Talk About Tennis 2.0

Suliso wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:21 pm Fernandez beating Samsonova is mildy surprising.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:46 pm Much as I love Rybakina, I predict she will NOT win this one...her ability to play great two weeks in a row is suspect...mentally, physically not strong enough yet..look at the way she rolled through Brisbane and then stalled in Adelaide..same story last year with IW and Miami..hope she learns and endures but has she got there yet?

Suliso wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:06 pm I doubt it and of course Samsonova will not win either.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:53 pm

Suliso wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:06 pm I doubt it and of course Samsonova will not win either.

That USO final between Emma and Leylah has the chance of going down as the oddest final ever. Because I also doubt Leylah will win a major ever. No size and not enough power.

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:12 pm Osaka had a nice 5 and 4 win against Garcia. Won it on her first MP and on Caro's first serve. I only saw the last few games, but Osaka was pretty solid and Garcia was up and down - spectacular plays but then some stinker errors. Osaka looked thrilled with the win.

martini4me wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:50 am Pliskova won the tournament in Romania Sunday, took an eight-hour flight to Doha and had to play her first-round match Monday night, coming back to defeat Kalinskaya in three sets.

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:40 pm ...

Looking more and more like it. Leylah had four wild wins on the US Open run - Osaka, Kerber, Svitolina, and Sabalenka in three tight sets, a couple times being 2 points from losing. It's not the kind of thing you can sustain week in and week out. But you never know. She's a legit top-30 player, doesn't give up, and could get lucky with a draw or hit a super high level for awhile. That's why they all keep playing. I thought she might be a Top 10 fixture, and maybe there is still time - she's kind of like Svitolina, right? And that woman knows how to win matches.

Imagine telling Leylah she would win those 4 outstanding matches and then lose the final to a lower-ranked wild card.

The big storyline in the 2021 Open was the rise of the teens, because in addition to Emma and Leylah, Alcaraz beat Tsitsipas 7-6 in the fifth and made the quarters (losing in a walkover to FAA, of all things)... Just goes to show how flimsy these one-Slam storylines are. And a lot of tennis story lines. They reflect a small snapshot of time.