Her draw here was horrible. It was a mine field. You can see the result. No one was safe.
[6] Halep vs Doi
Knapp vs Gasparyan
Beck vs Makarova
Petkovic vs [10] Bacsinszky
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[13] Ka. Pliskova vs Dominguez Lino
Friedsam vs McHale
Begu vs Bouchard
Schmiedlova vs [3] Muguruza
lol, unfortunately yes. She's now the favorite but if she "has" to play Romanians from here on out, Nadia Comaneci, Virginia Ruzici, and Ion Tiriac will make sure the Halepeno has a clear path to the title :grin2:
I'm just kidding... Halep needs this draw like a fish needs water. If she fucks this up Darren needs to go back to ESPN full-time.
Unlike Premier Dubai 2016 there're actually seeds in QF.
Some people have the memory of a goldfish.
This is not OMG! Bombshell!!!!!it's the current state of the tour where any top player can lose to anyone. With Kerber winning Slams and Errani and CSN winning Premier in Hard
Some people acting like it's Simona's fault the draws fell apart better point fingers at all those seeded players who've bitten the dust in 1st/2nd round....
This also shows what mess GM is when people both cry out that seeds loose early, and at the same time make fun of Simona for not loosing already and playing to her ranking.
It's a loose - loose situation for Simona now (regarding TF comments): bad if she wins, just because others failed to get in front of her and worse if she looses.
If you've watched Simo this week you would see that she's been pretty solid - and way more aggressive than I've been used to seeing from her. I expected her to go deep even if the seeds didn't flop and now I expect her to win. Hope she shows her best tennis now that the pressure is on.
Good on Halep capitalizing on this flop draw. Serves you all right for making fun of her. The rest of the tour is a flop and Serena laughing all the way to Rome. Even Maria's sitting at home on her come down getting small pleasure from the fact she is still Top 20.
I don't think Cibulkova in the QF should be a surprise or an embarrassment. Yeah, Aga was the #1 seed, but it's clay and favors big servers, so nobody really expected her to go far. Domi's coming off a title in Poland and is a legit top-20 climbing her way back up the rankings.
So ridiculous. But I applaud her and the other women who make their living on the ITF who have taken full advantage of the pathetic showing of the so-called WTA elite. Good for them, even Laura