WTA week of 10/3; Ostrava 500 & Monastir 250

Kontaveit beat Martincova 6-2, 6-1 just 10 days ago but lost the first set to Martincova in a tiebreaker.
 
Team McNally/Parks gives another breakstick for the first set in the doubles match against seed #1 team. These 2 girls are the true bakers in Ostrava :)
 
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From Stephanie Myles's site
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Alycia Parks (US) plays in Ostrava. Some of us Canadian fans might remember her from her 2019 post-match confrontation with Katherine Sebov (Can), chronicled here. Well, Parks qualified in Ostrava, and beat Plyskova and Sakkari, playing high-level tennis (commentators say top 5). She’s now 119 and Sebov is 264, so it seems Parks might have turned some of her pages better, at least in terms of tennis. She still looks high-strung.
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Yes I've heard the physical confrontation but didn't know the details and didn't pay attention to Parks until this summer when she beat Qinwen in Berlin.
 
I have a question about the new coaching rules. I'm watching the replay of the Sakkari v Parks match and after they split sets there is a bathroom break delay as Parks goes off court to change her kit. I see Sakkari having a full blown conversation with her coach. Not words of encouragement, or hand signals, she walks right up to where he is seated and they are having a back and forth discussion. Is this allowed? Did I miss something?
 
Tcbtennis said:
I have a question about the new coaching rules. I'm watching the replay of the Sakkari v Parks match and after they split sets there is a bathroom break delay as Parks goes off court to change her kit. I see Sakkari having a full blown conversation with her coach. Not words of encouragement, or hand signals, she walks right up to where he is seated and they are having a back and forth discussion. Is this allowed? Did I miss something?
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Limitations AFAIK:
- no coaching in ITF (for now)
- you have to go where the coach is
- no devices, which means you must have the money to bring coaches with you (was just as well Parks didn't have her parents around ^^ :happydevil:)
 
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Parks v Krejcikova is toe-to-toe so far at 5-5 in set 1.
Parks' UE is quite high and the timing of some of the UEs are not good (missing a put away on game point). I guess it's just her game style. She serves a 2nd serve ace down the T to avoid a BP. High reward, risky style.
 
Mcnally doing a little better than I thought.

Watching out of curiosity to see if the bets i didn't take would hit or not :laughing:
 
So Iga was able to revenge her 2 losses to Caty in their junior days. Iga has never lost to any player who is younger than her except the 2 losses to Caty.
 
ER beat Petra 7-6 6-4 in a matchup of 2 powerful players.
In Monastir, Jabeur lost to C. Liu in 3 sets in a match full of errors.
 
ER played very very well until the 9th game of the 3rd set when she missed a very easy ball and got broken. Barbie K made no mistake served out for the match.
 
Iga v BK could be a good one. Crazy still that Iga has as many major titles as Ash Barty does.
 
3/4 of the ladies in the semis at Ostrava have a major title. Maybe this is the resurgence of some consistency in the WTA?
 
Alex Drova played beautiful tennis with great ball strikes. Her flat DTL shots caused a lot of troubles for Iga. The key moment to me when Iga used a slice shot for the first time in the middle of the 3rd set while she was on her back foot at the baseline, put the ball jumped with backspin and Alex hit the ball to the net. Iga used a couple of slices and chip-ins later that disrupted Alex's rhythm and won the very tough match.
 
Except for a few wobbles at the end, Alex could easily have ended up winning this one.
There is not much between the two players.
And let's not forget the head games that Iga uses against most players.
Like holding up serve (as receiver) to go for the towel etc. when server
is standing WAITING TO SERVE.
 
Mark-Touch said:
And let's not forget the head games that Iga uses against most players.
Like holding up serve (as receiver) to go for the towel etc. when server
is standing WAITING TO SERVE.
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Using the towel is legit, Mark. Didn't you see others play use the towels when receiving? I personally saw Federer did that, Djokovic did that, Nadal did that.
 
ttwreader said:
Using the towel is legit, Mark. Didn't you see others play use the towels when receiving? I personally saw Federer did that, Djokovic did that, Nadal did that.
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Sure it's legit. When the server uses it too (so no time delay by the returner).
But when the server is standing waiting to serve, it's not legit.
That's called gamesmanship and may be illegal.
 
