2022 WTA Finals: Fort Worth - General Discussion

[coolcamden]

AS is starting to melt.

 

[Kralingen]

Super intense final game here. Sabalenka is coming up with the goods MP down…

 

[spystud]

Air Garcia has launched.


What, she didn't do it?!

 

[Kralingen]

What a win from Garcia! Not even one break point faced. That’s the best serving I’ve seen in a final since Serena and Kvitova were winning Slams… unreal.

Also, have to give myself a pat on the back here, one of two to pick Garcia to win a couple weeks ago. 7.5 odds

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Caroline Garcia is the 2022 WTA Year End Champion.

Very deserved.

Started the year ranked #74. FInished at #4.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

10 aces in that first set was big, great serving. by Caro.

 

[coolcamden]

Caroline Garcia….. my Goddess!

 

[Kralingen]

Honestly impressed by Sabalenka tonight as well. She had one shaky game but overall served well, competed better from the baseline than I’ve seen in ages, and seems to have fixed the DF yips. Still a headcase and always a coinflip, but she showed real strength this week and should be looked at as a real contender in Australia.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Garcia with honestly no real points to defend until her Bad Homburg title in July(!!).

Just a QF in Sydney in Jan and SF in Lyon in February.

Has a huge chance to inch into the top 2 if she keeps this up.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Garcia with honestly no real points to defend until her Bad Homburg title in July(!!).

Just a QF in Sydney in Jan and SF in Lyon in February.

Has a huge chance to inch into the top 2 if she keeps this up.

Not to jinx Garcia here but Muguruza played a top notch WTA Finals last year and then in the entirety of 2022 she didn't win 3 consecutive matches ONCE.

Shocker.

 

[Kralingen]

Not to jinx Garcia here but Muguruza played a top notch WTA Finals last year and then in the entirety of 2022 she didn't win 3 consecutive matches ONCE.

Shocker.

It’d be a shocker if it was anyone but Muguruza lol.

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

From last year's semifinalists, only Sakkari qualified, and she reached SF again. Hopefully, the same fate is not happening again, especially to Caro (+ Iga). Love her game.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Interesting fact: this marked the first time since 2015 where two players won all three of their round-robin matches but were both defeated in the semifinals

 

[Fintft]

Honestly impressed by Sabalenka tonight as well. She had one shaky game but overall served well, competed better from the baseline than I’ve seen in ages, and seems to have fixed the DF yips. Still a headcase and always a coinflip, but she showed real strength this week and should be looked at as a real contender in Australia.

Her second serve was out of this world.

 

[jindra]

WTA Finals even more crazy than "normal" WTA. I can totally see Garcia just crater next season with her no margins game. Still insane she won this.

 

[Wander]

Interesting fact: this marked the first time since 2015 where two players won all three of their round-robin matches but were both defeated in the semifinals

That was also the crazy year when the finalists had both lost two matches in the RR.

Garcia with honestly no real points to defend until her Bad Homburg title in July(!!).

Just a QF in Sydney in Jan and SF in Lyon in February.

Has a huge chance to inch into the top 2 if she keeps this up.

Andy Murray's infamous prediction from over 11 years ago could yet come true which is a bit wild. But it still seems like a long shot with Garcia seeing that even this year she could win a title one week and crash out in the first round in the next tournament.

Still, if she keeps this type of form, with a bit of luck she could even win one of the Majors next year.

 

[PSNELKE]

Missed the match unfortunately, seemed like a wild one. Garcia with a wonderful 2nd half of the season. Title on grass, title on clay (beating Swiatek in her homeland), Cincy, USO semis, YEC. Best decision ever to part ways with her father as her coach earlier this year.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Interesting fact: this marked the first time since 2015 where two players won all three of their round-robin matches but were both defeated in the semifinals

Funnily, speaking of the 2015 WTA Finals.

Not sure who was around back then here on the forums but the WTA had this small rising stars invitational for young players that were voted by fans for who would participate.

The 4 players?

Caroline Garcia
Naomi Osaka
Ons Jabeur
Zhu Lin

7 years on. Garcia is the champ of the proper title, Osaka has won 4 slams. Jabeur is the #2 and 2x slam runner up and well sorry Zhu but it can't all be predicted correctly.

 

[Wander]

Funnily, speaking of the 2015 WTA Finals.

Not sure who was around back then here on the forums but the WTA had this small rising stars invitational for young players that were voted by fans for who would participate.

The 4 players?

Caroline Garcia
Naomi Osaka
Ons Jabeur
Zhu Lin

7 years on. Garcia is the champ of the proper title, Osaka has won 4 slams. Jabeur is the #2 and 2x slam runner up and well sorry Zhu but it can't all be predicted correctly.

That is pretty crazy. Funnily enough even Zhu just had a career year and is up to #62 in the rankings. It's still surprising enough that they all became successful top 100 players although Garcia at the time was already up there and had been ranked as high as #25 earlier in the year.

 

[jindra]

Missed the match unfortunately, seemed like a wild one. Garcia with a wonderful 2nd half of the season. Title on grass, title on clay (beating Swiatek in her homeland), Cincy, USO semis, YEC. Best decision ever to part ways with her father as her coach earlier this year.

Surely as a keen observer of the sport you know Garcia fired her coach before WTA Finals and her dad is back to being her coach.

 

[sportsfan1]

Garcia was more consistent and served better. If Sabalenka had won the first set, she may have pulled this one through. Once she lost the close first set tiebreak, her serve and level declined.

 

[PSNELKE]

Surely as a keen observer of the sport you know Garcia fired her coach before WTA Finals and her dad is back to being her coach.

Well I have a job and a private life, so I do miss such things. Interesting though, thanks for the info. Just read about it and it sounds more like Perret ended it. Probably because he wouldn't tolerate daddy dragging himself into the mix.

Lone star: Caroline Garcia parts ways with coach ahead of WTA Finals | Tennis.com

The Frenchwoman also got into the Texas spirit after a trip to Western megastore Justin Boots for a cowboy hat and boots.

www.tennis.com

Also this: https://www.welovetennis.fr/wta/wta...-lepoque-caroline-ne-faisait-rien-toute-seule

Sounds like he's back to controlling things. Fully expect her to suck again next season

 

[spystud]

I voted for this back in ‘15, guess I didn’t win.

 

[Fintft]

Garcia was more consistent and served better. If Sabalenka had won the first set, she may have pulled this one through. Once she lost the close first set tiebreak, her serve and level declined.

But bounced back.