2023 US Open Women's Final: (2) ARYNA Sabalenka vs (6) COCO Gauff

[Im(moral) Winner]

Genuinely think Coco speaks better than 90% of TTW

@Sampras-Bruguera 1993 would be stuttering like a baby

He already is

 

[ACE of Hearts]

People have said the same about Djokovic and Nadal. But the thing is, great defense is as important as great offense. If you can do both, you are going to be an ATG.

Gauff adjusted to Sabalenka incredibly well. Sabalenka did not. The better player won.

Those guys play offense though. Come on man. I believe Gauff just had 11 winners.

 

[Fedeonic]

Hopefully Coco does more with her career than those two..

The last teenage major champion to win more majors is Iga Swiatek.

 

[Carax]

I am just anti-this crowd. Whoever this crowd is for, I’m against. No offense, Coco. Congrats.

So, are you saying you would support Med if the crowd supports Djokovic tomorrow?

Spoiler

 

[Im(moral) Winner]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1700637275913429323

 

[ark_28]

It’s an unfortunate turn of events but these things happen

 

[intrepidish]

Genuinely think Coco speaks better than 90% of TTW

@Sampras-Bruguera 1993 would be stuttering like a baby

His posts, which he has the benefit of typing, still don't make any sense.

 

[Sampras-Bruguera 1993]

Genuinely think Coco speaks better than 90% of TTW

@Sampras-Bruguera 1993 would be stuttering like a baby

 

[ACE of Hearts]

I also love how rec players here be like well Sabs just hit the ball dumb, Coco had nothing to do with it. LOL.

Dude some of those UEs where on sabs. Going for too much. It’s called UEs. Unforced!!!!!

 

[Djokovic2011]

Congrats to Coco but these trophy ceremonies are so cringeworthy, I really wish they'd just hand the trophy and plate over and get rid of the interviews altogether.

 

[insideguy]

Dude some of those UEs where on sabs. Going for too much. It’s called UEs. Unforced!!!!!

Ya dude im sure ya could have beat her today cause she was just hitting errors to any old person

 

[mightyrick]

Those guys play offense though. Come on man. I believe Gauff just had 11 winners.

No, those guys play offense when it suits the situation. Djokovic and Nadal have played entire matches just pushing the ball and retrieving. They do what works. They find solutions. That's what Gauff did today. Sabalenka should have stopped trying to hit through Gauff at the start of the third set. She should have adjusted.

Gauff can play offense VERY well. You know this. She completely blew Ostapenko off the court.

 

[LeastExhaustingPlayer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1700637275913429323

So Joco was copying Coco's celebration, not Ben's.

 

[Winners or Errors]

Dude some of those UEs where on sabs. Going for too much. It’s called UEs. Unforced!!!!!

Hmm, when your opponent is making you win every point four times, you're going to start racking up the errors if you have no plan other than to blow her off the court.

 

[ACE of Hearts]

Hard to think that Coco will struggle with that, given that she's been labeled as the next great American since coming on tour at 15. I'm just glad she managed to live up to some of the hype. It seems like it took her forever to get there - funny that she's just 19. Here's to hoping for more.

Can she win though on this type of style. I don’t see much offense. It seems like she pushes the ball. Would be nice to see her smack the ball around but doesn’t seem like her style.

 

[WeekendTennisHack]

Well, she didn't play like this is the obvious answer to that question. She was incredible against Keys in the second and particularly third sets. If you think Maddy ****ing Keys should have been here you must not have watched her attempt at a US Open final.

Watching Sabalenka against Madi, she was horrible. Especially that first set. She simply got out choked by Keys.

 

[intrepidish]

Dude some of those UEs where on sabs. Going for too much. It’s called UEs. Unforced!!!!!

It's the pressure of playing someone who can make it to your shots and has game.

It doesn't happen out of nowhere.

You'd think after decades of Nadal and Djokovic this would have sunk in.

 

[boredone3456]

Gauff is unlikely to suffer the same injuries. She looks the most physically stable woman on tour.

Exactly. That and Gauff has achieved WAY more than Raducanu at this point. If anything Gauff was a possible favorite this tournament and lived up to it by winning unlike Raducanu who came out of nowhere

 

[ACE of Hearts]

Hmm, when your opponent is making you win every point four times, you're going to start racking up the errors if you have no plan other than to blow her off the court.

