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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Grossefavourite » Sep Sat 11, 2021 11:58 am

Serena's absence destroyed the top players' ability to handle the pressure, giving them no place to hide. They came of age in a time when all pressure was on the WS at GS. They're just not yet acclimated to dealing with events without them to shoulder the burden and pressure to perform.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Graveller » Sep Sat 11, 2021 4:43 pm

Like Osaka and Barty winning multiple slams?

As for not being able to deal with the pressure of expectations: it happens to every player at some point in their career… the example of a GOAT chasing #24 and crumbling over and over again comes to mind, Grosse…

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Grossefavourite » Sep Sat 11, 2021 5:16 pm

So Emma won without losing a set and facing a top-10 player? Sus.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Skilletsauce » Sep Sat 11, 2021 5:20 pm

And she was a qualifier!!! Still that is a mighty achievement to come through qualifying and the main draw without dropping a single set while going on to win your first major. Not sure if we will ever see that happen again.
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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Joylan1 » Sep Sat 11, 2021 5:22 pm

So the player with the least amount of pressure wins the whole thing.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Grossefavourite » Sep Sat 11, 2021 5:29 pm

Graveller wrote:
Sep Sat 11, 2021 4:43 pm
Like Osaka and Barty winning multiple slams?

As for not being able to deal with the pressure of expectations: it happens to every player at some point in their career… the example of a GOAT chasing #24 and crumbling over and over again comes to mind, Grosse…

Enjoying a good final at the moment.
I've never heard either Osaka or Barty described as the 'prohibitive favorite' in multiple languages around the world, to win GS after GS as I did with respect to the WS. This aura cast a pall over the tour and has endured, despite their fall in performance.
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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Grossefavourite » Sep Sat 11, 2021 5:32 pm

Joylan1 wrote:
Sep Sat 11, 2021 5:22 pm
So the player with the least amount of pressure wins the whole thing.
Sadly, when this fact sinks in, it will plague Emma going forward.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Grossefavourite » Sep Sat 11, 2021 5:36 pm

Yes, sad that Ree has failed to close out 24, unlike, unlike, unlike....wait, no one, whether male or female, has ever achieved that in the open era. Go Ree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Graveller » Sep Sat 11, 2021 6:23 pm

Good to see youngsters like Andreescu, Swiatek, Fernandez, Osaka, Barty, Raducanu etc etc whipping the floor with the wannabe tennis stars of the previous decade. It shows how weak that decade was…
But real tennis fans always knew that.

Feels more and more that we are back into an era that was comparable to the days we had Serena, Venus, Davenport, Henin, Clijsters, Mauresmo, Capriati…. Was about time.
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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Graveller » Sep Sat 11, 2021 6:33 pm

Joylan1 wrote:
Sep Sat 11, 2021 5:22 pm
So the player with the least amount of pressure wins the whole thing.
This win really hurts, does it? 😂😂😂

Now you know how the Germans felt in 1936 when Jesse Owens won all that gold at the Berlin Olympics…
A feeling typically reserved for fascists for whom the nationality or skin color is more important than the actual achievement…
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