Talk About Tennis 2.0

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 12:32 pm

Suliso wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 10:27 am Way too much expectations for Eala. At least this year.

young people are fearless, they dont know any better! See Becker, Hingis, Raducanu, Leylah...

That's selection bias don't you think?

Suliso wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:49 pm

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 12:32 pm

Suliso wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 10:27 am Way too much expectations for Eala. At least this year.

young people are fearless, they dont know any better! See Becker, Hingis, Raducanu, Leylah...

That's selection bias don't you think?

huh?

Lots of young players, but you we remember those who suceeded early. Can't make a valid conclusion that young players are particularly fearless.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 9:17 am expected SF lineup if all goes well : Eala versus Rybakina, Sabalenka versus Paolini..it could be Maria instead of Eala of course..and Swiatek instead of Rybakina?

Out of that list, Sabalenka is the only one who will go that far

See all the thousands of players that did NOT make it to a GS Semi final before the age of 20, or ever.
Eala is good, but we are still under the mirage of her run at Miami. She did not play well during the clay court season, and her good showing at Eastbourne was at a tournament with a medium strength field.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 5:37 pm See all the thousands of players that did NOT make it to a GS Semi final before the age of 20, or ever.
Eala is good, but we are still under the mirage of her run at Miami. She did not play well during the clay court season, and her good showing at Eastbourne was at a tournament with a medium strength field.

I dont agree but we shall see..she seems to have the game for grass, from what I have seen...I go by fundamentals, not much by results and ranking

I've been hearing about Eala for a good three to four years now. The rap on her has always been her size but I think the success of Paolini has made that argument moot.

Seeing her falter today made me think she's still a year or two away from being able to compete mentally and physically with the top players. As I said Joint continued to play while Eala was taking a mental victory lap. Vondrousova first round should really make it clear to her how far she still has to go in my opinion.

Eala is not particularly short (5 ft 9, 1.75 m). What do we think about Joint? She's younger than Eala.

Tough first round matches : Vondrousovaa versus Kessler.. Kessler is plaing very well, has the right game.. of course, V is a champion, but it is a difficult first round for her.. Krejcikova versus Eala, ofcourse, Bencic versus Parks, Joint versus Samsonova, TT versus Kenin - all tough, could go either way... worthy of a third round at least..

Suliso wrote: ↑Sun Jun 29, 2025 3:42 am Eala is not particularly short (5 ft 9, 1.75 m). What do we think about Joint? She's younger than Eala.

Joint is clearly very good, she was a bit fortunate to beat Eala but you always need luck.. she is going to do well, not just at Wimbledon..she will go certainly to the fourth round, provided she gets past Samsonova, which I think she will.. where she meets Coco... can she beat Coco? Possibly but a bit unlikely, I would say..

Joint also won a title just before the French Open and then lost there in the first round.

I do think Eala has a chance to upset Krejcikova in this one specific instance, defending all those points and seemingly injured.

Raducanu agrees with me about young people, and she should know

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