WTA week of 1/10; Sydney 500 & Adelaide 250

[spystud]

Sydney draw

Barty will most likely withdraw, Garbine is next up.


Adelaide draw

Aryna & Elina lead. Will be so many withdraws here too.

 

[flyingboris]

Thanks for making these threads, because tbh I'm kind of losing track which tournaments are being played!

Some decent matches coming up: (times Sunday US Eastern)
18:00 Djokovic Novak (SRB) [1] Australian Border Force (AUS)
18:30 Kostyuk Marta (UKR) [50] Rogers Shelby (USA) [40]
18:30 Van Uytvanck Alison (BEL) [58] Yastremska Dayana (UKR) [99]
19:00 Badosa Paula (ESP) [8] Ostapenko Jelena (LAT) [28]
20:00 Vondrousova Marketa (CZE) [35] Golubic Viktorija (SUI) [43]
01:00 Kenin Sofia (USA) [12] Kasatkina Daria (RUS) [26]

 

[spystud]

JO/Badosa on serve in the first on TC.

 

[flyingboris]

Ostapinko got within two points of taking the first set, serving at 5-4 40-40, but Badosa breaks back.

Spoiler: ostapinko

 

[Steffi-forever]

Ostapenko served for the first set but failed and now it’s 5-5

 

[Steffi-forever]

Badosa wins the first set 7-6(1)

 

[flyingboris]

Badosa wins the first set 7-6(1)

See, I knew I didn't have to type that up!

 

[Steffi-forever]

Kontaveit wins the first set 6-3 vs Zhang on court 1!

 

[flyingboris]

Heads up: Vondrousova-Golubic just started.

 

[flyingboris]

Badosa takes it 7-6(1) 6-1. Nothing too exciting happened, lots of Penko UEs, but Badosa did hit a couple great looking FHDTLs.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Badosa wins the match, 6-1 in the second.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Badosa takes it 7-6(1) 6-1

2 souls one mind

 

[coolcamden]

Penko enjoyed her Off-Season well.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Anett wins vs Zhang 6-3 6-3!

 

[flyingboris]

2 souls one mind

I actually waited five seconds to see if you'd post it. BTW are you Dutch?

 

[Steffi-forever]

I actually waited five seconds to see if you'd post it. BTW are you Dutch?

No I’m from the US and Quebec

 

[flyingboris]

Was watching Konjuh-Saville, and thinking I'm watching the wrong stream, because that's definitely Gavrilova. Turns out Daria changed her name when she married Luke Saville late 2021. You know, just FYI.

I had trouble remembering her original last name, so I typed "Daria" "Energizer bunny" in Google. Top result was Gavrilova.

 

[flyingboris]

No I’m from the US and Quebec

Oh funny. In Dutch there's a saying "twee zielen een gedachte", which means "two souls one thought". I've seen "great minds think alike", but never "two souls one mind", so I thought maybe it was a near literal translation from Dutch.

 

[flyingboris]

Konjuh def. Saville/Gavrilova 6-2 7-6(4).

 

[spystud]

Rus takes the first over Petra @ 3. Kinda wonder if Petra makes it to the end of ‘22.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Withdrawals from Barty and Swiatek at Sydney. Not really surprising.

 

[spystud]

Breaker for the lefties, this match is SLOW.

 

[spystud]

Playing 3, but Petra sure ain’t pumped about it.

 

[flyingboris]

Rus up 3-2 in the final set, but there were some wild misses. A second serve that was .. 10ft out? Catching a ball toss that was going above three ft up.. Meanwhile Kvitova's ground strokes look imposing, but somehow Rus is getting enough of them back.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

When did Petra start declining so fast? To think she was that close to the 2019 Aus Open title..

 

[flyingboris]

I don't like how Rus makes Petra wait while receiving serve. Done that several times now.

 

[spystud]

Well, I have my early leader for worst match of ‘22.

 

[flyingboris]

Well, I have my early leader for worst match of ‘22.

The duration/quality ratio keeps increasing..

 

[spystud]

Yeah, typically 3-hour matches are rather entertaining, this ain’t that.

 

[flyingboris]

Oh man, Kvitova has a chance to serve it out!

 

[flyingboris]

Commentator: "If you're a tennis fan, hard not to enjoy this one!"

 

[flyingboris]

Fittingly ends on an UE.. Congrats Petra, well-fought Rus!

 

[spystud]

Commentator: "If you're a tennis fan, hard not to enjoy this one!"

Who was it? Shriver was plainly bored earlier.

 

[flyingboris]

Who was it? Shriver was plainly bored earlier.

My stream just had a mellow sounding (can one sound well-mannered?) American guy, don't recall his name.

 

[spystud]

Keys just rolled up Svitolina in straights, Sofia ate a bagel from DasKa to go home.

 

[D-Lite]

Keys just rolled up Svitolina in straights, Sofia ate a bagel from DasKa to go home.

Kenin needs to be outside the top 30 at this stage, maybe even lower than that.

I expect Svitolina will get it together for a few patches this season.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Kenin needs to be outside the top 30 at this stage, maybe even lower than that.

I expect Svitolina will get it together for a few patches this season.

She might go down fast in the ranking as she is defending 2000 points next week!

 

[D-Lite]

She might go down fast in the ranking as she is defending 2000 points next week!

Well a R1 loss would be catastrophic for her ranking.

 

[spystud]

Ajla takes the first over Schmiedlova @ 2.

 

[spystud]

Sheesh, 8 DFs through four service games for Aryna already. She is screwed right now.

 

[spystud]

Ajla wins in her all-white Original Penguin kit.

Aryna somehow manages to take the first over Peterson.

 

[spystud]

Now she’s serving underhand.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Sabalenka is a mess!

 

[Steffi-forever]

Peterson leads 4-0 in the second set.

 

[spystud]

Fitting DF to eat the breadstick. Ball was way wide of doubles.

 

[Steffi-forever]

Peterson wins the set 6-1!

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Sabalenka already at 18 double faults with the 3rd set only just starting. Christ.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Sabalenka starts with back to back double faults and goes on to be broken back to love. She legitimately can’t serve. She is not going to do well at the Aus Open at all.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Sabalenka is hitting 99kmh first serves, that’s 61 miles per hour...

 

[Aussie Darcy]

She just hit an underarm serve and got broken. This is actually hideous to watch.