Re(1): Monday, 11/17 streaming at 4:15pm EST Posted on November 17, 2025 at 06:23:04 PM by jatna77
Thanks yet again Jailife16.
Spoilers:
Set 1
Laduche and Zabala got off to a slow start with Zabala missing a few catches and Laduche looking lethargic. Meanwhile Olharan and Gorka were firing on all cylinders and before I knew it, the score was 7-3. Suddenly Laduche seemed to wake up and made some great shots. Olharan adjusted though and started to counter them while also making his own excellent shots.
Gorka looked much better than he did in his last outing. By the end of the set, Laduche slowed down a bit but Olharan continued to kick ass. One outside placement off the rebote was especially sweet.
Set 2
The first half of this set had quite few unforced errors and misses from Gorka, Zabala and Laduche but Olharan stayed strong. In the middle of set 2, Laduche picked it up a bit with a winning, short inside placement followed by a nice pica that caught Gorka under the bridge. But then he bunged it all up with an under-serve and lost the momentum.
Olharan threw a lovely, winning outside placement but on the next point Gorka missed a fast ball coming at him and then followed that up with a juggle.
Gorka then got eaten up by a sizzling low fast ball. The score was now 9-10. Olharan choose that inopportune time to make his 3rd mistake all game, by throwing a split placement out of bounds. Perhaps it just clipped wrong. 10-10.
Laduche did the exact same thing on the next point. 10-11. Next, Olharan threw a very hard and low inside placement that was simply uncatchable. 10-12. Gorka made Laduche backpedal too fast to get a hard thrown ball and Laduche borked the rebote. 10-13. Then Gorka got caught under the bridge again mid-court. 11-13. Olharan intercepted the serve and returned a scorcher that Zabala could not catch. 11-14. Laduche intercepted the serve but threw it into the pad. Game over.
It was not the most exciting game to be honest but not bad. There were 2 cracks or deep scratches in the glass in front of the main camera that were quite distracting. I hope they fix that glass for the next match. Bullet-proof glass is what you want gentlemen! Replies:
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