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Post by lexpretend on Aug 15, 2013 6:49:23 GMT -5
Shocked that Serena lost a set to Bouchard - who despite her name, apparently speaks very rudimentary French. It seems she's from one of the wealthiest Anglo neighbourhoods of MTL and was actually named after the Eugenie in the British royal family Not really shocked Li lost a set to Davis, who's the kind of retriever that can drive Na nuts. Thrilled that Mona held it together enough to beat Discount Masha! Jankovic vs Stephens is an interesting one... I have huge, huge trepidation about Shitra vs Wozniacki. Yes, I know Woz is shit now but so is Shitra.
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Post by Grarliner on Aug 15, 2013 16:41:43 GMT -5
Jank beat Stephens 3-6 7-5 7-5. All of a sudden, Jelena is winning these long matches. It's not as if she's blowing people away but instead of losing in 3, she's winning somehow.
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Post by Grarliner on Aug 15, 2013 16:45:41 GMT -5
Last year, losing her first match in Cincy tanked Jankovic's ranking outside of the top 30. She's done well to halve it in the year since. Now everything she does here is a pure add, too. Anyway, she still sucks.
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Post by janie on Aug 15, 2013 18:07:52 GMT -5
That's pretty impressive, though. Maybe she didn't care for a while and now she does again?
But what happened to Aga? So rare for her to pull the W/O thing.
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Post by Grarliner on Aug 15, 2013 18:52:50 GMT -5
There have been numerous "Now I care again" remarks from Jelena since as far back as 2009. I'm not sure how much stock I put in them.
I haven't been able to watch many of her matches this year. What does stick in my head is last year's Fed Cup final - after watching that, I thought she was done for sure.
Well, Woz did beat Kvitova. 3-6 6-2 6-3. Almost the reverse of their Rogers Cup match last summer.
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Post by janie on Aug 15, 2013 18:59:32 GMT -5
Woz' first decent win in quite a while. About time! Didn't watch, but I read that Petra wasn't playing that badly. Of course I hugely, vastly, MASSIVELY prefer Kvitty as a player, but I don't like to see Woz staying at her "recent" (2 yrs!) level of a pathetic scrub, either. She's not a great player but she's better than what she's been showing. Despite her distorted ranking I see her as a solid top-15 player, and she should be lasting to the later rounds of all the hard court events she enters. Glad to see her finally picking things up. At least for one week, like JJ.
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Post by janie on Aug 15, 2013 19:02:21 GMT -5
There have been numerous "Now I care again" remarks from Jelena since as far back as 2009. I'm not sure how much stock I put in them. I agree, you can never go by the players' own words. Remember year after year Justine would say she had finally learned to just relax and "have fun" on the court? Yeah, right; she stayed tense-looking to the very end of her playing days. I'm sure JJ tried to care, and maybe even believed she cared, because she forgot what it was like to actually care. Maybe she remembers now. #absurdoptimism
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Post by The Chloe on Aug 15, 2013 19:42:41 GMT -5
People who grow up in Montreal and don't speak any French are the worst. Well, aside from those people who grow up in Montreal and speak very little English, and then criticize those Francophones who are bilingual. Those people are the worst, but it's a very hotly contested battle between idiots.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 15, 2013 21:00:03 GMT -5
Remember when they were the top two players in the world? Quickly finding out that this, not Woz/Zvon, was the SEWTA nadir. Kvitova is looking like the fluke to end all flukes.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 15, 2013 21:05:55 GMT -5
Simona is nothing special, which means she should be World #6 soon, and I'm totally pleased with that.
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Post by Old Hag on Aug 16, 2013 0:58:46 GMT -5
Petra can go away now
Make babies with Sexxxpanek, do it
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Post by R. Black on Aug 16, 2013 1:21:03 GMT -5
Shocked that Serena lost a set to Bouchard - who despite her name, apparently speaks very rudimentary French. Not really, her French is very good.
