'23 USO Day 4 OoP & Discussion

[meganfernandez]

Kenin is cleaning Kasatkina's clock. Daria's first serve is averaging 83 mph, and her groundstrokes are mostly landing long or near the service line

It's inexcusable for a top pro to have a serve this poor. Think of how good she would be with a decent server, or, God forbid, a weapon for a serve. Hardly any women have a serve weapon, and they should.

[JTContinental]

ESPN won't tear itself away from this boring Alcaraz match for even one second. Jabeur trailing a minibreak in a first set tiebreak only merits half a screen.

[ponchi101]

Kenin is cleaning Kasatkina's clock. Daria's first serve is averaging 83 mph, and her groundstrokes are mostly landing long or near the service line

It's inexcusable for a top pro to have a serve this poor. Think of how good she would be with a decent server, or, God forbid, a weapon for a serve. Hardly any women have a serve weapon, and they should.

And the Russians are peculiarly guilty. Dementieva, Safina, Miskina all had deficient serves. Sharapova had a serve because she was really an American product.
I wonder if it is because they have no other sports in which they throw something. (A javelin in athletics is a different motion). They never learn a proper motion to get proper speed on a ball (or racquet).

[nelslus]

AND, now Jack Sock is officially retired from tennis. Coco and Sock lost to Alycia and Kudla 6-2, 7-6 (2). Keeping in mind that Sock served for the second set at 5-4.... and got broken at love- including two double faults.

[ti-amie]

Kasatkina and her horrid Adidas kit pulled it out 6-4 in the third.

[jazzyg]

Kasatkina has done a lot more winning than Kenin in the last two years, and that was the difference in a terrible third set from both players.

[nelslus]

I totally jinxed her

Yes. It can be confirmed. Yes you did.

Have you no shame?

[nelslus]

Kasatkina and her horrid Adidas kit pulled it out 6-4 in the third.

True that. AND yet- to be fair- I've seen, somehow, yet even uglier outfits on some of the male players.

[JTContinental]

now they are showing highlights of the boring Alcaraz match that just finished, while there is live tennis happening on 3 other courts

[3mlm]

now they are showing highlights of the boring Alcaraz match that just finished, while there is live tennis happening on 3 other courts

I lost all coverage this afternoon when Disney pulled all Disney, ABC and ESPN channels due to a dispute with Charter. No word on when coverage might resume, if ever.

[meganfernandez]

O’Connell saw medics on a changeover vs Meddy. Another one sick?


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[JTContinental]

now they are showing highlights of the boring Alcaraz match that just finished, while there is live tennis happening on 3 other courts

I lost all coverage this afternoon when Disney pulled all Disney, ABC and ESPN channels due to a dispute with Charter. No word on when coverage might resume, if ever.

Ugh

[ashkor87]

It's inexcusable for a top pro to have a serve this poor.

true but I think people across the world are improving.. maybe the Russian coaching system hasnt got the word yet! (Ivanovic had a pretty unstable serve, Hingis and Seles were pretty pathetic too. it is not just Russians. Sania Mirza had a very shaky serve too.. I dont like Bencic' action either - her toss constrains her too much..)

I wonder how much blame attaches to the Nick Boliterri system..a significant number of young women are alumni of his school..including Sharapova. Only the Williams sisters escaped him.

[JTContinental]

Sara Errani still wins the prize for worst serve on tour

[ponchi101]

Indeed. Whenever one hits a double fault at the bottom on the net, one should think "I STILL have a better serve than Sara Errani!!!"