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Last time Rybakina met Swiatek on a comparable court (IW), Ryba won 2 and 2. I am a great believer in h2h being meaningful...

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:50 am Last time Rybakina met Swiatek on a comparable court (IW), Ryba won 2 and 2. I am a great believer in h2h being meaningful...

Why not count the last time they met on hard courts then? Or even the same tournament last year?

Suliso wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 12:35 pm

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 11:50 am Last time Rybakina met Swiatek on a comparable court (IW), Ryba won 2 and 2. I am a great believer in h2h being meaningful...

Why not count the last time they met on hard courts then? Or even the same tournament last year?

yes, agreed

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 2:37 am

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 2:21 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 1:47 am
Do you remember you thought she would beat Halep at Wimbledon...thr year Halep went to the finals

I don't recall that. And that year, I was in Albania working, so I don't recall much of that Wimby.
But I never felt that Halep was a force on grass. And that was one of the most surprising results I have ever seen (the finals).
I stand the same. I agree: Badosa is not a force. She can lose to anybody, she can beat a few top players. That is all.

I remember it very well .it struck me as quite a shocking thing for someone to say, certainly someone who knows tennis..Btw Halep had already won Wimbledon a couple years before..'not a force'?!

Ok. We are talking about different years, then. I thought you meant 2019, and that the statement was made BEFORE Simona had won the tournament.
And about a player being a FORCE on any circumstance. Look at Ostapenko. Is she a force on clay? Well, she won RG once, but the rest of her record there is truly bad. It is on the same park as saying that Raducanu is a force at the USO. When you look at the whole picture...

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 5:23 am

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 12:32 am Roughly on the same park as saying Alexandrova is better than Kostyuk. Which would be a fair and arguable statement.

Huh? Where did that non sequitur come from?!

Just saying that statements like that are valid. If somebody thinks so (and maybe you would), sure, why not? It may be true.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 5:47 am Let us close this discussion before it gets out of hand!

Why? Are we going back to the "Let's NOT talk about tennis" mood? It's just a conversation, Ashkor. You post your insane posts, I post my ridiculous ones. And we talk about tennis, and at least I have a good time.
Nothing major.

Whoah! Alexandrova beat Pegula ..! Didn't expect her to do well on such a slow surface...

I am relieved Rybakina is out..hope she uses the time to sort herself out

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 2:41 am

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:50 pm

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:25 pm

Please do find me, in this forum, anybody that has ever said that Badosa is better than average. Or one post about anybody adulating her.
She is another top 15 player. She has had good results, has had bad ones, has been injured a lot. Nobody is expecting her to be "great".

To be fair, I did recently say somewhere here that Badosa was a better player than Noskova, but that's still only giving her "better than average" status.

It struck me as a gratuitous comment, especially given what had just happened..do you still stand by that comment?

At this point in time, I would say yes, albeit I think both of them are in the "better than average" category. Noskova has the potential to be a top level player, but so far is not living up to the hype.

Ostapenko seems to be having a dialed in week

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:23 pm I am relieved Rybakina is out..hope she uses the time to sort herself out

I imagine it's not going to be an easy fix for her. She's in a severely unhealthy relationship, by all accounts. It should help that he's not allowed at tournaments, but he might still travel with her, who knows.

Friday Order of Play

Center Court
Starts at 7:00 AM

Semifinal
RUS M. Andreeva/RUS D. Shnaider vs ITA S. Errani/ITA J. Paolini (3)
Followed By
Semifinal
LAT J. Ostapenko vs POL I. Swiatek (2)
Followed By
Semifinal
RUS E. Alexandrova vs USA A. Anisimova

Grandstand 1
Starts at 7:00 AM

Semifinal
BRA B. Haddad Maia/GER L. Siegemund vs CHN X. Jiang/TPE F. Wu

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:36 pm

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:23 pm I am relieved Rybakina is out..hope she uses the time to sort herself out

I imagine it's not going to be an easy fix for her. She's in a severely unhealthy relationship, by all accounts. It should help that he's not allowed at tournaments, but he might still travel with her, who knows.

He did stay in her room in Australia according to thecAthletic article

Jabeur brought a scimitar to a gun fight.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 12:09 am Jabeur brought a scimitar to a gun fight.

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 10:36 pm but he might still travel with her,

they shared a hotel room in Melbourne, it seems - and they say he is in Doha too.