2021 WTA Chicago Fall Tennis Classic

[Harry_Wild]

Mertens has a high left thigh injury of some sort, bandaged up with a wide wrap now!

 

[fundrazer]

Heeeey stream is back.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Chair umpire finally saw the folly of her previous ruling.
She allowed Collins her peeing rights.

Collins could fix her by doing it on the court or on courtside!

 

[Harry_Wild]

Collins now breaks again in the 2nd set, 3-1, Collins srving!

 

[Harry_Wild]

Collins has a 4-1 lead now!

 

[fundrazer]

Stream gone yet again. Looks like both Kudermetova and Rybakina scoring some easy holds to start the 2nd though. Probably take that as a more positive sign for Rybakina, because I expect her to get more looks. If she's upping the first serve % then she shouldn't face as much danger in her own service games.

 

[fundrazer]

Once in a while I'm right... Rybakina scores the first break of the 2nd set. Going to serve up 3-2. Has brought her first serve % up to 40% also, but needs to keep that up for the rest of the match.

 

[Mark-Touch]

Between the road traffic and air traffic the noise pollution on court is a total nightmare.
At least the players (Collins and Mertens) are quiet.

 

[SeeingDusk]

How the heck did you manage that?

I even posted three winners in this thread yesterday!

well I got super bored one of those evenings and gave in to random bets. Then started chasing once I lost on the random bets. But the most recent run I did was 34 bucks to 12k. Lol

 

[Harry_Wild]

Mertens making a push to even the sets! Mertens 3-4 on her serve now!

Update: Nervous serving and down love 40! LOL!

 

[fundrazer]

Saves two break points, can't finish off the game. Back on serve again, 3-3.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Collins breaks Mertens, now 5-3, Collins serving for the match!

 

[Harry_Wild]

Collins returns the favor by serving badly for the match, now 5-4, Mertens serving!

 

[fundrazer]

Where was this service game when she was up the break? Rybakina 3 aces in a row, then another one at 40-15. 4-4

 

[Harry_Wild]

Merten decide to now play poorly and loose the match! 4-6! Collins moves on!

 

[fundrazer]

Rybakina's definitely found her serving form in this set. Really thin margins in this match though.

 

[fundrazer]

Rybakina breaks for 6-5! Kudermetova definitely had her chances to take that game, but some critical mistakes including a double fault cost her.

 

[fundrazer]

Excellent! Stream cut out again, but Rybakina looks to have had an easy service game to close it out. 7-6 7-5. I thought it was gonna be a bit tougher for her today, but this one was super close. Although if Rybakina came out starting the match serving like she did in the 2nd set then it could have been more straightforward for her.

 

[fundrazer]

Vondrousova off to quick start it looks like too. Held off on that one even though I do love her game right now. She had to save some break points it looks like.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Ruse having hard time closing out her servings game! 10 minutes and counting! Svitolina is playing tough!

 

[Harry_Wild]

1st game - 17 minutes long, Svitolina final breaks Ruse! LOL!

 

[fundrazer]

Vondrousova first set 6-4. Had one of her trademark dropshots to bring up the set point.

 

[fundrazer]

Who is this Hontama? Seriously. lol. About to go up 3-0 double break on Rogers. Not all that impressive, but I hadn't heard of her until after she won her first round match.

Meanwhile Vondrousova up an early break to start the 2nd.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Svitolina is up 4-3 with a break vs Ruse.

 

[fundrazer]

Wow. That was all business from Vondrousova. Early break in both sets and didn't drop serve at all. Finishes off the 2nd set with a break.

Really solid win over Teichmann. Wonder who she'll be playing next.

 

[fundrazer]

Just seeing now that Azarenka withdrew. Mugu advancing.

Bencic and Martincova could be a tough one. Martincova playing pretty well the past few weeks or so.

 

[spystud]

Wow. That was all business from Vondrousova. Early break in both sets and didn't drop serve at all. Finishes off the 2nd set with a break.

Really solid win over Teichmann. Wonder who she'll be playing next.

Dani


3 & 3 for Elina.

 

[fundrazer]

Dani


3 & 3 for Elina.

Thanks. Was lazy to check. Think I definitely have to go with Vondrousova again in that one. Collins probably gonna give her a fight, but still expect Vondrousova to get through that.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Not really surprised that Azarenka withdrew. She didn’t look in form yesterday, seemed she barely had enough in the tank.

 

[fundrazer]

Bencic seems to be in much better form today. Haven't caught too much of this one cause I've got a bit of a headache, but 6-2 first set is pretty darn good.

 

[spystud]

Hontama beats Rogers in 3, Garbine will demolish her next.

 

[fundrazer]

Random question but do you guys think that Martincova has the best ink on WTA?

 

[spystud]

Ms. Hercog would like a word.

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[Mark-Touch]

Between the road traffic and air traffic the noise pollution on court is a total nightmare.
At least the players (Collins and Mertens) are quiet.

Wow, you can add trains to the noise too.
What a cacophony!

 

[fundrazer]

Ms. Hercog would like a word.

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Yeah I forgot if it was Martic or Hercog w.

 

[Kralingen]

Random question but do you guys think that Martincova has the best ink on WTA?

Pliskova is laughing at you for asking this

(actually I like Martincova's a lot but it's not the best. too much dark ink so you can barely see any skin on her left arm, it all blends together)

 

[D-Lite]

Gutted we didn't get Azarenka v Muguruza.
Also had never heard of Hontama before this week.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Hontama beats Rogers in 3, Garbine will demolish her next.

pulling for Hontana #200 in the world, ITF player! She deserves to win over Muguruza! Muguruza does not need tge $ or ranking points! Hontana does!

 

[spystud]

Her name is literally spelled correctly in the quote.

 

[fundrazer]

Her name is literally spelled correctly in the quote.

lol... Harry's going senile if you didn't know.

Anywho...the lineup tomorrow looks really good. I know we have a lot of girls missing from this event, but we've got 3 pretty interesting matches + Muguruza tomorrow. Probably gonna take it lighter in terms of bets, but I will likely go with Vondrousova and Mugu in some fashion. Need to check the men's matches too.

 

[fundrazer]

Collins having to fight in this first service game.

 

[fundrazer]

Vondrousova maybe giving Collins some easy balls and Dani fights her way out of a bunch of break points.

 

[fundrazer]

Early impression is that this match will come down to if Dani can control her errors or not. She's getting some really good cuts at the ball but spraying a bit much at times.

1-1 though.

 

[fundrazer]

2 doubles and a dropshot attempt on the dropshot master do not end well for Dani. Vondrousova up a break 2-1

 

[fundrazer]

Vondrousova with the poor choice on the dropshot there. Had Dani wide on the serve and probably should have just hit it into the open court.

 

[fundrazer]

She's pissed about some of these line calls too. Maybe should have been 30-40. Instead it goes 40-30 and Dani holds.

 

[fundrazer]

Lol. 7-6 for collins in the first and then 6-0 for Vondrousova.

 

[ttwreader]

What happened to Collins? I didn't watch the second set.

 

[fundrazer]

I didn't catch much of it either. My stream died and I was in a few zoom calls.

Neck and neck so far in this third set though. Vondrousova needs to be careful leaving the ball too short.

What a dropshot lob combo!

 

[fundrazer]

Can't be getting worked up about these line calls... Umpires have been bad just have to deal with it. What's giving me less confidence though is that some of the matches the chair umps are overruling a lot, and other chair umps like this one don't do anything.

Still gets a look at the break, but Collins comes up with some big shots. She's getting a lot of work after these shorter angled backhands to Vondrousova's forehand side.