[Novice]

Is Emma watching again? 😅

I think Iga is pretty intense.

 

[eraddict]

Is Emma watching again? 😅

I think Iga is pretty intense.

She is, as always.

 

[sunnybird]

Is Emma watching again? 😅

I think Iga is pretty intense.

Iga has shown quite a temper on the court or at PC. Not surprising since she seems like a perfectionist and gets irritated easily if things are not going her way.

 

[Novice]

Iga has shown quite a temper on the court or at PC. Not surprising since she seems like a perfectionist and gets irritated easily if things are not going her way.

I suspect she mostly gets irritated at herself.You can see from her facial expressions just how hyper focused she is.

 

[sunnybird]

Cristian is a tough R1 opponent for Emma. She is currently ranked 41 has been playing very well on HCs this summer. She defeated Noskova (#23) in Montreal, then Krueger and Collins (6-2, 6-0) at USO. She lost only to Rybakina, Vondrusova, Fernandez and Anisimova. Spring HCs were not bad either.

She also lost to Begu, Sonmez, Sramkova, Gadecki, Joint and Kartal this year. But she has been playing well recently and she competed much better against Iga at FO( 2-6,5-7) than Emma( 1-6, 2-6). Emma needs to play well to beat her.

 

[GIANT_SLAYER]

Strangely, my girl Eva Lys leads the H2H of 4-0 over Jaqueline Cristian. Eva last SLAYED Cristian earlier this year at the Australian Open in Round 32. She got into the AO main draw as a Lucky Loser. That being said, Eva just SLAYED Ashlyn Krueger earlier today in Seoul. Really hope Eva gave Emma some good tips when they practiced together a couple days ago. 💪

 

[eraddict]

She also lost to Begu, Sonmez, Sramkova, Gadecki, Joint and Kartal this year. But she has been playing well recently and she competed much better against Iga at FO( 2-6,5-7) than Emma( 1-6, 2-6). Emma needs to play well to beat her.

Cristian had an unexpectedly poor clay swing this year (she is usually good on clay), an expectedly poor grass swing (not much grass where she trains) and then a very good USO HC swing. The loses you mentioned are from the clay and grass, not from the USO HC swing.

Our expectations are for Emma to prevail but it will not be as easy as it was for her at USO R1 or R2. The only other higher ranked opponents Emma defeated this HC swing are Stearns and Kostyuk.

 

[Queen_Of_Spray]

 

[varlums2]

 

[eraddict]

The photographer uses very strong contrast. Clouds look beautiful, but that Emma is Mboko sister.

 

[Queen_Of_Spray]

After 8 main draw matches: 63% hold of serve, 61% 1st serve points won and 2.4 ace %, this is lower numbers than Doha and Indian Wells and Rome so get ready for a week of hit to the middle contest.

 

[zenga10]

Is Emma watching again? 😅

I think Iga is pretty intense.

Oh wow- 'went left hand only for 5 minutes' I hope she goes left hand if she plays Emma

 

[Papasoni]

So the weather for tomorrow doesn't look good and the courts are slow judging by the stats from the first round matches. All this and the draw kind of killed my expectations for this tournament but maybe when you least expect and are ready for the worse is when miracles happen. Do they have an Indoors court just in case the rain doesn't stop for hours?

 

[GIANT_SLAYER]

^ Laugh and joke all you want, but somebody over at 2ga's PF already posted the tweet of Emma/Roig scouting/spying on Swiatek in their social media thread. LOL

 

[GIANT_SLAYER]

Lin Zhu has withdrawn from Seoul, replaced by (LL) Zakharova, who will play Cirstea. Winner to play Swiatek.

Very disappointed to hear about Lin Zhu's withdrawal as I was going to root for her since she's SLAYED Cirstea before and Sorana has already lost to Swiatek 5 times already. Now I have to cross my fingers and root for LL Zakharova to beat Cirstea so she she can play Swiatek instead of the Romanian losing veteran. LOL

Sadly, I will not be watching any of these Korean matches LIVE since they start at 1 am and Emma's match is not scheduled until 4:30 am EST.

 

[zenga10]

Very disappointed to hear about Lin Zhu's withdrawal as I was going to root for her since she's SLAYED Cirstea before and Sorana has already lost to Swiatek 5 times already. Now I have to cross my fingers and root for LL Zakharova to beat Cirstea so she she can play Swiatek instead of the Romanian losing veteran. LOL

Sadly, I will not be watching any of these Korean matches LIVE since they start at 1 am and Emma's match is not scheduled until 4:30 am EST.

Lol. You may be able to see Emma's match, rain expected today, Tuesday, which may cause major delays, likely to be delayed by hours. In fact, wouldn't be surprised for it to be rescheduled to Wednesday.

But it is true, we are unlikely to to see much of the Asian swing, since it's 13 hours ahead of us, we'll be going to sleep as the matches start for the day.

 

[Queen_Of_Spray]

I'm surprised how close the Lys vs Tauson odds are, must have priced it as clay court. A little to heavy in the Emma vs Jaq odds IMO, would have personally set it 2.3 vs 1.55

 

[xenosys]

I'm surprised they haven't scheduled players to start sooner today knowing there could be delays.

 

[zenga10]

Wednesday not much better than Tuesday...

 

[zenga10]

Results from Monday. Lys beat Krueger. Other than that no surprises...