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Oct 7th, 2012, 02:44 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
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Can you imagine if one group ends up being Maria/Serena/Petra/Li and the other Vika/Aga/Kerber/Errani.  |
i don't really mind that tbh? she can handle petra and li, and it'd be good to get rena out of the way early 
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Oct 7th, 2012, 02:45 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
Believe in yourself Maria
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Oct 7th, 2012, 02:45 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
at least she'll be fully fit there this year.
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Oct 7th, 2012, 03:01 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
I think she has a gameplan vs. Vika, she just never executes it. But when she does she bosses. I just want the off-season and all the improvements that come with it to happen tbh.
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Oct 7th, 2012, 03:09 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
The one thing I have a MAJOR issue with is that Joyce was always talking about moving forwards and ending the points on the swinging volley but under Thomas I feel there's been a real decline in that area.
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Oct 7th, 2012, 03:16 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
The good thing about this YEC is that it'll be indoors and she seems to play well indoors. She played some of her best tennis this year at Stuttgart.
Plus she did get her last win against Vika indoors so if they do play each other here, which I think Maria will have to do to win it, that should give her some confidence hopefully.
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Oct 7th, 2012, 03:19 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
I accidentally watched highlights of Masha vs. Justine AO 2008 today. Mistake   |
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Oct 7th, 2012, 03:19 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
I like that Thomas has introduced more margin for the benefit of Claypova's emergence. But I take issue in Maria playing too conservatively on hardcourts and carrying that form over, where she can't defend as well, and doesn't have the luxury of time as with clay. Once she realised the superior players will not tolerate her topspin up the middle of the court shots, she'll go into her frantic maniac ballbashing mode again.
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Oct 7th, 2012, 03:26 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
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Can you imagine if one group ends up being Maria/Serena/Petra/Li and the other Vika/Aga/Kerber/Errani. |
It would be in the tradition of what's happened this year:
-Maria and Petra always together
-Vika gets a cakewalk
-Radwanska vultures her way to another big SF
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Oct 7th, 2012, 03:43 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
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I like that Thomas has introduced more margin for the benefit of Claypova's emergence. But I take issue in Maria playing too conservatively on hardcourts and carrying that form over, where she can't defend as well, and doesn't have the luxury of time as with clay. Once she realised the superior players will not tolerate her topspin up the middle of the court shots, she'll go into her frantic maniac ballbashing mode again.
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So true! Moreover, there's no net game. She doesn't attack the net anymore. She just plants her feet on the baseline and stays there. One more thing: after every serve she lands two metres inside the baseline.. how can you possibly hit Vika's deep ROS back if it always gets past you? 
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Oct 7th, 2012, 04:16 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
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Can you imagine if one group ends up being Maria/Serena/Petra/Li and the other Vika/Aga/Kerber/Errani. |
Oh we all know it's SOOOOO gonna happen.
But I don't really mind tbh.
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Oct 7th, 2012, 04:32 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
Oh i don't like the name of thread at all
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Oct 7th, 2012, 04:47 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
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No don't go there. Not with the Rena fans lurking around. |
LOL, exactly. Serena fans are the most sensitive bitches ever.
the Serena-Maria group is NID im afraid.......I mean if shes going far in the tourny, shes gonna have to face her sometime....
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Oct 7th, 2012, 07:16 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
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The one thing I have a MAJOR issue with is that Joyce was always talking about moving forwards and ending the points on the swinging volley but under Thomas I feel there's been a real decline in that area.
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Agree! Drive volley used to be one of Maria's best assets and now she barely uses it, and when she does it's a disaster
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Oct 7th, 2012, 07:46 PM
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Re: WTA Championships 2012 iStanbul Mission: Win the title by not facing Rena/Vika
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Can you imagine if one group ends up being Maria/Serena/Petra/Li and the other Vika/Aga/Kerber/Errani. |
NID.
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Originally Posted by domon17th
I like that Thomas has introduced more margin for the benefit of Claypova's emergence. But I take issue in Maria playing too conservatively on hardcourts and carrying that form over, where she can't defend as well, and doesn't have the luxury of time as with clay. Once she realised the superior players will not tolerate her topspin up the middle of the court shots, she'll go into her frantic maniac ballbashing mode again.
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That's exactly what I think, and I also think that Thomas is prepared enough to see that and after all the work they put in to win on clay, they will do the same thing about hardcourts for 2013, at least I hope so.
And I wanted to make an YEC thread titled "From Russia with Love" like the 007 movie where they are in Istanbul... 
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