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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Pyotr » Sep Sat 11, 2021 8:51 pm

Graveller wrote:
Sep Sat 11, 2021 6:23 pm

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.
What in the !@*%# are you smoking?

Anyway, congrats to Raducanu.😎

P.S. Please resist the urge to buy into the British
media hype. They live to tear you down at the
first sign of weakness.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Grossefavourite » Sep Sat 11, 2021 8:57 pm

She's British for now. Just as Andy said, he's British when he wins and a Scottish wanker when he loses.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Pyotr » Sep Sat 11, 2021 9:03 pm

Grossefavourite wrote:
Sep Sat 11, 2021 8:57 pm
She's British for now. Just as Andy said, he's British when he wins and a Scottish wanker when he loses.
Exactly!

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Grossefavourite » Sep Sun 12, 2021 9:28 am

Like Venus said, someone has to be No. 1, someone has to win the title. It doesn't necessarily mean much more than that.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Ace2Ace » Sep Sun 12, 2021 11:35 am

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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
Serena got pregnant at the wrong time. Had she waited 1 or 2 years, she'd have reached #24 and even more. The baby at 37 basically ended her career. Clisters was a lot younger when she got pregnant... and waited around 2-3 years to come back.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Pyotr » Sep Sun 12, 2021 6:35 pm

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Sep Sun 12, 2021 11:35 am
Serena got pregnant at the wrong time. Had she waited 1 or 2 years, she'd have reached #24 and even more. The baby at 37 basically ended her career. Clisters was a lot younger when she got pregnant... and waited around 2-3 years to come back.
I agree. However, IMO, it wasn’t age so much as
mentality. The nerves of trying to tie Margaret
and the unwillingness to sacrifice time with her
daughter for the sake of her game.

I still believe she can do it, but as someone else has
said she can no longer be a part-time player if she
truly wishes to achieve this goal. I doubt if she really wants it(enough for the sacrifice required), but as
most agree she does not need it. Her status as the
best is secure for the foreseeable future.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Grossefavourite » Sep Sun 12, 2021 8:57 pm

While I wish Ree had not gotten pregs and married then, given that she was clearly in all-conquering, GS winning shape, had she waited until she sealed the record and then discovered she could no longer conceive, she'd regret chasing that record for the rest of her life. So many career women out there are living with such a regret, unable to conceive.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Pyotr » Sep Sun 12, 2021 9:29 pm

Grossefavourite wrote:
Sep Sun 12, 2021 8:57 pm
While I wish Ree had not gotten pregs and married then, given that she was clearly in all-conquering, GS winning shape, had she waited until she sealed the record and then discovered she could no longer conceive, she'd regret chasing that record for the rest of her life. So many career women out there are living with such a regret, unable to conceive.
Very true!

It’s a matter of importance. Also, considering the complications she suffered in delivering Olympia God only knows how much worse it could have been had she waited. At the end of the day, if she doesn’t achieve that record, that regret would pale in comparison to possibly not having her daughter.

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Re: USO Main Draw Ladies 2021

Post by Ace2Ace » Sep Mon 13, 2021 8:55 am

A memorable final. Wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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