WTA week of 1/9; Adelaide 2 500 & Hobart 250

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Full draw

Petra v. Rybakina & Pavs v. Teichmann in about 2 hours.


Hobart draw

Not much to say about this one.
 
This has been an absolute on fire Kvitova. Rybakina playing well but Petra is zoned in.

She breaks and will serve for the straight sets win.
 
Wow, Petra Kvitova in style with a masterclass win against Wimbledon champ Rybakina.

6-3 7-5.

86% of 1st serves won.
 
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Petra now 3-0 to start 2023, Kvitova gave #3 Jessie Pegula her only loss at the United Cup winning 7-6 6-4, then defeated Siegemund in straights. Now Wimbledon champ Rybakina.

Absolute serving masterclass that was. Never faced a break point and only lost 6 points on serve in the 2nd set.
 
coolcamden said:
Petra just beat ER. I sometimes wonder how Elena Wimbledon last year.
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Played lights out that tournament. It really should've been Jabeur who should've won the final. had the easier opponents on paper in the QF (unseeded Bouzkova) and SF (unseeded Tatjana Maria) while Rybakina faced unseeded Tomljanovic in the QF and then 2019 champ Halep in the SF.
 
As mentioned on the other thread, with defending champ Barty retired along with former champ Serena and then Osaka withdrawing. Only 2 former champs left in the AO draw: Kenin and Azarenka.

So who are the top contenders for the title?

Swiatek. Dominant #1 who holds 2 slams, the favourite.
Pegula. Had an incredible week in the United Cup winning the title with USA including easily defeating Swiatek.
Sabalenka. Also had a great week, winning Adelaide.
Gauff. I don't think she'll be making the SF or more but she's the 5th betting favourite, comes off her title in Auckland. Made the RG final last year.
Kvitova. She is looking really good. 2x slam champ and a finalist at the AO, she can always show up.
Garcia. Finished 2022 in style with a title in Cincinnati, US Open SF and then biggest title of her career by winning the WTA Finals. She's looking to emulate Wozniacki who won the 2017 YEC and then backed it up to win the 2018 Aus Open.

Jabeur is up next but i'm not confident if she's injury free as she didn't look good in her Noskova loss.

Then the odds get weird with Krejcikova and Rybakina next favourites. Then a 7 way split of: Andreescu (huh?), Anisimova, Bencic, Sakkari, Kontaveit, Kudermetova and Zheng Qinwen.
 
This Sloane match is painful. All she has to do is keep the ball in and she can barely do that. I was hoping with her new coach we’d see more energy but she’s just so blah.
 
ktx said:
This Sloane match is painful. All she has to do is keep the ball in and she can barely do that. I was hoping with her new coach we’d see more energy but she’s just so blah.
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She has been tough to watch since she won the USO.
 
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Do not know who on earth told the bookies that Pliskova was the betting favourite for this match.

Collins was literally the AO finalist last year. Yes she lost 1R last week but that was in 3 tight sets to the Wimbledon champion Rybakina, not a bad loss at all. Meanwhile Pliskova last week was easily beaten by Ostapenko.

Silly.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Do not know who on earth told the bookies that Pliskova was the betting favourite for this match.

Collins was literally the AO finalist last year. Yes she lost 1R last week but that was in 3 tight sets to the Wimbledon champion Rybakina, not a bad loss at all. Meanwhile Pliskova last week was easily beaten by Ostapenko.

Silly.
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Collins and Kvitova were obvious favorites here. These Adelaide courts have been really quick favoring big servers and returners (see Noskova/Sabalenka). They both love a surface that’s quick without being too high bouncing, it keeps their backhands somewhat low but also sliding which is really tough to deal with.

“Big babe tennis” is making a comeback at this year’s AO, mark my words
 
Wonder if Collins is extra motivated this Australian summer after Barty's autobiography where Ash pretty much revealed she didn't get on with Danielle, meanwhile Pat Rafter came out 3 weeks ago and described friction between them and said they had a "spiteful relationship".
 
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Aussie Darcy said:
Wonder if Collins is extra motivated this Australian summer after Barty's autobiography where Ash pretty much revealed she didn't get on with Danielle, meanwhile Pat Rafter came out 3 weeks ago and described friction between them and said they had a "spiteful relationship".
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Well, Collins seems abrasive.
 
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coolcamden said:
BSquare took down Mugu in 2 sets, very proficient no drama. Made my day especially since Mugu just gets me the wrong way.
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She has not been looking great for a while. Not moving as well as she used too and she also seems a little too close to the ball when she strikes.
 
NaomiKonjuhPotapova said:
What a shock! Linda Noskova lost in Q1 AO.
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I missed her qualifying match after having seen some of her outstanding performance in Adelaide1. I wonder if she was worn out , as she may have looked gassed in the adelaide1 final with Sabalenka by the 2nd set.

Nice to see Badosa guiding her forehands in again, with spin. I used to be watching her matches and rooting for her more. Unfortunately (for her overall career), she's not in her early 20's anymore..
 
Today is another full of great match ups.

Petra v QZ - power
Krejcikova v Kasatkina - less power. A lot less…
Garcia v Siniakova - prettiness
Alexandrova v Kuder - Ruskie match up
BHM v Anisimova - back to power

And then there DC v Jil-one-L
 
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