Talk About Tennis 2.0

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 Day 3

Stadium Starts At 12:00 Pm

Bianca Andreescu VS Emma Raducanu
Followed By
Alexander Bublik VS J.J. Wolf
Followed By
Andy Murray VS Dusan Lajovic
Not Before 7:00 PM
Sloane Stephens VS Shelby Rogers
Not Before 8:30 Pm
(WC) Emilio Nava VS John Isner

Grandstand Starts At 11:00 Am

Oscar Otte VS Brandon Nakashima
Followed By
Amanda Anisimova VS Madison Brengle
Not Before 2:00 PM
Sofia Kenin VS (Q) Storm Hunter
Followed By
(Q) Lesia Tsurenko VS Leylah Fernandez
Not Before 7:00 Pm
Ugo Humbert VS (PR) Gael Monfils

Butch Buchholz Starts At 11:00 Am

(WC) Erika Andreeva VS (WC) Ashlyn Krueger
Followed By
(WC) Fernanda Contreras Gomez VS Sorana Cirstea
Followed By
Anna Bondar VS Taylor Townsend
Followed By
Yibing Wu VS (PR) Kyle Edmund
Followed By
Fabio Fognini VS Constant Lestienne

Court 1 Starts At 11:00 Am

Jil Teichmann VS (Q) Karolina Muchova
Followed By
Pedro Cachin VS Marton Fucsovics
Followed By
Alexei Popyrin VS Mikael Ymer
Followed By
Emil Ruusuvuori VS Qualifier

Court 7 Starts At 11:00 Am

Lucia Bronzetti VS Linda Noskova
Followed By
(Q) Varvara Gracheva VS Maryna Zanevska
Followed By
Marketa Vondrousova VS Tatjana Maria

Court 5 Starts At 11:00 Am

Marc-Andrea Huesler VS Albert Ramos-Vinolas
Followed By
(PR) Guido Pella VS Juan Pablo Varillas
Followed By
Ilya Ivashka VS Qualifier

Court 2 Starts At 11:00 Am

(WC) Taro Daniel VS Arthur Rinderknech
Followed By
Qualifier VS Facundo Bagnis
Followed By
Qualifier VS Laslo Djere

Court 3 Starts At 11:00 Am

Aliaksandra Sasnovich VS Dalma Galfi
Followed By
(WC) Robin Montgomery VS Ana Bogdan
Followed By
Xinyu Wang VS (Q) Anna-Lena Friedsam

Sebov won it over Linda Fruhvirtova - 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
The 3rd set was shaky from both players. Sebov seemed rather overwhelmed with her victory, as it's the first time she gets to the 2nd round in a tournament of this level.
It was nice to see Fruhvirtova signing a couple of autographs for kids after the match, despite the disappointing loss.

So... two nice Canadian wins today with Marino and Sebov... They should take pride in and enjoy their deserved wins - but it gets considerably more difficult in the next round, as Marino gets Gauff, and Sebov gets Pegula.

Tomorrow, Andreescu vs. Raducanu is first up on the main court at noon. Leylah will play Tsurenko around 4pm, it looks like.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:23 pm She was picked by several for the practice SP (myself included).
But indeed, strange score to retire from.

Is that two first round exits in back to back practice SPs?

JTContinental wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:36 pm Alycia Parks is not currently handling the pressure of being a higher profile player very well. It's still early days though, and I hope she can make the adjustment.

I pointed this out during IW. But almost all evidence suggests thus far that her top form is indoors and only indoors. It may not be that the new attention is causing her problems. I'm not making excuses for her lack of results outdoors, she clearly should be doing better at many of these tournaments. But if you go back and look at how she's risen through the rankings in the last year, her runs deep in tournaments whether it's the main WTA tour, W125 or ITF are almost all at indoor events. She wasn't having this kind of indoor success 2 years ago, so hopefully it's just a matter of time until she figures out how to be more competitive outdoors, but her results show a stark drop off when you compare the two.

