[Tennis Fool]

Don't look for your Wimbledon champion among:

Aga
Petra
Sam
Caro
Sara

 

[InsideOut.]

Mauresmo lost 1r in Eastbourne the year she won Wimbledon :shrug:

 

[No.Brains.Atoll]

What kind of a message does it send to potential ticket buyers at pre slam events when players give garbage efforts like that? No wonder the stands are empty when the women play.

 

[QINWEN-GOAT]

the SEWTA is in trouble

 

[TheBoiledEgg]

What kind of a message does it send to potential ticket buyers at pre slam events when players give garbage efforts like that? No wonder the stands are empty when the women play.

Eastbourne is packed

 

[Igor_Biscan]

Don't look for your Wimbledon champion among:

Aga
Petra
Sam
Caro
Sara

Did anyone seriously consider Aga, Sam, Caro or Sara as potential wimbledon champions?

 

[QINWEN-GOAT]

well the Eastbourne ticker buyers can look forward to Pironkova and Marakova and McHale

 

[Tennis Fool]

Mauresmo lost 1r in Eastbourne the year she won Wimbledon :shrug:

Yes, but how often has that happened?

Usually, these warm-ups are quite good at predicting deep runs (everyone has basically fallen victim to Serena or Venus until 2011).

Can you imagine if half of the Top 10 falls before the first week?

 

[Tennis Fool]

Did anyone seriously consider Aga, Sam, Caro or Sara as potential wimbledon champions?

Same probably was said of Petra before she won last year :shrug: Eastbourne, however, was a good predictor, as she got to the final.

 

[sammy01]

Don't look for your Wimbledon champion among:

Aga
Petra
Sam
Caro
Sara

apart from petra non of those loses were a surprise. the other 4 girls games just don't translate to grass

 

[Tennis Fool]

apart from petra non of those loses were a surprise. the other 4 girls games just don't translate to grass

Aga and Caro are both former junior Wimbledon champs.

 

[Ferg]

Go Marion definitly gonna lose R2 now

 

[ptkten]

apart from petra non of those loses were a surprise. the other 4 girls games just don't translate to grass

Radwanska has been pretty solid on grass and her flat groundstrokes translate decently well to the grass. I thought her losing to Pironkova was sort of a surprise. I agree with the other three though.

 

[TZVETI83]

Well Pironkova is quite popular in England so no harm done.

 

[InsideOut.]

Yes, but how often has that happened?

Usually, these warm-ups are quite good at predicting deep runs (everyone has basically fallen victim to Serena or Venus until 2011).

Can you imagine if half of the Top 10 falls before the first week?

Mauresmo did it in the same year, lost to Ivanovic in the 2nd round in Sydney 2006 (had a bye in the 1st round)

Ivanovic lost to Pironkova in the 2nd round in Rome 2008 (had a 1st round bye) then won RG.

Kuznetsova lost to Bondarenko in the 2nd round (IIRC) in Madrid 2009 then won RG.

Clijsters lost to Jankovic in the 2nd round in Toronto 2009 then won USO.

 

[Bismarck.]

Aga and Caro are both former junior Wimbledon champs.

So are Dushevina and K. Bondarenko. :shrug:

 

[sammy01]

So are Dushevina and K. Bondarenko. :shrug:

exactly, given there are literally no junior tennis on grass bar wimbledon, it is an even playing field of them all being equally unadapted to the surface.

 

[Tennis Fool]

Mauresmo did it in the same year, lost to Ivanovic in the 2nd round in Sydney 2006 (had a bye in the 1st round)

Ivanovic lost to Pironkova in the 2nd round in Rome 2008 (had a 1st round bye) then won RG.

Exceptions that prove the rule :shrug:

Kuznetsova lost to Bondarenko in the 2nd round (IIRC) in Madrid 2009 then won RG.

But she won Stuttgart and reached the final of Rome, consecutively. Her opponent in both was Dinara, who also got to the final of RG. Madrid: Probably was burnt out/tanked.

Clijsters lost to Jankovic in the 2nd round in Toronto 2009 then won USO.

Actually, it was the third round. Kim doesn't care about warm-ups.

 

[Tennis Fool]

So are Dushevina and K. Bondarenko. :shrug:

Which means they all can play on grass

 

[Tennis Fool]

exactly, given there are literally no junior tennis on grass bar wimbledon, it is an even playing field of them all being equally unadapted to the surface.

You mean like Martina Navratilova, Natalia Zvereva, Amelie Mauresmo, Maria Sharapova (former Wimbledon junior champs and r/ups.)