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It's a toss up.Who has a worse second serve, Sab or Zed?

It's a toss up.Who has a worse second serve, Sab or Zed?
Three semi finals in the last five majors. It wasn't long ago people were wondering if she'd ever break her quarter final duck. If it wasn't for the early season serve yips, she might have done better at Australia and Roland Garros. I still think she's a future titleist at the majors.I do feel bad for Sabalenka. It seems she just can't break through that semi final wall. Her last 2 US Open semis were very winnable matches and she lost both.
It is great to see Swiatek shut up some of her delusional haters in this thread though, who are talking like she isn't even a top 40 performer off of clay. If she wins the title this weekend, which I think she probably will even if it isn't a sure thing, there will be some real salt in here.
Yeah I hear you.Best two players in the world this year meet in the final major's final. Weirdly expected something crazy and we ended up something normal.
Yeah I hear you.
But given the absolute weirdness of the two semi's I'm expecting it to carry over to the final as well.
I have no idea how it will turn out at this point.
But that wasn't the expectations as expressed in this forum after the quarters when Garcia waxed Gauff. Many posters then came out and expressed that Garcia would win it all, not Swiatek. And even betting odds changed and had Garcia and Swiatek tied for first for winning the U.S. Open.
Three semi finals in the last five majors. It wasn't long ago people were wondering if she'd ever break her quarter final duck. If it wasn't for the early season serve yips, she might have done better at Australia and Roland Garros. I still think she's a future titleist at the majors.
Sabalenka's issues are fixable, which doesn't mean they'll be fixed.
I'm glad they have a 1000 event there now as the crowds seemed really packed at last year's YEC.
It would have been cool if they made Tokyo or Seoul a 1000 also, but maybe another season. Tokyo did used to be a 1000 I am sure but then became a 500.welldone WTA replacing events in China + Russia.
Ok, so that's about 50 lbs. I guess I was just confused as I don't consider that to be extremely low tension for poly.I missed the 2nd set so I didn't know how Iga wanted her racquet to be restrung. In the match yesterday against JPeg, she sent 3 racquets off to be restrung at 25/25 (kg).
Her normal tension is 54 lbs, and you are right, it's kind of high for poly. I use 45 lbs with the same string on 18/20 pattern mid sized racquet and I love it.Ok, so that's about 50 lbs. I guess I was just confused as I don't consider that to be extremely low tension for poly.
Ok, so that's about 50 lbs. I guess I was just confused as I don't consider that to be extremely low tension for poly.
Garcia the favorite ehhh? Gonna beat swiatek ehh? Anytime some random mug becomes the favorite over some fluke hot streak you can be best assured they will mentally implode before the end. Pressure changes everything
Wimbledon (nor any other tour organizer) doesn't award points, WTA and ATP do.Wimbledon not awarding points really stuffed this up.
We would've had this final featuring #1 Swiatek v #2 Jabeur if Wimbledon had given Jabeur her finalist points. Instead she was the 5th seed here. Thus denying the WTA their first slam final between the #1 and #2 dating back to the 2018 Australian Open where #2 Wozniacki defeated #1 Halep.
25kg is about 55 lbs. She uses a little low tension to deal with the light US Open ball. When she played her night matches, the ball got a little bit heavier so I think that's the reason she switched to a little more tension racquets.Ok, so that's about 50 lbs. I guess I was just confused as I don't consider that to be extremely low tension for poly.
Thanks. First time hearing Sab talk.Don't know if anyone's seen Sabalenka's presser but, huh...
2005 crop is loaded. Those two, plus Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, Linda Fruhvirtova, and Petra Marcinko.Meanwhile in Junior US Open final: #2 Havlickova (CZE) vs #10 Eala (PHI). They may be the future up-and-coming WTA players. Havlickova won this year's Roland Garros Junior Singles and Doubles titles (with Sára Bejlek who made her US Open main draw debut this year). Eala won Junior GS doubles titles (AO 2020, FO 2021) - she was featured in Rafa Nadal Academy documentary in Amazon Prime - so I guess she must be one of their top promising students.
