2015 WTA China Open

Who will triumph?

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First time I've ever seen a moon ball serve! Wow. Timea survives and moves on. She'll take on the winner between Ana Ivanovic and Ana Pavs.
 
poor Errani, completely lost her serve in the last game, no pace no angle, can't even put the ball in, and DFed on the match point.
 
Anyone care to hazard a guess as to the outcome of the Aga vs. Angie match? These two are tied in H2H wins going as far back as 2008!
 
ScentOfDefeat said:
Relax, Timea is a hard worker who makes the best of what she has too.
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I cdn't be any more relaxed about it. :)
I don't really know much about the other girl- just have a vague memory of her doing well at RG and Wimbledon?
Plus @stringertom likes her which is good enough for me.
But I do think Errani gets some particularly unpleasant comments on TW generally.
But I'm not losing sleep. :)
 
Devil_dog said:
Anyone care to hazard a guess as to the outcome of the Aga vs. Angie match? These two are tied in H2H wins going as far back as 2008!
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But the difference in prize money is huge! AND Kerber turned pro 2 years earlier.
Radwanska getting close to $20 million and Kerber close to $9.
 
PDJ said:
I cdn't be any more relaxed about it. :)
I don't really know much about the other girl- just have a vague memory of her doing well at RG and Wimbledon?
Plus @stringertom likes her which is good enough for me.
But I do think Errani gets some particularly unpleasant comments on TW generally.
But I'm not losing sleep. :)
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Check out her story, it's pretty amazing. Also, she's one of the nicest girls on tour.
 
RSH said:
http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2015/03/power-her/54389/

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/timea-bacsinszky-french-open-2015/
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Wow! What some players have to over come. OK, I'm very happy for her win :)
I can see why @stringertom likes her. Similar background , but not as rough, as Lucic it would appear here- but I'm not to know for sure.
I wonder if the Everts and Davenports of this world know how lucky they were to have seemingly normal healthy backgrounds.
Thank you for posting.
 
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PDJ said:
Read the articles- she's entitled to a few tears.
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I meant on court, after a loss.

And "boo-hoo, my middle-class, well off father wanted me to play tennis and earn a lot of money. Woe is me!". Gimme a break! Plus, she should be over it by now. It was years ago. It's not like he abused her. He drove her hard, like most parents do! Like Tio Toni did Rafa.
 
Levi_Ackerman said:
I meant on court, after a loss.

And "boo-hoo, my middle-class, well off father wanted me to play tennis and earn a lot of money. Woe is me!". Gimme a break! Plus, she should be over it by now. It was years ago.
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You didn't actually read the articles did you.....
can't see you challenging for 'humanitarian of the year" any time soon.....
:)
 
PDJ said:
can't see you challenging for 'humanitarian of the year" any time soon.....
:)
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:D

I wouldn't have me any other way!

P.S. I didn't read the article because I already know her story. I looked her up when she was making tennis "headlines"; you know, getting interviewed by Game, Set & Mats and the like, and commentators filling my ears with ear-**** about her during the French Open.
 
For all the injuries/withdrawals/drama we've had this week, still a pretty solid semis lineup.

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really good effort from Ana, with her troubling ball tossing, she managed to have three excellent first serves in a row to save 3 BPs.
 
Ivanovic took the first 7:5, Bacsinzky needs to control her emotion, she looks like she is going to cry when in trouble, self beating won't help you on the tennis court.
 
Hawkeye just showed the ball out by millimeters on set point for Bacsinzky. BRUTAL!!
And a terrible second serve at deuce gives Ana break point.
Timea led 5-1 but lost one break. currently 5-4 but break point. Poor Bacsinzky! That hawkeye point was harsh.
deuce after a close ball out by ana
 
and Ana called for a MTO during Bac serve at 40:30, something tells me Bac is going to punish her for that.;)
 
JJGUY said:
and Ana called for a MTO during Bac serve at 40:30, something tells me Bac is going to punish her for that.;)
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and she did, a breadstick, not only that, she didn't even allow Ivanovic to get a single point in the last 2 games.
 
Have dinner and a shower and see that Bacsinzky won! Super happy. She's such a fantastic player with a terrible past. Abusive father. I can't do the story justice, just read this. This was published back in March around the time Timea was on a 15 match winning streak after winning back to back titles in Monterrey and Acapulco and then reached the QF at Indian Wells.

(Timea Bacsinzky's year) is impressive in itself, but is brought even more into relief by the knowledge that she had stopped playing tennis two years ago with a career in the hotel business in mind. At the time, it wasn’t so much tennis but her father she was escaping from. And then she got an email asking her to sign up for the Roland Garros 2013 qualifications. She told herself, why not? And she was off again. For herself and no one else this time. She tells her story:

Exactly two years ago I was arranging the date to start my internship in a five-star hotel. For me it was over, I wasn’t going to play any more. I told my friend: “Ok, fine, I’m going to serve coffee in cafés.” And I would have loved it.

