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Post by DBBN on Jun 16, 2013 21:57:44 GMT -5
Main Draw - Entry List
Cornet
Barthel
Oprandi
Mladenovic
Begu
Bertens
Scheepers
Beck
Cepelova
Torró Flor
Minella
Hradecka
Hlavackova
Svitolina
Cadantu
Cabeza Candela
Rus
Lucic-Baroni
Babos
Maria
Koelher
Martic
Czink
Knapp
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Post by janie on Jul 12, 2013 6:00:38 GMT -5
The tournament is bleeding out:
Cornet
Barthel
Oprandi
Mladenovic
Begu
Bertens
Scheepers
Beck
Cepelova
Torró Flor
Minella
Hradecka
Hlavackova
Svitolina
Cadantu
Cabeza Candela
Rus
Lucic-Baroni
Babos
Maria
Koelher
Martic
Czink
Knapp
Replacement players: Majeric, Peer, Petko, Schmiedlova, Daniilidou, Moose Burger. So very exciting for the good folks of Bad! They can all gather to watch Mona and Mlad lose to Cadantu and Candle Head in r1.
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Post by janie on Jul 13, 2013 5:49:48 GMT -5
Q draw: Bad G. thanks the Hidden World for the loan of these fine players. What a weirdly placed Bye.
(9)Evtimova v Curovic
Zaja v (wc)Coppola
Shinikova v Barrois
Remondina v (6)Tinjic
(10)Golubic v Kapshay
Kolar v Ferrer Suarez
(Alt)Grandin v Konig
Bonic v (8)Georges
(3)Olaru v Jurikova
Palmigiano v A.Bogdan
Toljan v BYE
E.Bogdan v (5)Smitkova
(4)Kostova v Naydenova
(wc)Neuwirth v Fafaliou
Mircic v Perrin
(wc)Husaric v (7)Honcova
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Post by DBBN on Jul 15, 2013 21:53:29 GMT -5
Main Draw
(1)Barthel v Scholl
(Q)Bogdan v (wc)Moser
Daniilidou v Hlavackova
(Q)Golubic v (5)Bertens
(4)Petkovic v Martic
(wc)Mayr-Achleitner v Mrdeza
Svitolina v (Q)Honcova
Schmiedlova v (6)Scheepers
(7)Torro-Flor v Rus
Cabeza Candela v Majeric
(Q)Tinjic v Meusburger
(wc)Witthoeft v (3)Begu
(8)Knapp v Solovyeva
Cadantu v Koehler
Minella v Hradecka
Peer v (2)Beck
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Post by DBBN on Jul 15, 2013 21:53:58 GMT -5
Barthel beat ChiChi 6-0 6-0 Rus snapped her losing streak against Tower Flower, of course.  |
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Post by lexpretend on Jul 16, 2013 3:27:42 GMT -5
LOL, Tower Flower already beat Rus twice this year. Third time lucky.
Scholl started the year with a 0-14 streak of her own and is now 2-18, how did she still get DE?
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Post by lexpretend on Jul 17, 2013 10:52:54 GMT -5
Oh, Mona. The world No. 725, really? Of course.
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Post by DBBN on Jul 17, 2013 11:50:19 GMT -5
Unreal.
We've been dancing around it for a couple of years now, and Corswandt called it: there is going to be an absolute flop winning a Slam soon. The Tour is a mess.
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Post by Old Hag on Jul 17, 2013 12:19:03 GMT -5
Didn't that just happen
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Post by DBBN on Jul 17, 2013 15:08:28 GMT -5
Bartoli is a "close call," but she's made another Slam final before. In fact, out of all of the recent "close call" freakazoids, Schiavone, Stosur, Bartoli, and Li (and she's good enough not to count) have each made at least one other Slam final. The only true flop lately is Shitra (and boy is she proving it).
I'm talking about a complete loser, who everyone would know just fell into it and will never do anything again, like Zakopalova, or Lepchenko, or Barthel herself.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Jul 17, 2013 15:55:55 GMT -5
I gave up on Barthel after her shameless tankjob against Safarova in front of her home crowd in Stuttgart. GTFO.
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Post by janie on Jul 17, 2013 20:15:02 GMT -5
How about a Slam won by another nutjob teenager like Capriati.
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Post by lexpretend on Jul 18, 2013 7:17:19 GMT -5
I love Fran and I loved her RG but she's the quintessential "journeywoman who fell into a Slam title", regardless of how valiantly she fought through an open draw to defend her title the following year. She was a fluke, albeit a beautiful and heart-warming fluke.
