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The Amazing and Remarkable Monica Niculescu (Cheering Thread)

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If anyone deserves a thread in the new Romanian Forum, it is this girl. Monica Niculescu is currently ranked 205 in the World but will be very close to her career high of 188 when the rankings after Wimbledon come out. She is not yet 20 years old and so she still has plenty of time to get that ranking up and become a fixture within the top 100.

Personally I for one hope very much that she does. Monica is an exceptional unique talent in the tennis world as anyone who has seen will attest. Almost certainly she has the most unusual game with the top 200 (okay she 205 right now but I'm quite sure she won't be out the top 200 again for a very long time).

Describing her playing style is not easy but I will try. Both her forehand and backhand are played sometimes with one hand and sometimes with two. When she hits with two hands it usually means she is going for more pace whereas when she hits with one hand it usually means she going for an offpace shot of some kind often with underspin. She hits some very strange slices that I really couldn't begin to describe. She is also an exceptional volleyer with amazing improvisational skills and has great touch on dropshots and a nice lob. Quite simply she has so many shots at her disposal that one never knows what is coming next. It must be very hard indeed to get any sort of rhythm against her. This is just one attempt to describe the strange unusual play of Monica Niculescu but it would certainly be fun to read other descriptions of her game within this thread.

Monica is a player who should have the support of everyone who loves Women's tennis but gets tired of loads of women with the same style just wacking the ball back to each other as hard as they can. For fans who love slice and touch shots, who prefer the artistry of Fabrice Santoro to the ball bashing of most of the modern game, Monica Niculescu is the girl for you.

Lets support her in this thread, because tennis will be so much richer with someone with her unique and special skills in the mix. :worship:
 
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I agree that the bad reputation of this particular match-up is unjustified. It's obviously nothing for lovers of classic indoor tennis with flat out winner shots, but both of them really must be sure to execute perfectly to hit winners against each other which makes up for some great rallies.

It would be even more fun when Monica wouldn't crap her pants at so many volleys, so that the match result wouldn't be NID to begin with.
 
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ITF 100k Poitiers:

(1/VIP)Queen Niculescu (ROU) v Nadiya Kichenok (UKR)
(wc)Stephanie Foretz Gacon (FRA) v (wc)Pauline Parmentier (FRA)
Q/LL v Q/LL
(8)Donna Vekic (CRO) v Mandy Minella (LUX)


Cakewalk.
 
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After going from 4-0 to 4-4, Monica finally understands that she should slice to pauline's backhand side, instead of her forehand.
Clever girl.

Dead at her hitting the ceiling twice already.
 
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I guess we should also put an end to the nonsense that she is owning any BBB:

Some of her matches against bashers this year:

Torro-Flor 1-6 5-7
Kvitova 4-6 1-6
Barthel 3-6 6-4 5-7 (triple MP choke)
Vandeweghe 0-6 3-6
Parmentier 5-7 6-1 3-6

Any single of these losses was emberrassing for different reasons.

Of course she will still routine the Wickmayers and co. on obvious off-days, but on any other day, these matches are pretty open and she is finding herself more than not on the back foot.


I would say that her best match-ups are definitely players with an agressive mindset, but far too underpowered to hit through her (Beck, Svitolina, Cadantu, Babos, Kirilenko, Peng...)
All her matches against Kerber as well are pretty open.
 
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I would say that her best match-ups are definitely players with an agressive mindset, but far too underpowered to hit through her (Beck, Svitolina, Cadantu, Babos, Kirilenko, Peng...)
All her matches against Kerber as well are pretty open.
Besides Beck & Cadantu she can go down to any other of those girls you mentioned. As for Kerber.... Monica hasn't beaten Kerber since 2008, when Kerber was ranked like 150 and Monica top 50 :lol: I admit she manages to take one set almost everytime they play, but that's not at all pretty open :lol:

The shitty second half of 2013 continues. She should call it a season already, it becomes more and more obvious that she's tired :facepalm:
 
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