[lenas warriors]

Fail. JJ out the top 40 come the clay

[Atlicznie]

Chasing dsanders with that kind of trolling?
Lame attempt this time, you're an embarrassement.

[Pavstry.]

Red letter day every time she drops a place.

[Jimmie48]

Originally Posted by tejmeglekvár

Red letter day every time she drops a place.

Don't you spread your filth while having that avatar...

[Jose.]

No

[JJ all the way]

Originally Posted by Atlicznie

Chasing dsanders with that kind of trolling?
Lame attempt this time, you're an embarrassement.

haha im not trolling hon, it's called logic
vika has alot of points to defend, it is going to be very difficult to sustain the level that she had this year
she has a weight of expectations which may also affect her
add that to the possibility of playing players in form like Serena, Sharapova, Kvitova, Li Na, Sam Stosur, even Wozniacki.......i think dropping out of the top 5 is quite reasonable

Why does everyone have to be so mean? I am such a nice poster....... y'll are just insecure

[Pavstry.]

Originally Posted by Jimmie48

Don't you spread your filth while having that avatar...

You are right, he is actually nice person unlike your avie.

[Jimmie48]

Pressure dosen't bother her much, she has shown that after winning the AO. Instead of slumping she went into a very strong run. She did the same after the Olmpyics which could have caused another disruption of her year..but didn't.

She obviously isn't affected by this much and unless she's getting injured there's no way she's dropping out of the Top 3 next year.

[Jimmie48]

Originally Posted by tejmeglekvár

You are right, he is actually nice person unlike your avie.

He's also smart which means he would disapprove of your insane ramblings

[Exordes]

Originally Posted by CareerSlamPova

Think she'll lose her No.1 spot considering she has so many points to defend early on, but out of Top 5? Don't think so. not next year for sure, IMO.

Maria Sharapova has also lots of points to defend in the early part of the year 2013. She was a runner-up in Australian Open, Indian Wells and Miami in 2012. When Vika is no.1 seeded in those early tournaments, doesn´t it mean in theory that semifinalists would be Vika (1) vs. Aga (4) and Maria (2) vs Serena (3)?

Basically to stay No.1 in January 2013 Vika needs to win Serena Williams in AO Final. It was already close in US Open. She probably needs to play something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLQoVphE6Cg

What comes to the other top 10 or top 20 players, Vika should beat them quite safely. For instance Lucie Safarova made me a bigger impression than Petra Kvitova when the Czechs played against the Serbian sisters in Fed Cup finals.

[dsanders06]

Originally Posted by andyjason

She has so many points to defend.

Will people EVER stop with this "points to defend" nonsense?! It means absolutely NOTHING in real terms. Everyone starts the year with 0 points contributing to their year-end ranking.

[dsanders06]

In answer to the OP: Nah. Most of the players who have had such epic downfalls in recent years were uber-defensive players who's matches were never in their hands, and so all it took was for players just to figure out how to play the right/smart way to play them, they didn't even need to play at a high level. Whereas, although Vika does predicate her game on defence (especially against top players), she still has a strong offensive element to her game unlike Jankovic/Wozniacki, and so it's not enough for players just to 'figure her out', they still need to execute at a very high level to beat her.

I don't think Vika will do quite as well as she did this year, and I suspect she won't win a slam in 2013, but I still expect her to be extremely consistent in reaching the last rounds of all tournaments and generally only losing to Serena, Sharapova or Kvitova.

[Chrissie-fan]

Originally Posted by JJ all the way

haha im not trolling hon, it's called logic
vika has alot of points to defend, it is going to be very difficult to sustain the level that she had this year
she has a weight of expectations which may also affect her
add that to the possibility of playing players in form like Serena, Sharapova, Kvitova, Li Na, Sam Stosur, even Wozniacki.......i think dropping out of the top 5 is quite reasonable

Sharapova, Serena, Radwanska....they all have "lots of points to defend." Why single out Azarenka? Anything is possible of course, but if she were the type that couldn't deal with raised expectations I think it already would have shown after her AO win. It's likely that she won't have the start of the season that she had in 2013. It would be pretty remarkable if she managed to do something similar two years in a row, but I see no signs of an imminent demise.

[Beat]

that this thread was started by someone called JJ all the way is quite ironic, isn't it?

[Sammo]

I think she will win one more AO and then will never win a Slam again