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scottie1


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indiana wrote:

Wow, US carnage. Includes 3 of their full house US Open semi finalists ( Stephens, Vandeweghe and V Williams ) with Keys still to play.

Venus and Coco were also runner up and semi finalist respectively at last year's Aus Open. With Serena winning it they had 3 of the 4 semi finalists last year. Stephens and Keys missed that event.



-- Edited by indiana on Monday 15th of January 2018 03:44:20 PM

 drop in rankings for Venus as she was finalist last year maybe this is her demise hope so! I have never been a fan of either of the Williams sisters 



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Venus has been written off many times for various reasons and she has kept coming back.

On the flip side good to see Belinda Bencic ( CH 7 and still just aged 20 ) looking to be coming back strongly after her injury woes. At a bit lower level she successively won a couple of 125K series events and an ITF 100K+H at the end of last year, which has her a very early joint leader in the women's race. And she beat Vandeweghe, Pavlyuchenkova and Osaka in the Hopman Cup group stages before losing to the in-form Kerber in the final. It was a tough R1 draw for Venus.



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 drop in rankings for Venus as she was finalist last year maybe this is her demise hope so! I have never been a fan of either of the Williams sisters 

Both Williams sisters deserve a massive amount of admiration and credit for what they've achieved against the odds, even if you don't like them. They have enormous respect within the game and from other women players. Venus is now 37 and has Sjogren's disease. It's incredible she still plays at all, and so yes all she achieved last season against the odds maybe was a last hurrah in many way; still when she does pick her time to go eventually all she does deserve is tremendous respect.  



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Michael D wrote:
scottie1 wrote:
 drop in rankings for Venus as she was finalist last year maybe this is her demise hope so! I have never been a fan of either of the Williams sisters 

Both Williams sisters deserve a massive amount of admiration and credit for what they've achieved against the odds, even if you don't like them. They have enormous respect within the game and from other women players. Venus is now 37 and has Sjogren's disease. It's incredible she still plays at all, and so yes all she achieved last season against the odds maybe was a last hurrah in many way; still when she does pick her time to go eventually all she does deserve is tremendous respect.  



-- Edited by Michael D on Monday 15th of January 2018 06:14:28 PM

Well put, plus wasn't Serena Pregnant when she won this last year? Legends



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Jo is now live on Eurosport TV. *0-1

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Naomi is currently giving commentary alongside David Laws & Russell Fuller on Radio 5 Sports Extra: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_five_live_sports_extra



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I've a bad feeling about this. I'm always wrong though, so I'm double bluffing myself

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Jo takes her 2nd break point *2-1
Jo playing very aggressively.

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Naomi is commentating on BBC 5. She's certainly got a career in commentating when she hangs her trainers up. Very Likable, pay attention
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Jo *3-2 4 aces served by Jo so far

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5-2



-- Edited by Jiwan on Tuesday 16th of January 2018 12:39:51 AM

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Jo *5-2

5 aces so far from Jo, 3DFs from Brengle.

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Jo got to set point by serving two more aces but Brengle came back to get her first break point and Jo then missed a sideline Jo 5-3*

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Brengle breaks back on her second break point. Still one break break behind though konta 5-3

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Jo breaks to love 6-3 *0-0



-- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 16th of January 2018 12:48:16 AM

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