2026 Australian Open - Women's Discussion

[spystud]

Hey @ScottleeSV, you do realize Emma is playing Mananchaya Sawangkaew? You are still a week late.

 

[merwy]

Ouch, Venus handed one break back to Olga. She's still one break up. 4-1 now

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Venus needs to hold here or I think it’s gonna run away from her

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Is the hot guy in the white shirt Venus’ new husband? The Italian guy?

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Danilovic remembered she’s playing a literal 45 year old woman who’s played about 12 matches in 3 years.

She breaks again. Back on serve.

From 4-0 to 4-3, not looking good.

 

[merwy]

What a collapse.. Come on, Venus

 

[MichaelNadal]

Is the hot guy in the white shirt Venus’ new husband? The Italian guy?

Yes

 

[Aussie Darcy]

This is bloody tense. Venus reels it in, saves break point, gets game point and then double faults. Deuce. Come on Vee.

 

[spystud]

Nice double.

 

[spystud]

She can’t get a first in, her second is embarrassing.

 

[spystud]

Fortunately, Danilovic is equally as awful.

 

[D-Lite]

Danilovic choking a bit but Venus is killing it.

Insane to witness.

Was it you bowing to Venus in the crowd?

 

[spystud]

That a girl, Olga.

 

[spystud]

Both of these women are setting tennis back.

 

[spystud]

Embarrassing.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Was it you bowing to Venus in the crowd?

Different city. But I would be there if I could. Although the level has dropped in this 9 minute game. Hope Venus wraps it up.

 

[spystud]

That a girl, Olga.

 

[spystud]

Jesus sh*t.

 

[spystud]

If Venus could get one goddamn first serve in, she would win. This is grotesque.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

An ace on break point? Seriously hahaha. After all the poor serving?

 

[MichaelNadal]

Cmon Venus

 

[spystud]

Come on Olga, do this thing.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

And with that break probably ends the match.

From 0-4 down to 5-4 up, Danilovic now serving for it.

14 minute game. Brutal for Venus.

 

[MichaelNadal]

 

[merwy]

That's the most brutal way to take that game. Almost makes me irrationally upset at Danilovic. What was that? She kept making an UE on deuce and then hitting insane return winners on Adv..

 

[spystud]

Jesus, Venus had two easy winners, failed both.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Danilovic finishes in style.

Fights from 0-4 down to beat Venus 6-7 6-3 6-4 in what was surely Venus’ last AO campaign.

That’ll hurt for Vee.

 

[spystud]

That a woman.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Venus fought hard but the serving let her down big time in the end.

 

[spystud]

2 hours, 17 minutes isn’t some marathon.

 

[MichaelNadal]

That was absolutely brutal. OUCH. A Wimbledon 2019 style choke.

 

[D-Lite]

Danilovic teeing off on Venus' 2nd serve time and time and time again. Danilovic is highly streaky and seems to pressure herself to the point it is detrimental to her results, but down 4-0 she just swung and the pressure seemingly vanished before returning at 4-4.

I think Venus has proven that a 45 year old can hang with the youngsters, but I'm sorry I think Venus needs to hang up the singles racquet and exclusively play doubles or move to a coaching/doubles partner role like Zheng Saisai does for Wang Xinyu.

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

Olga scream like she wasn't supposed to win this... girl

 

[MichaelNadal]

Danilovic teeing off on Venus' 2nd serve time and time and time again. Danilovic is highly streaky and seems to pressure herself to the point it is detrimental to her results, but down 4-0 she just swung and the pressure seemingly vanished before returning at 4-4.

I think Venus has proven that a 45 year old can hang with the youngsters, but I'm sorry I think Venus needs to hang up the singles racquet and exclusively play doubles or move to a coaching/doubles partner role like Zheng Saisai does for Wang Xinyu.

Let’s not be rough. Venus had this match.

 

[merwy]

That was absolutely brutal. OUCH. A Wimbledon 2019 style choke.

Yeah man.. just painful. At 4-0 up Venus just handed over that break as if it was nothing, but at that time I already felt like that could signal a comeback for Danilovic. Olga was superfit, just ready to fight for every point. Meanwhile, a longer match would only make things more difficult for Venus. I wish her level wouldn't have dipped like that.

 

[MichaelNadal]

Yeah man.. just painful. At 4-0 up Venus just handed over that break as if it was nothing, but at that time I already felt like that could signal a comeback for Danilovic. Olga was superfit, just ready to fight for every point. Meanwhile, a longer match would only make things more difficult for Venus. I wish her level wouldn't have dipped like that.

