WTA 1000 Dubai 2/19 - 2/27 2023

[Sinner Fan]

Italy right now has to be happy with the ATP crop. On the WTA, you have to wait a little for somebody else to rise up.

With Italian men like Sinner, Musetti, and Berrettini all in top 10 they doing real good. Martina Trevisan is top WTA Italian player right now and she can put some good game together, So can Jasmine. Just not against to players.

Well... Sinner, Musetti, and Berrettini are all in the top 30, at least...

Trevisan hasn't done anything notable in a while, and she's regularly losing convincingly these days.
I think Giorgi is the better Italian hope on the women's side, though she's over 30 years old now. (Trevisan is just about 30, as well.)

That is correct. Martina Trevisan is almost 30 and Camila Giorgi is at least 30. The young Italian girls on tour are Elisabetta Cocciaretto who is only 22 year of age and is ranking of 50's range. Also Lucia Bronzetti who is 24 year of age and is ranking in 60's range. Both players have ways to go.

[Deuce]

Alexandrova and Potapova have withdrawn... Claire Liu and Lauren Davis are the 'lucky losers' who come in.

The court is being described as 'medium fast' with a lower bounce.

[Suliso]

A rare quality win for Cirstea. Kudermetova and Haddad Maia did well last week, but followed it up with early defeats this week.

[meganfernandez]

Collins losing easily to Fruhvirtova. I say a bit unexpected, but Danielle is going through a little slump.
She may still be dizzy from that match against Iga.

Based on how she is getting creamed, it could also be a flare up of her chronic pain syndrome.

It was 3 and 4, right? A break per set? Was it not as close as the score suggests?

[Sinner Fan]

A rare quality win for Cirstea. Kudermetova and Haddad Maia did well last week, but followed it up with early defeats this week.

Kalinina is tough opponent. She could make difficult for others.

[ponchi101]

Collins losing easily to Fruhvirtova. I say a bit unexpected, but Danielle is going through a little slump.
She may still be dizzy from that match against Iga.

Based on how she is getting creamed, it could also be a flare up of her chronic pain syndrome.

It was 3 and 4, right? A break per set? Was it not as close as the score suggests?

My bad. 3 & 4 is "easy" to me, but certainly not a drubbing. An intermediate score, by definition.

[JTContinental]

Collins losing easily to Fruhvirtova. I say a bit unexpected, but Danielle is going through a little slump.
She may still be dizzy from that match against Iga.

Based on how she is getting creamed, it could also be a flare up of her chronic pain syndrome.

It was 3 and 4, right? A break per set? Was it not as close as the score suggests?

lol I was going by ponchi's description and saw the scoreline later in the day

[Deuce]

Rybakina beat Andreescu rather routinely. The 1st set was pretty easy and straightforward (6-3), but Andreescu was up a break in the 2nd. Rybakina broke right back, then broke again and finished it off 6-4.

It's interesting (and nice) to see linespeople at a 1000 event like this. I had thought that all the Majors and 1000s had gone electronic.

[meganfernandez]

Based on how she is getting creamed, it could also be a flare up of her chronic pain syndrome.

It was 3 and 4, right? A break per set? Was it not as close as the score suggests?

My bad. 3 & 4 is "easy" to me, but certainly not a drubbing. An intermediate score, by definition.

It can be not as close as the score appears. You know, if Fruhvirtova was holding easily and controlling everything and challenging all of Collins's service games. I meant the question sincerely. The score isn't always the story.

[ti-amie]

Day 5 Order of Play

Centre Court
Starts at 12:00 PM

FRA C. GARCIA (4) vs USA M. KEYS
UPCOMING
BUL V. TOMOVA vs USA J. PEGULA (3)
UPCOMING
USA L. DAVIS vs BLR A. SABALENKA (2)
UPCOMING
POL I. SWIATEK (1) vs CAN L. FERNANDEZ
UPCOMING
BLR A. SASNOVICH vs USA C. GAUFF (5)

Court 1
Starts at 12:00 PM

CZE K. PLISKOVA vs GRE M. SAKKARI (6)
UPCOMING
USA A. ANISIMOVA vs BLR V. AZARENKA (15)
UPCOMING
SUI B. BENCIC (8) vs UKR M. KOSTYUK
UPCOMING
KAZ E. RYBAKINA (9) vs CZE M. BOUZKOVA
UPCOMING
RUS V. KUDERMETOVA/RUS L. SAMSONOVA vs USA M. KEYS/IND S. MIRZA

Court 2
Starts at 11:00 AM

UKR A. KALININA vs UKR D. YASTREMSKA
UPCOMING
CZE K. MUCHOVA vs ROU S. CIRSTEA
UPCOMING
USA S. ROGERS vs ROU A. BOGDAN
UPCOMING
USA D. KRAWCZYK/NED D. SCHUURS (3) vs NOR U. EIKERI/POL A. ROSOLSKA
UPCOMING
TPE H. CHAN/TPE L. CHAN vs RUS A. KALINSKAYA/CZE M. VONDROUSOVA

[Deuce]

Bouzkova beat Kenin 1 and 1.
I wonder if anyone knows what's going on with Kenin. She's playing a lot... well, she's not playing a lot because she always loses early, but she's entering a lot of tournaments, so she doesn't seem to be still injured...
Is she still interested in tennis?
It's rare that we see this kind of very radical and significant drop off from a player who was top 10 / top 15 for a decent amount of time.

[JazzNU]

Tough match for Jasmine Paolini in first round against American Madison Keys losing 1-6, 1-6.

Also Italian Martina Trevisan did not do much better against Petra Kvitova losing 2-6, 1-6.

Italy right now has to be happy with the ATP crop. On the WTA, you have to wait a little for somebody else to rise up.

This is a bit on them though. Not technically Italian, but they had someone currently in the top 20 who they didn't see fit to keep because according to reports at least, they aren't used to sponsoring non-Italian players, even if they've grown up in Italy and lived there for an extended period of time. Samsonova still lives and trains there. From what I've seen, she's only had Italian coaches and that's where she began playing. She's very much an Italian product, not at all a Russian one, and she could've still been playing for Italy. Granted, she may not have had as much crowd support, but she grew up there, not a Kazakhstan style transplant, so they might still get behind her almost as much as a native.

[JazzNU]

Bianca. She had some very good moments against Rybakina, but she's not the player she used to be right now. She was able to break Lena back to back, but couldn't hold her own serve. Had to be looked mid-match by the trainer for something I think with her arm or shoulder. It's a shame that those mishandled injuries really seem to have caught up with her and we may never see that 2019 version of her again. For the sake of the game, it would be fantastic if she could get back to that level. She plays a different style than the other girls, and the variety is welcome.

[Deuce]

Andreescu's injuries haven't been 'mishandled' - she is simply a very physically fragile and chronically injured person. This goes way back to her Junior days, where she was also often injured - so it is something inherent in her, and it's not fair to accuse others - or Bianca herself - of incompetence in the matter of injury treatment or recovery.
Everything over the past 10 years or so certainly indicates that she will be injured often - perhaps even perpetually - regardless of how well or unwell her injuries are handled by the medical people.

[ashkor87]

Interesting matchup today- Keys vs Garcia ...they are comparable in ',quality' but Garcia needs a faster court, I think..Keys should win...
Though I haven't actually seen the Dubai court ..eye surgery