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AO R3: (22) Dasha Gavrilova df. (12) Timea Bacsinszky 6-3 5-7 6-4

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YAS Dasha :worship: Improved performance from her, lost her way in the second, but picked it up in the third, and regrouped very well when Timea peaked on MPs down *2-5 :cheer: Loved how she dictated with her FH and continually destroyed Bacsinszky's FH... if it could be called a FH :tape: Will probably receive another R16 beatdown vs Pliskova but she has a fighting chance if Karo isn't on :bounce:

Timea :hug: Not her night tonight, good fight in the second. Feel for her having to deal with the drunk bogans in the crowd :rolleyes:
 
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AO R3: [22]Gavrilova def. [12]Baczsinsky 6-3 5-7 6-4

Quite a tricky match, needed a lot of patience to get through. A case of iffy BH vs iffy FH.
Dasha played the first set brilliantly with frequent net approaches off the FH and absolutely sublime volleys and dropshots that floored Baczsinsky. Timea used more BHs from the FH corner in set 2 which gave her more room and Dasha became a bit nervy especially on her BH and FH, lots of errors. Third set tidied it up from a break down and started playing aggressive frontfoot tennis coming in and dispatching balls and volleys. She had two MPs on Timea at 5-2 up but Timea served well (two unreturnables, one of second serve) to hold and break back. However Dasha raised her level at 4-5 and broke with aggressive FHs off the return and a nice BH dropshot winner.
 
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Disgusting result. :( Timi thought hard as always but she wasn't in form enough and made that annoying thing look good too many times.

That pathetic desperate angling for the adoration of the Australian crowd, that constant fist. Hope Pliskova destroys her.
 
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How is it a disgusting result, as if Bacsinszky with that sort of play deserved to be in a R16 at any slam, let alone a hard court one :lol: Gavrilova was by far the better player for most of the match, she just couldn't keep it together.

God, is she not allowed to pump herself up. Why are people so pressed on this forum. She's a nice girl who goes a little crazy on court. Unlike other players who pull shit on court, none of her antics are the least bit tactical, she does it because she does, it's not malicious. There are plenty of other players you can go after for being legitimate cows.

I can understand coming for the crowd, they were disgusting and atrocious, and being a little pissed about the result, but you basically just came in and posted about how horrible Gavrilova is. Mess.
 
#7 ·
If Gavrilova didn´t have such a shoddy technique, she´d be really dangerous. But a real fun match to watch with a lot of cat and mouse thinking and some creative shotmaking going on.
 
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Re: AO R3: [22]Gavrilova def. [12]Baczsinsky 6-3 5-7 6-4

i was quite sure it'd be a straight sets after the first few games.. timi got a set was already more than i expected.
plus the fact that she pulled out of both tournaments before AO, so im not that sad about the result

timea wasn't playing her game effectively, she goes way too defensive at times, hoping dasha will make error.. but dasha didnt make too many, probably boosted by the home crowd. had a little hope when she broke dasha when down 4-5* final set, but then broken to love hence losing the match.

dasha now 3-0 to timi. i guess timi has a tendency to keep losing to players if she'd lost to beforehand :sobbing:
 
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Re: AO R3: [22]Gavrilova def. [12]Baczsinsky 6-3 5-7 6-4

i was quite sure it'd be a straight sets after the first few games.. timi got a set was already more than i expected.
plus the fact that she pulled out of both tournaments before AO, so im not that sad about the result

timea wasn't playing her game effectively, she goes way too defensive at times, hoping dasha will make error.. but dasha didnt make too many, probably boosted by the home crowd. had a little hope when she broke dasha when down 4-5* final set, but then broken to love hence losing the match.

dasha now 3-0 to timi. i guess timi has a tendency to keep losing to players if she'd lost to beforehand :sobbing:
Timea's FH really is the weak point in neutral rallies. If Dasha had a BH to match her FH (and served better) their matches would be relatively simpler. Timea won a set trying to play more BHs from the FH corner and rushing Gavrilova a little bit into errors off the BH side.
 
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Can Gavrilova really call herself Australian by now? Her nationality change always struck me as very awkward and I wonder if she embraced her new country 100%. I bet she still curses in Russian though :lol:
 
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Disgusting result. :( Timi thought hard as always but she wasn't in form enough and made that annoying thing look good too many times.

That pathetic desperate angling for the adoration of the Australian crowd, that constant fist. Hope Pliskova destroys her.
I said this same thing in the Live Scores thread and got slaughtered, so be careful :lol:.
 
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The crowd were always gonna be bad and most likely drunk by the time they were allowed to take their seats given the session started much later. Most of them would have been on the grounds for quite a while before they were allowed in so they probably got hammered. Even then, RLA crowds are never as bad as Hisense.