I only know this because a tennis journalist I follow on Twitter called her the Indoor Queen or something like that and I thought that's a stretch (seems given recent history, Anett should be able to maintain that title for a bit), but still point taken and I looked closer at her results because of that. It wasn't something I knew to pay attention with her.

Giorgi blew her 5-1 lead in the third set but won the tiebreak for a 7-6(4), 6-7(4), &-6(4) over Kanepi.

And I did not stutter. Those are the scores.

JazzNU wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:26 pm

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:23 pm She was picked by several for the practice SP (myself included).
But indeed, strange score to retire from.

Is that two first round exits in back to back practice SPs?

Three, because my zombie pick for day two of the IW WTA also lost.
For the real RG SP, I will probably burst into flames as soon as I press "submit".

nelslus wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:44 pm

JTContinental wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:36 pm Alycia Parks is not currently handling the pressure of being a higher profile player very well. It's still early days though, and I hope she can make the adjustment.

She is freakin' talented. Thing is, early in the year, she made all these pronouncements about how she saw herself making the top 10 by the end of this year. Over and over again, and almost always- when players do that, they end up screwing up. You've put a lot of pressure on yourself- AND set a target, especially for veteran players who want to show the newbie not to brag.

Oh dear. I missed that she had done that. There's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:54 pm Giorgi blew her 5-1 lead in the third set but won the tiebreak for a 7-6(4), 6-7(4), &-6(4) over Kanepi.

And I did not stutter. Those are the scores.

I'm not sure how to interrupt the ampersand.

Order of Play for Centre Court tomorrow looks pretty good for the first round matches.

nelslus wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:15 pm OK, it looks like Siniakova dropped out, up 6-3, 3-3 vs. Claire Liu. Does anyone know what happened?

Per Twitter, Siniakova suffered a nasty wrist injury, and had to pull out immediately mid-game. It sounds potentially serious

dave g wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:01 pm I am seeing that the Schmiedlova/Davis match is cancelled on LiveScores. Does anyone have any news on this?

Also per Twitter, Davis withdrew with an ab injury

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 2:46 am

nelslus wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:15 pm OK, it looks like Siniakova dropped out, up 6-3, 3-3 vs. Claire Liu. Does anyone know what happened?

Per Twitter, Siniakova suffered a nasty wrist injury, and had to pull out immediately mid-game. It sounds potentially serious

dave g wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:01 pm I am seeing that the Schmiedlova/Davis match is cancelled on LiveScores. Does anyone have any news on this?

Also per Twitter, Davis withdrew with an ab injury

Unfortunately for Schmiedlova, the lucky loser replacement she drew, Tomova, won the match.

Re the Sunshine Double ...let us not forget the only reason Serena and Venus did not, is because they boycotted Indian Wells for most of their career.

Muchova must be one tired person.. she had to go through qualifying, I believe.. and she went deep at IW .

She's probably ecstatic to get the match play and not be injured

JazzNU wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:52 pm

JTContinental wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:36 pm Alycia Parks is not currently handling the pressure of being a higher profile player very well. It's still early days though, and I hope she can make the adjustment.

I pointed this out during IW. But almost all evidence suggests thus far that her top form is indoors and only indoors. It may not be that the new attention is causing her problems. I'm not making excuses for her lack of results outdoors, she clearly should be doing better at many of these tournaments. But if you go back and look at how she's risen through the rankings in the last year, her runs deep in tournaments whether it's the main WTA tour, W125 or ITF are almost all at indoor events. She wasn't having this kind of indoor success 2 years ago, so hopefully it's just a matter of time until she figures out how to be more competitive outdoors, but her results show a stark drop off when you compare the two.

I only know this because a tennis journalist I follow on Twitter called her the Indoor Queen or something like that and I thought that's a stretch (seems given recent history, Anett should be able to maintain that title for a bit), but still point taken and I looked closer at her results because of that. It wasn't something I knew to pay attention with her.

I never thoight indoor versus outdoor be that different! are there any precedents we know of? of someone being very good indoors but not outdoors? Kvitova and Safarova come to mind, but then Safarova did get to the finals of the French..and Kvitova has a known allergy issue..