she really played very good tennis like we wish .. very amazing winners
the opponent wasn't bad at all .. she is defending very well and also has good shots
good that simona could deal with the pressure in 2nd set and finished it with very good points
there were some unnecessary unforced errors but not very bad with this aggressive game
the most important point to fix is she misses very easy point on net .. she often takes the wrong side to shot or hits a weak ball that the opponent can return and wins the point .. this is very easier to fix not like serve for example
anyway i enjoyed simona very much today as i hoped
I would rather Nara instead Jankovic, don´t think Simona will have any problem to beat Nara, however jankovic will be really tough, jankovic wants revenge since rome 2013
I, too, am happy (because vindicated) that Halep is in the round of 16s. But not good enough! She can beat JJ -- but she'll have to serve better than she did today. Interesting to hear JJ is not well, but these players can drop in their level and still win (as Halep dropped in her level today and came out okay). When Eleven plays Eight why can't Eleven win?
Top 10 here we come!
Good game for Simona (only if she had a better serve) but now the real games are coming!
With JJ is gone be though (possibly to have SimoPhobia), but I hope her to win this crucial game because Cibulkova is waiting
I saw her first serve was bad,she needs a lot of second serves, but I think she really served very good, fast and controled.
i think she improved the technic, don´t you think?, she just needs confidence train and have a good day.
I hope it will be next match, we can expect everything, an amazing match from JJ from Simona or from both. I cant´wait
With Wozniacki losing in 3rd Rnd, Halep is in top10 now. Difference between them b4 AO was 185 points. Wozniacki dropped 120 points by losing b4 4th round. Simona gains 275 points by reaching 4th round. Congrats Simona for breaking into top 10 .
JJ's serve is nothing Simona can't handle. It's not a Serena serve, not even a Stosur serve (which she actually handled very well in 3 matches last year). True, Simona's isn't a fast serve but she often compensates with accuracy down the T or out wide (when her serve goes in.) However, she does need to up her 1st serve % against JJ.
LOL at Nara's W/UE count and yet she still pushed JJ hard.
The bookmakers have Simona's match as the closest R4 match - Simona is the favourite at 1.64 (average odds) whilst JJ is 2.23.
Of course, bookies can be wrong but let's hope it's one of the other matches they get wrong.
So, thinking ahead, who would you prefer Simona to meet in the QF (yep, I'm that confident!)? Cibulkova or Sharapova? Sharapova, struggling a bit perhaps, or Domi who seems to be ruthless so far?
I'll choose Cibulkova as my preference, simply on the basis that after a big win (like Sharapova would be for Domi), often comes a crash back down to earth.
Whatever happens though, R4 is what we all wanted as a minimum I think (job done!) and a QF would be a great result for Simona.
I just hope Simona will be able to get past Jankovic, don't care that much who her next opponent would be but I would prefer Maria, I want to see Simona against the top 4.
I've been waiting since Rome for Simona to play Maria and/or Vika. Not sure she will win if it comes to it, especially given the fact that her form has dropped off a bit compared to last year, but I just want to see how her game matches up to theirs.
I still think that Simona is playing at around 50-60%...you could clearly see in the Diyas match in that second set when she was broken right the next games turning on a gear...lets hope she goes full blast from the get go with Jelena