Tough loss for Kasatkina. Bertens had 5 MPs when she served for the match at 5-3 and was really passive, Daria also saved them with some great shots.
Then when Daria broke and got the chance to serve for the match herself, she was just putting the ball in play, unable to serve. She was still fighting though, she's a great competitor. Wonder how she'll perform on grass now, her year has been pretty decent. :yeah:
As for Bertens, nice to see her keeping up her form after that win over Kerber.
Tough loss for Kasatkina. Bertens had 5 MPs when she served for the match at 5-3 and was really passive, Daria also saved them with some great shots.
Then when Daria broke and got the chance to serve for the match herself, she was just putting the ball in play, unable to serve. She was still fighting though, she's a great competitor. Wonder how she'll perform on grass now, her year has been pretty decent. :yeah:
As for Bertens, nice to see her keeping up her form after that win over Kerber.
Kiki
tough loss for Kasatkina. she saved MP's like a boss but hurt her leg. she's got a great attitude for someone quite young. Bencic should learn from her
Kiki's fans were very unclassy. It's a shame because Bertens herself seems to be a very nice girl.
Poor Dasha She just doesn't have enough stamina to win these kind of matches.
Kiki's fans were very unclassy. It's a shame because Bertens herself seems to be a very nice girl.
Poor Dasha She just doesn't have enough stamina to win these kind of matches.
I am very sad for Dasha because this was a huge opportunity here. But she is still only 19 and will learn a lot from this experience. She has the goods to be a Major champion in a few years.
Kiki can not close a match to save her life. The third set against Erakovic in Rabat is still giving me nightmares. After playing too defensively on FIVE of them, even on the match point she won she was just slicing and pushing miles behind the baseline. Fortunately for her Daria tired in the end and leaked the error.
Daria's game can only be described as monotonous. Sparks of brilliance here and there but mostly it consists of atp style grinding. Her form has dipped a bit since wasting those MP's against Stephens in Charleston too. She is making third round of Slams though, so she's good enough still to keep herself in the mix.
YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS kiki! She didn't choke!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!
She just secured the olympics!!! So happy!!!
What a match. That third set was terrible tennis with both pushing until their bodies broke down. Somehow kiki outlasted the youngster. PFFFFFFFF nervewracking for me. -_- those 5 matchpoints at *5-3. She's just so bad at closing it out. Somehow she did it!!!
Kasatkina was in a little shaky in the 3rd set before this match. But she's very young.
I saw the similar with Putintseva. She lost a couple of slam matches that could have propelled her ranking. They have to learn how to win these. Its the current state of the game. It takes time to put all the pieces together and even harder to stay there