it's so hot on there and it was hard not to
get drawn into her game.
"All credit to her, she played really well, she basically did to me
what I did to Aisling yesterday.
"It's been a really great week, good experience for me and I've
really enjoyed it, thanks to Bob and the club.
"Next week it's Mexico with a similar draw to here, so I hope I'll
do at least as well there ..."
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