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Yellow-ish brick wall to the Singapore YEC, or last thread in the pre-ubernarcissist POTUS era
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Lisicki made Luxembourg as last in.
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Is a good field by Luxembourg standards with Kvitova and Wozniacki too.
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Does Luxembourg count for the YEC qualification this year?
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Having said that you can argue that's not what Lisicki wants. Last in = unlikely to win a match as there's probably not many players there she can beat. Hard to keep playing players outside the top 200 like this week
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Yes.
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Though there's no-one in it in YEC contention.
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you said the field was decent ffs
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I said by Luxembourg standards.
There is a surprising lack of vulturing going on for YEC players. Only 3 players in contention are even entered in Moscow. So if it goes down to the wire no idea what some players will do (won't be wildcards for all of them for starters). |
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Lisicki should really have played Tashkent instead of failing to qualify for Beijing next weekend
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Even this week, there's no Konta, Kuznetsova etc.
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Kvitova and Wozniacki is 2 good names for Luxembourg even if they aren't in YEC. As Luxembourg you'd rather sign big names not in YEC contention anyway. What's the point of signing up players who won't play?
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By doing that you can put them on your ads, only to then massively disappoint all your ticket buyers and make them turn their backs to tennis for all eternity
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You have the other race anyway. The race to who can tank hardest to avoid Zhuhai being mandatory for them.
Bertens already trying hard for this given she's 18th in the race, but withdrew from Wuhan and Beijing. |
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Kvitova, Woz, Bouchard is better players to put on your posters than all bar 2 players at YEC anyway.
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Better than 5 or so time defending fan favourite awardist Aga Radwanska?
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@WTA .@SerenaWilliams withdraws from @WuhanOpenTennis and @ChinaOpen. Aiming for #WTAFinals return--> http://wtatenn.is/lBJN5V What shocking news. |
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omg, that's shocking
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Serena did an interview for Sky Sports Sportswomen that aired yesterday but was recorded very recently because it's from where she's been in Europe this week I think where she said she hadn't yet decided what events she will play for the rest of the season. Equals hasn't decided if she can be bothered with YEC this year yet obviously.
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Angie is nearly guaranteed YE #1 with that news though. She would have to barely win a match and Serena win YEC for Serena to overtake her now.
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I saw pictures of her hanging out with Djokovic. Did she play in his exhibition?
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Yes she did.
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Apparently Serena can withdraw without a reason anymore. Don't see any reason cited for her withdrawals?
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The WTA CEO must be thrilled with Serena playing an exhibition instead of Asia....again
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not to say it's the same demand. It's just that he sounded bitter when she played IPTL last year after not bothering with any of the asian events
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The only better options for posters would be Serena or plastering you have the new #1 and AO and US Open champion coming to town. But neither of this were ever playing Luxembourg so Luxembourg did well really. They actually got pretty much the best names available when you consider Vika, Sharapova, Ivanovic etc.
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aren't available.
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Behind the scenes WTA will be furious if Serena doesn't show up for YEC this year I imagine. They will never go that hard publicly, but I already said it's very bad commercially if she no shows this year. Singapore will bomb hard if she doesn't show up.
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but there's Kerber!
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Who, if you will remember, has won more slams than Serena this year.
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To sell like 15,000 tickets twice a day.
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The crowds will look awful on TV if Serena doesn't play.
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I never liked the YEC much. They should just finish the year with a slam or a big master.
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/premier
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YEC sucks really. Even more so it's on a horrible surface now.
It sucks even more on the women's side now they've compacted the season. Too many tired, out of gas players. Quality of tennis is rarely that high for what is meant to be showcasing the best the game has to offer, made worst by the now horrendously slow courts it's played on. |
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I really don't understand why they don't change the surface. Nobody seems to like it while there has been lots of praise for a surface like that of the 125k Taipeh the last few years. On TF that is at least.
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And the points doping from the event, made even worse by WTA's new master stroke (increased points just for qualifying, thus effectively decreasing points for winning, and made it so the points tag on to you best 16 results, not count as part of your best 16) just sucks.
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Isn't the tagging on what the ATP has done for years?
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Because WTA are stupid and default sheep. They don't put any thought into surface. They just think all tennis is played on slow surfaces these days and put a slow surface down by default without thinking. I would imagine nearly unanimous people would say WTA looks far more aesthetically pleasing on a quicker surface, yet somehow the decision makers at the WTA are oblivious to this and can't even get it right at the 1 event where they have absolute control over the court surface.
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Because ultra slow surfaces is even worse for woman without big serves, and pretty much unable to hit any winners on the surface. Thus the matches just turn into error strewn fests which aren't pretty to watch. Made worse by what I said earlier about the players being fatigued and verging on empty (or just empty in some cases).
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