WTA week of 10/10; San Diego 500 & Transylvania 250

[spystud]

Let's play more tennis, ladies.

San Diego draw

Iga/Badosa/Sabalenka/Pegula with byes.

Iga's quarter alone has Rybakina/Muguruza/Andreescu/Samsonova/Gauff, damn.

Kenin plays Vandeweghe in R1.


Cluj-Napoca draw

Quite the interesting group of cities last few weeks.

Krejcikova leads the way, 2-seed Kalinina gets Genie in R1.

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

Krej is playing non stop.

 

[spystud]

Transylvania is underway.

 

[Lauren_Girl']

Krej is playing non stop.

She has withdrawn.

 

[spystud]

Transylvania is bummin’.

 

[spystud]

My goodness, SDL is even dumber than I thought. @nounforcederrors, BHM withdrew days ago.

And now she's in the main draw with BHM's withdrawal. Gets Bianca R1.

 

[ttwreader]

Pop corn matches today in San Diego:

3rd match from 11:30
GarCIA vs Danimal

following by:
AndyRescue vs Samsung

 

[ttwreader]

With R1 bye, JPeg is qualified for the WTA finals. Next in the race: Gauff, GarCIA, Dasha, Saba, Kuder, Sakkari,... are all in San Diego fighting for some advantages before the deciding battles in Guadalajara.

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

She has withdrawn.

Good decision. Better focus on Guadalajara than hoping to extend winning streaks and qualify for WTA finals.

 

[nounforcederrors]

My goodness, SDL is even dumber than I thought. @nounforcederrors, BHM withdrew days ago.

My dunce cap is very stylish and fashionable. Lots of people are wearing it this season.

 

[PSNELKE]

Nobody gonna mention 18 year old Robin Montgomery (#294) smoking #26 Zhang Shuai followed by #43 Bernarda Pera through the qualies to make her main draw debut?

Especially Zhang was totally hopeless against her power and serve.

She won the girls USO title 2021 btw

 

[ttwreader]

Nobody gonna mention 18 year old Robin Montgomery (#294) smoking #26 Zhang Shuai followed by #43 Bernarda Pera through the qualies to make her main draw debut?

Especially Zhang was totally hopeless against her power and serve.

She won the girls USO title 2021 btw

These matches happened before this thread was created so maybe they were mentioned somewhere else

Her match with Gauff, the battle of 2 American teenagers, would be epic

 

[PSNELKE]

These matches happened before this thread was created so maybe they were mentioned somewhere else

Her match with Gauff, the battle of 2 American teenagers, would be epic

Coco is the worst possible matchup for her haha. Crazy to think they're only months apart yet Coco can be considered a "veteran" compared to Robin.

Also Montgomery seems to stand somewhere around 6 foot. Moves pretty well for her size though. I can't find an official size however. Watched both her matches and her serve was massive

 

[spystud]

TC switched off Chirico v. Riske, but we should get Dani/Garcia & Bianca/Samsonova later.

 

[PSNELKE]

Pretty crazy, Riske blew a 6-1 4-0 - AD-40 lead. Now trailing 2-1 in the 3rd. Chirico could pull off this massive comeback

 

[spystud]

Trevisan kicks Osorio out in straights.

 

[PSNELKE]

Seeing Kenin these days is just awful. Getting slapped around by Vandeweghe like an amateur. She really looks done

 

[PSNELKE]

Riske with one of the biggest chokes of the year. Chirico wins 7-6 (5) in the 3rd.

 

[PSNELKE]

And of course as soon as I said it, Kenin is smacking Coco around now

 

[spystud]

1-6, 6-1 for Sofia now.

 

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Kudermetova out, Jil-one L in to play Sloane.

 

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6-4 for Coco V.

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

Nice, a chance for Sloane as last time she smoked Jil. You never know with Sloane tho.

 

[spystud]

Dani/Garcia underway.

 

[spystud]

5-1 lead for the blonde one.

 

[spystud]

6-2 opener.

 

[Bill Lobsalot]

I'm enjoying Collins' game and cleavage - is that wrong?

 

[ktx]

Nice defense from the Danimal. Those poor ball kid outfits are bad. Isn’t Luomo (uomo?) supposed to be some luxury sports brand?

 

[Mark-Touch]

I'm enjoying Collins' game and cleavage - is that wrong?

Collins has some of the finest cleavage in the game.
And it shows!

 

[Mark-Touch]

Collins red hot and 'in the zone' today!
Garcia, flat.

 

[spystud]

Those poor ball kid outfits are bad. Isn’t Luomo (uomo?) supposed to be some luxury sports brand?

I haven't been able to read the brand yet, but they are awful.


What is Dani's visor logo?

 

[fundrazer]

The ballkids are wearing stuff from Uomo Sport. Same brand that sponsors Jenson Brooksby.

 

[spystud]

Well, that is one bad advertisement.

 

[fundrazer]

Garcia staying alive. Gonna be interesting now with Collins serving to stay in the set. Think she's been broken last two times.

 

[fundrazer]

Awful breaker from Garcia so far. Barely finding the court.

 

[spystud]

Dani wins, yay blondie.

 

[ktx]

I haven't been able to read the brand yet, but they are awful.


What is Dani's visor logo?

Alo, the yoga brand she’s been wearing for a while. I guess she’s officially sponsored.

 

[ktx]

Off topic but I’d pay money to see Jensen Brooksby in the ball kids outfit.

 

[spystud]

On serve early in Bianca/Samsonova.

 

[spystud]

Bianca's kit is not good.

 

[spystud]

Breaker for the set.

 

[spystud]

Bianca breadsticks breaker.

 

[spystud]

Playing 3, he said as he continues to talk to himself.

 

[spystud]

4-1 double break lead for Bianca, this match is SLOW.


And of course a MTO for LS now, typical.

 

[Devil_dog]

When Bibi plays this way, I wonder had it not been for the injuries, if she would have won some more slams.

 

[fundrazer]

Playing 3, he said as he continues to talk to himself.

: )

I've been following the match but not posting. Andreescu has looked a little more aggressive in this third set maybe. Think it's making the difference.

 

[spystud]

And it's over, Bianca lives to play another day.

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

didn't watch the match, so those who watch: peak Garcia is over?

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Great match at Cluj-Napoca
rare pair of splendid one-handed-backhands
Parry-Golubic

 

[Marius_Hancu]

Genie Bouchard next in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
at 11 am EST
vs Kalinina
tough match
Center Court, of course