Talk About Tennis 2.0

Potapova -Noskova is the one I am carefully watching.. Potapova is playing well, Noskova is not, but I always thought she has a higher ceiling.. it will tell me a lot about Noskova.

I did not realize how rare was the feat that Musetti pulled out this year - reaching the semis of all 3 clay masters during a clay season...
Only 8 players done this since 1990. There was a gap since 1995 until 2007 when nobody was able to do this.

Amazingly neither Muster, nor Bruguera or Kuerten or Coria managed to do this. Neither did JCF, Moya and Costa. You'll be REALLY surprised when you'll look it up who was the player that done it in 1995.

Obviously R/R/N must have done it.
But you are mentioning 1995 specifically. Sampras? He had a very good run on clay that year, and he won Rome.

mick1303 wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 8:39 am I did not realize how rare was the feat that Musetti pulled out this year - reaching the semis of all 3 clay masters during a clay season...
Only 8 players done this since 1990. There was a gap since 1995 until 2007 when nobody was able to do this.

mick1303 wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 6:06 pm Amazingly neither Muster, nor Bruguera or Kuerten or Coria managed to do this. Neither did JCF, Moya and Costa. You'll be REALLY surprised when you'll look it up who was the player that done it in 1995.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 8:05 pm Obviously R/R/N must have done it.
But you are mentioning 1995 specifically. Sampras? He had a very good run on clay that year, and he won Rome.

I don't want to squash this discussion, but folks this is the WTA draw thread.

skatingfan wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 1:01 am ...

I don't want to squash this discussion, but folks this is the WTA draw thread.

Holy ooops

Upset alert : Todoni has a good shot at upsetting Pegula today..40% maybe.. clay doesn't suit Pegula much and todoni is a good clay courter, has actually won a small clay tournament, if I remember

ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 10:03 pm

Dear Naomi.
It may actually BE Patrick. He keeps living of the fact that he coached Serena, while people never see that she never won a slam while being coached by him.
Nor has he ever coached a player that won a slam under his coaching.
So, maybe he is disappointing YOU.
Just a thought.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 3:40 am Upset alert : Todoni has a good shot at upsetting Pegula today..40% maybe.. clay doesn't suit Pegula much and todoni is a good clay courter, has actually won a small clay tournament, if I remember

Good call. Pegula won but the second set was closer than what the score says. Todoni could be one of those players that gets better. Has the size and the power. Don't know what else she needs.

All the top 8 reached R16 and only on of their next round opponents will be from outside top 20 (Baptiste). Who said rankings are not indicative?

Yes. This time, the "field" has not been that productive.
We will still see if somebody can sneak in, but it looks like the winner will be a top 5 player.

Ponch,

Serena won 10 slams while being coached by Mourataglou and had the most consistent dominant stretch of her career under his watch.

Alexandrova playing amazingly well, better than I expected..meanwhile Paolini, Anisimova, Andreeva are playing as well as expected, which is great. coco is surviving but that is all that can be said..Alexandrova will probably beat her unless she really dtrps up. Her forehands are still dropping short and her dfs continue ..not good.