Oh. My. God. What an amazing match.
What match were you watching? Petra was purely hit or miss, decision-making and execution around the net was appalling in addition to being in poor physical condition, breathing heavily and winded, which she has been since her return. What purpose does her conditioning coach serve when she's in such poor condition and winded? A match goes three and she's effectively toast. I don't know how she trains, but my suggestion is to dump that conditioning coach of hers and find Czech boxers to train with. They'll get her into shape conditioning-wise and she'll be physically ready for the Pacific in January. As far as her game, she's still hit or miss at age 27, 28 next year and it appears that's not going to change "ever".3h 34mins of tennis just for Petra to lose this one.
She won one 3h+ match against Kerber last year en route to the title, and now she loses one, so I guess it evens out?
But nevertheless, Petra's results in this tournament have been quite weird to say the least... W-R3-W-R1 I guess that's Petra for you, lol.
Peng played very well, deserved this win with the way she just counterpunched excellently. She was able to read Petra's serve very well and she hit quite a few stunning winners herself.
Overall this was a very great match, Petra played well and Shitra rarely showed up (although there were some patches she sprayed, but overall was quite good), Peng was just better on the bigger points and in the third set tiebreak was just a little more consistent as Petra tired.
maybe she just sucks/is a joke of a player/[insert any random insult]? :shrug:Another third set TB loss. :zzz:
Peng extremely lucky to win this. Petra should have won the first set and then steamrolled through the second, instead she choked away the first and was then exhausted by the time the third came around.
Very low level of play from Petra today, serve is just so hit or miss this year. Today it was all missing. Pretty embarrassing to lose to Peng for the first time especially in Wuhan. But whatever, every dog has its day.
Apart from the random USO QF she has been in absolutely dire form since Birmingham, barely winning any matches. Needs to reevaluate over the off-season.