@Monzanator Dasha has sworn and yelled in many languages this AO. I've heard her talk Spanish, Russian and she's even dropped a few Aussie slang swears as well.
 
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Of course I'm aware of Gavrilova's short fuse and usually the foul words are the first you pick up when living in a foreign country :lol: However she doesn't tick off the "I'm not Russian anymore" box like Sharapova did a while back ;) On the other hand, the Australian WTA side lacks true personality which they have in Kyrgios and Tomic so I wonder if the crowd is quick to embrace her as their own due to the lack of a better prospect (with Stosur presumably heading towards the exit door soon).
 
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Bit of a chess match out there, Bacsinszkys forehand does cause problems, but in the dimentieva serve kind of way, was hoping for her to hold that serve in the third, but floundered it away which pissed me of and she did the hard work getting back into the set

Is it a pre requisite for Swiss females to have a forehand as light as a goose feather?

What was with that huge roar from Gavvy at the end?! a bit fucking over dramatic there, was she pushing out a set of twins or something?

Aussie bundies in the crowd, need to lay off the VB
 
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I don't think it's contrived kissing up to the crowd. I think she is demonstrative, hyper, and gung ho by nature, and yes, the Aussies love that kind of thing. I don't have a problem with her. I don't mind the demonstrative ones, I don't even mind Poots that much. Celebrating, pumping themselves up, loud war cries, to me that's all in the game, it's sport, it's supposed to be aggressive. It's the chiselling cheap-ass gamesmanship of sleazy mean-spirited harpies like Osteoporosis that bugs me the most. Gamesmanship is a way of saying "I'm not good enough or smart enough or tough enough to beat you, so I have to use underhanded means." Well anyone can do that, anyone can decide to do shit that really has nothing to do with tennis. It may not be literally cheating, it may not be against the rules, but it's cheating in spirit, using stuff that has nothing to do with tennis. Wow, you can dance around and squeak your shoes to distract the server, you can fuck with them by turning away from them just as they're about to serve? You can suddenly leave the court for a potty break just as your opponent is about to serve the first ball of the match? Take a 15 min potty break between sets? Take a completely bullshit MTO to fuck with your opponent's momentum at a crucial point late in the match just before they're about to serve? Impressive...:rolleyes: but it's not what they're being paid to do, really.
 
#26 ·
Timea :tears:

But good crafty match with loads of improvisation. As I said, Dasha G. is seriously underrated.
 
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I think people misunderstood what I was trying to say.
 
#41 ·
This is a very interesting and exciting match to be honest.

Both girls does not generate much power in their shots, but the variety, spin, slices, angles and service are really good and effective against each other. Both have good defense, and Daria is better today in terms of aggression. I mean her forehand shor angle cross courts created huge angle and many opportunities. Her forehand inside out shots is just too good, produced many winners and painting the line. Great performance. So positive, energetic and pumped with personality.

Afterall, she is playing with the home advantage, the crowd has every rights to cheer their faves. I think it's good that Daria is really delivering in front of the home crowd. The crowd absolutely loves her, loves her energy and personality, loves the facts that she can really win matches.

Good luck against Karo :inlove:
 
#43 ·
Also, there's no reason to bring up me being American. My nationality has nothing to do with it and even if it did, look at my sig: most of my favorites are NOT American. That ends that.
 
#44 ·
Dasha was sublime at the net :worship:
Timi on the other side was horribleat volleying.

I think that made the final difference. Good match to watch. Both are kind of defensive players.

Sad for Timi but go Dasha. I am gonna follow her from now on!
 
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Such a fun match, every rally had the kitchen sink in it. Improvisation, angles, spins, hustling :hearts: So interesting to see this on one screen and Pliskova/Ostapenko on another - both top-quality and high drama but so different.

Gavrilova is like Cornet's good twin, she's OTT but it's endearing and stays on the right side of sportsmanlike, and she's born to get night crowds going. And Bacsinszky is so likeable too, loved when the crowd did the Mexican wave for her opponent and she just joined in exhorting them.
 
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watching the Replay from ESPN3.
Gavrilova is so good at the net..
Pliskova in trouble next. Gavrilova is going to run her around the court and take her out. :)
As much as I like Dasha, I doubt that will happen. She lacks the big power to finish points quickly and her serve and BH can be a weakness. She does however have some degree of heaviness off the FH which can drag Pliskova wide, and her retrieval skills are pretty good but Pliskova will probably just kill her with flat precision groundstrokes and return. Of course Plsikova also has her serve to back herself, Dasha must try to return as many of these as she can! Pliskova tends to be less leaky off the ground these days too. I expect a straightforward 6-2 6-2 win for Pliskova. Hope she can prove me wrong though :p
 
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Gavrilova is so annoying :help:
 
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