slipgrip93
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So Paolini should be moving up to the top 15 abouts, and Kalinskaya within top 25. So AK shouldn't have to qualify for Indian Wells.
What was her pre-Dubai rank? If that wasn't high enough, I guess it would depend on when the ranking/entry cutoff is for IW. It's probably the upcoming week since qualifying starts on March 6. If that's the case, she should be good.So Paolini should be moving up to the top 15 abouts, and Kalinskaya within top 25. So AK shouldn't have to qualify for Indian Wells.
Dude, Indian Wells is a 96 player draw! Entry list was released weeks ago with Kalinskaya probably ranked around 40...so of course she's in. Why would she have to qualify???So Paolini should be moving up to the top 15 abouts, and Kalinskaya within top 25. So AK shouldn't have to qualify for Indian Wells.
What was her pre-Dubai rank? If that wasn't high enough, I guess it would depend on when the ranking/entry cutoff is for IW. It's probably the upcoming week since qualifying starts on March 6. If that's the case, she should be good.
Yep, that was my first takeaway too from FlashScore. Movin’.Amazingly they played a 46 75 75 match in 2:16
These girls don't waste any time.
Jaz pulled off the speech like a champ, telling a cute behind-the-scenes story, and even remembering the names of all four the doubles finalists
(her part starts at 06:00)
The trophy presentation :
Kalinskaya really threw it away. From 5-4 15-0 she hit all sorts of errors.
does not show much of the Kalinskaya finish-line collapse that made for a somewhat anticlimactic ending.
I’m fairly impressed with Jasmine‘s ball striking. I almost want to demo the VCore 100 again, but I know it’s all her. Looks like she’s using PTP yellow string with no visible lead on the hoop.
Karma for Kalinskaya for not being a good opponent in R1 against Hunter with the let call perhaps lol.Kalinskaya does all the hard work beating Ostapenko, Gauff and Swiatek while Paolini gets a W/O against Rybakina and then has Cirstea in the SF. That's tennis though! Similar situation to Fernandez and Raducanu at the USO.
What happened?Karma for Kalinskaya for not being a good opponent in R1 against Hunter with the let call perhaps lol.
Iga didn’t just say that. She also said that she was very tired because she had been playing for 2 weeks. But it's funny. All her matches were in 2 sets and in Doha she played only 4 matches with 2 days of rest between them. And for Kalinskaya this was the 7th match this week, because she played qualys.Saying her level wasnt there sounds more like taking responsibility than an excuse.
Because Camilia is the true #1 Italian woman in tennis. Paolini, Bronzetti, and especially that hack Travisan, are all a joke. None of them are beautiful and elegant to watch (talking their tennis).why is that?
Other than winning the Canadian Open, Giorgi never reached QF of WTA 1000.
I thought Paolini was under 25, but she's 28.
I wrote a lot about this, but suffice to say I'm getting tired of hear the word "fight" to describe tennis players. You either give up (which rarely actually happens), or you try to play the points. Did anyone really expect her to give up in the biggest final of her career? It was a short, 3 set match in good conditions, and she wasn't injured. What was the fight? Playing the points? And what, her opponent basically handed it to her. Great. And her screaming "Forza" all the time, even after her opponents silly errors, is some proof of her "fighting"? Please, let's save that word for other players/matches, or other sports.wow guess I was right, that was an avalanche of UE's at the end. Good fight by Jasmine though.
This. These events were terrible. No atmosphere, no fans, incomplete draws (or limited player interest). I don't like Canada and Cincy back to back either. Takes something away from both. Only IW and Miami can get away with it, because of special circumstances (two coasts of a major tennis country, played months before the American slam, and the closing curtain on the hardcourt start to the season).Now I think the WTA scheduling with back to back WTA 1000 events, so soon before Indian Wells / Miami, is ridiculous, but that's another matter.
Would you have preferred Kaliskaia to win?Just wrote a long reply, and this garbage app got rid of it.
Anyway, to sum it up, I'm going against the crowd and saying I'm not happy Paolini won. It's just a sign of how far the level has slipped in the WTA.
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It’s Kalinskaya. And yes, I would.Would you have preferred Kaliskaia to win?
Yes, I would have. Her winning would still have been a sign that the WTA is in a bad state, but at least she would have done so by beating multiple top players on her way to the final. That walkover for Paolini just feels wrong. No, it's not under her control, but still... I hope Jasmine faces Giorgi sometime soon (if Queen Camilia deems us worthy of her presence once again, something for which we certainly aren't worthy, but may her grace look favorably upon us), and Giorgi is in form and absolutely schools her.Would you have preferred Kaliskaia to win?