[full_moon]

She may be #66, and you may not have seen her do well in any grandslam this year, but this young Slovakian is an excellent and tough competitor, and I assure you, you will see a lot of her next year. 2003 has been a good year for her, reaching 3 semifinals, and 3 quarter finals, including s'hertogenbosch, palermo, acapulco and budapest. She's had wins over higher ranked players in all of her tournaments, her best victory came at the USOPEN, where she rallied a tough 3set battle against Filderstadt semi-finalist Elena Bovina and Magui serna. Her and hantuhcova allowed them to reach the QF at the fedcup. I wish her the best of luck next year

 

[mandy7]

I know she beat Mischa Krajicek at the ordina open in rosmalen earlier this year.. and I was't too happy about that!!!

 

[Gowza]

didn't she take henin to 3 sets this year?

 

[full_moon]

didn't she take henin to 3 sets this year?

you say in your signature good luck to the RUSSIANS...youve mentioned every possible Russian except Alina Jidkova, who is higher ranked than mnay of the unknown pleayers there

 

[Gowza]

you say in your signature good luck to the RUSSIANS...youve mentioned every possible Russian except Alina Jidkova, who is higher ranked than mnay of the unknown pleayers there

i've never seen jidkova play but from what i've heard i wouldn't like her game. plus i'm only a recent fan of tennis so i'm more into the young players (also partly because i'm young).

 

[alexusjonesfan]

didn't she take henin to 3 sets this year?

That was at Rosmalen right?

 

[wtn_amanda]

shes an ok. player

 

[ally baker]

I wish she wasn't such a stubborn player that just kept pushing the ball to Bovina... and enjoying her self-destruction.

 

[narcissus boy]

:haha:

 

[Experimentee]

She beat Bovina at the US Open this year when Bovina was leading and should have won

 

[Randy H]

She's a decent player, but I will be surprised if she goes past top 50 at best. She doesn't have a huge weapon, so she relies on consistent groundstrokes more than anything, she doesn't go up to net much, she could improve her fitness a bit more so that she could play defense a bit better, and her motivation with every match is sometimes questionable. She can be somewhat nonchalant.

I like her though, and hope she can improve on these things, but until she does I can't see her being a real threat on the tour to top players on any sort of consistent basis.

 

[narcissus boy]

Nice description, Randy.

 

[xcrtbckhnd]

How old is she?

 

[rated_next]

she played so well against Bovina in NY - I was there live ... she has a lot of potential, but is so inconsistent