ATP M1000 WTA 1000 BNP Paribas Open/Indian Wells 3/5 -3/16 2025

[ashkor87]

Rune clearly doesnt have the big weapons to win on a slow surface.. good game, though, for grass and faster surfaces...could do well at W at this rate.

[ashkor87]

It is time for the tours to speed up the courts (well, it has been time for me since around 2008). As you say, it gets to the point that you can't hit a winner. The players are hitting 25 shots, and 11 of them would have been clean winners in 1985. Nowadays, you have to keep playing until the point ends in an UE, which in the stats makes it look like the match was crap.
New stat that I would like to see: off ALL the strokes you hit, how many were errors. I would bet that both tours would scores in the mid 90%.

Plus, it would let S&V come back.

well, the crowd loves these 38 shot rallies so...

[mick1303]

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Mirra Andreeva becomes the 3rd woman to beat the world #1 and the world #2 in the same tournament before the age of 18.

Steffi Graf.

Serena Williams.

Mirra Andreeva.

Chills.

Honest question... Do we distinguish between Graf beating Navratilova and Evert, Serena beating Hingis and Davenport, and Andreeva beating Sabalenka and Swiatek? Personally, I'd rank Graf's accomplishment #1, Serena's #2, and Andreeva's a rather distant #3. But I'm movable on this. (A little.)

We'll see about this only after Sabalenka and Swiatek careers will end, but I'm not ready to say that Hingis/Davenport is historically a stronger duo than Sabalenka/Swiatek.

[ponchi101]

Total slams say they are fairly even, when comparing Hingis/Davenport to Iga/Aryna. Stands at 8 a piece right now, and neither Iga nor Aryna seem to be finished yet.
And anyway, it is one of those interesting bit of trivia. I would not make much of it.

Mirra made the semis last year at RG. She has now beaten Iga on a slow court, and she trains in France. Can we have a competitive RG this year? Nothing would please me more than Mirra and Iga in the QF's. And Iga going down.