What a freaking amazing 3 setter! I didn't have Sonay as the first Brit to beat a top 5 on my bingo card....

 

Wait in what timeframe

 

Not necessarily a fan of Andreeva but she got a little unlucky/Kartal played amazing. She didn’t play badly at all. She was so close.

 

First top 10 win for Sonay and her first 1000 QF, and it'll be a winnable one against Noskova

 

Sonay is fun to watch.

 

Mirra's FH in the final games. At 5-5, ones that barely made it halfway up her side at the net and the ones that went in were passively looped and landed near the service line. Absolutely 0 offense, depth, pressure, pace, anything.

The decline in production of her 1st serve has unmasked her inability and unwillingness to inject any kind of pace. She's overranked at this point in her development.

 

Is Qinwen's homemade FH better?

 

 

Congrats to Sonay! Well, she did her job and SLAYED Mirra Andreeva the World # 5 so she's just been recruited to my GIANT SLAYERS CLUB.

 

Tennis!

 

Andreeva need to learn, offense is the best option for her.

 

Better player won

 

BIG ILLUSION.

 

Kartal, Real™️ British Number One.

 

Get in here @Iga's Dropshot this is your moment

 

Expected. This is Andreeva’s real level.
Sonynay

 

Mirra was annoyingly passive when she had the chance to step up. That FH is a big problem because she's totally unable to generate any pace and when she has to play a grinder like Kartal she struggles to finish the points.

A bit disappointing that she folded like that with her experience, Sonay was going for it much more.

 

She hit way more winners than Kartal though? Like 17 BH to Kartal’s 4. I didn’t get the impression she was passive at all 🫣

 

I still can't tell if she looks more like Ostapenko or more like Henin. It freaks me out.

 

She looks like Kenin

 

Hey, she's still better than Brenda and Linda!

 

Andreeva for the moment looks like a Russian version of Wozniacki with a better serve. Very strong BH and movement and totally unable to dictate with her FH And Wozniacki was able too to lose against plenty of low ranked players in her prime (Paszek, Begu, Jovanovski, Cetkovska)

Andreeva if she doesn't improve her FH I'am afraid won't even have the career of Wozniacki - who was at least able to play like a wall. The competition is stronger now and unlikely she all the stars align for her to win a GS like for Woz at the AO 2018 (Fett choking a 5-1 lead in the third set, facing Mertens at the SF, barely outgrinding a tired Halep in the final)

She will go 0-3 at the YEC, and even probably 0-6 in sets. The way she is playing, Swiatek, Sabalenka and Anisimova won't lose more than 4 games in a match against her. The only player maybe Andreeva will have a slight chance is Keys because her form is mediocre too and can be BBB

 

You realize she beat Switaek and Sabalenka multiples times

 

A great result. It seems the tournament is now russian/belarussian- free

 

How is your latent xenophobia relevant to the outcome of this match, in which both players are representing themselves?

 

Mirra might be a walking bye at the YEC

 

 

Mirra's FH surely the weakest part of her game right now

But Sonay didn't play passively, she played really well and deserved the win. There were some really great rallies that the crowd loved

 

Yes, credit to Kartal, first of all, but Andreyeva has stagnated if not regressed since the spring. The FH could become a chronical issue, I am afraid, and players and coaches know her game much better now and are aware of her strenghts and weaknesses. I always expect ups and downs in young players progressions, but at this point there are also clear limitations in her game that cannot be ignored.

 

It might be the lack of height, the blonde hair, the cap... I get Barty vibes.

 

I thought Tjen was Barty's ghost?

 

Literally the entire WTA saying.. 'if Lys and Kartal can make it, why not us....