Quite a strange match. Marijana has many nice shots but also many ugly errors. Karo should play more smarter and also listen more to Kotyza. Hard to say why shy was playing so passive because whenever she went little risky and aggressive to the balls she mostly won the point. She can't play against aggressive ball strikers just with return balls to court and waiting for errors aka Woz because she is far from being such good mover. Congrats anyway for a revenge and semifinal.
Tennis won. I want this stupid brand of ballbashing to succeed as much as Wozniackis ballshoving. It doesn´t really matter whether MLB plays Radwanska, Pliskova, Bondarenko, Brengle or Brie Whitehead. She´ll tee off on every ball and live with the results or complain a little about bad luck.
MLB was actually softballing every shot... didn't work out well in the end.
a shame tho, she has great skills around the net and could impose a serious thread if it wasn't for her BBing.
karo was okish for the most part, with her movement she won't even try to reach for the blasts imposed by miri anyway, regardless if they actually go in. but a semi in a big tourney it is again, so well done!
Mirjana was not on today but she still had plenty of chances.
In the end she was punished by Pliskova who got extremely lucky in last two games of the match, each time on most important points.
It must be unpleasant for Karolina to play opponent who takes control away from her and where she has to defend so much.
There is nobody like that left for the rest of the tournament so I'd expect her to win it all now.
She seems like a nice girl, always very fair and honest.
Next is clay season for Mirjana, I expect some good results there too.
Maybe not immediately in Charleston but along the way.
Amazing season continues! :yeah:
Edit: I forgot about Venus at this moment.
I wish Venus wins it all.
Mirjana was not on today but she still had plenty of chances.
In the end she was punished by Pliskova who got extremely lucky in last two games of the match, each time on most important points.
It must be unpleasant for Karolina to play opponent who takes control away from her and where she has to defend so much.
There is nobody like that left for the rest of the tournament so I'd expect her to win it all now.
She seems like a nice girl, always very fair and honest.
Next is clay season for Mirjana, I expect some good results there too.
Maybe not immediately in Charleston but along the way.
Amazing season continues! :yeah:
Well Karo got quite lucky to break back in 2nd set, with two net cords of return . I feel Lucic would have won this is she held that game at 4-3 in 2nd.
The amount of sheer luck of Karo was jaw dropping. Anyway she deserves all the credit since she stayed toe to toe with an in form Miki.
Great match nonetheless.
The amount of sheer luck of Karo was jaw dropping. Anyway she deserves all the credit since she stayed toe to toe with an in form Miki.
Great match nonetheless.
yeah but at the same time, lucic is talented but her game is almost entirely luck. she hits every ball as hard as she can and goes for winners with every shot.
karo deserved to win because she played smart, she kept it consistent and let lucic hit herself out of the match.
Mirjana returned very well the whole match. Pliskova had few easy service games. She took away Pliskova's time with blistering returns. At the same time, Mirjana served terribly, for the most part in the first set. In the second set Lucic played lights out to get to 4-2, but cracked on serve when it mattered at 4-3. Pliskova got a few lucky net chords and made a 1/100 miracle bh slice to save a bp at 4-4. Karo is not a pusher, by any means, Lucic just has the power to greatly trouble her. Anyway, great week for Lucic and Kudos to Pliskova for getting out of a jam in the second set.
Considering Miki made like 10 df's ,still made it tight in first set says a lot(even pliskova was serveboting in first 2,3 services games ,basically every game was deuce).... nice advice from Miki's coach after first set,it worked well ,went up 4-2* 30-0 ,than just some bad choices + endless luck for Pliskova(two netcords and df to break back for 4-4 for example ... ) oh well...
Shame Miki couldn't have won this but still not a bad run for her. She's gained quite a few points too so should go up a few places in the rankings next week. :yeah:
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