I don't really think of Li and Stosur as "true" elite players either, but their career trajectories are just bizarre and unprecedented overall. I suppose it's testament to Li's talent in particular that she can take three of the most crucial years in a young player's development off completely and still end up a Slam winner.
Shitra's career trajectory is absolutely normal tbh. Her rise up the ranks was swift, her first Slam SF breakthrough was swiftly followed by consistent winning of big titles and subsequently a Slam that felt inevitable rather than flukish. And since then she's disappointed in that she's failing to make the most of her talent etc, but really this is also absolutely normal for a Pierce/Sweta type.
I don't think we'll get a totally leftfield Slam winner, even at this year's Wimbledon we avoided it. It certainly won't be Mona.
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Post by lexpretend on Jul 18, 2013 8:55:58 GMT -5
Back in Bad Gastein - you guys, Moose Burger is so winning this thing. Probably beating Mayr-Achleitner in an all-AUT final.
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Post by lexpretend on Jul 18, 2013 10:33:09 GMT -5
Your LOLterfinals:
(WC) Lisa-Maria MOSER (AUT) vs. Andrea HLAVACKOVA (CZE)
(WC) Patricia MAYR-ACHLEITNER (AUT) vs. Elina SVITOLINA (UKR)
Arantxa RUS (NED) vs. Yvonne MEUSBURGER (AUT)
(8) Karin KNAPP (ITA) vs. (2) Annika BECK (GER)
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Post by DBBN on Jul 18, 2013 20:00:57 GMT -5
These events shouldn't count for the rankings.
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Post by DBBN on Jul 18, 2013 20:02:08 GMT -5
I love Fran and I loved her RG but she's the quintessential "journeywoman who fell into a Slam title", regardless of how valiantly she fought through an open draw to defend her title the following year. She was a fluke, albeit a beautiful and heart-warming fluke. Schiavone has made at least the quarterfinals of every Slam. ZAKOPALOVA. LEPCHENKO. MOOSE BURGER. These are different than that. |
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Post by Old Hag on Jul 18, 2013 22:00:34 GMT -5
I disagree that "journeywomen" will be winning. Eventually, SEWTA will catch up with the men, in that athleticism will trump all. Racket technology makes it easier to hit every shot. The difference will be the athlete that can play elite defense with a competent serve and offensive game (the serve will be the toughest to carry over), endurance for forever, and grind you to death. Those qualities lessen randomness.
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Post by lexpretend on Jul 19, 2013 1:08:16 GMT -5
The likes of Zakopalova, Lepchenko etc will not be winning Slams. Really now. More Schiavones and Stosurs, maybe.
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Post by Paean on Jul 19, 2013 2:33:20 GMT -5
The only player who can beat Meusburger must be Karin Knapp. If she doesn't, it's Moose's title and she'll obliterate whoever there is on the other side in the final. As much as she can obliterate with her game.
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Post by janie on Jul 19, 2013 6:46:34 GMT -5
Just when you're thinking that the new kids are promising, Beck goes and loses 06 16 to "Ineeda" Knapp.  Okay, I've just decided 19 doesn't count as a kid in SEWTA. 1995 and later: my hopes will reside in you. |
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Post by DBBN on Jul 20, 2013 8:01:54 GMT -5
MOOSE in da final. Again.
This is what I mean, yo.
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Post by Paean on Jul 20, 2013 10:31:26 GMT -5
The other finalist is Andrea Hlavackova. The cult is unanimously on the side of the Moose. The only thing worse than Meusburger and Adriana Gersi holding WTA trophies would be Hlavackova having one. That cannot happen.
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Post by DBBN on Jul 20, 2013 10:45:16 GMT -5
Not me, I like the Superfluous H's, even though this final is ludicrous.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Jul 20, 2013 12:07:43 GMT -5
I don't think it's that much different from Zsofia Gubasci (who?) winning Casablanca that one year or whatever.
But about Slam winners... Schiavone, Stosur, Bartoli - something like that was unthinkable 10 years ago. Imagine if, say, Ai Sugiyama had won a Slam at that time. A simply absurd notion. Myskina's Slam was a gigantic shock at the time and yet it makes 17676 more sense than the aforementioned.
Really, who knows what's coming.
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Post by Old Hag on Jul 20, 2013 14:48:56 GMT -5
This tournament is ludicrous. High altitude, multiple clay event week after Wimbly, history of cold, crappy weather. The only reason you'd play this is because your ranking is desperately low or you're from Austria.
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Post by DBBN on Jul 21, 2013 11:11:58 GMT -5
Moose did it.
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