ATP M1000 WTA 1000 BNP Paribas Open 3/8 - 3/19 2023

[JazzNU]

Phew . kvitova just escaped..not for nothing is she a grand slam champion..didn't get to see the match but I wonder if it was good tennis- drama certainly, but tennis?

Errors galore. Pegula served for it, Kvitova kept hitting everything hard and some landed in.
What you say. Good drama, the tennis was questionably decent.

In the tiebreak for sure, the wind was carrying Kvitova's balls further than what she meant to hit it, but almost always just by a bit. She was so exasperated that that series of shots kept going out. Thank goodness she finally took the ball the other direction.

[Deuce]

Add yet another in-match retirement - this time Draper, in his match vs. Alcaraz.

I'm curious to see how and what Raducanu does vs. Swiatek. Hopefully not another retirement. They'll be starting in about 15 minutes.

[ponchi101]

Garcia regressing slowly to what we have seen for the last few years.

[ponchi101]

So.
ESPN down here is showing a small promo for women's equality (women' day was recent) and with the hashtag #cheerforequality.
But, with the world #1 playing a former USO champ, they are showing Stan/Jannick. Iga/Emma is being shown in ESPN+, their subscription service.

Makes a lot of sense. To somebody else...

[ashkor87]

Garcia becoming as much of an enigma as Pliskova..!

[JazzNU]

Emma competed much, much better than the scoreline suggests. Let's hope this form continues in Miami and beyond.

Happy that Iga isn't rolling over most of opponents like she was in many of her matches in the Middle East. Hopefully this helps blunt that trend of what appeared to be players ducking out on matches against her with no visible injuries.

[ashkor87]

'I know what is hard court,” he told Lichtenstein, “I’m a specialist at hard court. This is not hard court.” Medvedev complaining about the slow court! Told the umpire he would take his time walking slow to the bathroom because it is a sloooow court !

This is for those on this forum who don't believe IW is the slowest court on the planet! Actually, I think Miami may be even slower..we shall see!

[Deuce]

Raducanu stayed right with Swiatek for the first half of the 1st set. Then Emma appeared to be getting tired from the constant running she was doing, and Swiatek won the second half of the set. 6-3.

The 2nd set continued in that direction, and was more and more one-sided. 6-1.

Emma said the day before that she had done 'hardly any preparation' for Indian Wells.

[Suliso]

What's her excuse for doing hardly any preparation?

[Deuce]

What's her excuse for doing hardly any preparation?

I don't know - she didn't specify. I assume it had something to do with the injuries she had that caused her to retire and withdraw so much... but then again, that was late last year, so who knows?

It was strange... it was during the on-court interview after she beat Haddad Maia where she said she had hardly prepared for Indian Wells. And she said that very clearly, in the context of saying that she was surprised that she was playing so well. But right after that, she said that she had "worked hard for the past 2 weeks". So I imagine she meant that she had not done much preparation prior to the past 2 weeks.

[JTContinental]

Garcia regressing slowly to what we have seen for the last few years.

I knew that level of tennis was unsustainable for her

[Deuce]

Felix displayed a ton of guts, being down 3 match points at 0-40, 5-6, and coming back to send it to a tiebreak.
But he choked in the tiebreak as Paul won 5 straight points, and Felix faced 3 more match points. He saved those 3 match points, as well, as he ran off 5 straight points of his own to win the tiebreak 8-6.
Well done!

[JTContinental]

Emma competed much, much better than the scoreline suggests. Let's hope this form continues in Miami and beyond.

Happy that Iga isn't rolling over most of opponents like she was in many of her matches in the Middle East. Hopefully this helps blunt that trend of what appeared to be players ducking out on matches against her with no visible injuries.

Both Emma and Bianca played much better tennis here, and both of those would qualify as "good" losses.

[JTContinental]

What's her excuse for doing hardly any preparation?

I think I saw something a couple of weeks ago about a wrist tweak.

[ashkor87]

Emma competed much, much better than the scoreline suggests. Let's hope this form continues in Miami and beyond.

Happy that Iga isn't rolling over most of opponents like she was in many of her matches in the Middle East. Hopefully this helps blunt that trend of what appeared to be players ducking out on matches against her with no visible injuries.

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"emma competed much, much better than the scoreline suggests".

That is probably true of many of her wins..the thing is, she wins the important points, other players win points on their own serve, to Iga it doesn't matter whose serve it is ..