2018 WTA Eastbourne Premier

Karolina has won her R2 match over Pavs before Kristyna has even taken the court for her R1 match. Makes sense.
 
Camilla Giorgi is such a babe. WTA is stupid not to use her, Zhuk and Stollar to advertise women's tennis. Oh, well... They still have Serena in her cat suit and moustache-Sharapova as their poster girls
 
AM75 said:
Camilla Giorgi is such a babe. WTA is stupid not to use her, Zhuk and Stollar to advertise women's tennis. Oh, well... They still have Serena in her cat suit and moustache-Sharapova as their poster girls
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Giorgi is an inconsistent mess and both Zhuk and Stollar have barely done anything to warrant attention.

Anyway, the WTA have a wide variety of attractive players to pick as poster girls... Svitolina, Muguruza, Wozniacki, Sloane etc.

Not that beauty should matter.
 
Some results:

Great win for last years finalist Wozniacki over Giorgi. Caro into the 3R.
Rough loss for last years SFist Watson to Mladenovic. The loss means Heather drops out of the top 100.
Also a tough loss for Stosur who did so well to win the first set from 1-5 down but loses in 3 to AVU.
Harriet Dart gets her first tour win thanks to lefty Pliskova.
Radwanska plays her first match in 3 match and smokes Babos 6-3 6-1.
Kuznetsova gets a much needed win over Sakkari.
 
Gavrilova blows 2 match points and Radwanska takes the 2nd set. They will play a third.

How long has Radwanska been using a Dunlop racquet? I just noticed, although I know she's been out for a while.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Giorgi is an inconsistent mess and both Zhuk and Stollar have barely done anything to warrant attention.

Anyway, the WTA have a wide variety of attractive players to pick as poster girls... Svitolina, Muguruza, Wozniacki, Sloane etc.

Not that beauty should matter.
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Both Kurnikova and Sharapova were hyped before they turned into pro players but it has to do with their respective PR agencies and the WTA. Why the same can't be done for younger players on tour?
Anyway, the point is that WTA has all the resources and all the faces (all of the above mentioned + Puig, and and and...) to promote and make women's tennis visible and appealing for example to young audience, but they do literally nothing. Their web-site is awful, they have no marketing campaigns, and I really do wonder where all the sponsors' money goes.
 
emilyhex said:
Gavrilova blows 2 match points and Radwanska takes the 2nd set. They will play a third.

How long has Radwanska been using a Dunlop racquet? I just noticed, although I know she's been out for a while.
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Two, maybe three years already.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Rybarikova retires after getting breadsticked in the first by Hsieh.

Should've just not played the tournament after making the Birmingham final... stupid decision.
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Stupid decisions all round.
Kvitova overplaying just before her favourite Slam and picking up an injury.
I can't believe how unprofessional her team is.

Another year, another Wimbledon title that goes flying out the window.
 
AM75 said:
Camilla Giorgi is such a babe. WTA is stupid not to use her, Zhuk and Stollar to advertise women's tennis. Oh, well... They still have Serena in her cat suit and moustache-Sharapova as their poster girls
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You actually have to win things to be the face of the game-unless you are insanely hot like Bouchard & even then she was a top level player for a season or so.
 
MatsPhilander said:
You actually have to win things to be the face of the game-unless you are insanely hot like Bouchard & even then she was a top level player for a season or so.
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Not really, look like ATP pushes their so-called NextGen beyond Sasha Zverev and others. They promote their players to death because they want to make them visible. Visibility=interest, and interest=money. Shapovalov is Nr 26 and already a big star without any title. Can you imagine WTA doing the same for any young player who's in the top 100?
 
My main concern is that these top ladies are wearing themselves out ahead of Wimbledon.

Every single one of those ladies except Sabalenka and possibly Kasatkina has a great shot at going deep or for some, even winning Wimbledon.

Garbie and Svitolina had the right idea. Play Birmingham, get some grass play and that's it.

Barty in particular with awful scheduling. Played Nottingham, Birmingham and Eastbourne. Won Nottingham, 2R in Birmingham and now QF in Eastbourne. Good points but probably will cost her dearly at the slam.
 
AM75 said:
Two, maybe three years already.
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I did a little more research into this. She switched from Babolat to Srixon in early 2017, which is a lesser-known Japanese company. Then, Dunlop and Srixon joined forces via merger/acquistion, not sure what happened. But now the stencil is Dunlop instead of Srixon. I don't think the Dunlop logo was on the Srixon racquets before the partnership, but feel free to prove me wrong.

So, maybe a year with Srixon and less than a year with the racquet re-branded as Dunlop Srixon.
 
Wassup with Sabalenka's forearm? Looks like a blur,
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Ostapenko thinks Radwanska does nothing, is nothing, plays like an amateur, that she plays way better than her. This was 2 years ago.
 
Great match between Caro and Angie!
24 shot match point down save by Caro! So close on that set tiebreaker though.
Caro very cool in serving it out too!

Anyone disparaging women's tennis should watch this match!
The hitting, court coverage and general play quality was very high indeed.
 
speedysteve said:
Great match between Caro and Angie!
24 shot match point down save by Caro! So close on that set tiebreaker though.
Caro very cool in serving it out too!

Anyone disparaging women's tennis should watch this match!
The hitting, court coverage and general play quality was very high indeed.
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I have been impressed by the effort a lot of the women have been putting in lately, some of them are playing more like the men.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
UG. It takes a lot for me to hate a player but I HATE Sabalenka and her cheating noises. She makes Maria look like an angel to me.

Hope Kerber/Woz thrashes her in the final.
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I was watching it with friends and they basically said we can't listen to this and changed the channel.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Wozniacki lands her 700th career win and wins the Eastbourne title.

Beats Sabalenka 7-5 7-6.

Good on Caro :D

Her first title as a slam champ.
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Only her 2nd title on grass, 9 years after winning her 1st, also at Eastbourne. Can she now build on that to go deep into Wimbledon for the first time in her career?

Was surprised to see Dmitri Tursunov coaching Sabalenka. I assume he is no longer playing singles although no mention of him officially retiring?
 
Mainad said:
Only her 2nd title on grass, 9 years after winning her 1st, also at Eastbourne. Can she now build on that to go deep into Wimbledon for the first time in her career?

Was surprised to see Dmitri Tursunov coaching Sabalenka. I assume he is no longer playing singles although no mention of him officially retiring?
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Well it seemed like he was mostly using his injury protected ranking just for the slams anyway which was pretty crap.

Anyway, I hope Sabalenka has a terrible career (if I’m being honest). I can’t stand her.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Well it seemed like he was mostly using his injury protected ranking just for the slams anyway which was pretty crap.

Anyway, I hope Sabalenka has a terrible career (if I’m being honest). I can’t stand her.
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Why, what has she done to upset you?
 
Sablenka is a lovely girl but it's her grunting volume and the 35 different types of noise she makes that is getting everyone rattled!
She was warned several times.
In the final the umpire warned her saying, you were warned yesterday too...
She actual started the final pretty quietly but it ramped up.
Caro did have a quiet word to the umpire. I assume about the noise. Soon after the warning came. She was a little better after that.

The tabloid press and post match stuff are going to have a field day at Wimbledon if she doesn't kerb it!
She's got the game to go far I think.
 
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