Weeks 12 & 13 - WTA1000 - Miami, USA - Hard

paulisi · Tennis legend

Weeks 12 & 13 - WTA1000 - Miami, USA - Hard

Madadman · Grand Slam Champion

Excellent stuff, arguably her best tournament since her US Open win?

seagull · Hall of fame

Back to British number one with another win.

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
One more win and Emma becomes British number one, again!

And Billie Jean King Cup GB #1 player

I assume they use the current rankings at the time the ties are played.

Var · Satellite level

paulisi wrote:
Kostyuk or Pegula awaits.

Pegula would be better do you think? Not sure.

Tanaqui · County player

That's more like it!

Jeff Stelling · Club Coach

Great performance from Emma. An utter embarrassment and shameful from Anisimova.

indiana · Tennis legend

So Emma is live ranked 48 and she will be back in the top 50 for the first time since 2022.

Certainly where she clearly belongs. Through everything I make her career record against top 50 players as now - won 31, lost 26.

Rich2310 · County player

This is cracking stuff from Emma. Just like when she won the US Open. Where did this suddenly come from? Good to see.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Emma has 49 top 100 wins to her career so far. She has one win against a top 5 player, that player was Jessica Pegula. She was ranked 5 then and is ranked 4 now. That win was on the grass at Eastbourne, they also met in 2022 in Cincinnati, with Jessica winning 5 & 4. Pegula must be the clear favourite but the way Emma is playing this week you certainly can't count her out.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Rich2310 wrote:
This is cracking stuff from Emma. Just like when she won the US Open. Where did this suddenly come from? Good to see.

I suspect Emma's new fitness coach has a lot to do with it. She is now chasing down impossible looking balls seemingly without a care. Her worst injury this week has been blisters.

9vicman · Satellite level

I haven't seen more than a few highlights, but it seems while Emma has been playing well (and particularly gutsy against Navarro), her last two opponents have been really struggling physically. That was really tough scheduling for Anisimova.

How well HAS Emma been playing?

Peter too · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
I haven't seen more than a few highlights, but it seems while Emma has been playing well (and particularly gutsy against Navarro), her last two opponents have been really struggling physically. That was really tough scheduling for Anisimova.

How well HAS Emma been playing?

Emma has been playing really well. Against Anisimova Emma won the first set without dropping a point on service. Her return of service has been excellent and her return of 2nd serve has been particularly destructive. She also has a backhand slice that seems to be causing all sorts of problems for her opponents. Her speed around court was always good but is now even better. She is also playing with more confidence than I have seen for a long while.

-- Edited by Peter too on Monday 24th of March 2025 09:47:34 PM

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

9vicman wrote:
I haven't seen more than a few highlights, but it seems while Emma has been playing well (and particularly gutsy against Navarro), her last two opponents have been really struggling physically. That was really tough scheduling for Anisimova.

How well HAS Emma been playing?

Difficult to say....

What she did well in both matches was start strong

Now, she - IMO - quite often does that, in the first couple of games, and then falters as it all starts going a bit south

But both these times, she kept her head down and stayed strong - and then it really snuffed out all hope from her opponents and they 'played injured'

So, yes, they both seem hampered, they both played poorly - BUT I think that was partly because Emma had been SO in their face. Also, Mandy today played a better second set so she can't have been too badly affected by her wrist/hands/both.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Sometimes you just need to keep trudging until it clicks