Incredible performance let down by having to serve too much. Venus’s second serve is the death of her. I’m furious.

 

[merwy]

Danilovic teeing off on Venus' 2nd serve time and time and time again. Danilovic is highly streaky and seems to pressure herself to the point it is detrimental to her results, but down 4-0 she just swung and the pressure seemingly vanished before returning at 4-4.

I think Venus has proven that a 45 year old can hang with the youngsters, but I'm sorry I think Venus needs to hang up the singles racquet and exclusively play doubles or move to a coaching/doubles partner role like Zheng Saisai does for Wang Xinyu.

Not sure if we watched the same match, but I mostly saw Venus collapsing, which allowed Danilovic to play a lot better. In the start of third set, Venus was forcing errors off of Olga's racket the whole time.

 

[ScottleeSV]

Hey @ScottleeSV, you do realize Emma is playing Mananchaya Sawangkaew? You are still a week late.

I..think you misunderstood the post with that one

Never the less, she's a set up. Looked pretty desperate at 1-3, 15-40

 

[AO13]

If I was Olga I would be embarrassed to celebrate this win for 2 reasons:

1. You played against a 45 year old woman who last played competitive tennis probably 3 months ago at a local club against amateurs;
2. You played against a legend who probably played her last match at the AO, who knows maybe even last match in her career.

Classless. Great talent, but she's never gonna be a great player. If she had half of her father's mental strength, she could have been a slam winner and world number 1.​

 

[MichaelNadal]

If I was Olga I would be embarrassed to celebrate this win for 2 reasons:

1. You played against a 45 year old woman who last played competitive tennis probably 3 months ago at a local club against amateurs;
2. You played against a legend who probably played her last match at the AO, who knows maybe even last match in her career.

Classless. Great talent, but she's never gonna be a great player. If she had half of her father's mental strength, she could have been a slam winner and world number 1.​

Well on the flip side, credit to Venus. Incredible that she can still show up and do this.

 

[AO13]

Well on the flip side, credit to Venus. Incredible that she can still show up and do this.

Basically shows that it's definitely an overstatement when they say tEnNiS eVoLvEd and it's better now than 10 years ago. Put Big 3 in their 25s in this era, and Carlos and Jannik would be on level of Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, great players, but not so dominant. Same goes to WTA, Serena would obliterate Aryna and Iga.​

 

[MichaelNadal]

Basically shows that it's definitely an overstatement when they say tEnNiS eVoLvEd and it's better now than 10 years ago. Put Big 3 in their 25s in this era, and Carlos and Jannik would be on level of Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, great players, but not so dominant. Same goes to WTA, Serena would obliterate Aryna and Iga.​

Exactly. She’s almost 46 and this match was completely on her racquet

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

Raducana winning this slam

 

[ScottleeSV]

Basically shows that it's definitely an overstatement when they say tEnNiS eVoLvEd and it's better now than 10 years ago. Put Big 3 in their 25s in this era, and Carlos and Jannik would be on level of Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, great players, but not so dominant. Same goes to WTA, Serena would obliterate Aryna and Iga.​

I don't see it that way. For me Carlos and Jannik would have easily kept up with the big three. Williams would have struggled a bit with this version of Sabalenka. Against Swiatek I think it would depend on surface (Williams on top everywhere but clay).

In the here and now, Emma through to play Potapova. And then the winner probably plays Sabalenka

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Raducanu had no business whinging about the scheduling of her match the other day. Didn’t start that late and she wrapped it up easily.

Sometimes she makes it hard to like her.

 

[Clay lover]

Edit: wrong year

 

[roysid]

Surprised to see not a single post about the ball girl almost collapsing and the Turkish player noticing that, stopped play and jumping to immediate assistance.
It could have been bad.
To me that's was the highlight of the day.
Great display of humanity

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Surprised to see not a single post about the ball girl almost collapsing and the Turkish player noticing that, stopped play and jumping to immediate assistance.
It could have been bad.
To me that's was the highlight of the day.
Great display of humanity

Full credit to Sonmez for noticing it and how she handled the whole situation. Great to see kindness on show. And she was rewarded for it, she got the upset over #11 Alexandrova and in doing so became the first Turkish player to ever win a main draw Aus Open match.

Epic.

 

[bezs]

Was at Rybakina's practice session, her coach Vukov is quite a yapper never seemed to stop she looked none too pleased.

Not sure if it's a new thing was at the Venus match and spectators were free to head to their seats even when a point was being played, thought it was always only at the change of ends.

 

[ScottleeSV]

Emma is apparently 14-2 in round 1 slam matches. We won't discuss rd 2 and beyond