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9vicman


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Coup Droit wrote:
foobarbaz wrote:
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QF:- Emma Raducane (GBR) WR29 [1] lost to Taylah Preston (AUS) WR204 [WC] 2-6 4-6

Taylah is having a good Aussie season - remember those matches with Katie Swan ? She was ranked 259 in September and has been picking up points ever since.

In relative terms that is still an absolutely awful result for Emma. Katie Swan's done great since she came back but matches against her should not be a barometer. I'd like to hear that there was some fitness or illness reason for it.

It is actually very unusual for Emma to lose to any player outside even the top 60. She did so only twice last year, once near the start and once at the end.

 I agree with TA, the recent record that Swan has over Preston (2 wins, and a close loss in another final where the back was playing up) is a fair indicator of where Raducanu's game is at right now. Perhaps if folk didn't find an excuse for every loss, it would place less pressure on Raducanu's young shoulders.

Add the choice of GBR team captain Tim Henman to play Swan instead of Raducanu in the United Cup first tie vs. Japan, when he will have had the opportunity to see how both were playing in the prep week beforehand.

All this talk about Emma, when the one that has been short-changed yet again is Swan. Giving former world #1 Naomi Osaka a stern test, then taking the 1st set off the world #75 before losing in 3 sets a week later, and having beaten both Preston and Emerson Jones (both given a leg-up into the A0 main draw), and having thrashed a number of the Aussies who were given AO Qualifiers wildcards, only for Swan to then be frozen out, not only from AO Main Draw, but the AO Qualie's too. Then for a 45yr old to be handed the last Main Draw wildcard! There ain't no fairness in this tennis lark.

 

 Raducanu gets zero on her pressures from this forum - I doubt she even knows it exists, let alone has ever read a single sentence 

Swan didn't get a wildcard because she didn't have the relevant ranking on the relevant day, she's not Australian (yet?), and not a multiple Grand Slam winner that the crowd want to see - wildcards are not about 'fairness', that's why they're 'wild' cards

 By the way, I wasn't suggesting that Emma gets any pressure from this forum. I was merely noticing that the comments often flit from she's going to win her second title (after a first round win) to she's going to sack her coach (after a quarterfinal loss).  When the mundane reality is she played well enough to scrap to a win over Osorio in difficult conditions over two days; and then played poorly in a loss to Preston. And may not have fully recovered from a foot injury.



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9vicman wrote:
Coup Droit wrote:
foobarbaz wrote:
indiana wrote:
the addict wrote:

QF:- Emma Raducane (GBR) WR29 [1] lost to Taylah Preston (AUS) WR204 [WC] 2-6 4-6

Taylah is having a good Aussie season - remember those matches with Katie Swan ? She was ranked 259 in September and has been picking up points ever since.

In relative terms that is still an absolutely awful result for Emma. Katie Swan's done great since she came back but matches against her should not be a barometer. I'd like to hear that there was some fitness or illness reason for it.

It is actually very unusual for Emma to lose to any player outside even the top 60. She did so only twice last year, once near the start and once at the end.

 I agree with TA, the recent record that Swan has over Preston (2 wins, and a close loss in another final where the back was playing up) is a fair indicator of where Raducanu's game is at right now. Perhaps if folk didn't find an excuse for every loss, it would place less pressure on Raducanu's young shoulders.

Add the choice of GBR team captain Tim Henman to play Swan instead of Raducanu in the United Cup first tie vs. Japan, when he will have had the opportunity to see how both were playing in the prep week beforehand.

All this talk about Emma, when the one that has been short-changed yet again is Swan. Giving former world #1 Naomi Osaka a stern test, then taking the 1st set off the world #75 before losing in 3 sets a week later, and having beaten both Preston and Emerson Jones (both given a leg-up into the A0 main draw), and having thrashed a number of the Aussies who were given AO Qualifiers wildcards, only for Swan to then be frozen out, not only from AO Main Draw, but the AO Qualie's too. Then for a 45yr old to be handed the last Main Draw wildcard! There ain't no fairness in this tennis lark.

 

 Raducanu gets zero on her pressures from this forum - I doubt she even knows it exists, let alone has ever read a single sentence 

Swan didn't get a wildcard because she didn't have the relevant ranking on the relevant day, she's not Australian (yet?), and not a multiple Grand Slam winner that the crowd want to see - wildcards are not about 'fairness', that's why they're 'wild' cards

 By the way, I wasn't suggesting that Emma gets any pressure from this forum. I was merely noticing that the comments often flit from she's going to win her second title (after a first round win) to she's going to sack her coach (after a quarterfinal loss).  When the mundane reality is she played well enough to scrap to a win over Osorio in difficult conditions over two days; and then played poorly in a loss to Preston. And may not have fully recovered from a foot injury.

 I don't know if you watched the match. I did and I'd qualify my statement re the coach as I didn't feel there was the same chemistry between the two of them that there has been in other matches. Last season there felt a real positivity between Emma and her coach in this match that just didn't seem to be there.

Maybe it was cold, maybe Emma was feeling off or injured a bit and it was just a bad day at the office but is didn't look, from an outsiders viewpoint, that great.

Credit has to be given to Preston who did play well but she was allowed to play well by Emma who never seemed to be able to combat the pace coming at her.  She looked disinterested and unlike in the past I didn't see or hear much coming from the stands. 

I'm not presuming she and her coach will part ways but there is a history there which suggests Emma doesn't have a lot of patience when it comes to coaches.

It was the manner of the defeat rather than the loss itself that concerned me most. Though Emma broke back in the second set you never felt she was going to win. It was if the rankings had been reversed. 



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Reading the posts on this is interesting. I watched all three of Katie Swan's epic matches against Taylah Preston, and the one thing that was obvious to me was that Taylah Preston was much better than her ranking suggests. I didn't see Emma's match, but I wonder whether it might be possible that she underestimated her opponent and didn't expect such a battle. All I can say is that although on paper it looks like a really terrible result for Emma, the reality is that Taylah Preston is an excellent player and so the result is not as bad as first meets the eye.

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