Purestriker
Legend
Emma Navarro vs. Wang underway.
Big lefty Wang.*one of the Wangs.
Fair enough. I suppose I want to give it more time to truly judge the field. I'm definitely liking the talent at the top though. As I said, there's reliability there. For awhile there wasn't and it made it difficult to find someone to root for consistently.Not so sure I agree with this. See below (which is only one year ago).
It's still early, and I think there has actually been a pretty big drop off in talent/consistency outside the top 50 or 75 in the world. Lots of players in Round 1 that I hadn't even really heard of, or players/matchups that weren't particularly high level. You have you players like Kovinic, JeanJean, Rus, Carle, Dart, Fett, Sonmez, Gibson, Bussa, Paquet, Lys, Birrell, Sherif, Bondar, Riera, Grabher, Snigur, Hibino, Lamens, Marino, Gadecki, Marino, Li, Bouzas, Pera, Todoni, (Various Chinese Unknowns)... that are all essentially pushovers.
Everybody Wang Chung*one of the Wangs.
Same as Raducanu's first match against Alexandrova. Just slow and punishing to watch.This first set (ER/AA) is almost a carbon copy of Navarro v. Kenin in their decider the other day. Slow, slow, slow.
Raducanu has the ability to bring down other opponent to their worse level. It's not that good of a match so far.This first set (ER/AA) is almost a carbon copy of Navarro v. Stearns in their decider the other day. Slow, slow, slow.
A fresh bagel.5-0 for Iga over Sramkova already.
Of course. Hip issue according to the world feed.Believe ER just asked for medical help at the next changeover.
Agreed. Last two serves didn’t look good.Emma hardly moving, she could be done
Looks fine now to me.Raducanu is moving at 50% speed but somehow breaks Anisimova.
Full meltdown for AA.Just what the doctor ordered.
Emma should get injured more often.
It's been all Emma since the MTO.
Good news. I think it will be over soon.This is my early leader for worst match of ‘25.
The net is the star of the match. Involved in like 80% of the rallies.This is my early leader for worst match of ‘25.
12 breaks of serve out of 17 games.This is my early leader for worst match of ‘25.
She’s a machine.Swiatek is just clinical. Breaks again to take the match 6-0 6-2.
Hard not to see a Sabalenka-Swiatek final at the moment. Hopefully someone else steps up though.
Saw that. She coughs up an easy short ball to Anisimova (who puts it in the net), and Raducanu screams "come on" like she just hit the most amazing winner.Classy from Raducanu. Celebrating Anisimova's UEs.
Yeah she’s really annoying.Saw that. She coughs up an easy short ball to Anisimova (who puts it in the net), and Raducanu screams "come on" like she just hit the most amazing winner.
Brutally painful.If that was the first women's match someone was forced to watch, they would swear off the sport forever.