Week 2 - WTA500 - Sydney, Australia Hard

PaulM · Tennis legend

Week 2 - WTA500 - Sydney, Australia Hard

HarryGem · Club Coach

Peter too wrote:
Unfortunately it looks as if she is now over-ranked as a result of the amazing run last year from Wimbledon to the US Open followed by little play since. She needs to get a run of wins together but that may not happen until her ranking falls and she can drop to lower level events and start to rebuild from there.

I agree completely with this.

Walloped would be the word I'd use about today. Rybakina was great but the gap between the two was a chasm of huge proportions.

I'm not confident of her chances of making even round three at the AO unless she gets a soft draw. A very bad end to a dispiriting day for British Women's tennis.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

HarryGem wrote:
Peter too wrote:
Unfortunately it looks as if she is now over-ranked as a result of the amazing run last year from Wimbledon to the US Open followed by little play since. She needs to get a run of wins together but that may not happen until her ranking falls and she can drop to lower level events and start to rebuild from there.
I agree completely with this.
Walloped would be the word I'd use about today. Rybakina was great but the gap between the two was a chasm of huge proportions.
I'm not confident of her chances of making even round three at the AO unless she gets a soft draw. A very bad end to a dispiriting day for British Women's tennis.

At least we're guaranteed a few winners in Bath at least.

-- Edited by dodrade on Tuesday 11th of January 2022 02:18:56 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Having had covid ( and who knows what still effects ):and interrupted prep it was difficult to know where Emma was going to be at. And such a tough draw to combine with Emma so far from her best.

The Aus Open for her may be short and not too sweet. But no reason in the medium to longer term that things shouldn't come back together in a very good way. And then I expect further progress.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Does Emma still pick up ranking points for R1?

flamingowings · All-time great

Rybakina gives a walkover to Garcia.

indiana · Tennis legend

dodrade wrote:
Does Emma still pick up ranking points for R1?

Just a point. With still 2019 and 2020 counters included she did actually already have a full set of counters. So no net gain at all.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

indiana wrote:
dodrade wrote:
Does Emma still pick up ranking points for R1?
Just a point. With still 2019 and 2020 counters included she did actually already have a full set of counters. So no net gain at all.

When does her Pune win drop off?

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

A great, gritty win for Badosa in the final vs Krejcikova, 7-6 in the third - she's now won 10 TBs in a row, and 9 of her last 10 matches that went the distance (a stark contrast to Jodie).

A tough AO R1 match, certainly relatively, vs Tomljanovic, and they have scheduled all 4 WTA finalists from today to play on Monday, which sucks, but hopefully she will recover in time, but a hell of a lot better Aussie swing for her compared to last year, whatever happens next week.

indiana · Tennis legend

Well done to Badosa.

Re the AO, players know that there is a 50/50 chance that they will be drawn in the half that plays on Monday, and the whole half will be scheduled to play

In general ( I accept that sometimes players particularly need matches ), choose to play the previous week, reach the scheduled Friday and Saturday SFs and final here, deal with it