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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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Ironically, Monica is bringing herself into danger by feeding AMG with too much pace. She is still able to pun some down the line counter shots. Well defended this time, though.

good hold from 0-30 down.
 
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left on *5-3 in TB :hearts:
Reminds me of the miracolous Blegu come back against Hradecka last year. :hysteric:

Sorry, but Monica is so untalented tennis player


Forhand slice, forhand slice, and again forhand slice !
Nice to see that she is making the most out of it in contrast to the player in your avi.

I really don't get what is the reason to post something like this in the cheering thread of another player. We know about Monica's strengths and weaknesses and we also understand that her game is not everyone's cup of tee

No drama in final set - AMG was indeed too physical and mental exhausted after losing the second set and Monica won easily with 6-1.
Next up Mrdeza.

She is usually eating up players like her alive.

She may ask the Duchess on how to beat her.
 
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Dramatic match. I would have hated it if Monica lost that in 2 but the way it turned out was delightful and fully deserving of all the posts in this thread.

Yeah, things are looking good for Monica now, Mrdeza is obviously making progress up the rankings but I don't think she will have experienced anything like Monica on the ITF circuit. :haha: Monica loves playing young inexperienced players so that should go very nicely. Really draw looks pretty promising right up to the final. But obviously lots can happen so we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. Still, potential for a fun tournament here. :)
 
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