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Post by Graveller » Oct Tue 24, 2017 9:57 am

Ostapenko has one of the worst 2nd serves in the Top100.
I even like the one from Errani/Radwanska even more.... totally harmless 2nd serve...

And if you have no first serve accuracy, you are a sitting duck vs Venus.

bye Ostapenko, enjoy your last match on thursday and then the season is over.
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Post by Grossefavourite » Oct Tue 24, 2017 10:07 am

I think as there's so much on and off court money at the top, the YEC is just not that interesting for the top players. I think they should redo the rules and nullify earlier results in the year if the entrants fail to live up to expectations.

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Post by Grossefavourite » Oct Tue 24, 2017 11:28 am

Pliskova is so good without pressure.

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Post by Graveller » Oct Tue 24, 2017 11:35 am

Pliskova had pressure: she knew she would be qualified for the SF if she won today.

And she did win ... So Ostapenko is out, and the winner of the Garbine vs Venus match will be the second SF from this group.
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Post by Grossefavourite » Oct Tue 24, 2017 11:38 am

<font color=brown>@ <b>Graveller</b>:</font>
 
By pressure, I mean that she's expected to win and if she does not she faces negative remarks. If she did not win, no one is going to press her with, "How come you lost?" Rather, it would be treated as just another match. Her losses don't make headlines; people aren't 'shocked.'

As a two-time GS winner, clearly the pressure was greater on Garbine.
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Post by Grossefavourite » Oct Tue 24, 2017 12:29 pm

20 service beraks, Vee? Ridiculous, Vee, just ridiculous...

SINGAPORE (AP) — Venus Williams needed three match points and more than three hours to defeat Jelena Ostapenko 7-5, 6-7 (3), 7-5 at the WTA Finals on Tuesday.

The match, lasting 3 hours, 13 minutes, featured 20 service breaks, with neither player finding much confidence on their service games.

The 37-year-old Williams dropped her serve nine times, while the 20-year-old French Open champion conceded serve 11 times.

"I don't know if there was any luck for me tonight, I just had to work for every point," Williams said. "It's not easy to lose the first match, and both of us were in the same situation."

The fifth-seeded Williams is now 1-1 in round-robin play, while the seventh-seeded Ostapenko — who is making her WTA Finals debut — fell to 0-2.

Williams's first match point came on Ostapenko's serve in the 10th game of the second set, but she squandered the opportunity by netting a forehand.

Ostapenko kept the pressure on to force a tiebreaker and levelled the match. Prior to this match, Williams had only lost two tiebreakers in 12 played this season.

But Williams, the runner-up at the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year, then started taking Ostapenko's second serve from well within the baseline. She broke her Latvian opponent in the 11th game by forcing her into a backhand error.

Williams, the only player in the field to have won the WTA Finals — back in 2008 — sealed victory with a backhand crosscourt winner.

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Post by 93tennisroyalty » Oct Tue 24, 2017 9:41 pm

The way Pliskova played against Venus was some of the best tennis I've ever seen from her. If she stays composed, shes my predicted winner.

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