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indiana


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Kenin and Kvitova have made last 16 of all 3 slams this season, only 2 womens players to do so.

 It shows how random it has become. No doubt due to covid 19 changing the schedules 

Certainly some very big shocks have continued into the L16 matches. But as for inconsistency in players reaching the L16, I suspect that just 2 women making 3 successive Slam L16s is not particularly unusual, going back to previous years. 

Anyway, looking at the last 3 Slams of 2019, only 3 players make each of these L16s - Barty, Konta and Martic. Adding in the Aus Open, only Barty made the L16 of all 4 Slams in 2019.



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Mike Dickson's report in the Daily Mail 5th October says Iga Swiatek's  father rowed in the 1998 Olympics. Only problem is there were no Olympics in 1998.



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Tomasz Swiatek rowed in the quad sculls for Poland - they came 7th. It was the 1988 Seoul Olympics (so a typo)

 

Edit - post didn't accept the accents, so I took them out !



-- Edited by the addict on Monday 5th of October 2020 09:11:06 AM

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Stunning comeback from Kenin against Ferro, very empotional at the end too. Jabeur vs Collins moved to tomorrow at 10am UK, so if either are to make the final, they'll have to play Tue, Wed, and Thu. Not unusual at all for the WTA tour, but it is at slam level.

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Collins wins in 3 sets.

So the QF line-up is :

Swiatek vs (Q) Trevisan
(3) Svitolina vs (Q) Podoroska
Collins vs (4) Kenin
(7) Kvitova vs Siegemund

So I guess we could be heading for SFs with young Swiatek and 3 high seeds, which would stand up pretty well. Though there is a very different alternative ...



-- Edited by indiana on Tuesday 6th of October 2020 11:48:12 AM

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Pretty much every L16 result, bar Siegemund, went the way I was hoping, and some were second favourite to advance, so I'm much more positive about the QF line up now, especially if some 'order' holds in the QF matches.

Collins vs Kenin looks the hardest to predict of the 4 QFs (although in line with the rest of the event, there probably will be a surprise elsewhere), but a potential SF line up of Svitolina vs Swiatek, and Kenin vs Kvitova would be pretty credible generally - a mix of high seeds, slam winners, and a very promising teenager (a lot of that re-emphasising Indy's above post).

Interesting few days ahead.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 6th of October 2020 11:44:20 AM

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At which point Podoroska (who????) goes 4-1 up.....

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6-2 1-0*.



-- Edited by Ace Ventura on Tuesday 6th of October 2020 12:07:59 PM

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Well, Podoroska (again, who????) truly deserved that win.

She had Svitolina on a piece of string, playing a really good clay court game, and Svitolina was uninspired, with nothing really to offer.

Well done to her.

And pleased for Argentina.

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6-2 6-4, and thoroughly deserved. Svitolina held once, and needed a few errors from Podoroska to keep it closer thsn it could have been.

Swiatek 2 qualifiers away from the final. She was the 2/1 tournament outright fave at the start of the day, that'll come in a lot more now as well. Crazy tournament.

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Nadia Podoroska, 23 yo Argentine, WR 131 (CH 130). Prior to this French Open one previous Slam MD match (US Open 2016) which she lost in straight sets. 

With thanks to Wikipedia and the WTA site. 



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Elina Svitolina, 26 yo Ukrainian, WR 5 (live 4), CH 3, continually ranked in the top 10 since May 2017. 2 Slam SFs last year, never a Slam final.



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indiana wrote:

Elina Svitolina, 26 yo Ukrainian, WR 5 (live 4), CH 3, continually ranked in the top 10 since May 2017. 2 Slam SFs last year, never a Slam final.

 On todays form not likely to be a finalist any time. Clarisa  Fernandez from Argentina reached the semi finals unseeded  in 2002. She lost to Venus Williams. Great player that she was and a frequent semi finalist in Paris, Gabriela Sabatini never reached the finals in Paris.



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Whiley is in the singles and doubles draws in wheelchair events. Draw on website

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Iga Swiatek through to semi finals. I don't what would have been made of it if 2 qualifiers had made the semi finals. 



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