Talk About Tennis 2.0

How do you fix that forehand? To me, she has to move her grip a bit towards an eastern. It is too extreme right now.
And that, at this stage of her career, is almost impossible.

Tignor picked Badosa over Gauff today and Keys over Rybaknina yesterday, for the he doesn't know anything about tennis crowd.

Making predictions is a hard business, and when the "media person" gets its wrong, people jump all over him. Just ask Wertheim about that.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:00 am How do you fix that forehand? To me, she has to move her grip a bit towards an eastern. It is too extreme right now.
And that, at this stage of her career, is almost impossible.

I agree. Fix was probably the wrong word. Manage it without getting into a funk is probably the better way of putting it, which she has done when she was on good runs. But it's why I've never been as high on her as others have been even though she moves incredibly well, appears to have her head on straight and has a heck of a backhand.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:00 am How do you fix that forehand? To me, she has to move her grip a bit towards an eastern. It is too extreme right now.
And that, at this stage of her career, is almost impossible.

It is more the footwork than the grip she needs to fix- she gets too close to the ball and so cannot put her body weight into the shot..not so hard to do. On this kind of court, many players have done well with her kind of grip...including Nadal. I agree it will be a problem on low bouncing courts like grass..

jazzyg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:06 am Tignor picked Badosa over Gauff today and Keys over Rybaknina yesterday, for the he doesn't know anything about tennis crowd.

Making predictions is a hard business, and when the "media person" gets its wrong, people jump all over him. Just ask Wertheim about that.

It is their job to know the game.i agree anyone can make wrong predictions, including all of us. It is when the argument for the prediction shows such lack of understanding of the game, that I call it out. Keys over Rybakina was not that unexpected, Keys had been playing very well and Ryba has not. Badosa over Coco is more of a surprise but we all know Coco has problems with her forehand.

What was reason Tignor picked Badosa?

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:26 am

jazzyg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:06 am Tignor picked Badosa over Gauff today and Keys over Rybaknina yesterday, for the he doesn't know anything about tennis crowd.

Making predictions is a hard business, and when the "media person" gets its wrong, people jump all over him. Just ask Wertheim about that.

It is their job to know the game.

Sports are too unpredictable to say people in the business should know the game and get all their picks right.

Besides, if they actually could do that they’d be betting and making money off it instead.

patrick wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 3:37 am What was reason Tignor picked Badosa?

No idea. I don't follow him..just to be clear, i was not commenting on his gauff-badosa pick, didn't even know about it till somebody here pointed it out

He did not give a reason. He writes about both players and sometimes gives a concrete reason for his pick, but this time he did not. My guess is the fact a rusty Bencic took a set off of Gauff was his rationale because when he picked that match, he mentioned there was no reason to expect someone just coming back from having a kid should be able to beat an in-form player like Gauff.

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 10:38 pm

sleepyzombie wrote:How do you all rate Tommy Paul’s chances today?

30/70. Paul just hasn’t won the big matches. And Zverev is in fine form.


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You nailed it with the big-match comment. Paul should have won both of the first two sets but tightened up when he served for it each time and was awful in the tiebreaks.

Pavs faded in her usual manner when under pressure losing to Sabalenka in three sets 2-6, 6-3, 3-6

Alcaraz certainly has a better serving action now..it was shorter more slapping..there was a pause before he hit the ball. Glad to see it, the earlier action could have damaged his back

Djokovic seems injured, hobbling..

What. A. Nightmare.

Take your pick what I am referring to.

So much for the younger generation having taken over completely...