Roland Garros 2007-Womens Singles Thread
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dima
Banned
ARE YOU CONSTIPATED?!?!?!
Who in their right mind would rather watch Sharapova over mens tennis?
navratilovafan
Banned
I would rather watch any version of womens tennis then mens tennis these days.
navratilovafan
Banned
Yeah you only get so many chances vs Maria.
navratilovafan
Banned
Go Patty! Break!
navratilovafan
Banned
Pressure on Patty now. She has lost serve 3 straight times serving for it and now serves to stay in it.
mentalcase
Semi-Pro
Oh Patty...you suck
navratilovafan
Banned
Go Patty!!!
mentalcase
Semi-Pro
Maria is a classless *****!
mentalcase
Semi-Pro
Patty lost the match...
J-man
Hall of Fame
Really. Man she could have made a great upset but couldn't keep it together enough to take the match.
mentalcase
Semi-Pro
Maria is so classless, I'm glad they booed her!
navratilovafan
Banned
BTW, "navratilovafan" is right. The lower level of speed, ball striking, endurance, and shotmaking in women's tennis indeed makes it superior to men's tennis.
Mens tennis is currently a combination of big time dopers(Canas, maybe Nadal), one dimensional servers(Roddick, Ljubicic), boring and mentally fragile champions(Federer)and one-dimensional counterpunchers(Hewitt, Robredo, Davydenko, Nalbandian). If you call that superior to the wide combination of contenders, complete games, and interesting rallies and personalties of womens tennis then so be it. You will never convince me fo that.
Shabazza
Legend
Schnyder has herself to blame. Way to go on wasting all these chances. She was up a break 4 times and served for the match 3 times in the 3rd, but couldn't close it out, wasting 2 MPs.
That's what I hate about women tennis. Most of them are incapable of serving out a match (that includes top 10 player as well). Impressive how metally fragil these women players are. I don't see personalities all I see are screaming robotors bashing the ball from left to right hoping they go in most of the time. very few have a gameplan or can actually change their game. Most of them hit hard and if that doiesn't work hit even harder.
That's what I hate about women tennis. Most of them are incapable of serving out a match (that includes top 10 player as well). Impressive how metally fragil these women players are. I don't see personalities all I see are screaming robotors bashing the ball from left to right hoping they go in most of the time. very few have a gameplan or can actually change their game. Most of them hit hard and if that doiesn't work hit even harder.
ACE of Hearts
Bionic Poster
Plz, women's tennis is awful.More chokers in the women's game.
navratilovafan
Banned
Womens tennis currently has a wide variety of capable contenders. You could even divide them into groups:
Americans-Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Jennifer Capriati(if she returns)
20-something Europeans-Justine Henin, Amelie Mauresmo, Martina Hingis
teenage up and comers-Shenay Peer, Nicole Vaidisova, Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic
Russian gals-Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova, Elena Dementieva
Now that is depth. So many legitimate contenders for slam titles. Wide variety of styles and personalities. Also no dopers near the top like Canas and possibly even Nadal. No boring top players like Federer. No boring pusher games like Nalbandian or Davydenko. No players with only a serve reaching #3 in the World like Roddick or Ljubicic.
Americans-Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Jennifer Capriati(if she returns)
20-something Europeans-Justine Henin, Amelie Mauresmo, Martina Hingis
teenage up and comers-Shenay Peer, Nicole Vaidisova, Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic
Russian gals-Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova, Elena Dementieva
Now that is depth. So many legitimate contenders for slam titles. Wide variety of styles and personalities. Also no dopers near the top like Canas and possibly even Nadal. No boring top players like Federer. No boring pusher games like Nalbandian or Davydenko. No players with only a serve reaching #3 in the World like Roddick or Ljubicic.
navratilovafan
Banned
FitzRoy
Professional
I just hope you don't get crossed up and post this on your alter-ego account, federerfanatic.
Actually, I hope you do...would be pretty funny.
FitzRoy
Professional
Notice how he also lists Capriati as a contender, should she return. Hahaha. Contender for what? Most likely under-35 former Slam winner to never reach a Slam final again? Interestingly, he has strikingly similar thoughts to his pre-federerfanatic alter-ego, capriatifanatic.
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J-man
Hall of Fame
Womens tennis is way more unpredictable. Which is good because there is no sure winner of every tournment. Which makes it more enntertaining in that respect. But with mens it's ethier Nadal or Federer and everyone else eat's their table scraps. But the men don't have so many chockers. Which lead to more consistant wins or upsets.
princess bossass
Semi-Pro
sharapova and schnyder match... boos and hisses...
This is off-topic, or backtracking, but I was confused by the crowd getting so worked up over that call about the serve. I was watching the match, and based on what I saw and on the replays, this is what happened with the serve/call mix-up:
1) sharapova was in her service motion,
2) toss was in the air already when some ********* in the crowd behind her shrieked,
3) sharpova hit the ball, then
4) patty's paw went up, and she didn't even move toward the serve, clearly intending to stop play.
Sharpova claims she say Patty's hand only after serving the ball, which I believe, because the whole thing went down during her serve. The ump either didn't see Patty's hand or considered her gesture too late, because he awarded the point to Sharapova. I thought it should be a replay so I sympathized with poor Patty, but I don't see how it's maria's sportsmanship to blame.
What is the rule here, exactly? And why did the crowd take it out on Sharpova? It's NOT the same thing that went down between Jh and Venus, because JH straight-up lied to the ump. Does anyone know the actual rule?
This is off-topic, or backtracking, but I was confused by the crowd getting so worked up over that call about the serve. I was watching the match, and based on what I saw and on the replays, this is what happened with the serve/call mix-up:
1) sharapova was in her service motion,
2) toss was in the air already when some ********* in the crowd behind her shrieked,
3) sharpova hit the ball, then
4) patty's paw went up, and she didn't even move toward the serve, clearly intending to stop play.
Sharpova claims she say Patty's hand only after serving the ball, which I believe, because the whole thing went down during her serve. The ump either didn't see Patty's hand or considered her gesture too late, because he awarded the point to Sharapova. I thought it should be a replay so I sympathized with poor Patty, but I don't see how it's maria's sportsmanship to blame.
What is the rule here, exactly? And why did the crowd take it out on Sharpova? It's NOT the same thing that went down between Jh and Venus, because JH straight-up lied to the ump. Does anyone know the actual rule?
charlottefromca
Rookie
What is the rule here, exactly? And why did the crowd take it out on Sharpova? It's NOT the same thing that went down between Jh and Venus, because JH straight-up lied to the ump. Does anyone know the actual rule?
They took it out on Sharapova because the Parisian crowd is one RUDE bunch, not afraid to act shady. Seriously.. they made Martina Hingis cry ::tear:: .. j/k =D you can say she deserved..
But it definately isn't like JHH vs Serena because if I remember correctly it was SERENA that was booed following JHH's cheatin' ways.
Crowds always root for the underdog.. and the Parisian crowd is the rowdiest of all the GS
FuriousYellow
Professional
One thing that does seem to be predictable in the women's game is that Big Babe tennis seems to work on all surfaces. Look at how many bashers are in the QFs. Henin and Kutznetsova are natural clay courters, but both women hit pretty big as well. Those two are all that stands between a bash-fest final.
princess bossass
Semi-Pro
LOL! Thanks. I know Sharapova is widely hated, but I didn't think she deserved the treatment she received from the crowd today. It was a well-fought match regardless of who won, and the crowd should have thanked both players for the heart they showed. Booing the victor after such an epic battle is just plain silly.
forzainter
Semi-Pro
now, the winner of the Henin Jankovic match will win the tournament
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