Both probably has room for improvements before they'll make an impact in the main WTA tour. Havlickova is a big hitter with big serves. She's quite a bit taller than Eala. Eala needs to improve her serve, but she seems to be a problem solver - I see a few of her matches where she was behind and came back to win the matches. She has good defense.
Tiafoe won that first set on 41 percent first serves. I have never seen anything like this.
Wrong thread homieGood luck to Carlitos if he can’t do anything with tiafoe’s second serve.
Why the 2010 cut off?Time for the updated list of majors winners (not named the now retired Serena) since 2010:
Schiavone: FO - 2010
Clijsters: USO 2010 & AO 2011
Li Na: FO 2011 & AO 2014
Kvitova: Wimbledon 2011 & 2014
Stosur: USO 2011
Sharapova: FO 2012 & FO 2014
Azarenka: AO 2012 & 2013
Bartoli: Wimbledon 2013
Pennetta: USO 2015
Kerber: AO 2016, USO 2016 & Wimbledon 2018
Muguruza: FO 2016 & Wimbledon 2017
Ostapenko: FO 2017
Stephens: USO 2017
Wozniacki: AO 2018
Osaka: USO 2018, 2020 & AO 2019 and 2021
Barty: FO 2019, Wimbledon 2021 & A0 2022
Halep: FO 2018 & Wimbledon 2019
Andreescu: 2019 USO
Kenin: AO 2020
Krejčíková: FO 2021
Raducanu: USO 2021
Świątek: FO 2020 & 2022 and USO 2022
Rybakina: Wimbledon 2022
Although the tour still features a number of multi-major winners, its so competitive that I do not see a clear, runaway force at the majors--certainly not from the performances in this final.
The last time a WTA player won 10,000 WTA points in a season was Serena in 2013. Iga is a mere 440 points away with probably three tournaments to go (Ostrava, Guadalajara, WTA Finals).
I missed why coco switched to pegula. Anyone know? TLDR version
Mcnally's revenge ?? she gets to the final with taylor townsend. i guess she was the better player when she was with COCO
Iga can play a lot better and still won. That's the scary partTime for the updated list of majors winners (not named the now retired Serena) since 2010:
Schiavone: FO - 2010
Clijsters: USO 2010 & AO 2011
Li Na: FO 2011 & AO 2014
Kvitova: Wimbledon 2011 & 2014
Stosur: USO 2011
Sharapova: FO 2012 & FO 2014
Azarenka: AO 2012 & 2013
Bartoli: Wimbledon 2013
Pennetta: USO 2015
Kerber: AO 2016, USO 2016 & Wimbledon 2018
Muguruza: FO 2016 & Wimbledon 2017
Ostapenko: FO 2017
Stephens: USO 2017
Wozniacki: AO 2018
Osaka: USO 2018, 2020 & AO 2019 and 2021
Barty: FO 2019, Wimbledon 2021 & A0 2022
Halep: FO 2018 & Wimbledon 2019
Andreescu: 2019 USO
Kenin: AO 2020
Krejčíková: FO 2021
Raducanu: USO 2021
Świątek: FO 2020 & 2022 and USO 2022
Rybakina: Wimbledon 2022
Although the tour still features a number of multi-major winners, its so competitive that I do not see a clear, runaway force at the majors--certainly not from the performances in this final.
I missed why coco switched to pegula. Anyone know? TLDR version![]()
Thanks! That makes sense.McNally wasn't qualifying for singles in enough tournaments to show up for doubles only whereas Pegula was.
Good for her. I can’t believe they put him out there to do the trophy ceremony!Interesting to hear Townsend's acceptance speech. Something like, "I put in the work", "everyone can see", "I deserve to be here". It's like a hidden direct message to Patrick McEnroe, the interviewer. Townsend, as many knows, split with the USTA development program after it refused to pay for her expenses after Patrick made comments about the then teenager Townsend's fitness. Some past bad blood there. Parents of many top junior players were happy when Patrick was elbowed out as Player Development head.