Talk About Tennis 2.0

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 8:48 am To be fair, Raducanu has been out with injuries a lot more than Fernandez has..

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 8:48 am To be fair, Raducanu has been out with injuries a lot more than Fernandez has..

mick1303 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:03 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 8:48 am To be fair, Raducanu has been out with injuries a lot more than Fernandez has..

Being fit is a part of being good. If you lag behind because of injuries, it does not induce any asterisks on your competitors.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 3:35 pm

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 8:48 am To be fair, Raducanu has been out with injuries a lot more than Fernandez has..

mick1303 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:03 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 8:48 am To be fair, Raducanu has been out with injuries a lot more than Fernandez has..

Being fit is a part of being good. If you lag behind because of injuries, it does not induce any asterisks on your competitors.

If it hadn't been because of injuries, Richard Krajicek would have won at least 4 slams. He was that good. But he also got injured that frequently.
Part of the game.
About asterisks: Maureen Connolly. The greatest "what could have been".

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2024 4:00 pm

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2024 1:49 pm Class is to be seen by how good the player is at her best..on average, all players are around 50% probably ...Raducanu winning the USO was not a fluke, neither was Osaka, nor Andreescu nor Sloane...all of them won by playing extraordinarily well over 7 rounds .
As for Pegula, she is a very good player but never a great player..on the whole, a bit over-rated, specially by the American media ..

At their best result. If you go by that process of selection, Goran is/was better than Ferrer, Tsonga and every other player that never won a slam.
Goran was damn good, but to grant him such status just because one slam favored his huge serve (at the time) is a bit extreme, for me.
And the definition of a fluke is precisely that you won 7 matches in a row during two weeks (Emma won 10 in three). Majoli was a fluke, Schiavone was a fluke, Penetta was a fluke, Tommy Johansson was a fluke and Gaston Gaudio was a fluke. They never did anything of relevance other than their specific two weeks.

Jeff from TX wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:03 pm I'm a little late to the party, and not a particular Schiavone fan, but in fairness to her, she did make the final at the FO the year following her title run. And she did make the quarters of every other slam. Not, perhaps, a great player, but slightly better than a 1 hit wonder who completely disappeared after her title run in 2010.