Mirra Andreeva

Mark-Touch

Mark-Touch

Legend
chuckersthenut said:
Whining winging tantrum at any moment sort of way. I hope you're at least a female.
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Wow that is probably the strangest interpretation of my avi we'll ever hear at this site!
That has nothing whatsoever to do with my choice for it.

Who at this site looks at my avi and thinks "whining winging tantrum at any moment"?
 
chuckersthenut

chuckersthenut

Hall of Fame
Mark-Touch said:
Wow that is probably the strangest interpretation of my avi we'll ever hear at this site!
That has nothing whatsoever to do with my choice for it.

Who at this site looks at my avi and thinks "whining winging tantrum at any moment"?
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Me. For one. Everything you write seems very emotional.
 
Mark-Touch

Mark-Touch

Legend
chuckersthenut said:
Me. For one. Everything you write seems very emotional.
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I'll tell you exactly how I chose/created my avi.
I'm probably one of the biggest Fed fans at this site.
I had another avi before the current one, where Fed wasn't grimacing.

But I updated it with my current one shortly after his match against Tennys Sandgren, where Tennys
came within a whisker of upsetting Fed in the 4th set tie-break at the 2020 AO quarter finals.

I tried to capture a little bit of the drama that Fed must have been feeling as he squeaked by.
Fed would have had nightmares with an 0-1 h2h against the journeyman had he lost that match. :)

So no, Fed wasn't "whining winging tantrum at any moment".
He was simply grimacing and saying "Man that was a close call !".

Nice try though. I like people with wild imaginations.
 
chuckersthenut

chuckersthenut

Hall of Fame
Mark-Touch said:
I'll tell you exactly how I chose/created my avi.
I'm probably one of the biggest Fed fans at this site.
I had another avi before the current one, where Fed wasn't grimacing.

But I updated it with my current one shortly after his match against Tennys Sandgren, where Tennys
came within a whisker of upsetting Fed in the 4th set tie-break at the 2020 AO quarter finals.

I tried to capture a little bit of the drama that Fed must have been feeling as he squeaked by.
Fed would have had nightmares with an 0-1 h2h against the journeyman had he lost that match. :)

So no, Fed wasn't "whining winging tantrum at any moment".
He was simply grimacing and saying "Man that was a close call !".

Nice try though. I like people with wild imaginations.
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Even this reply seems overly emotional, no?

I'm just messing buddy. Hope all is well.
 
Nostradamus

Nostradamus

Bionic Poster
wow,, shes playing incredible right now in aussie open 2024... what racket and string is that. ? it has to be the racket

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Airspun

Airspun

Hall of Fame
Kralingen said:
Next Sharapova.

Has the personality. The on court presence. The height, and the eye of the tiger, and most importantly, she has a metric **** ton of game.

Wow. This is a serious top 5 player in the very near future. I’m utterly certain that she is a star.
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Shes 5’7
 
a10best

a10best

Legend
She is looking great with a very solid game. I was impressed last year and now see her winning multiple slams. Perhaps dominating unless she has emotional highs and lows on the court.
 
Nostradamus

Nostradamus

Bionic Poster
a10best said:
She is looking great with a very solid game. I was impressed last year and now see her winning multiple slams. Perhaps dominating unless she has emotional highs and lows on the court.
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she's just a teenager, so ups and downs are normal. but she already has the Loudest Cmon in entire WTA. makes Sharapova and Hewitt sound like a mouse. :-D :-D

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tennis24x7

Hall of Fame
wang07 said:
What a win today! Last year was already impressive, but I think this is Mirra's breakthrough tournament. At Wimby she played like a smart junior, this year she's playing like an actual a top10 player. What mental strength and grit too, just unbelievable.
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The same was said of Leylah and Emma when they came to the finals of the US Open!
 
a10best

a10best

Legend
Nostradamus said:
she's just a teenager, so ups and downs are normal. but she already has the Loudest Cmon in entire WTA. makes Sharapova and Hewitt sound like a mouse. :-D :-D
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True. She let that match against Coco last year slip away from emotions of easily winning the first set.
That's a bad sign on the loud c'mons and trying to play mind games. It seems she will have drama in her matches going forward.
 
heavyD

heavyD

Professional
I like her and hopes she continues her trajectory. The serve needs a lot of work though and I assume that should get better as she matures and gets stronger.
 
a10best

a10best

Legend
heavyD said:
I like her and hopes she continues her trajectory. The serve needs a lot of work though and I assume that should get better as she matures and gets stronger.
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Hmm. I thought her serve was improving with better pace and placement.
 
