Currently no.2 in junior ranking :yeah:
Birth Date: 27/09/1993
This year she won a GA title and was a RU at GA/G1/G1 tournaments.
She played her 1st WTA match in Ponte Vedra qualies last week and beat Poutchek 2:6 6:4 6:2 (from 2:6 1:4) and then lost to Mattek in a tough 3-setter. Before that she only played 2 ITFs (10k qualies in 2008 and 75k MD as a WC in 2009) and didn't win a match there.
She's now on entry lists for ITFs in Spain, hopefully she'll get a WTA ranking and will start to climb really fast
Good luck Monica! :yeah:
After watching that match, I'm Emotionally and Mentally exhausted. Pica had the match in her racquet and it slip away.
I hope once the initially pain of the loss fades, that she is heartened by the big picture. She's announced herself as a talent and as a presence to be reckoned.
After watching that match, I'm Emotionally and Mentally exhausted. Pica had the match in her racquet and it slip away.
I hope once the initially pain of the loss fades, that she is heartened by the big picture. She's announced herself as a talent and as a presence to be reckoned.
So sad to see her let it slip away but an incredible learning experience and what a way to announce herself. 2013 is going to be one big year for Monica. Can't wait to see what's ahead!
So sad to see her let it slip away but an incredible learning experience and what a way to announce herself. 2013 is going to be one big year for Monica. Can't wait to see what's ahead!
She is heading to Melbourne. The AO qualis start January 9TH. Good luck
to her in her efforts at the AO. She will break the TOP 100 ranking next week, and continue on from there.
2013 WILL BE PICA'S YEAR. TOP 20 RANKING BY YEAR END....
Well ladies and gents, let me know your opinion. Here's the video of the last games (3rd set). I liked 90% of what I saw, but there are e or two things that she still needs to improve....probably more experience is all she needs.
one thing I observed and really liked was how much this girl wants to win...I've observed a couple of young guns and a minority behaves like that....reminds me of Ryan Harrison and Caroline Woz a couole of years before.
Loved the way she played and fought for the match against Kerber, she deserved to win. She needs more experience to close this kind of matches in the near future. She is a new rising star.
Thanks for posting Very nice article. Lets hope for a kind draw at the AO. She has a nice looking first couple rds. The FQ will be tough no matter who she plays. Thanks for posting Rico
well she sure does seem to have a pretty strong personnality
I like how she said graduating was important for her..and maybe that's why she 'only' blossomed at the very end of last year whereas I could see a lot of potential from Monica for quite some time now
also, she seems very confident , competitive , setting high goals..
Really wish her the best for 2013
Good luck at AO , Pica, show them all a new star has come to WTA Tour !
I don't mind the loss, it keeps her grounded and working on fundamentals rather than buying into the hype (like GM tried) and forgetting about the basics that brought her to this point. Having that said, she can't lose in QR1 at French or USO or the Top 50 goal gets way harder.
Let the bandwagoners go away, and the true fans will stick around remain level headed and watch Monica rise steadily into stardom.
It's really a toss-up at this point, with her ranking in the 100's she was 2nd Seed in the Qualies. She lost 39 points with her QR1 loss, so she is only up 40 points compared to last year this time and she's got 116 or so point to defend before the French Open EL is finalized.
She's got the ability to do it tho, she had 5 1R (or QR1) losses in the Spring 2012, so that's 5 tournaments where she can come ahead points wise.
I have watched a lot of tennis in my life, and I have watched all of them... from Steffi Graf to Serena Williams. I have been watching Monica since she was 14 years old. Its normal that people who just saw her for the first time last week, doubt now about your potential.
Trust me, she won't be an average top 20 player. Knowing her character, thats unacceptable for her. She wakes up everyday with the obsession of being the best in the world. She don't care about anything else, but tennis.
In 3-4 years, she will be the number 1 player in the world.
Monica But like most people have been saying... She's sooo young and has had so much success over the last 6 months that maybe this loss will be good for her in the long run. I'm sure she'll train extra hard over the next couple weeks to better prepare herself for her upcoming tourneys, starting with Paris
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