That’s the point. Sabalenka is so one dimensional. She didn’t give Gauff a different look at all.

 

[ACE of Hearts]

It's the pressure of playing someone who can make it to your shots and has game.

It doesn't happen out of nowhere.

You'd think after decades of Nadal and Djokovic this would have sunk in.

Hey those guys play offense as well.

 

[Winners or Errors]

That’s the point. Sabalenka is so one dimensional. She didn’t give Gauff a different look at all.

I completely agree.

 

[zvelf]

Let's complete the sweep Novak!

If Gauff gives her WWE intro for Novak onto the court tomorrow, he wins for sure!

An epic meltdown but there have been loads of one sided slam finals.

Anyone who has been watching tennis for a while and doesn't have an agenda should recognize that.

This match doesn't belong anywhere near that list

Yeah, Natasha Zvereva's 0-6, 0-6 loss in the 1988 French come to mind.

 

[mcs1970]

Seems like a cheap publicity stunt for the USTA to announce a matching 3 mill to refurbish legacy courts so that kids of different backgrounds can play tennis. So if coco lost they wouldn’t have done it?

And the announcer saying thank you Coco for that. The whole thing felt cringey. Even Coco looked like she was not sure what to say or do.

 

[insideguy]

Sabs is Sharapova 2.0. Seen this show before.

 

[LeastExhaustingPlayer]

Sabs is Sharapova 2.0. Seen this show before.

Come on, bro. That's disrespectful to someone who achieved a career slam.

 

[mcs1970]

Dude some of those UEs where on sabs. Going for too much. It’s called UEs. Unforced!!!!!

She was going for too much because her usual power didn’t faze Coco and because Sab was not getting cream puff balls back that she could destroy.

That’s why I said just talking about UE and not why they happened are missing the point.

 

[martinezownsclay]

Yeah, Natasha Zvereva's 0-6, 0-6 loss in the 1988 French come to mind.

It is hard to know how much of that was a meltdown, and how much was just being badly overmatched. Probably a combination of both. It was one of those rare final matches you probably predicted someone to win a quite low number of games going in, even though definitely not a double bagel prediction.

It is hard to compare that to matches you have a player you think has a good chance to win going in.

 

[insideguy]

Come on, bro. That's disrespectful to someone who achieved a career slam.

Sabs could do that. Still early. Her game reminds me of Sharapova. Hits hard, serves a mess, and screams.

 

[mightyrick]

It reminds me of an interview I saw where Djokovic said one of the players (outside of Nadal) that he hated playing the most was -- Gilles Simon. Of all people. Same reasons. The man gets to every ball. It didn't matter what you did. Offensive. Defensive. Flat. Loopy. He said that even your best tennis is only 50% chance to win the point. 40 ball rallies.

He said that even though he always felt confident he would win the match... there was going to be no easy points. You have to hit 10 winners on every point and you cannot make mistakes.

 

[LeastExhaustingPlayer]

Sabs could do that. Still early. Her game reminds me of Sharapova. Hits hard, serves a mess, and screams.

Sharapova at 17yo dismantled a prime Serena at Wimbledon. (Of course she lost 879 times in a row after that but...)

 

[ACE of Hearts]

She was going for too much because her usual power didn’t faze Coco and because Sab was not getting cream puff balls back that she could destroy.

That’s why I said just talking about UE and not why they happened are missing the point.

Again a lot of those UEs where on her. She wasn’t patient. So one dimensional. Curious to see how many slams Gauff can win by playing like this.

 

[tudwell]

Hmm, when your opponent is making you win every point four times, you're going to start racking up the errors if you have no plan other than to blow her off the court.

Yeah I only saw the third set but in that one at least Sabalenka was mostly missing after reasonably extended rallies. She wasn’t missing every easy third ball forehand or something like that. And Gauff did a great job not just returning Aryna’s bombs but varying up the shape and placement of the ball she was hitting, forcing Sabalenka to hit the ball uncomfortably high or uncomfortably far inside the court, or what-have-you.

 

[insideguy]

Sharapova at 17yo dismantled a prime Serena at Wimbledon. (Of course she lost 879 times in a row after that but...)

I think she might move better than Sharapova but thats about it. The go for broke screaming style, the cant serve from one day to the next. Her size. She is Sharapova 2.0

 

[intrepidish]

Hey those guys play offense as well.

