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I was hoping we would get an update on whether if she is feeling any better while serving compared to last week. Nothing much on that from the latest Dickson article.

Anyways, I am prepared to her skipping Wimbledon. If she plays, then I think of it as bonus. If she doesn't, then not too much disappointment.

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539283236257505285

only guy I can recognize among the four guys here is Raymond.

 

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On court with Emma today was Jane O'Donaghue, an LTA coach who seems to be close to Emma and her family.

Quote from Anne Keothavong in a Telegraph article from September 13th 2021:

"One person who deserves so much credit is Jane O’Donoghue, a Lawn Tennis Association coach until she left to go into the world of finance a couple of years ago. Jane is still very tight with Emma and her parents. She is a great friend of mine, and I know the hours she put in as national coach, all those 6am drives over from Wimbledon to Bromley to work with Emma."

considering how many Emma related articles I have come across over the last year, I am surprised I never heard of her. Apparently she is a former British tennis player, although mostly played at ITF level and she did seemed to have retired early

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539283236257505285

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539284037382045701

The other blue shirt guy seems to be her physio. Do we know who those other 2 white shirt guys are ?

 

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still cannot find a pic of her serving. Most of the pics are from her returning serve or some rallies

 

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seeing her serving is encouraging..just hope she isn't experiencing any additional pain while serving

 

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This Wimbledon is the most wide open slam I can remember in a while..most of the top10 players are coming back from injuries or are out of form. It is such a shame that Emma's grass season so far has been messed up with injury

 

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For anyone somehow bored of Katie Boulter vs Kvitova, the two cuties known as Priscilla Hon and Katie Volynets are battling it out on the Wimbledon Youtube channel. 😃

It is geo-blocked for me. It is probably only available in Europe

 

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400 comments for that nothing article and most of them are probably negative ..no wonder DailyFail posts so much Emma content. Good way to increase engagement

 

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They let reams of racist comments about a 14 year old playing in a 1st round qualifier stay up for hours. The fact those comments were getting more green upvotes than red downvotes says a lot.

Was it about that kid Mingge Xu ?

 

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I sometimes feel like half the people who comment under DailyMail articles are bots.

 

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Did anybody else see this thread

Rumour - Draw on the Wimbledon Website???

Hi everyone, I’m a new official member but have been a lurker/ardent tennis fan since late 2012. I was just wondering if anyone else saw a fully filled-in draw on the Wimbledon website last night/very early this morning? It has since been removed but I discovered that someone else had actually...

www.tennisforum.com

It's probably too strange to be true, but would be one of the best draws for Emma if so

some of those seed placements are also wrong. Like Emma and SST can't meet in 3rd round. Sakkari & Anisimova also can't meet in 3rd round

 

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What's with all these British papers putting out a report on Emma at the same time ? Probably Emma's team gave them some update ?

 

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Look at this guy celebrating so much just for qualifying for an exhibition tournament 😏

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1539972855890292736

 

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That's a shame. Perhaps my memory is poor, but you don't often see 14-17 year olds in the main draw at WImbledon. Gauff is obviously an exception.

Understandable I suppose, given most players grow up on clay or hard, and junior players may find it especially hard to adjust.

yeah..it's very rare unless the player has a MD WC. If you look at current live rankings, there is no player in top100 that is younger than 18. Also Gauff is the only player younger than 19 years in top100. Noskova is the highest ranked player currently among < 18 years and she is ranked 141.

 

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Emma got into top 100 at 18, too

yes..she did but I was talking about current top100.

 

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It's not a good R1 draw but atleast it's an opponent Emma has played against before and won. She should have a decent idea about AVU's game. Emma's first top100 win of her career outside slams came against AVU in Chicago 125K last year. AVU was No1 seed at that event and was ranked around 60 and Emma beat her in R1 7-6 6-3

 

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I remember this post from @xenosys from that Dickson's book thread on Emma -

Another interesting tid-bit from the book. In conversation with Matt James, Emma's junior coach at the time, Dickson was told about an ITF tournament back in November 2018 in the Wirral, UK, which featured a relatively strong field :

"There were to be a couple of eye-catching wins as [Emma] reached the Semi-Finals. In the 2nd round, she faced her first ever top 200 opponent in Austria's Barbara Haas, and in the following match, defeated Belgium's Greet Minnen (a future top 100 player) ... Greet's girlfriend Alison van Uytvanck, who was ranked 60 in the world at the time, was there practising and watching. She told me after the match "This girl is going to be good." That really stuck with me because it was the first time I had heard it from someone from outside the UK who had made it to a high level."

 

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With Halep or Iga opening on Tuesday, Emma's half of the draw will be playing on Monday

 

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I am hoping we can get an update on how Emma's serve looked in practice today