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Now Coco losing to Mboko looks a little less bad...

Mboko beat 4 Major champions in a row..has that ever been done before?!

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:03 am Mboko beat 4 Major champions in a row..has that ever been done before?!

i see that has been answered on another board...

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:03 am Mboko beat 4 Major champions in a row..has that ever been done before?!

It wasn't in a row - Bouzas Maniero was in the middle - but it has been done before in a single tournament.

Never seen Osaka so grumpy after a match.. she was really upset.. wonder why? Crowd against her? losing to a kid?

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 1:09 am After that miraculous get she stopped playing.

it was already 5-1 though?

I have always found Osaka to be shockingly self-absorbed, even for a tennis player. I never get on other people for who they pull for because different opinions make the world go around, and my god, I pulled for Fognini, but it's been a mystery to me why Osaka in particular is a fan favorite. She consistently rubs me the wrong way, and her behavior last night reinforced that feeling.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:03 am Mboko beat 4 Major champions in a row..has that ever been done before?!

Kournikova beat four slam champions in a row at the 1998 tournament in Key Biscayne--Seles, Martinez, Davenport and Sanchez-Vicarioi--before losing to Venus in three sets in the final. The trope on Kournikova, particularly from non-tennis people--is she was an over-hyped hack who only got attention because of the way she looked. She never won a tournament, but I'd say taking down those four and nearly beating Venus in the final trumped picking up random titles in Monterrey or San Diego.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 1:58 am Now Coco losing to Mboko looks a little less bad...

Totally. It becomes an acceptable loss, although the score is still a bit worrisome.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 1:09 am After that miraculous get she stopped playing.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 12:55 am Both Naomi and Victoria started out nervous in the third set but Mboko recovered first and after Naomi hit a ball out in frustration the match was Victoria's who romped 6-1 in the third set.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:57 am Never seen Osaka so grumpy after a match.. she was really upset.. wonder why? Crowd against her? losing to a kid?

Osaka actually checked out early in the second set. Does anyone else listen to Cam Williams's Tennis Talk during matches? He seemed to think that Osaka was upset that the crowd was so clearly against her (as he said many times, "They're not cheering against you, Naomi, they're cheering for your opponent. It's not personal against you."). I don't know if it was after the point where she hit the ball out (and received a warning), but she was mentally out of it for the last half of the match. She could hit a blazing winner, or a bad error, and had absolutely no reaction either way. And then she started playing way too fast--at one point she seemed about to start her service motion WAY before Mboko was anywhere near ready.

martini4me wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 10:16 pm Osaka actually checked out early in the second set. Does anyone else listen to Cam Williams's Tennis Talk during matches?

Yes, I quite enjoy his commentary, and the community as well.