Robson vs Kvitova
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Rock Strongo
Legend
Robson breaks, watch her choke.
Say Chi Sin Lo
G.O.A.T.
ESPN is still on. They skipped the bulk of Federer's match but there's been barely a commercial break for this stupid match...
Say Chi Sin Lo
G.O.A.T.
Those ball tosses, I thought we're enforcing time rule and all that jazz. What happened to that?
Say Chi Sin Lo
G.O.A.T.
IT'S OVER!!! WOW!!!
Is this what happiness feels like?
Is this what happiness feels like?
Say Chi Sin Lo
G.O.A.T.
If Sloane Stephens flips out on those ball tosses, I'll be down for that.
onyxrose81
Hall of Fame
Did anyone really win in this match?
Say Chi Sin Lo
G.O.A.T.
No but we all lost something here.
Say Chi Sin Lo
G.O.A.T.
Wow look at that, I started charging my laptop in the beginning of the match from ~5%, now it's fully charged...
Duncan Bell
Hall of Fame
Wahey! Get in Laura. Super fight and result. Well happy. Another Brit into R3.
Rematch of Hobbart now. Bring on the Sloane.
Rematch of Hobbart now. Bring on the Sloane.
Cormorant
Professional
Say Chi Sin Lo
G.O.A.T.
No, none of us know math now, not after watching this match.
Duncan Bell
Hall of Fame
If she did win next 2 and make QFs, she go up to about 25. That doesn't account for other players rising / falling though.
Think she'll struggle against Sloane though.
Love Game
Talk Tennis Guru
true dat. might be a different story ..... except I almost think nothing was said because the crowd was 90% in favor of Laura ..... and if the same holds true in her match against stevens, then I'm not sure what w/b said
Kvitova did a few grimaces and eye rolls toward the end there, but her obnoxious screeching balanced it out ..... not sure whether sloane has any bad habits she can retaliate with, but shouldnt someone be able to serve without all those ball toss catches?
It begins to boarder on gamesmanship
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Unforced errors: Laura 41 ... Petra 51
Rogael Naderer
Semi-Pro
Pity. Poor Petra, couldn't handle longer all the toss-cheating.
Well, Robson could handle Petrifying's SHRIEKING! And
faces.I really felt Robson just couldn't do it, but like Andy Murray at US Open was proved wrong to my delight.
Love Game
Talk Tennis Guru
Pity. Poor Petra, couldn't handle longer all the toss-cheating.
I heard one of the commies say that Judy Murray was in Laura's entourage ..... guess she's been having some influence on her training, too ..... can't imagine Judy would find all that toss-cheating acceptable!
Duncan Bell
Hall of Fame
Great website! Go on Heather!
Goosehead
Legend
she is 19 nearly :twisted:..she WILL be 19yrs old on january 21st..not until later this month, I think
anyway about 90% of the spectators want Robson to win
i could only see the first game of the match robson losing serve inc 2 df..looking at the comments seems the level of play wasnt too high..
however...whooooo-ooooo robbo wins 11-9 in the 3rd its a massive win for her i think.
bluetrain4
G.O.A.T.
I didn't watch the match. What is "toss-cheating"?
Duncan Bell
Hall of Fame
Laura was doing a lot of catching of her tosses. She wasn't cheating, her tossing was just poor.
Love Game
Talk Tennis Guru
it's a word I picked up from natalia (see above). could also be called "toss catch 'cheating.'" it's when someone steps up to the line as if to serve the ball, then interrupts their service motion by throwing the toss in the air and then catching it before serving. one commentator pointed out that laura was doing it excessively, even regularly twice with every other serve, varying when she did it just enough to avoid forming a pattern. a way of getting into the head of the opponent when done that much. and clearly it was getting into kvitova's head because she was reacting, such as exhaling and bending forward, touching her racket to the floor and leaning on it as if trying to catch her breath, while glancing up at laura through her eyebrows skeptically, etc., etc., etc. ..... IOW, it's a form of gamesmanship:
Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win or gain an advantage in a game or sport, without being able to be technically accused of violating any particular rule ... Wiki
Like the receiver raising their hand up, without any apparent reason, just as the server is going into his/her motion. That kind of thing. Except that Laura Robson did it A LOT last night.
Mainad
Bionic Poster
I've noticed this myself. She is young to be already getting the service yips. I hope she and her coach get it sorted out before it becomes too much of a problem!
I'm sure she wasn't doing it deliberately. How many missed ball tosses is a player allowed before a fault is called on the serve?
I do not think deliberate as she was doing it at Olympics and US quite a lot
Love Game
Talk Tennis Guru
that's just it. it's not against the rules, as far as i know. remember when ivanovic was doing it? she got flack for it, and i believe she still does it sometimes, but it takes effort and working on it to stop doing it .... which ivanovic hardly ever does it anymore as far as i know, but there was a while there when she was doing it so much that it became a problem.
ruerooo
Legend
Mainad
Bionic Poster
Well, Robson was born in Melbourne to Aussie parents so I guess its natural she's going to get the support of the Aussie crowd!
Nostradamus
Bionic Poster
Robson is Hot. you can't blame the crowd for that. People like beautiful pretty people. and so do I.
dominikk1985
Legend
well the biggest reason for that is that she is half australian...
Lavs
Hall of Fame
I feel for Petra.
Hope that she will turn the things around soon.. Expect seeing her in top3 in the end of the season
And she gets really really cute eventually
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgoc7GDhygc
Hope that she will turn the things around soon.. Expect seeing her in top3 in the end of the season
And she gets really really cute eventually
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgoc7GDhygc
Nostradamus
Bionic Poster
Kvitova no. robson yes. she is already cute
fluffyyelloballz
Rookie
The scoreline is epic but the match was horrible. Your sleeping was a much better pasttime than suffering through this error-fest. There were hardly any rallies and though the drama was high at the end, and the tennis a little better, let's face it, if you follow tennis at all then you know how bad Petra has been and that this was not really an upset but an opportunity to be taken. And the scariest thing is what 'epic' lengths Laura had to go to to take that opportunity.
Say Chi Sin Lo
G.O.A.T.
You know the match was bad when even ESPN refuses to show it during their daytime replay.
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NadalAgassi
Guest
Petra is turning into a huge joke. Her 2013 is already shaping up looking like it will even worse than her 2012, she will probably end it even ranked below Wozniacki, LOL (and I expect Wozniacki to continue to drop as well). Good to see Robson post another big win in a slam though, even if it is over the washed up nutcase rather than someone more legitimate.
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