PockyTastic wrote:

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From the sounds of it Heather is a much better player than I previously thought, as I too had heard stories of her being a bit of a pusher ...

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Given that she was at Bolletieri's (single handedly-responsible, as far as I can see, for much of the shrieking and boring play in women's tennis these days), that's a fair assumption to have made ... it's encouraging to hear that it's not true.

 

-- Edited by steven on Friday 5th of February 2010 05:30:21 PM

PockyTastic wrote:

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Sorry for misleading people about Naomi C, I wasn't sure about that one, and clearly must have misread/ misunderstood the posts on TF in regards to that match.

From the sounds of it Heather is a much better player than I previously thought, as I too had heard stories of her being a bit of a pusher, but from the sounds of it she has a lovely and varied game. Great run for Anna, and, in regards to her first round match, a nice piece of revenge over Kucova for Bratislava last year.

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Yeah, I honestly was just interested to see if she really was a pusher or not and in actual fact they were both hitting the ball so much harder than the court next to them. I mean don't get me wrong she doesn't have a huge amount of power, but she's willing to be aggressive and if she really works on developing her variety and (as Andy obviously is a good tactician with a lot of variety) possibly look closely at everything about Andy's game apart from the mental side, I think she could be pretty good.

I think we all have to remember that even though she is 17 and most of the good 17 year olds are already top 300 or so, Heather pretty much had her mind set on university until the US Open and this will be her first proper year on tour. It will definitely be interesting to see how good she is.

SF: (3) HLAVACKOVA, Andrea (CZE) WR 176 def (WC) SMITH, Anna WR 436 2-6 7-5 6-1