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Shahar Cheering Thread 2012

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#1 ·
In response to Young Gunner it might be appropriate to have a general thread to cover the entire year. Just watched Shahar lose to Michelle Larcher de Brito in Fed Cup and must admit that she really has developed some major inconsistency problems in recent months.
 
#3 ·
No way, she is losing in straights! Solomon is a terrible coach, she might as well switch back to Craig Cardon , she had decent results when she had him. Her current game which is based much more on defense than offense is not suited to her natural abilities as she is a terrible defender of her backhand corner.

Cardon line of offense with some glimpses at the net was the most suiting for her game and abilities. She will be out of top 50 in 2 months time. :eek:
 
#7 ·
As a Shahar fan, I know that the best thing for her would be to drop out of the top 100. When that happens maybe she would realise that something is wrong and finally switch to a new coach. I believe that her game needs to be Cibulkova like. And I don't get it, why would she change her tactics if her best seasons (2006, 2007 and 2010) were played with an offensive kind of play.
I watched her play against Li Na in 2010 and she was just so much better then she is now. She needs to change something, soon. Otherwise she can forget about the olympics.
 
#8 ·
Cibulkova like? That's just not in her abilities to keep smacking the fuzz the off the ball. I don't know why you keep bringing up Dominika like she can all the sudden completely retool her game to that of a ballbasher.

Dropping out of the top 100 won't help her at all. Are you a lunatic? :facepalm:
 
#9 ·
Retool? Did you see her against Sveta and Serena in 2007?
She needs to wake up and understand that her relationship with her coach does NOT help her game. And you need to start being realistic - she lost to De Brito, Baltacha, Wozniak, Dellqcua and Glushko this year and she keeps thinking she's still a top player which isn't true obviously.
So yeah, maybe dropping out of the top 100 or even just the 50 would help her. Obviously if she doesn't change anything in her game it's not that far from happening (saying goodbye to the top 50).
 
#16 ·
She just beat Jankovic 7-6(3) 6-2 in round 2 :eek:
Considering her recent form, a stunning victory. The Gulf tournaments seem to bring out the best of her...

However one nice result doesn't hide the grim reality, and I don't anything else to say about her and the coach, that I hadn't already written last year in the coaches thread:
http://www.tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=344448&page=6
I didn't trust him for a minute.
 
#18 ·
I think the relative isolation is helpful to her. She hasn't been twitting also for the last 3 days (only official stuff about her result, I doubt she posts that herself).
Also she receives star like treatment in the narrow sense that she's escorted everywhere etc, but without all the pressure and stress of media attention and fan expectation.
 
#21 ·
It's an okay loss but Shahar could've defienately won this one. Up a break 3-2 in the second and break point at 3-4 in the third to complete the come back but it's fine.
Next is Dubai in which she'll meet Fatma Al Nabhani in the first round and probably Radwanska in the second. I'm not sure playing a big tournament and falling fast is better then playing a smaller tournament and going deep in it. Shahar needs to consider that in my opinion.
 
#22 ·
No news in Dubai, another R1 bye (her WC draws in AO, Doha and Dubai :oh:), another R2 loss against a seeded player (5-7 4-6 to Radwanska).
Sure she served for the first set, saved some match points in the second and had a point to go back from 2-5 to 5-5, but it doesn't matter.
 
#23 ·
I followed a bit of the livescore during the end of the match. Hit a DF on GP right after saving a couple MPs. :facepalm:

I guess it's a bit encouraging that she had a tight match with Radwanska even though it was in 2 sets. IW is next for her?
 
#24 ·
shahar got nice draw in IW.. first round against Q and if she wins she'll play Schiavone, shahar won all 4 encounters on hard courts (1 lost on clay) but almost all the matches were tight (twice deciding set tie braker 7-3, and twice two sets with 1 time braker)
if she wins she'll probabaly play safarova (2-2 on hard corts) and bartoli (6-2 on hard corts)
 
#25 ·
That sure isn't a nice draw for Shahar. All qualifiers are playing well and Schiavone is always tough - even tougher if you are out of form. Shahar lost to Safarove in Brisbane last year after being 5-2 in the decider and I don't think it's possible to forget Shahar's last match afainst Bartoli.
That's one of the toughest draws Shahar got in the last year or so.
 
#28 ·
Excuses? What the?...
She has a grand slam winner (twice a finalist), a grand slam finalist and the hard hitting Safarova in her quarter.
You can consider that as excuses but these are tough players to play against and I'm not sure that in current form she can beat them.
 
#39 ·
I watched the match on streaming.

It was one of the ugliest I have seen in a long time.

The score 6-1 5-7 7-5 .

In the second set, after serving for the match, Petra froze completely, and served I think 3 DF to let Shahar back in the game and winning the set.

In the 3rd, Petra led 5-2. 40-0, and than she froze again, and let Shahar win maybe 7 points in a row, and at 5:5 Shahar started to freeze, and so Petra won eventually.

The amount of unforced errors from Shahar was unbelievable. She could not combine 2 normal points by herself.
Most points came from errors Petra performed.

Does anybody know who is the young coach who tried to direct her play?
 
#40 ·
Shahar did not freeze at 5-5. She was 5-5 40-0 up and choked it point after points (Petra really started pushing the balls too).
She had some nice winners but it was rare. Her "coach" is Karlis, a foremer Latvian "tennis player". He was ranked about 300 I think and he's a really bad advice giver: "hit the 1st serve as a 2nd", "hit the balls higher".
Just silly advices. She needs someone else to coach her.
 
#43 ·
The biggest problem is that she's so dependent on some other person's advice mid match.
She cannot succeed in if she can't generally resolve problems on her own during a match.
The coach thing is a convenient excuse, a clutch that she can blame everything to, without having to take responsibility,
And even fooling others that "the problem is the coach"
She needs to take responsibility for her life and her game and stop acting like a baby.
She's no longer 18 y/o
 
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