2020 Australian Open - Women's Singles - General Discussion

[Fedinkum]

OMG...Petra. Just use some...some...top spin....tiny tiny bit of it would be good!!! Barty 6-5 on serve.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Tiebreak for what’s been a rather error strewn set

 

[Fedinkum]

What a point. Great D from B.

 

[spystud]

That lost point will sting Petra.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

WHAT A POINT!!!! WOW!

 

[James P]

That defense. Wow!

 

[zvelf]

These are only words.
And no, it's not a tautology.
You can use your definition of good, great, amazing, extraordinary, legendary, I don't care.
As long as you explain what you mean by them and how you understand the differences between them and the hierarchy.
You seem to be bizarrely preoccupied with a supposed essence of "great", like it should only mean whatever it is you ascribe to it.

Not at all. Which is why I asked you what YOUR definition of greatness is. I'm trying to understand how you think winning seven matches in a row in a particular tournament automatically makes one great no matter who those seven matches were played against. In the case of Ruzici, you're saying that beating Marjorie Blackwood, Elisabeth Ekblom, Frederique Thibault, Fiorella Bonicelli, Brigitte Simon, and Mima Jausovec was such an amazing achievement that it made Ruzici forever a "great" player no matter what else she did or rather failed to do for the rest of her tennis career.

 

[helixx]

Pojd!

 

[Aussie Darcy]

6-6 my oh my this is tight

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Feel like both of those Barty shots were long but perhaps not according to Cicak.

Set point Ash

 

[Fedinkum]

Petra had so many chances to win this set.

 

[helixx]

 

[TheIntrovert]

Ffs Petra

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Barty takes the first set in over an hour and 8 minutes.

 

[spystud]

Not often a set between two Slam champs that goes to a breaker could be described as pretty terrible, but that one was close.

 

[zvelf]

Petra played hard, but Barty's better defense edged the set to her.

 

[kishnabe]

Go Barty. Keep slicing Petra away.

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

Not at all. Which is why I asked you what YOUR definition of greatness is. I'm trying to understand how you think winning seven matches in a row in a particular tournament automatically makes one great no matter who those seven matches were played against. In the case of Ruzici, you're saying that beating Marjorie Blackwood, Elisabeth Ekblom, Frederique Thibault, Fiorella Bonicelli, Brigitte Simon, and Mima Jausovec was such an amazing achievement that it made Ruzici forever a "great" player no matter what else she did or rather failed to do for the rest of her tennis career.

Yes, she has her name etched in Roland-Garros history and in Romanian tennis history.
That is a great thing.
Can we move on please?

 

[Enceladus]

Kvitova-Barty 6:7(6)
Petra created great FH inside out winner and saved BP.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Ash breaks!

 

[romeo8880]

Get ready roger

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Barty in total control now

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

PK is done. Probably.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Barty just making Petra play extra points and she’s up the double break

 

[Deon Sanders]

Getting destroyed by two lobs that wouldnt even make the service line

Laughable

 

[zvelf]

Yes, she has her name etched in Roland-Garros history and in Romanian tennis history.
That is a great thing.
Can we move on please?

Okay, at your request, this will be my last post on this matter, unless you continue it; but "great thing" and "great player" are two different things.

 

[Enceladus]

Kvitova-Barty 6:7(6), 0:3
Kvitova converted only 1 from 9 BPs in the first set. Barty is better in using her chances and has double-break in the 2nd set

 

[helixx]

I hate this surface

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Petra just going for way too much.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Barty holds from 0-30 down.

7-6 4-0.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Reminder that this will be Barty’s First top 10 win at a slam.

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

Barty was just better when it mattered the most.
I expected this: Petra has never quite reached her great peaks of the past again, and Barty is an entirely different proposition now that she's #1 and has a Slam under her belt.
It's a shame because I'm a Kvitova fan, but she's simply not the player she once was.

 

[romeo8880]

Barty was just better when it mattered the most.
I expected this: Petra has never quite reached her great peaks of the past again, and Barty is an entirely different proposition now that she's #1 and has a Slam under her belt.
It's a shame because I'm a Kvitova fan, but she's simply not the player she once was.

I think she’s got a good shot at Wimbledon this year

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Barty breaks once more and will serve for a spot in her first Aus Open SF

 

[Deon Sanders]

Pretty forgettable tennis going on here

 

[Aussie Darcy]

She’s done it!!

Ash Barty is into her first Australian Open SF!

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

I think she’s got a good shot at Wimbledon this year

I want to believe that, but the last few years have demonstrated the opposite.
If anything, she's a better player at the Australian Open nowadays.

It seems like chubbier Petra was the best version of Petra.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Ash Barty the first Australian woman to make the Australian Open SF since Wendy Turnbull in 1984.

Also, Barty’s first top 10 win at a slam.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Casey Dellacqua doing the on court interview. For those who lived under a rock, these two reached 4 slam double finals together.

This is special.

 

[elkwood]

Man Barty can give a good interview !!!

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Casey Dellacqua doing the on court interview. For those who lived under a rock, these two reached 4 slam double finals together.

This is special.

Dellacqua was a top 10 doubles player when Barty returned from cricket in 2016, Casey was making slam finals but helped Ash on the comeback trail and partnered her in low level ITF tournaments. Incredible friendship.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Man Barty can give a good interview !!!

Amazing and friendly woman. Can’t not love her.

 

[zvelf]

Wow, Barty was so articulate there.

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

Barty needs to slow down.
I don't want her to have a better career than my personal favourite, Evonne Goolagong.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Kenin is in the Semifinals! Wow! She making her way to the top, right here! Go Kenin!

 

[Enceladus]

Kvitova-Barty 6:7(6), 2:6

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1222004097001254913

 

[Mainad]

Can Barty end the 42 year long drought of Aussie singles winners at the Aussie Open?

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

Can Barty end the 42 year long drought of Aussie singles winners at the Aussie Open?

Yikes, that's a really bad stat for Aussies.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Yikes, that's a really bad stat for Aussies.

Eh, we're a nation of 25 million people. Easy to say it's bad compared to America when they have over 330 million. It's been longer for the British women at Wimbledon than it has for the Aussie women at the Aus Open.

 

[spystud]

The Chans knock out Mertens/Sabalenka.