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This is a thread for polite and reasonable discussion about the upcoming match. Those who have other intentions can go to the other one.
Anyway, here I give slight edge to King due to H2H on hard courts, Pavly's shameful performance vs. Czink and the fact the little one is gonna get some crowd support. So a small back for starters, with the idea of waiting to see how it goes before further positioning.
Anyway, here I give slight edge to King due to H2H on hard courts, Pavly's shameful performance vs. Czink and the fact the little one is gonna get some crowd support. So a small back for starters, with the idea of waiting to see how it goes before further positioning.
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Wow quite a big crowd too.
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i fancy pav to turn up tonight and play like she can. certainly at her best she would beat king, although she has lost to her a few times
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3 times in a row, all on hard courts, every time was higher ranked too. Seems like a bad matchup.
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Pavly is doing the "hit them hard and hope they go in" thing. The blue dress is not the best choice
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Pavly lacks mobility, as expected.
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Does her pink dress give her more control?
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She looks fatter in dark colors.
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Small lay now @1.5, topping up if Pav wins the 1st set
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BP for rebreak
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3rd BP...
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Done, 2-1*
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She is the Queen of the DFS
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im on King now
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Now now, other WTA players will object
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I am nearly sure that she has had 28 or 29 DFS in a match....
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Now I am wondering what is the record and who holds it
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not too sure there's anything in the match up. king is solid, and that's been enough to beat pavlova three times in a row during her terrible brother coached hiatus from the top level.
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http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/21/sports/tennis-australian-open-a-faulty-kournikova-advances.html
Kournikova had 31 DFs and WON. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20072011/58/tennis-star-hits-25-double-faults-wins-straight-sets.html Pavly 25 and also WON. |
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Pavkova is completely untrustworthy.. when the DFS start they just keep coming.. it really is a sight to behold
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yeah i remember that match in baku last year
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"MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Even the worst tennis hacker with the wackiest serve would find it tough to top Anna Kournikova's 31 double faults at the Australian Open in a farce of a match that was so bad it was funny.
It was one of most feeble and unintentionally comical matches of all time, and the packed crowd groaned and hooted, laughed and whistled through every excruciating moment of it. That Kournikova could win 1-6, 6-4, 10-8 against Japan's Miho Saeki after setting perhaps an all-time record for sloppy serving Thursday speaks volumes for the way both players performed. Between them they made 149 unforced errors with 21 breaks of service. Once in a while they actually came up with some pretty good shots from the baseline and the net. Kournikova, a popular 17-year-old Russian seeded No. 12, served for the match seven times, double faulted twice on match points, drilled an easy overhead into the net on one more, and played with all the consistency of a rank amateur. It wasn't as if Kournikova was going for big serves all the time — she had just three aces to zero for Saeki. She simply couldn't put the yellow ball in the green box. About 3,000 fans jamming Court 2 cheered her nevertheless, their sympathy stretched to the limit as the 2½-hour match wore on. When Saeki hit a backhand crosscourt wide to lose the match at last, the crowd roared in celebration and relief. Kournikova, who slugged 23 double faults in her first-round match, slumped in her chair and covered her face with a towel after shaking hands with Saeki, then obliged her adoring fans by signing autographs. Double fault records are not kept, but no one among even the oldest observers could recall a professional player who served worse in a match. There was, however, one Gerald Patterson of Australia, who served 29 double faults and 29 aces in capturing the five-set final of the Australian championships in 1927." |
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Found it on a forum.
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Thats right freddiek.. the match in Baku.. what a shocker that was
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two things have struck me this week watching the olympics
firstly when watching the swimming, i'm struck by the lack of physically precocious teenagers in womens tennis secondly, when watching the women's heptathlon, it confirms the fact that there are scores of women in the top 20 in wta who are carrying disgraceful amounts of body fat. |
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sorry, that should read top 100.
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Yes, incredible isnt it.
One wonders how come stamina is not an issue in WTA tennis, when you watch men's matches you see how taxing it is on the body. Even a player who was always considered to be low stamina (Isner) survived a world record setting match and even won it. |
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40-0 to break
weclome to the wta |
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Anyway, King looks much better here.
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Nastya should keep ball in play...
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She cant move, any shot that goes to the side leaves her out of position.
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pavlu serving bombs
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Tennis is a mental game.. maybe that it is why it attracts MENTAL women
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King stupidly returns the ball in the middle every time.
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omg king is so stupid
cue the break now 90 % and pavlu walk away with the cake |
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my strongest memory of that isner match was just quite how awful it was.
i suppose it's a different type of stamina required in tennis in that there's plenty of recovery time, but just looking at safina, kirilenko and kvitova, how can it not be obvious that good conditioning and fitness makes a massive difference. up until today, i had a bit of sympathy with women tennis players, they have to develop a lot of core strength so they have squarer stomachs and body fat shows. however having just seen ennis and that other british 19 year old, there's no excuse, they're just out of shape. |
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Excellent, lost pics and the SB is out anyway.
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yep, stream gone
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It is not like we are in 21st century or anything.
Oh wait... |
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is it still in play
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