It is so unstable it is frustrating
Serena's USO SF and the Madrid withdrawal are frustrating
Sharapova's ban is frustrating
All top seeds losing early
Angie and Kerber losing their first matches in Madrid
Muguruza not being able to perform at her homeland
Stephens showing brilliant tennis only on smaller tournaments
Bencic's injury (biggest young prospect so far)
Young players not being able to rise to the top
All Halep's loses this year
Petra not being able to be the dominant leader of WTA
It seems like only Vika gives her fans joy and results
Also Angie at AO and Stuttgart
The rest are just frustrating
Yep, right now its only up to Vika to keep dominating the tour. I enjoy every match. Hopefully her rise can continue here in Madrid. Injury, go far away!!!^^
Last year Vika played 3 tourneys on clay, everytime she lost to Williams or Masha. Both of them are out more or less. Who will stop her now? Hopefully she can win at least one tourney on clay
WTA #2 playing a match last Sunday at a Premier event on completely empty huge stadium is all you need to see. I personally have 0 interest to WTA these days. Thanks G-d there is ATP and hoping for better days to come.
I think it is absolutely fascinating. It was so boring before, I never used to watch. There is a surprise element to each match now! :yeah: And the young and old upcomers are also so fascinating! I love watching them rise through the rankings at some speed. Sakkari is fascinating me at the moment.. wonder how far she will get.
Young new comers and old comebacks are great stories indeed......but when NO ONE can play consistently week to week, then it just loses and fun and surprise.
You get a young up and comer making a huge final, exciting, then she loses her next 5 matches. You get an old-timer finding form to win a big title, the she flops in the following events. That's just not exciting at all.
It is so unstable it is frustrating
Serena's USO SF and the Madrid withdrawal are frustrating
Sharapova's ban is frustrating
All top seeds losing early
Angie and Kerber losing their first matches in Madrid
Muguruza not being able to perform at her homeland
Stephens showing brilliant tennis only on smaller tournaments
Bencic's injury (biggest young prospect so far)
Young players not being able to rise to the top
All Halep's loses this year
Petra not being able to be the dominant leader of WTA
It seems like only Vika gives her fans joy and results
Also Angie at AO and Stuttgart
The rest are just frustrating
It's a transition phase; the Tour will not collapse. It's only a matter of time till the things will settle down. For some this might be frustrating while for others may be funny&entertaining.
I'm missing rivalries of big names. ATP TOP5 has 283 matches played togethe each other. WTA TOP5 played 93 matches each other even most of them are here for years already. This inconsistency is long-term killing WTA and no new dominant star showed up yet. It's 2016 a Kvitova is still only player born in 90' with GS title under her belt.
And how many men born in the 90s have won a Slam?
You're correct about the rest though. We need rivalries! There are better rivalries on this forum than on the tour.
I don't like Vika. But I think WTA was in best shape when Williams, Sharapova & Azarenka were top 3.Kvitova also there. It was fun, without so many nobodies.
ITF level players like Townsend, Robson, Vaidisova, Schnyder have proof to be more popular for tennis fans than some of the girls on top. That tell you everything.
I enjoy following the entire game, the whole top 100 and ITFs, so it's not that frustrating.
But following the top 10, my goodness. Mess. It's not even lacking in quality matches, we get good tennis played in most tournaments. But there are just no narratives. No rivalries and every young player turns into a pumpkin the year after their breakthrough.
Same here. The quality of tennis is far better than last year, so far which had to be all time low for quality of matches, and we have had a new narrative in Kerber as GS champ. It seems to me half the moaners are TF posters who don't watch or enjoy the actual tennis matches but instead follow via news and celerity gossip.
Pennetta and Kerber just won majors after years & years of never reaching a slam final. Radwanska won the YEC
So there is a randomness now where you dont know what to expect, and that might be the future
Yeah, the tour is indeed frustrating a bit. I miss some old times when I was a kid and started watching tennis (late 90s, 2000 & 2001) especially WTA. I remember I always waited for SFs and finals for big names to play against each other. Hingis&Davenport then Williams sisters especially Venus against Hingis and Davenport, then Dokic, Dementieva etc. These were the matches you waited for all week and almost every week. It was very unlikely that any player outside top 6 could really bother number 1&2. Today you can get some good matches in early rounds which is interesting but top seeds losing left and right is not in my oppinion so great for the WTA. I miss some good rivalries out there.
The problem is the young ladies under 25 are not stepping up! Garbine losing so early in Spain probably due to her putting pressure on herself was so disappointing. I think Garbine needs to get away from Sam Sumuk he seems creepy.
I know many casual (as opposite to hardcore ) tennis fans for whom WTA events became non-events. People who were clinging to their TVs to watch every match just recently are not even talking about WTA in a context of watching any longer.
In actuality, it's not really depth when the brunt of the time, the top players are losing because they lack the mental fortitude to consistently bring their A games to the table.
That's not depth, that's just a lot of talented headcases who can't sustain.
If we were seeing competitive, well-fought losses from the top-ranked players to the lower-ranked ones, then I'd say sure we have depth and it's exciting. But as it is, most of the time it's just a case of "Top Player A flops to Lower Ranked Player B."
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