Mark-Touch said:
Except for a few wobbles at the end, Alex could easily have ended up winning this one.
There is not much between the two players.
And let's not forget the head games that Iga uses against most players.
Like holding up serve (as receiver) to go for the towel etc. when server
is standing WAITING TO SERVE.
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Neee.. there isn't.
Not counting of course 3 GS, bunch of 1000 level titles and the longest win streak this decade.
Other than that they are virtually the same.
And you should also add to your list of atrocities she commits her breathing and sweating.
 
Mark-Touch said:
Sure it's legit. When the server uses it too.
But when the server is standing waiting to serve, it's not legit.
That's called gamesmanship and may be illegal.
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The only time she's got a warning for delay of serve is below. She failed to return the previous point and walked right up to the towel tray (assuming) Pegula needs time to get the balls from the ball kids. Federer got a warning for the same reason and he argued with the umpire that he had to walk across the court to get the towel from the other side.
 
ktx said:
Iga v BK could be a good one. Crazy still that Iga has as many major titles as Ash Barty does.
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I rarely watch WTA. But I remember Krejcikova/Swiatek match in Rome last year. Crazy stuff. BK had 3 match points and lost. Then she won Strasborug and the French Open 3 weeks later. Should be a good final tomorrow.
 
volleyandfun said:
Neee.. there isn't.
Not counting of course 3 GS, bunch of 1000 level titles and the longest win streak this decade.
Other than that they are virtually the same.
And you should also add to your list of atrocities she commits her breathing and sweating.
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Let's keep what I said in context OK?
Here's the context:
"Except for a few wobbles at the end, Alex could easily have ended up winning this one.
There is not much between the two players. "
In today's match, there was not much between the players.

In overall success, there is a lot between the players, but I wasn't referring to that.
Sorry for the confusion. :(
 
ttwreader said:
The only time she's got a warning for delay of serve is below. She failed to return the previous point and walked right up to the towel tray (assuming) Pegula needs time to get the balls from the ball kids. Federer got a warning for the same reason and he argued with the umpire that he had to walk across the court to get the towel from the other side.
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But that's my point.
She gets away with gamesmanship.
I started a thread on delaying between serves, but delaying before first serve is also a problem.

Players know the server has 25 seconds between points to do almost anything they want.
Show me the rule that states the returner has 25 seconds between points to do almost anything they want?

The rule that I am familiar with states that the returner plays at the server's pace.
 
Mark-Touch said:
But that's my point.
She gets away with gamesmanship.
I started a thread on delaying between serves, but delaying before first serve is also a problem.

Players know the server has 25 seconds between points to do almost anything they want.
Show me the rule that states the returner has 25 seconds between points to do almost anything they want?

The rule that I am familiar with states that the returner plays at the server's pace.
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Well, this is a match thread and obviously Iga didn't get any code violation during this match (or this tournament) so I will not go deep here. What I am understand for a gamesmanship in case of delay of serve is that you have time for doing what ever needed before your opponent is ready to serve but you don't do it. When your opponent is at the baseline to serve and you see it, you start doing your stuff, like going for the towel or just turn your back going to the wall. As I said, using the towel while receiving is legit, and you should do it as quickly as you can. Kader Nouni gave her the warning during the match against Pegula though she walked to the towel right after the previous point finished. You can see the sweat was all over the place on her arms, face,... and she just wiped them off and went back. You accused her of hold up the server in today's match against Alexandrova which is ridiculous. If had she done that, the same umpire Kader Nouni who also chaired today's match would have given her another warning.
 
ttwreader said:
... You accused her of hold up the server in today's match against Alexandrova which is ridiculous. If had she done that, the same umpire Kader Nouni who also chaired today's match would have given her another warning.
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What she did was subtle and not so subtle.
She went to her towel, holding up Alex who was ready to serve.
Then when she returned to her position to receive serve, she also raised her hand,
further holding up Alex.
Again subtle and not so subtle.
Was it egregious? Probably not, and that's why Nouni didn't say anything.

But she seems to have the habit of doing this at key moments in a match.
I am not the only one here who has noticed this.
 
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