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.
Monica is truly the worst match player in the WTA Top 100. You see her losing a crucial game and exactly know 'that's it'.
Once figured out, she really has nothing to offer than tons of wasted GPs and a blow out scoreline. The only difference is that some Player will unfortunately never reach that point.
Lets not consider an easy win if she meets Cepelova again.
Probably the short time between the matches will make her understand what she did wrong to lose in such a manner . Still think that Cepelova has a nice game overall if she`s on.
I also believe that Cetkovska could easily trouble Cepelova tomorrow. All I sad was Monica "could" bump into Jana once again in less than a week But first let's see how she does against Shahar. Maybe her Top 20 days are gone, but she can still can produce some surprises every now and then.