Great hope Halep - How Far at Wimbledon 2014?

[Marius_Hancu]

Plays tomorrow first match on court 2. It's best being early.

6.30 EST

Simona Halep (ROU) [3]
v
Zarina Diyas (KAZ)

Be there.

BTW, I've updated the list of links to Simona's matches at W in the above.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Diyas hits her FH hard enough to defend her first serving round
Halep defends to love
1-1
then breaks to love
2-1 Halep

I don't like to see the heavy thigh bandage on Halep -- a first for her

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Anyway, Halep won categorically, and showed some of her all-court mastery has been adapted to grass.

I think that should be enough to beat Lisicki, who had a much tougher time with Schvedova, tomorrow.

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

Personally I think crybaby, womanchild Lisicki will have too much firepower for Halep. She'll then proceed to self-destruction in the final against someone she's supposed to beat.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Personally I think crybaby, womanchild Lisicki will have too much firepower for Halep. She'll then proceed to self-destruction in the final against someone she's supposed to beat.

After seeing the mental game Lisicki played with Schvedova when on BP for Schvedova 1-1 in the 3rd he asked for medical TO DURING THE GAME AND SHE INTERRUPTED PLAY FOR 10 MIN I wish Halep to give her a good lesson.

And I'm confident she will.

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

After seeing the mental game Lisicki played with Schvedova when on BP for Schvedova 1-1 in the 3rd he asked for medical TO DURING THE GAME AND SHE INTERRUPTED PLAY FOR 10 MIN I wish Halep to give her a good lesson.

And I'm confident she will.

I hope so too but I'm not confident at all. Lisicki is almost unplayable at Wimbledon and last year she was only beaten because she sabotaged herself. I can't see her committing suicide in the quarters, only in the final.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

On paper now, based on prev experience, the favorite is Kvitova.

Let's see.

However, also on paper, Halep is leading career-wise with all the ladies left in the tournament

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Are you ready?

 

[Marius_Hancu]

This is going right there you know

 

[Marius_Hancu]

And this is going right over there you know

 

[Marius_Hancu]

See links to all of Simona's full matches at Wimbleodon 2014 upthread

 

[Marius_Hancu]

After an initial shock at Lisicki's power, Halep is on serve, and begins to move L around.

The returning is crucial here for both.

4-3 Lisicki, Halep serving 40-15 no troubles

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Halep is classy and will administer a lesson to this cheating Lisicky, asking yesterday for a totally unjustified MTO AT BREAKPOINT AGAINST HER, at 1-1 in the 3rd set, in the middle of the game, just to disturb Schvedova, which she did after a 10 min interruption.

Stupid rules, of course, and L, with her MD father, was informed and cheeky enough to use it.

5-4 Halep serving for the set
and TAKING IT.

 

[DRII]

thanks for the updates, i actually haven't seen any of Halep's matches, but it looks like she doing well.

i'm still rooting for Lisicki in this match...

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Halep and Bouchard are two trains running irremediably toward each other

1-0 5-0 Halep

British commentators: "A sumptuous victory, and a desperate defeat. A fantastic victory."

 

[ScentOfDefeat]

How anyone can root for that pathetic womanchild is beyond me.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Lemme see: Tignor of tennis.com sees Lisicki coming out of Simona's quarter.

Time to change jobs, Tignor.
Cleaning of stables seems a great one for you right now

 

[Nostradamus]

she will choke against Bouchard

 

[Marius_Hancu]

she will choke against Bouchard

You are invited to vote in my poll. All visible

 

[Marius_Hancu]

The FULL MATCH with Lisicki has been added to the list upthread.

 

[RFGOAT1992]

whats wrong with halep legs im worried for her.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

This poll (and myself) were then right in saying that Simona Halep will reach the SFs.

Great progress for her in the slams this year, thus congratulations.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

2014 Wimbledon 1/2 Eugenie Bouchard vs Simona Halep [FULL HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jYxMi6gWS0

added to her list of 6 matches here, available up thread.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

The day after the match.

Virginia Ruzici, Simona Halep's manager, and a former Roland Garros champion, says in an interview in the Romanian press:
---
There were two key moments in the match.

First, the ankle injury. At the time, it wasn't too painful, but later, while playing, it started to count for a lot. Anyway, the ankle started to swell. She [Halep] had a great desire to continue. In fact, I'd say she felt it impossible to withdraw in such a match, in a GS semifinal.

[Then the second key moment was the interruption during the TB]
Indeed, this interruption, which was quite long, was very important. It took her out of her rhythm, then she gave up -- too disappointed with everything that had happened.

There were some factors playing against her, but let us not forget the opponent, who was extremely tough. It seems to me she [Bouchard] had a very good ratio offense-defense, she played very well.

http://www.ziare.com/simona-halep/s...ei-halep-iata-cele-doua-momente-cheie-1309247
---

 

[Marius_Hancu]

The post-match conference:

Simona Halep
http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/interviews/2014-07-03/201407031404407001641.html

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Great news: Simona Halep (or the managers of her twitter account ) has favored a tweet of mine quoting this very thread chronicling her Wimbledon performance:

Simona Halep favorited your Tweets
---
Aug 13:
@SimonaHalepRo Well, glad to see a real account! This may be history now, but it has great pics of Simona http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=504211&highlight=halep
---

Simona has only recently opened her personal Facebook and Twitter accounts.

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Awesome Marius!

Do you have the link?

You mean, of her favoring my tweet?

Let me see ...

It came in Notifications, and those can be seen only by me, the owner of the twitter account, I think. However, I found this reference to my original message:

https://twitter.com/Marius_Hancu/status/499520482753118208

You'll find

FAVORITE 1
at the bottom with
Simona Halep's twitter acccount thumbnail,
on which if you click you get to

her official Twitter page:
https://twitter.com/SimonaHalepRo

and from there to her official Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/simonahalep