Im far too emotionally invested for a third round match. My standing heart rate must've been 100 BPM during that breaker and I'm struggling to type this out. What a win.
Isn't the fact that she reached 4 straight GS finals kinda evidence that she is obviously still good enough to last the fortnight and win them? Given her career history in finals, it's a huge fluke that she lost all of those.She's lost four Grand Slam finals in a row, all in straight sets, all to different players, I think the window may have closed.
That being said, Patrick McEnroe strongly disagreed right after the match and said she is still good enough to win majors, so what do I know?
I mean, she’s 38 now, don’t think the career history is too relevant. Going from memory, she hasn’t been tested much leading into those finals and finally now young players like Osaka and Gauff and Andreescu are emerging.Isn't the fact that she reached 4 straight GS finals kinda evidence that she is obviously still good enough to last the fortnight and win them? Given her career history in finals, it's a huge fluke that she lost all of those.
Well, perhaps obviously, the top 16 ranked or seeded players don't all make the round of 16. Median expectation seems to be about half do.I did top 16 players, not top 8, so your math should be for round of 16 onwards.
Right, no one cares whether those two make the semis or not and no one is talking about that, it is all about titles or not for them and Nadal and Novak. Serena is trying to beat Court, the three men are trying to end up with the most Slams, it is little consolation to Serena that she has made four finals in the last two years, I am quite sure. You can say those finals show that she is close, and I say that the four straight asskickings in finals show that she's not really that close.I'll happily put even money on either one of them reaching a GS semifinal in the remainder of this year.
And my point, more for Serena than Federer, is that when she runs into someone both good and playing well these days, she generally loses and it's not usually close.My point was just that both Serena and Federer have proven their ability to still win the big ones by virtue of getting very, very close to doing so.
I don't think it's a taboo subject, I just think it'd be a poor idea from the perspective of what her game is all about:I hope this isn’t a landmine, but I’d imagine being naturally lighter like Federer is more conducive to longevity in a sport like tennis.
If she’s able, I wonder if Serena wouldn’t benefit from losing some muscle.
Anybody participating in a grand slam is "ranked", even if they came from qualifiers or had a sponsors' exemption to participate after a long layoff period.Am I reading ESPN correctly that Coco isn’t even ranked? Caveat, I know shit about the professional tennis apparatus.
While this is the official reason, there’s no reason to think it has any overlap with reality. Rankings change every week and a full 1-128 seeding for each Slam would absolutely not produce constant rematches. Meanwhile as it is, Gauff and Venus have played each other in the first round in 2 of the last 3 Slams, and we’ve seen Gauff/Osaka in the third round in consecutive majors.It's also worth noting that the position of seeds through the draw isn't handled like the NCAA tournament/NBA playoffs/etc. The distribution of seeds throughout the draw is much more random because players are likely to play multiple tournaments during a year where they're similar if not the same seeds, and it would get boring to see the same players always facing off in the same rounds.
Lots of young talent that we have been waiting 3=6 years to take the next step in that group.Actually looking at it more, Nadal's half of the draw is quite loaded. Five of these eight are through and two more are leading (Medvedev the other):
Nadal (1)
Kyrgios (23)
Monfils (10)
Thiem (5)
Medvedev (4)
Wawrinka (15)
Rublev (17)
Zverev (7)
Kyrgios wins his first set tonight 6-2, that would be a tough round of 16 draw for Nadal if Kyrgios keeps his shit together the rest of this one and that one. Nadal leads their career head to head 4-3 but they do not like each other going back to Kyrgios knocking Rafa out of Wimbledon in 2014 when he was 19, also in the round of 16. They played again at Wimbledon last June, Nadal in 4 but 6-3, 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, really close.
"Everyone"? Are you, too, a lurker over on TennisForums?Everyone seems to be picking Kenin over Coco tonight, we'll see. Another huge test for Gauff, this one is in the day session so easier to watch if people are interested (should start around 10 or 11 PM EST, I think).
Yeah, she demolished #5 Svitolina last night, very impressive. It looks like she’ll face Kerber in the quarters and the winner will get Halep in the semis.Interesting to see Gabby Muguruza hanging around and playing well this week. It is a major so you never know with her,
I think as Chris Evert is saying, she is a bit burnt mentally, and also Kenin is a very smart and tricky player.Coco seems to make a lot of mental errors in her game, or at the very least plays it pretty close with getting over the net (even on serves).