Sorry everyone, I had a lot to catch up on. My reactions below...
...Coco's forehand has shown plenty of promise in the last few weeks. I suspect she just hasn't fully ingrained whatever changes she tried to make in the offseason. If she loses here, she just gets some more practice time to work it out. No worries. Either one winning is fine by me.
People kept saying her forehand was better, and isn't an issue now... and yet it was shaky for the entire AO, and completely fell apart at the first sign of real pressure. It's still a below average shot.
Her biggest issue is between the ears, which in turn bleeds into her technique.
this is what happens when you fire brad gilbert
Yep, everyone talking trash about Brad after they parted ways, and now we see this result.
Gauff exposed again. Can’t handle the slam big stages
She's had such incredibly easy draws in the past few slams, so it was bound to catch up to her sooner or later.
Last year she absolutely should have lost to Kostyuk, but Marta choked hard (as she is prone to doing).
I feel for Rybakina but Vukov is a freak who needs to stay away from her but you can only help someone who wants to be helped.
What exactly happened with him? Why are you calling him a freak? Genuine question.
On another note, Coco wears the sharpest kits on the women's tour, imo. New Balance really works for her.
What? It looked like she was wearing a bathing suit top with a tennis skirt. It was strange.
Lotto consistently put out the best women's kits (men's too, actually), and Siniakova wears them very, very well.
Sinner‘s run is almost identical to Raducanu‘s US open. No decent player on the way until SF and then probably tiered Badosa in the final.
Huh? Assuming you meant Swiatek, but even if you are talking about Sinner, he and Iga are very high seeds. The reward for being highly ranked is generally an easier draw due to seeding. Raducanu was just ridiculously lucky.
Graf's 1989 AO competition was actually weaker than Swiatek's current run. Graf started off by playing Kerry Anne Guse who had no ranking at all, so not even a top 1000 player. From there, Graf played #95, #113, #32, and #12 to reach the semis for an average rank of #63, not counting the unranked player. Swiatek has played #50, #49, #61, #128, and #8 for an average rank of #59 in the competition.
EDIT: Just checked Graf's run in 1988 and the average rank of her competition through the quarterfinals was an even far weaker #85.
Ok, that may be the case, but maybe the #50 player back then was better than the #50 player now? Perhaps not purely on skill, but mentally?
All I know is that Graf would easily beat Swiatek in straights. Same for the rest of the current tour.