So does Gauff when she's not playing someone bashing every shot.

And she didn't just retrieve or she'd not have won all those points. Not how it works, sorry.

 

[ACE of Hearts]

It reminds me of an interview I saw where Djokovic said one of the players (outside of Nadal) that he hated playing the most was -- Gilles Simon. Of all people. Same reasons. The man gets to every ball. It didn't matter what you did. Offensive. Defensive. Flat. Loopy. He said that even your best tennis is only 50% chance to win the point. 40 ball rallies.

He said that even though he always felt confident he would win the match... there was going to be no easy points. You have to hit 10 winners on every point and you cannot make mistakes.

Not a sexy style and pretty boring. I don’t think Gauff can change her game. I think this is her. Curious to see how many slams she could win like this.

 

[LeastExhaustingPlayer]

Again congrats to Coco and her team and family.
BLNT Sabalenka

On to the men's finals...

 

[ACE of Hearts]

So does Gauff when he's not playing someone bashing every shot.

I haven’t seen it. She won this slam playing retriever. This is what she is in my opinion.

 

[intrepidish]

I haven’t seen it. She won this slam playing retriever. This is what she is in my opinion.

They give them eyes but they do not see.

Go back and watch the Ostapenko match.

 

[mcs1970]

Again a lot of those UEs where on her. She wasn’t patient. So one dimensional. Curious to see how many slams Gauff can win by playing like this.

MightyRick’s excellent post on Novak and Nadal also playing situational tennis and how Coco destroyed Ostapenko should be the end of this specific discussion.

 

[ACE of Hearts]

So does Gauff when she's not playing someone bashing every shot.

And she didn't just retrieve or she'd not have won all those points. Not how it works, sorry.

Dude she won more than her total points on sabalenka’s UEs!!! More than half. Plz. Go looo at her other matches well. That’s how she got to this point.

 

[ACE of Hearts]

They give them eyes bit they do not see.

Go back and watch the Ostapenko match.

Ostapenko had 36 UEs lol

 

[ACE of Hearts]

MightyRick’s excellent post on Novak and Nadal also playing situational tennis and how Coco destroyed Ostapenko should be the end of this specific discussion.

Ostapenko was garbage dude lol

 

[insideguy]

This reminds after Portugal won the euros some years back. A bunch of people saying she not win the match even if she wins the match. Whatever that means.

 

[intrepidish]

This reminds after Portugal won the euros some years back. A bunch of people saying she not win the match even if she wins the match. Whatever that means.

Of course. Just a bunch of clowns going on about unforced errors with no idea how and why those errors actually happened.

The person who hit the hardest line drive should always win in their minds.

 

[ACE of Hearts]

This reminds after Portugal won the euros some years back. A bunch of people saying she not win the match even if she wins the match. Whatever that means.

She won her match but not with style but style doesn’t matter. Kudos to her even though I hate retrievers.

 

[insideguy]

Of course. Just a bunch of clowns going on about unforced errors with no idea how and why those errors actually happened.

The person who hit the hardest line drive should always win in their minds.

Its literally like saying the puncher should always win in a boxing match. Hey this guy can knock you out, just give him the title ok?

 

[ACE of Hearts]

Of course. Just a bunch of clowns going on about unforced errors with no idea how and why those errors actually happened.

The person who hit the hardest line drive should always win in their minds.

Not really but don’t depend on more than half of your points on the other player making an UE lol. I think sabalenka is so one dimensional she didn’t have a plan b

 

[Kralingen]

Your turn American men. Coco held up her end of the bargain. None of you guys are even better than Roddick yet lol.

 

[mcs1970]

Ostapenko was garbage dude lol

This is what I am saying. It is not about Coco’s playing style. You are trying your best to not give her credit for whatever reason. You did this after Cincy. You thought it was a flash in the pan and felt you would be proven right at the USO. However now that she won here as well you are just throwing sht on the wall to see what will stick.

Let it go. She is a solid player. You don’t have to be a fan of that style to nitpick to not give her all the credit in the world. Continuing to do that unfortunately will come across as some sort of an agenda.

We can all cheer for the players we want to without trying to shortchange others when they win.

 

[BenC]

Not really but don’t depend on more than half of your points on the other player making an UE lol. I think sabalenka is so one dimensional she didn’t have a plan b

sir, this is the WTA