Tennis (in general)

[Zonne147]

Wimbledon has been cancelled for this yer

For the first time since WW II

 

[NikolaiMoller]

Gosh, I miss proffesional tennis

 

[lilka]

Time to refresh this thread. Do I have to say how proud I am of our Iga Świątek?

I have to say though that I'm impressed how all these foreign commentators mastered the pronunciation of her last name.

 

[Looren]

Time to refresh this thread. Do I have to say how proud I am of our Iga Świątek?

I have to say though that I'm impressed how all these foreign commentators mastered the pronunciation of her last name.

She's my fave tenniswoman, I was so happy

 

[Looren]

Yasssss Iga won the US Open, am almost crying of joy rn

 

[blue00eyes]

WTA is becoming boring, there's Świątek and Sabalenka constantly delivering, the rest has up and downs. One tournament wonders are gone now.

 

[Looren]

WTA is becoming boring, there's Świątek and Sabalenka constantly delivering, the rest has up and downs. One tournament wonders are gone now.

Boring ? Tbh I never followed it that much, there's finally consistency and really high level

Rybakina is also great but she has to improve in clay

We literaly have a big 3 right now with Swiatek/Sabalenka/Rybakina, also helps that all three of them have very likeable personnality and still some points to improve on

Ngl WTA > ATP right now

 

[blue00eyes]

I don't follow Rybakina much, she did surprise me with Wimbledon though.
I count more on Jabeur but she is mentally not strong and Sakkari, Gauff, Badosa.

I wish Azarenka retires

 

[Looren]

I don't follow Rybakina much, she did surprise me with Wimbledon though.

She was impressive in Australian Open then in the two Americans M1000

Then she got injuried in Stuttgart and yeah well came back to Madrid, lost her first game but yeah we know she's not good on clay, bit like Iga on grass

 

[blue00eyes]

Can't wait for Rome, Świątek is gonna meet her tough opponents Rybakina and Krejcikova and hopefully Sabalenka again.

 

[Looren]

Can't wait for Rome, Świątek is gonna meet her tough opponents Rybakina and Krejcikova and hopefully Sabalenka again.

Yeah Rome will be very interesting

Not sure if Rybakina will be strong there, she still has a lot of progress to do on clay

Also there's Jabeur coming back from her injury which could be tough

 

[blue00eyes]

Yeah Rome will be very interesting

Not sure if Rybakina will be strong there, she still has a lot of progress to do on clay

Also there's Jabeur coming back from her injury which could be tough

Jabeur should be careful to not get any injury before French Open. I wish her another great result.

Rybakina is dangerous, when she has a good day and precise shots down the line it's hard to stop her.

 

[blue00eyes]

Kenin kicked out Sabalenka. Is she back?

Ostapenko seems to be in a good form too from what I saw.

 

[Looren]

Kenin kicked out Sabalenka. Is she back?

I think Sabalenka was way too tired, she played a lot lately

I think she'll be strong in Rolland Garros

 

[Looren]

Oh lord, I hope Iga's injury isn't too severe, there's only 11 days until Rolland Garros

 

[blue00eyes]

Oh lord, I hope Iga's injury isn't too severe, there's only 11 days until Rolland Garros

Oh no, I was so asleep yesterday I didn't watch until the end. It was 6-2 4-2 I gave up watching. I woke up today and saw the news. This is sad. You never now.

I wanted to see Ostapenko-Świątek battle.

Now a ratio Rybakina vs Świątek is like 3-0 which isn't reflecting reality too well but whatever. Roland Garros is much more important and I hope Iga will be healthy.

 

[Looren]

Oh no, I was so asleep yesterday I didn't watch until the end. It was 6-2 4-2 I gave up watching. I woke up today and saw the news. This is sad. You never now.

I wanted to see Ostapenko-Świątek battle.

Now a ratio Rybakina vs Świątek is like 3-0 which isn't reflecting reality too well but whatever. Roland Garros is much more important and I hope Iga will be healthy.

Yeah it's really sad, I hope she'll get better

Well yeah I don't know, I mean in their first two games this year Rybakina was just clearly better, but this time I feel like Swiatek could/should've won the game, but mentally Rybakina was really strong so I don't know who would've won

Now I hope Elena wins the tournament, she's really a likeable person

I hope Iga will be healthy in RG and will manage to keep her crown, but yeah it'll be a tough battle, especially against Aryna and Elena (I clearly didn't expect her to get that good on clay in such a short amount of time)

 

[blue00eyes]

I will keep my fingers crossed for Ostapenko. I like underdogs and we need some drama

 

[Looren]

Congrats Elena am really happy for her but also a bit sad for Kalinina but yeah it was clear that she was waaay too tired

So on clay season we had :

Stuttgart : Iga
Madrid : Aryna
Rome : Elena

Yeah there's clearly a big 3 now in women's tennis, these 3 are clearly dominating since the start of season, I can't wait for Roland Garros

 

[blue00eyes]

The way Elena won was extraordinary Can't wait for RG'23

Kalinina was too tired it seems. The battle between her and Haddad Maia then a meaningful win against Kudermetova cost a lot.