Bibi was on the comeback, had all the momentum in the second set....but that TB.
Looks like she has a new coach too? Anyway, she was very chatty with her box for the entire match, good signs.

 

Bianca's moonballs just get swatted. Her slice does not bite at all. Her serve is impotent.

Truly don't understand...just hit the ball girl

 

Hit the ball girl???

 

This is not where anyone imagined her career would be 6 years ago

 

I think a lot of us recognized how her movement was going to be rough on her ankles, knees, and/or hips in the long term. Her movement is what propelled her to the top, and once injuries affected that she wasn't going to be the same player.

 

Another new coach?

 

Some guy with grey hair. No idea his name

 

How many PRs does she have left? Not interested in getting match reps by playing 250s and 125s?

She should be grinding wtth the Bondars and Sherifs in the semifinals of a 125 and get some ranking points instead of flailing in these cameo glamour appearances

This has all the makings of a Kvitova or Kerber farewell tour, except that Andreescu is not 35.

 

I agree with @textenfan above, but more things than that are also in a decline - her willingness to mix power and junkballs is gone (now it's just the latter most of the time), plus I feel like her return game and rally tolerance have also dropped.

If Bianca wants to play such a passive game style on the main tour, then she must be very fit to execute it. Tough to do it when your movement is lacking and find yourself out of the position too often. This isn't that bad of a result for her coming back off an injury and all, but the weaknesses are there in the open.

 

Positives for Bibi:

• body healing
• healthy mental space
• Appears happy
• Has a team around her

Just needs to get back to some winning.
It was her first time back in China since 2019!

 

I think a lot of us recognized how her movement was going to be rough on her ankles, knees, and/or hips in the long term. Her movement is what propelled her to the top, and once injuries affected that she wasn't going to be the same player.

I agree with @textenfan above, but more things than that also declined - her willingness to mix power and junkballs is gone (now it's just the latter most of the time), plus I feel like her return game and rally tolerance have also dropped.

Good points. I guess I’m moreso surprised by how sudden the drop-off was. I personally wouldn’t have believed it if you told me she’d still only have 3 titles after the 2019 season

 

It's surprising, given she managed those three titles in between serious injuries. She was largely out with injury between Miami and the Canadian Open, then won that an the US Open, and then injured her knee during the WTA Finals which kept her sidelined until 2021. I figured she'd have injuries but also some success when she was injury free, but she's injured too much to get any momentum going.

 

She will retire by end of next season, or at least take an indefinite hiatus of some sort. What a hot mess her career has been, but her comical career management led her down this path.

 

Bibi needs a plan B, something like supporting Steve Simon on dragging out the Tsurenko legal battle to prevent her coming back on tour while she figures it out.

 

Awful. Is Andreescu done? I still had hope last year but now it's all gone, she's gonna be a journeywoman for the remainder of her career by the looks of it.

 

Too much junkballing and moonballing from Bianca...

 

Bondar peaks from time to time....as someone else pointed out, she whooped Svitolina at USO. These things happen.

 

Bibi, Kenin, and Sloane need to go on vacay and have a good cry together. At the moment for these 3 winning a GS again is getting further and further away.

Hopefully they’ll prove me wrong next season

 

Sloane and Bianca are OBVIOUSLY done.
Nothing ranking wise or tournament wise says any different.
Sofia is Top 30 and looks wayyyy more likely to get another Slam, at least than the other two.

 

Serena lost a slam final to this girl mess.

 

She's in qualies for Wuhan.

 

She's in qualies for Wuhan.

that's great to see her trying to qualify for another WTA1000 event. Wonder if she could squeeze in a WTA125 that's in China or Asia prior to Wuhan?

 

 

She looks pretty solid with her new ankle braces. Hopefully she enters a 125K. Needs to play herself back into clutchness. 💪

 

Why does Bianca have a PR still again?

 

Didn’t play until clay this year, I think?

 

China Open 2019 really was a great teaser of what tour could have been with healthy Barty, Osaka and BVA at the top. This is why we can't have nice things

 

We still have nice things. We have girls winning slam matches with 20+ DFs. Barty and peak Bianca could never.

 

Bit of a relief she seems to have a new team around her. Having one guy serve as your physio/coach/hitting partner/trainer seemed impractical at best, if not outright concerning.

 

Andreescu is just constantly on a road to nowhere. Can’t stay uninjured long enough to gain any real momentum.

It’s really sad because she may not have been looking like an elite player but she was at least looking good enough to keep herself around as a second-tier player (think Raducanu, Osaka, or Kenin’s current position/ranking) and in the conversation in early 2023 before she got injured against Alexandrova.

 

Time flies and I can't believe Bianca is already 25. Hope her body holds up for a couple of good runs in the future.

 

Bondar Solidly in the top 100 now and should stay there pretty comfortably until the AO if she keeps playing like this.

Good to have Andreescu back back again. I do think her tennis desperately needs a few uninterrupted months of grinding it out on the tour. Hopefully she can physically and mentally handle sticking around for a while this time; her career is getting way too Bouchard-like, it is depressing.