That’s when you find out that you aren’t aware of the resources a human being can have. I still can’t get over having put together those two weeks in Mexico [she’d just won Acapulco and Monterrey back-to-back] and to win even more matches here. It’s almost unreal.

Considering the athlete I was before – really, athlete in quotation marks, because I was in really sub-standard condition – I don’t even know how I managed to get up to 37th [in 2010]. I was ultra clever, I read the others’ games well but I never worked on my own. It was just a continuation of the world I’d been put in. It’s one thing to want celebrity, money, all the shiny stuff, but I wasn’t a happy person. I was hiding from reality. I had my little tennis success, I imagined kids wanted to do what I did, but they didn’t really know. I couldn’t go all out because I had a father, really just a sire – I know the words are rough, but it’s an objective view of the situation – who put me in a cage. A prison. I don’t want to complain, that people say: “Oh that poor girl!” By telling my story, I tell myself that it might help other people. Open eyes.

My mother is a dentist. So it wasn’t likely to be her who would show me how to hit a forehand. My dad is a tennis pro. I was three when he brought me onto a tennis court for the first time. He saw quickly that the project that was unsuccessful with his two other kids [by another mother] was possible with me. My mother didn’t say no. Did she sense what I was feeling? I don’t know … I’m not upset with her. She brought in the money so her family could live, she couldn’t see everything, know everything.

I didn’t have a cool childhood. I remember there were hotlines for children who were not being treated well and thinking about calling them ate me up. But I was afraid that he [her father Igor] would see on the bill that I’d dialled that number and I would have problems … I was never hit. I got a few slaps, he pulled my hair … But it was mostly psychological. I thought about running away. I’d searched the Internet to find out about how to run away successfully. I suffered from the “pushy parents” syndrome, which is pretty widespread in tennis. And we still don’t know everything. The WTA prefers to show all the nice stories. But if I look around me, if I look at the stats … To me, parents, they’re not made to coach. Any parent can teach a kid how to play tennis. It’s enough to read books. After, you have to step down.

My father never took care of me except on the tennis court. Taking care of your kid isn’t throwing a tennis ball at her. I didn’t have a father. I don’t see him any more, I don’t talk to him and that’s the way it will be to the end. I’m not lacking in anything. My childhood was stolen. My adolescence was stolen too. You couldn’t take Timea out of tennis. Me, I only had one wish: to get away. The worst thing is, I’d certainly have played better if he’d let me breathe. On the court I had a moment where I could escape his control. He told me, “play crosscourt there.” And I’d play down the line. Except there would come the moment where I had to win the match, otherwise he’d make me pay [she twice won The Little Aces, the official World Championship for under 14’s, as Martina Hingis did]. When you’re afraid of what might happen to you if you lose, you develop a special thing. But I think I loved competition when I was a kid. What kid doesn’t like to win? I’m convinced that when I was very small, I loved tennis. But he made me hate it.

He had this unhealthy desire to shine, to be known, that people would say he was the best coach. To do that it was no problem for him to scream at me. Money? He surely wanted to end his life in a palace. When I got my first sponsor, he quit work to become my coach. It was the worst moment of my life.

He took a nice little salary with his girl’s sponsor. He bought me one or two pairs of jeans because he needed to give a carrot to the donkey. When I was fifteen, I forced my mother to divorce him. If she didn’t, I didn’t want to see either of them ever again. Happily, I had school. I was so happy to learn new things, new Swiss things I couldn’t learn at home because my father is Hungarian. I lied to my father to take part in intramural competitions. I’d hidden my running shoes under my history book. I’d become a professional liar. I had to get around him all the time just to live, or survive. I don’t know. I was lucky to have nannies at home. One of them gave me the love of cooking. I made soups for my mother in the evening with my nanny. I was happy then.

I’ve been working with a psychologist for the last two years. I’ve finally understood why I couldn’t do more before. Because if I shone, “he” shone too. With what I’ve endured, people who know me ask me how I managed to stay out of drugs and alcohol. At one time, I went out a lot in Lausanne. I must have been a sorry sight. During the day I was glued to the settee. In some ways it was good I got injured [a foot in 2012]. In 2013, I started an internship in a palace in Villars. In September I was supposed to enter hotel school. Maybe later, I’ll go back.
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Truly heartbreaking story. But to look at the positives she's had such an amazing year. In fact, with her win over Ivanovic tonight, she's now in the top 10! Such a deserving person! Following that 15 match winning streak where she won 2 titles, she's gone on to reach the semifinals at the French Open and the quarterfinals at Wimbledon and now the final here in Beijing. :D :)
 
Really hoping Muguruza defeats Aga. That way we will be guaranteed a new premier mandatory champion. AND both Muguruza and Bacsinzky have never won anything more then a WTA international yet they've both had deep runs at grand slams! I also love both players so i'll be happy either way :D
 
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