Sounds like Oudin wouldn't agree to the final today either
Beyond The Baseline @SI_BTBaseline The look on Melanie Oudin's face when the interviewer told her to get some rest before the final later today was classic. #shehadnoclue
Wimbledon can seed her 16th if they want for playing amazing this week they count her grass stats and something and than they determent seeds!! She will be 18th or 17th depends if someone pulls out!
They will probably seed Kim and Venus on 31 and 32!
wouldn't surprise me if they pull her to!
P.S. i will kill someone if there will be no STREAM TOMORROW!
My match comments
JJ was able to overpower Zheng but had some brainfarts
She started going GOAT in the end of the second set
She made a lot of dumb errors but at least se tried to dictate later on. She needs to do that if she wants to win matches. No more staying a mile behind the baseline going push push
wow, seems i was right with the predictions of "letting go" the clay season in such miserable way just to show her new power on the grass courts! :O
i mean, she won 2(!) matches today and i was kinda hopin' for the third, just to show who's the boss. i mean, winning three tourneys in a row is simple as that ( ), but winning three matches in a day to pick up the trophy at the end of it would be sooooo amazing!
the serve was just excellent today, but the forehand? some jawdropping winners a la nadal :O backhand was bit scrappy and the return was so-so. but the fact that showed guts and detemination to rule this tourney was major issue for me today. she was so sure and in control almost all of the time and i am ready to put my house on her victory tomorow (remembering that oudan is weaponless, right? - jesus, her legendary quotes will live for a long, long time )
One of my favourite wins of Jelena's EVER. The first time i nso long she wins a match by playing HER game. It's only her serve that looks no 2007 when she won in Birmingham, because she's serving so well at the moment. She has fun with Zeljko and I think she feels now pleasant on grass. Her shots were there yesterday and she was improving as the match went on. Played much better than against Doi and was confident to beat Zheng and steady and patient. Well done and just keep the same recipe, you'll have results to appreaciate soon!
yes she played better! but will she continue this way, it's on her!
her game was on top15 level but we will see how long will she serve like that and go for the winners!
She was indeed relying on her serve a lot for most of the first two sets yesterday against Zheng. At the end of the second set and beginning of the third she was actually playing goatish tennis, but it was too short a period to make any conclusions. If she could play like that for whole matches and tournaments that'd be great, but it's Jelena and it ain't gonna happen. What did remind me of her old self was that she was really into the match and seemed like she's really into playing tennis, fighting and competing, so that's promising.
Well, I'll take it!
maybe I'm a bit ungrateful today since, yesterday, when I woke up, I couldn't believe she won the match. The first set was so boring and seemed hopeless that I went to sleep. I could still hear the commentators voice and the only thing I remembered when I woke up an hour and a half later was that she lost the first set, so I didn't even bother to check the final score.