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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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Yeah, like everyone else I am pretty happy with Monica's 1st round, Katie O'Brien and she should win that. As for the 2nd round well, again like everyone else I would prefer Monica player Kirilenko but I expect it will be Errani and Errani has a game which could be tough for Monica. That said it is still winnable. Overall can't complain. Bring it on.
 
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Yeah, like everyone else I am pretty happy with Monica's 1st round, Katie O'Brien and she should win that. As for the 2nd round well, again like everyone else I would prefer Monica player Kirilenko but I expect it will be Errani and Errani has a game which could be tough for Monica. That said it is still winnable. Overall can't complain. Bring it on.
Very well said. Sara is a solid mover, and pretty comfortable at the net also. Makiri on the other hand, well if Monica's playing beautifully then the match wouldn't last more than about an hour.
 
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Last year at US Open everybody was already on court in fact of Monica. Sorana was telling the umpire that she didn't know where Monica was. 10 minutes later, Monica arrived very relaxing :lol:
 
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go monica!!!!!!!
 
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I saw the last set in this match, she started off really well hitting some great forcing shots and awesome winners. Then she just left mentally and Errani wasn't going to miss much. To many errors from Monica and crappy approach shots. Her slice forehand wasn't troubling Sara that much just because she wasn't getting much depth on it. She was also sliding a lot which made me cringe because I though she was going to snap an ankle.

Still...she had the game in her hand but couldn't play well enough today. Errani just to consistent and to fast around the court.

Who knew Italian fans could be so FUCKING!!! annoying as well. They were bagging Monica the whole match LITERALLY...disgusting.
 
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Monica's video from: Kremlin Cup 2008. Women's Doubles. 1 round.
Y. Shvedova / M. Niculescu (KAZ / ROM) vs. (WC)D. Cibulkova / A. Chakvetadze (SVK / RUS)
About 12 minutes.


http://www.kk.rodionova.net/video.html

:rolleyes:
 
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Monica's video from: Kremlin Cup 2008. Women's Doubles. 1 round.
Y. Shvedova / M. Niculescu (KAZ / ROM) vs. (WC)D. Cibulkova / A. Chakvetadze (SVK / RUS)
About 12 minutes.


http://www.kk.rodionova.net/video.html

:rolleyes:
Monica and Yari, my two favourite players playing together. :eek:

I was so excited when this happened and they did damn good too, making the Semi Finals. I would never in a million years have never expected to see any video footage of this event, so all I can do is say thank you so so much Arina's_fan. :hug:

Hopefully this won't end up the last time these two girls play together. They could be a great team. :rocker:
 
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Looks like Monica has beaten Kasia Piter in the 1st match of the Romanian-Polish Fed Cup tie. The score seems to be 1-6 6-2 6-0. Slow start for Monica but once she got going she showed her true class. :bounce:

Very important start for Romania. Hopefully they can keep it up. :)
 
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Tough luck for Romania in the Hopman Cup :(

(8)Amelie Mauresmo v Sara Errani
Timea Bacsinszky v Monica Niculescu
Alisa Kleybanova v Tsvetana Pironkova
(4)Agnieszka Radwanska v Q

Would be Good if she won her first round and could play Amelia on a big court.
 
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