WTA week of 9/16; Seoul 500 & Hua Hin 250

Raducanu is somehow the 8/11 favourite to beat Kasatkina, despite losing all previous sets against the Russian 5-7 4-6 2-6 2-6.
 
ScottleeSV said:
Raducanu is somehow the 8/11 favourite to beat Kasatkina, despite losing all previous sets against the Russian 5-7 4-6 2-6 2-6.
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Raducanu played good against her last opponent (yuan?), got challenged. Kasatkina can be overpowered, guessing raducanu struggles against her variety.
 
spystud said:
Hartono beat Hontama, bet that was fun for the announcer.
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Some of the announcers do a great job trying to sound engaged and excited about some random match between random players in a random 250. But I guess if you are getting paid to watch it...
 
Foot injury. Presumably the same foot she had the medical timeout for in the previous round. Not much she can do about that. She was smiling walking off which is a good sign (contrast that to the tears when she rolled her ankle that time in New Zealand).

The trolls are predictably going into overdrive on Twitter. She hasn't had too bad a year for injuries though. She looked a bit off against Lulu Sun for reasons I've already forgotten, but apart from that it's been a fairly clean 6 months by her standards. Helps that she doesn't play a big schedule of course.
 
ScottleeSV said:
Foot injury. Presumably the same foot she had the medical timeout for in the previous round. Not much she can do about that. She was smiling walking off which is a good sign (contrast that to the tears when she rolled her ankle that time in New Zealand).

The trolls are predictably going into overdrive on Twitter. She hasn't had too bad a year for injuries though. She looked a bit off against Lulu Sun for reasons I've already forgotten, but apart from that it's been a fairly clean 6 months by her standards. Helps that she doesn't play a big schedule of course.
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Is she entered into Beijing qualies or has she got a WC? I can't see anything online.
It's one of those... Highly frustrating for both player and fan but what can you do with a foot injury? You're not going to push off properly so it's a guaranteed L. I'm surprised she went out on court and didn't just had the walkover to Kasatkina. It's also a shame as this is the kind of tournament she should be aiming to make the SF or F and she will eventually grab a 250 or 500 title.

Edit: hadn't realised ER is #54 in the rankings. Direct entry into Beijing and qualies for Wuhan unless they give her a WC. WC into Ningbo.
 
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I've just checked Emma's tournament history for 2024 and this looks to be her first mid-match retirement of 2024.
 
Aussie Darcy said:
Geez, Kasatkina is the definition of majoring in the minors this year.

Her results this year:
2R Aus Open
2R French Open
3R Wimbledon
2R US Open

1R Doha 1000
1R Dubai 1000
4R Indian Wells 1000
3R Miami 1000
4R Madrid 1000
3R Rome 1000
2R Canada 1000
2R Cincy 1000

So how is she #12 in the race?

500 title in Eastbourne
500 runner up in Charleston
500 runner up in Abu Dhabi
500 runner up in Adelaide
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Trend continues for Kasatkina. Into another 500 final helping her ranking while she's been woeful at the actual big tournaments. She could genuinely qualify for the WTA finals without a single 1000 QF and not going past the 3R at the slams.
 
Holy sh*t, the chair screwed up again. DasKa hit a ball on the sideline, clearly called out, BHM played it into the net, ball was showed in. Why won’t they replay the point?!

And a time violation now, so bad.
 
If a ball is called out, only to be proven wrong, you absolutely positively cannot punish the returner. This is insane.

The player was not wrong at any point.
 
Fortunately BHM held to 5-4. We really need to get rid of chair umpires, they do nothing well in 2024.
 
BHM forces 3. Don’t even care who wins, I just hate ineptitude. If we can’t get any umpires in Asia for a 500 final that have seen the sport before, cancel ‘em all.
 
BHM is serve-&-volleying now, pretty funny. DasKa is about to break some sh*t, this handshake will not be cordial.
 
Honestly don’t think I’ve seen a ball called in that was reviewed to be out, apparently they just call anything close here out initially.
 
I'm well familiar with Sramkova as a weirdo that has watched Slam-qualies a lot in recent years. She probably appeals to you all lame-blonde-fans!? ;)

And I got to admire how Siegemund just keeps being worthy player year after year after year! (y) She was reportedly planning to quit and change into coaching already late 2016(!!!) but decided to continue and soon won her biggest title (Stuttgart 2017)

Congrats to BHM for victory! Based on Youtube highlights she probably had the most gleaming smile of all WTA winners this year and was very sweet towards Kasatkina at the net. :love: She's just one of those players that finds and loses her form very quickly/often... :rolleyes:
 
Lengthy absentee list for the W1000 in China. It's starting to resemble last year's Guadalajara.

Swiatek
Rybakina
Collins
Sakkari
Jabeur
Azarenka
Noskova
Svitolina
Vondrousova

The most surprising thing though is that I haven't yet found evidence of Raducanu withdrawing.
 
HarveyPitnik said:
I'm well familiar with Sramkova as a weirdo that has watched Slam-qualies a lot in recent years. She probably appeals to you all lame-blonde-fans!? ;)

And I got to admire how Siegemund just keeps being worthy player year after year after year! (y) She was reportedly planning to quit and change into coaching already late 2016(!!!) but decided to continue and soon won her biggest title (Stuttgart 2017)

Congrats to BHM for victory! Based on Youtube highlights she probably had the most gleaming smile of all WTA winners this year and was very sweet towards Kasatkina at the net. :love: She's just one of those players that finds and loses her form very quickly/often... :rolleyes:
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Well, that should tell us a lot about the current state of the tour. Someone who was struggling so much when younger (and presumably fitter), now doing decently with an unorthodox game mostly devoid of weapons.

ScottleeSV said:
Lengthy absentee list for the W1000 in China. It's starting to resemble last year's Guadalajara.

Swiatek
Rybakina
Collins
Sakkari
Jabeur
Azarenka
Noskova
Svitolina
Vondrousova
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Wow, this is a disaster. What's wrong with Jabeur? Her ranking must be dropping like a brick.
 
Some players have a 'window' where they look like they could win a slam, but it's a fairly short thing (1-2 years). Jabeur had a bigger than usual window, didn't go through it, and now I kind of agree she won't go close again.

Sakkari had it in 2021. What a window that was. Match point in the French Open semis, a qualifier in the US Open semis. Window closed. Probably for good.

Safarova had it. Konta had it. A few have had it. They'll agonise over the would-could-have-beens.
 
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