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Post by Grarliner on Aug 16, 2013 2:36:35 GMT -5
Woz' first decent win in quite a while. About time! Didn't watch, but I read that Petra wasn't playing that badly. Of course I hugely, vastly, MASSIVELY prefer Kvitty as a player, but I don't like to see Woz staying at her "recent" (2 yrs!) level of a pathetic scrub, either. She's not a great player but she's better than what she's been showing. Despite her distorted ranking I see her as a solid top-15 player, and she should be lasting to the later rounds of all the hard court events she enters. Glad to see her finally picking things up. At least for one week, like JJ. Woz has really declined, but she can still play a bit on HC. I see her results this year as in line with her surface predilections, just also in line with her general decline. She never could play on clay! Now that she can't keep the forehand in the court, it's worse (no shock). She was never good on grass, either. Azarenka withdrew prior to their QF match at IW, which allowed Woz to beat Kerber and make her only final of 2013 to date. I favor Vika about 90% in that match, injury freakouts being the only question in my mind. I just realized it is Jankovic-Vinci for a semifinal place. I imagine Jelena will probably lose this one, 0-6 6-4 7-6 or something like that.
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 16, 2013 5:38:24 GMT -5
JaJa's resurgence was always overstated. She did improve from her previous miserable level, and her serve has gotten a bit better, but she really beat no one of note. I like her, so it's nice that she's kept herself semi-relevant, but she's still "merely" a top 20 player. Of course, top 20 level is generally enough to beat Sloane. I hear Ma$ha has fired Connors after one match? Lawl.
This might be Shitra's actual nadir.
Glad Halep took out Stosur. Haven't seen much of the New, Improved Simona yet but something's clearly happened.
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Post by janie on Aug 16, 2013 7:15:06 GMT -5
Is that true about Connors? Did not know the Stosur result till now, sheesh. What is with that girl. But, yeah, Halep is definitely this year's Kerber on the world's favorite reality show, Scrubs Gone Wild.
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 16, 2013 10:16:35 GMT -5
I'll never be surprised that an in-form top 50 player beats Stosur. The only hesitation I had was that Halep is short, so it might have been a bad match-up for her. But if a short player finds a way to deal with the topspin, they have as good a shot as anyone else. I wondered why Aga w/d after scoring bagels in her first two matches - she's gone back to Poland for her grandfather's funeral Li/Silliams SF is potentially either interesting, or a shitfest.
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Post by Old Hag on Aug 16, 2013 11:31:15 GMT -5
Lolz, the Connors experiment went worse than I thought it would
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Post by R. Black on Aug 16, 2013 13:15:39 GMT -5
I imagine Jelena will probably lose this one, 0-6 6-4 7-6 or something like that. At 6-0 4-4, couldn't help but think about this post.
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Aug 16, 2013 15:12:09 GMT -5
Jelena is back in the top 10 after than win.
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Post by janie on Aug 16, 2013 18:21:20 GMT -5
Jelena is back in the top 10 after than win. WHAT??!
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Post by DBBN on Aug 16, 2013 18:27:48 GMT -5
I think that's under the assumption that Bartoli will remove herself from the rankings...
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Post by Traveling Man on Aug 17, 2013 0:32:24 GMT -5
Yes. She's guaranteed Top 10 seed at USO.
Li-Jaja final pls?
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 17, 2013 1:18:08 GMT -5
I imagine Jelena will probably lose this one, 0-6 6-4 7-6 or something like that. At 6-0 4-4, couldn't help but think about this post. I totally assumed JaJa would lose at that point.
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Post by Grarliner on Aug 17, 2013 18:55:25 GMT -5
Na saved at least one sp at 4-5. It's unlike Serena to fail to cash in on that.
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Post by Grarliner on Aug 17, 2013 19:03:08 GMT -5
Ah, but she broke for 7-5.
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Post by The Chloe on Aug 17, 2013 20:51:14 GMT -5
I hadn't realized that the womens semis hadn't happened yet, and for some reason though Li and Serena would play tomorrow in the final. Oh well!
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Aug 17, 2013 22:42:05 GMT -5
In a match featuring 23 breaks of serve, Aza moves into the final with a win over Jelena. Yikes.
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 18, 2013 3:50:18 GMT -5
Didn't see either match. Was on night bus following Na's disastrous TB on Twitter. DF on her own SP then DF on Serena's SP, ugh. Both results are gross.
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Post by janie on Aug 18, 2013 7:22:32 GMT -5
In a match featuring 23 breaks of serve, Aza moves into the final with a win over Jelena. Yikes. HOLY CRAP.
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 18, 2013 15:19:46 GMT -5
Azza opens with two DFs and loses the first eight points of the match.
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