Talk About Tennis 2.0

Poland squeaked through, though Swiatek was her usual dominant self in the third set...

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 1:22 pm Linette pulled out a win over SST..one of the best junk players around...now Swiatek has to live up to her reputation and beat Badosa....on her home court too ! I fully expect Poland to get through..

Magda in 3hr51m

Poland meets Czechia next..Czechs have a good chance, their #2 player, Bouzkova, is better than Poland's, and Siniakova is the greatest doubles player of the generation...

Motivation matters a lot here..The czechs are always highly charged .. remember the way Safarova used to beat everyone! The Poles too, I imagine .my son just came back from doing a concert tour of Poland, he says Swiatek has almost god-like status in Poland, her face on billboards etc...cant imagine any American player being that big in America .not even the greatest of them, Serena...no wonder the US regularly loses to smaller countries....

I went to the Polish market near me the other day and she was on a bottle of vitamin water.

I would post the picture but can't get it small enough lol

court looks on the slow side, it will be tough to beat Swiatek here..

Am astonished at how easily Poland beat Czechia in doubles ..what happened? Anyone see it?

I am a bit puzzled ..when the top singles players show up to play doubles, with no practice, they can still steamroll the best doubles specialists..Siniakova wasn't able to do much, and she is #1 in the world in doubles...Nadal used to show up to play doubles, with Marco Lopez, and the top doubles teams in the world couldn't do much. Are these doubles specialists over-rated?
Anyone have thoughts on this?

Siniakova seems to have played badly - often uncertain which way to go, which is unlike her.. maybe overwhelmed by the presence of Swiatek, lack of practice playing with Bouzkova so uncertain what her partner will do? and great play by Kawa.. she really took the lead and seized the match ..

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 1:27 am I am a bit puzzled ..when the top singles players show up to play doubles, with no practice, they can still steamroll the best doubles specialists..Siniakova wasn't able to do much, and she is #1 in the world in doubles...Nadal used to show up to play doubles, with Marco Lopez, and the top doubles teams in the world couldn't do much. Are these doubles specialists over-rated?
Anyone have thoughts on this?

The best players in the world play singles, and doubles is a fall back for those who can't play singles.

skatingfan wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 3:06 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 1:27 am I am a bit puzzled ..when the top singles players show up to play doubles, with no practice, they can still steamroll the best doubles specialists..Siniakova wasn't able to do much, and she is #1 in the world in doubles...Nadal used to show up to play doubles, with Marco Lopez, and the top doubles teams in the world couldn't do much. Are these doubles specialists over-rated?
Anyone have thoughts on this?

The best players in the world play singles, and doubles is a fall back for those who can't play singles.

i never believed that but now it seems to be so...

Venus and Serena played doubles pretty much only at majors and took home 14 grand slam titles

Federer and Wawrinka took home a gold medal in doubles. Played together even less than Serena and Venus.

Having said that not all singles players are formidable at doubles too. Swiatek had been to GS final in doubles (2021 RG).

Suliso wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 7:48 am Having said that not all singles players are formidable at doubles too. Swiatek had been to GS final in doubles (2021 RG).

Oh? Didn't know that...