2025 Green Acres: The Strawberry Lounge

[ponchi101]

The one scorching the contest is Ashkor. He got Voundrousova and maybe Bublik in the finals, plus Alcaraz. A very good week for him.

[Oploskoffie]

In other news, Bernard Tomic made it through qualifying to reach the Mallorca main draw

[ponchi101]

And he will win Wimbledon this year.
He said he would win it one day.

[jazzyg]

I will never forgive Munar for not finishing off Alcaraz in the first round with a 4-2, 0-30 lead in the third set at Queen's Club. I left Alcaraz off my team because I expected him to be flat coming off the incredible Roland Garros win, and that's exactly what happened. It was a high-quality match, but Alcaraz was ready to be beaten and showed none of his typical energy. Munar blinked when he was on the verge of victory.

Ended up costing my 93 points against more than half of the field. Alcaraz turned into his normal self after the first round, and Draper underperformed dramatically compared to what I was expecting. He drop-shotted far too often on short balls and got burned repeatedly in multiple matches before Lehecka took him out.

[ponchi101]

Don't give up that quickly. Jack will do well at W. I am so far behind that if he lands on Sinner's half, I may trade/switch them.

[Oploskoffie]

My main gripe at this point in time is with Kasatkina who, after three tournaments, has yielded the grand total of 16 points after three first round exits. Here's hoping for an incredibly kind Wimbledon draw to turn my frown upside down...

[jazzyg]

I like my team, but nothing has gone right for me this year, and now five of my six ATP selections are in the same quarter of the draw.

Hurkacz getting injured in his first match. Dzumhur (not that it would have mattered most likely) getting injured in his first match. Ostapenko twisting her ankle after winning the first seven games against Eala right after I traded for her. Alexandrova blowing 11 match points to Mertens, who then went on to win the tournament. Munar blowing a 4-2, 0-30 lead in the third set to Alcaraz when Alcaraz did not do a whole lot to warrant the comeback. Raducano showing toughness to rally from a 5-2, two-break deficit in the third set against Joint, only to lose the last three points of the tiebreak after leading 5-4, and Joint going on to win the tournament. Keys dumping a weak second-serve return into the net after rallying from a 4-0 deficit in the second-set tiebreak against Vondrousova to go ahead 5-4 in the second round, and Vondrousova going on to win the tournament.

I need a miracle like Krejcikova winning the tournament last year to move up from near the bottom of the standing.

[ashkor87]

Hurkacz cost me dearly too but because I had used up all my trades..

[Oploskoffie]

So, amidst the final round of trades, one now stands out... texasniteowl traded in Yastremska who just took out Gauff

[texasniteowl]

well...that alone doesn't get me many points though! she's got to win a few more rounds.

and you can thank Andy Roddick for that. I was watching his draw and comparing it to mine and I was like...he's not wrong...Gauff could easily lose R1.

I had to trade Collins out to do it, but I kinda figured...if Yastremska pulled it off she had a chance to go a round further than Collins...in my amateur opinion. (Though a potential Yastremska-Kenin 3rd round could end that.)

Plus I didn't really have any other trades I was just itching to make. I could have traded out Mpetshi Perricard instead but figured his r1 with Fritz was a coin flip and there wasn't an ATP player in that group I really wanted to trade in.

So yeah...there is my reasoning for "why not Yastremska?".

[ponchi101]

About the same line of reasoning like when you hit a running forehand winner.
Yes, you kind of not really thought about it that way, And you were a bit lucky.
But it was you who got there, and it was your racquet attached to your arm.
So, well done.

[texasniteowl]

Well...she's running out of time to turn it around, so it's looking like hero to zero for Yastremska. Down a set and 5-3 to Zakharova.

[texasniteowl]

and of course Yastremska pulls out the 2nd 7-5 and going to a 3rd.

[texasniteowl]

so...was that a reverse jinx? Yastremska pulls it out in a 3rd set tiebreak..

[FredX]

well...that alone doesn't get me many points though! she's got to win a few more rounds.

and you can thank Andy Roddick for that. I was watching his draw and comparing it to mine and I was like...he's not wrong...Gauff could easily lose R1.

I had to trade Collins out to do it, but I kinda figured...if Yastremska pulled it off she had a chance to go a round further than Collins...in my amateur opinion. (Though a potential Yastremska-Kenin 3rd round could end that.)

Plus I didn't really have any other trades I was just itching to make. I could have traded out Mpetshi Perricard instead but figured his r1 with Fritz was a coin flip and there wasn't an ATP player in that group I really wanted to trade in.

So yeah...there is my reasoning for "why not Yastremska?".

Bold!