Talk About Tennis 2.0

Daniil was acting special through a good bit of the match. Some call it entertainment, some call it unprofessional. And let's be honest, that ump could've done more.

Muchova is serving for the match again...

The taping on her left upper thigh is both kinesio and the heavier stuff and yet here we are.

The Muchova - Vondrousova match was brutal to watch as a Muchova fan...
Muchova finally won it - but it was a massive struggle.

It wasn't the taping on her thigh(s) that was the issue - it was her nervousness.
Every time she would take a step forward, she would immediately take a step - OR TWO - back. In the 3rd set, she would break, and then immediately give the break right back.
She was playing very nervous, frightened tennis.

She admitted after the match that she was “very shaky and stressed”.
She needs to get her mind stabilized if she is to get back to where she was.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 1:36 am

He wanted them to find a new surface mid-match. Also, it's his 3rd match, so an interesting complaint to have right now. Might have had something to do with him losing at that point.

This shaggy dog hair and overly relaxed kit is not working to make Fritz the face of US Men's Tennis the way they are hoping. I don't care that he can clean up well, he so rarely looks the way he does in a magazine spread. I think Marton picked up more fans today than Taylor did when he changed his shirt mid-match on court.

That was a captivating end to the Pegula - Kvitova match...
Pegula gets broken by a very determined Kvitova when serving for the match at 5-4... Then Kvitova goes up 30 - love on her serve, only to blow the game with a double fault and a couple of nervous errors...
Then Kvitova breaks right back to send it to a tiebreak...
Kvitova was definitely the one deciding the path of those last few games, both in her favour and against herself - it was reminiscent of the back & forth Jekyll & Hyde we see so often from Sabalenka, but all concentrated into a few games.

The tiebreak was, predictably, rather shaky from both players, with most points coming from unforced errors. But every once in a while, a clutch winner would come out of nowhere.
You knew the tiebreak was going to be back & forth, and not straightforward, and would go to double digits.
In the end, Kvitova won - that's really all that can be said.

Total points were 95-95. Of course.

I don't know if that was an awfully terrific match or a terrifically awful match.
But it was fun.

JazzNU wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 1:54 am This shaggy dog hair and overly relaxed kit is not working to make Fritz the face of US Men's Tennis the way they are hoping. I don't care that he can clean up well, he so rarely looks the way he does in a magazine spread. I think Marton picked up more fans today than Taylor did when he changed his shirt mid-match on court.

GF. Marton Fucsovics instant fan. Could not care less how well he plays.

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?

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Day 10

STADIUM 1 Starts At 11:00 Am

QF
(10) Cameron Norrie VS (14) Frances Tiafoe
Not Before 1:00 PM
(6) Coco Gauff VS (2) Aryna Sabalenka
Not Before 3:00 Pm
QF
(5) Daniil Medvedev VS (23) Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
Not Before 6:00 PM
(7) Maria Sakkari VS TBD
Not Before 8:00 Pm
QF
Simone Bolelli/Fabio Fognini VS John Isner/Jack Sock

STADIUM 2 Not Before 1:00 PM

(ALT) Belinda Bencic/Jil Teichmann VS Beatriz Haddad Maia/Laura Siegemund
Followed By
(OSE) Magda Linette/Caty McNally VS Shuko Aoyama/Ena Shibahara
Not Before 6:00 Pm
QF
Felix Auger-Aliassime/Denis Shapovalov VS Rohan Bopanna/Matthew Ebden

STADIUM 5 Starts At 10:00 Am / FILA International Jr. Girls

Eliana Kook VS (2) Kaitlin Quevedo
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(WC) Keaton Hance VS (2) Roy Horovitz
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Girls
(1) Qavia Lopez/Clervie Ngounoue VS Isabella Chhiv/Maren Urata
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(1) Roy Horovitz/Alexander Razeghi VS Stefan Regalia/Jordan Reznik

STADIUM 6 Starts At 10:00 Am / FILA International Jr. Girls

Emily Sartz-Lunde VS (4) Tatum Evans
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
Jagger Leach VS (9) Stiles Brockett
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Girls
(WC) Kenna Erickson/Sabrina Lin VS (4) Ava Krug/Theadora Rabman
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
Ian Bracks/Abhishek Thorat VS (2) Duncan Chan/Keegan Rice

STADIUM 7 Starts At 10:00 Am / FILA International Jr. Girls

Shannon Lam VS (10) Qavia Lopez
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(5) Oliver Bonding VS (WC) Nathan Blokhin
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Girls
(3) Piper Charney/Kaitlin Quevedo VS Valerie Glozman/Anya Murthy
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
Jagger Leach/Joseph Oyebog JR VS (3) Aayush P Bhat/Adhithya Ganesan

STADIUM 8 Starts At 10:00 Am / FILA International Jr. Girls

(7) Theadora Rabman VS (WC) Stephanie Yakoff
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(Q) Brody Nejedly VS (3) Alexander Razeghi
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Girls
Teah Chavez/Ellie Daniels VS (2) Tyra Caterina Grant/Iva Jovic
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
Paris Pouatcha/Miguel Tobon VS (8) Matthew Forbes/Cooper Woestendick

STADIUM 9 Starts At 10:00 Am / FILA International Jr. Girls

(13) Ellie Daniels VS Ahmani Guichard
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(13) Cyrus Mahjoob VS Kase Schinnerer
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Girls
(5) Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo/Maya Joint VS Kayla Chung/Alanis Hamilton
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(5) Stiles Brockett/Kuang Qing Xu VS Krish Arora/Rudy Quan

COURT 16 Starts At 10:00 Am / FILA International Jr. Girls

(5) Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo VS (WC) Valerie Glozman
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(14) Aayush P Bhat VS Mitchell Lee
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Girls
(WC) Annika Penickova/Kristina Penickova VS (6) Tatum Evans/Ahmani Guichard
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
Tygen Goldammer/Kase Schinnerer VS (6) Oliver Bonding/Mitchell Lee

COURT 17 Starts At 10:00 Am / FILA International Jr. Girls

(Q) Susanna Maltby VS (11) Ava Krug
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(8) Duncan Chan VS Abhishek Thorat
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Girls
(8) Victoria Osuigwe/Emily Sartz-Lunde VS Kate Fakih/Shannon Lam
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(4) Maxwell Exsted/Nikita Filin VS (WC) Keaton Hance/Jack Kennedy

COURT 18 Starts At 10:00 Am / FILA International Jr. Girls

(14) Piper Charney VS Thea Frodin
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
Miguel Tobon VS (10) Maxwell Exsted
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Girls
Jessica Bernales/Ava Bruno VS (7) Ashton Bowers/Brooke Lynn Schafer
Followed By / FILA International Jr. Boys
(7) Francesco Cordova/Tristan Stringer VS (WC) Noah Johnston/Calvin Wang

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:41 am 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.

Rybakina easily over Gracheva, 3 and love...

Garcia is trying to dig herself out of the hole she put herself in (although Cirstea is playing some decent tennis).
4-4 in the 3rd...