Sipho

Sipho

Rookie
Regarding her match with Diane Parry...


I like how the commentators on TV today are praising her but are also glossing over the fact that she was down 5-1 to girl with a one-handed backhand.

Granted, Diane Parry was world junior #1, but still... she has a one-handed backhand and she's no Steffi Graff. Not even a Justine Henin.

But yeah, keep hitting the slice to her, Diane, but please hit your forehand a little bit harder the next time you're up 5-1 in the third. Please. S'il vous plaît. :giggle:

Diane Parry is my favorite player on the WTA tour, so I'm just a little bitter.

Just a little. Not a lot, but a little.

Okay, maybe a lot. :giggle:
 
Mark-Touch

Mark-Touch

Legend
Mirra is going to have to make important changes to her game if she wants to get by the biggest names in the WTA.
Specifically, she needs to learn how to hit flat balls.
Most of her shots are too loopty-loop and are begging to be put away. :(

It's funny because her game kind of plateaued the past year while her sister Erika's has seen much bigger improvements.
Erika has also bulked up a bit, if you can believe it. :)
 
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Moose Malloy

G.O.A.T.
Mirra Andreeva became the youngest woman to reach the quarterfinals at the French Open since Sesil Karatantcheva in 2005,[7] and would later become the youngest player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since Martina Hingis at the 1997 US Open. By defeating world No. 2 Sabalenka in her quarterfinal match, Andreeva would become the youngest player to defeat a top two player at a Grand Slam since Jelena Dokic defeated Hingis at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships, and the youngest to do so at the French Open since Monica Seles defeated Steffi Graf in 1990.[8]
 
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Kralingen

Bionic Poster
Quick reminder that this girl is still enrolled in online high school. She was turning in homework last month.

Slam semis tomorrow. What a meteoric rise, and yet, it doesn’t feel too early whatsoever. Most exciting part is she can play far better than she did vs Sabalenka. Her first serve was awful, she struggled with her own aggression, and she failed to serve out the first set. Sky really is the limit.
 
Shaolin

Shaolin

Talk Tennis Guru
Kralingen said:
Quick reminder that this girl is still enrolled in online high school. She was turning in homework last month.

Slam semis tomorrow. What a meteoric rise, and yet, it doesn’t feel too early whatsoever. Most exciting part is she can play far better than she did vs Sabalenka. Her first serve was awful, she struggled with her own aggression, and she failed to serve out the first set. Sky really is the limit.
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

She had 43 winners to 26 UE's.
 
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helterskelter

G.O.A.T.
Moose Malloy said:
Mirra Andreeva became the youngest woman to reach the quarterfinals at the French Open since Sesil Karatantcheva in 2005,[7] and would later become the youngest player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since Martina Hingis at the 1997 US Open. By defeating world No. 2 Sabalenka in her quarterfinal match, Andreeva would become the youngest player to defeat a top two player at a Grand Slam since Jelena Dokic defeated Hingis at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships, and the youngest to do so at the French Open since Monica Seles defeated Steffi Graf in 1990.[8]
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Nice stats. She's one month and four days younger than Sharapova was when she played her SF at Wimbledon 2004. (Even had Sharapova beaten Paolo Suarez in the QF of Roland Garros 2004, she'd still have been six days older than Andreeva is today).

Do you know whether there have been any 17-year-old slam semi-finalists since Sharapova? I can't remember without looking it up. There was about a decade in which no 18-year-old reached a slam quarter-final, IIRC, let alone 17-year-olds and semi-finals. (Or was that just at the US Open? Ana Konjuh in 2016 was the first 18-year-old to reach the quarter-finals at the US Open since Tatiana Gloving in 2006).

If not, she's the first 17-year-old to reach a slam semi since Australian Open 2005! That would be quite the gap, given that Austin, Seles, and Hingis had all won slams prior to turning 17. Times change!

Jaeger also reached a slam final before turning 17 - she won her semi-final at Roland Garros 1982 the day before her 17th birthday, and lost the final the day after it. Graf and Capriati reached slam semi-finals before turning 17.
 
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E.T.

E.T.

Rookie
She’s young, obviously, but she’s really going to have to toughen up to become a top player. She seems way too emotional and intimidated on court when things aren’t going her way.
 
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