ifmanis5 said:Twitter now blaming James Blake for Serena's loss.
Maybe it was the headset's fault?
ifmanis5 said:Twitter now blaming James Blake for Serena's loss.
jon abbey said:19 unforced errors for Serena in the third set in 10 games. Vinci only got 11 of 30 first serves in during the third set, but Serena just kept going for her normal winners and missing.
jon abbey said:Disagree that Vinci played great, Serena was awful those last two sets. Even easy overheads took 2-3 extra shots to put away, and sitter after sitter she hit wide or into the net. Chris Evert said afterwards that Serena looked frozen, once she started missing attempted winners off Vinci's puffballs, she had no backup plan and Vinci made her generate all of the pace herself. Vinci didn't beat herself (although she tried at times), but just a horrendous collapse by Serena.
Again, I love Serena and have rooted for her in pretty much every match her whole career, but no way Navratilova or Graf blows such a big match so badly.
jon abbey said:11 of 30 first serves isn't mistake-free play. Vinci gets credit for mostly not beating herself, but 95 percent of it is on Serena playing horrendously IMO.
johnmd20 said:
So the only way Serena loses is by beating herself? This is unfair to the pluck and consistent tennis Vinci played in the last two sets. She never gave up on any point and hung around long enough to get Serena to start thinking.
gingerbreadmann said:So just for the sake of discussion I'm curious who you think would have actually lost to Serena today given how much fault you're ascribing to her. Would we have to go outside the top 75? 100?
I only saw the third set but that is exactly what I saw.jon abbey said:11 of 30 first serves isn't mistake-free play. Vinci gets credit for mostly not beating herself, but 95 percent of it is on Serena playing horrendously IMO.
Definitely broke Djoker's rhythm.johnmd20 said:Djok falls pretty hard. Seems to have been an advantage for Fed.
ifmanis5 said:Amazing he didn't blow out his ankle there.