Great news, the Strasbourg field is pretty stacked. Think theres Pegula, Keys, Svitolina, Collins, rich Emma, Rybakina, Kasatkina amongst the top 20.



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Don't forget Babs!

 

She’s definitely gunning for a seed. I like it!

 

I mean she might but I think she needs to reach the final here for that to be within reach. Tough task with this field.

In any case, good for Emma! I definitely didn’t expect this and I lowkey feared she’d next go into some training block on grass or something.

 

Surprised by it . Good move

 

Baby girl wants to be introduced as British number 1 during the grass season and get a seed for Wimbledon - respect!

 

Strasbourg is 500 :O

 

she played good tennis indeed the first 2-3 matches in Rome. i am surprised that gauff routined her so easily. not expecting a win but not 6-1, 6-2 either.

 

Gauff’s style goes against all Emma’s weaknesses, especially those high bouncing balls and kick serve. Emma doesn’t have enough raw power to hit through Gauff and is unlikely to outmaneuver Coco on slow clay as the American can drag the rallies forever. She would’ve had more opportunities on hard and especially grass which is why the scoreline in their previous match played in Australia was closer in the second set. Add on that that Coco had a very good day on serve and Emma couldn’t really execute one of her trademark strengths, the return. Had Coco had one of her bad serving days, then it would get closer. I was quite optimistic about Emma’s chances before the match mainly because I thought Gauff is still struggling on serve but she turned up pretty clutch on that shot.

 

It finally feels like Emma can enter lots of tournaments without being hampered by niggling injuries.

 

Sweet Emina will win! (her first round match)

 

Bektas? I don’t think she is playing here.

 

She takes a wildcard for every tournament she enters.

She could be world #5 (which in the multiverse could happen) and she would still make her team get her a wildcard.

 

true. unreal they keep giving her wcs though

 

The way Jess and Vukova also got WCs but the one who gets the thread is Emma.

 

everyone is shocked that she actually wants to play tennis on the clay 🤷‍♀️

 

Emma is overplaying

 

Excellent. I would love to see her and Kostyuk square off against Swiatek at the French Open!

 

A fantastic EL for Strasbourg if everyone plays!

 

No WCs for the Frenchies? Are they all consigned to the qualies? Quelle horreur!

Good to see Emma playing an extra tournament and trying to get more matches on this surface. She has potential on it, she just needs more experience.

 

^ 5GA stans can't help, but hijack a thread about Emma.