2022 US Open - Women's Singles Discussion

Who will be the 2022 US Open champ?


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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.
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.

True. Betting odds though aren't based in absolutes. They are meant to sucker people to some extent. I mentioned that about Kygrios being made betting favorite, even before Nadal went out. Or Murray being betting favorite over Djokovic going into the 2011 Australian Open final (ridiculous).
 
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.

Hopefully. This is a similar trajectory to Davenport, who has a very similar game. Hopefully it might wind up the same way (although 3 majors would seem a stretch for her at this polnt).
 
I've just noticed on the WTA Tour, the YEC will be in Fort Worth, Texas, 2 weeks after a 1000 event in Guadalajara where last year's YEC was held - interesting. I had assumed the WTA 250 in Guadalajara in February was the replacement for last year's YEC on this year's calendar. I'm glad they have a 1000 event there now as the crowds seemed really packed at last year's YEC.

As for the USO Final, I am going to back Ons Jabeur. After her run to the Wimbledon final, I think she's ready to take it all in NYC especially against a Swiatek who is not seemingly invincible like she was during her 37-match winning streak. Another note in tournaments later this year - there is one in Tunisia and also Estonia. This must be due to the interest generated by Jabeur and Kontaveit over the past 2 years as I don't remember these being on the calendar previously?
 
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
 
Sabalenka can at least say she had the match in the palm of her hand. Garcia just never turned up (either that or she woke up, finally).

Jabeur to win the final, but I'm not confident in that or anything.
 
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

I wasn't surprised Garcia didn't win, but the degree to which she didn't show up was shocking. But, it was a nice summer run - winning Cincy and making the USO SFs.
 
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.
Wimbledon (nor any other tour organizer) doesn't award points, WTA and ATP do.
 
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.
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.
In Cincy, at the start of her last 4 games that she won (being down 0-5 in the second set) in the match she lost to Keys, she switched to 25/26.
 
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.
 
Don't know if anyone's seen Sabalenka's presser but, huh...

Thanks. First time hearing Sab talk.
I was impressed with how candid she was and her proficiency in English.
I think everyone here knows that her only real issue is the mental side.
I don't know if she'll ever be able to fix that.
 
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.
2005 crop is loaded. Those two, plus Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, Linda Fruhvirtova, and Petra Marcinko.
 
Honestly torn on the result I want.

I want Swiatek to stamp her dominance on the sport becoming the first player to win 2 slams in one year since Kerber in 2016.

But, I really want Jabeur to continue to break records as the first African and Arabic player to win a slam following her amazing few years and the Wimbledon run. I just love Jabeur and what she does for the sport.
 
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.
 
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.
Why the 2010 cut off?
Don't you short change players who won slams before your arbitrary 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.
Iga can play a lot better and still won. That's the scary part
 
My thoughts on the final was that Jabeur's forehand is extremely suspect under tense points. She may get a major one day, but her forehand has let her down a lot in the final and also in the Wimbledon final.
 
Probably One of the BEST matches going on right now at the US open this year.... who would have thought it's in women's doubles final ... LOL

1. all you amateurs men actually can learn a ton from watching this pair who's up a set against possibly one of the best power doubles pair in history of tennis.

*** One super nice tip from commentator box,,,, HOW to read Topspin lobs ? if your opponent has slow take back or backswing, slower than usual,,,, they are probably setting up for Topspin lob, unbelievably nice tip, that can be very useful in high level doubles*** i actually did not know that.

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McNally ... it up. She couldn't serve at all today.
Krejcikova/Siniakova with the doubles career Slam now.
 
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.
 
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Great stuff from Krejcikova/Siniakova. Not many people talk about them but they're slowly entering the GOAT doubles conversation (and they're still in their 20s).
 
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.
Good for her. I can’t believe they put him out there to do the trophy ceremony!
 
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