WTA 500 Charleston 4/3 - 4/9 2023

[Deuce]

I haven't been watching that match, but a friend told me that Pegula lost 10 games in a row at one point.
I asked him if she was injured. He said "No - it doesn't appear so."

I see now that Pegula has just won the last 5 games in a row...
Are they following some sort of twisted script?

[nelslus]

LOL. What a bizarre, at times pathetic match. Up 4-0 in the third, Begu instantly went back to wimping out and hitting errors- it's dangerous when you just do not have consistent ways to be aggressive and put away shots- and Pegula played aggressively and stopped making errors. Not a really enjoyable match to watch. Meh.

[ti-amie]

That was an impressive come back by Pegula to take the third set 6-4 after being behind 4-0. She did a lot of things well, there wasn't any one spectacular thing she pulled out of her bag of tricks other than the determination not to lose the match.

[ti-amie]

Begu did what she usually does when the "business end of the set" comes. I just didn't expect her to let Pegula win six straight games. Unreal.

[Deuce]

I really dislike the on-court interviewer (usually that Andrew guy with the WTA) always prompting the players to thank the crowd.
It's so predictable and so incredibly phoney.

[nelslus]

Looks like you were right nelslus! Pegula is back to 3-4 and will serve to level the set at 4 all.

I am a WITCH, I tell you.

[JazzNU]

I'm not sure what is going on with Pegula but she seems uninterested in playing this third set and Begu is up 4-0 after a loooonnnnnggggg bathroom break.

This is just a guess, but I think Jessie could deal with a few weeks off. I said this with Coco and the same applies for Jessie. It's important to have breaks built into your schedule. And I think for both of them, maybe even more so because of their Doubles play. Jessie has been getting to the later stages of almost every tournament this season. But that's also the case for their Doubles' results. That's a lot of tennis. I think this is the first tournament she's been in where she hasn't played doubles all season.

[ponchi101]

Problem is, this is one of those WRONG times to take a break. Too many important tournaments in the radar.
As you say, just drop the doubles, at least.

[mmmm8]

Thought so . Autoimmune disorders with no known cure ..

In western allopathic medicine, that is...we do have cures in Indian traditional Ayurved and yoga..but the world wants pills and shots, not holistic approaches..sigh

I'm no doctor but have to understand some of this stuff for my work, my understanding is that Ayurvedic methods and yoga can greatly help reduce symptoms of RA, but cannot cure it.

I would say actually what we call "complementary medicine," which includes these, is increasingly considered medicinal in the Western world (vs alternative or "welness") - more insurers and public health systems are covering it.

[mmmm8]

...

In western allopathic medicine, that is...we do have cures in Indian traditional Ayurved and yoga..but the world wants pills and shots, not holistic approaches..sigh

Western, evidence-based medicine. The one where double blind testing is done, to ensure that proper analysis is achieved and where anecdotal stories are not used as data.
The one that has allowed Japan (84.62), Singapore (83.74) and S. Korea (83.43), the three Asian countries that have adopted this model, to become the #1, #3 and #4 countries with the longest life expectancies in the world (Italy, another practitioner of Western medicine, is 2nd) while China has climbed to #45 (78.08) as it continues to also shift to this medicine but has a considerable tradition of holistic practices, and India is at #129 with an average of 70.15 years-life-expectancy, more than a decade below the other Asian countries and less than any S. American country except Bolivia.

There is a lot of research into non-Western medicine that has shown there are some treatments that have a proven benefit and some don't, it's not fair to dismiss it altogether (not to uphold altogether, to be fair)

There are also much bigger issues in the Indian healthcare system than interest in Ayurveda. In fact, traditional medicine is probably plugging a hole caused by those issues with at least some minor benefits.

[ti-amie]

I just want to add that any good practitioner of traditional medicine will probably want to know what diagnosis you've received from "modern medicine" before trying to treat you.

[JazzNU]

Bencic lost the first set 4-6 to Shelby Rogers after being up 4-1.

[Deuce]

Leylah/Townsend just lost their doubles match to Hunter (Sanders)/Dolehide.
Leylah/Taylor lost the 1st set 6-0.

This doubles team is a complete enigma.
They can play extremely well... but they completely disappear for a full set every match.
I don't recall ever seeing any individual player or doubles team go missing for an entire set so consistently.
There was no way that they'd be able to continue getting away with doing this for long at this level - it's akin to playing Russian Roulette with their matches.

[JazzNU]

Problem is, this is one of those WRONG times to take a break. Too many important tournaments in the radar.
As you say, just drop the doubles, at least.

I think it's a good time to take a break. Don't really need to be back in the mix until Madrid.

[JazzNU]

A good win. Pera's best surface is clay.