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Coup Droit


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Ace Ventura wrote:

Wow, the decline is real with poor Ferro. I'm obviously chuffed with the result, but she only won 2 points in the second set and lost 28 of the last 30, and the match only lasted 54 minutes. She looks a shadow of the player who won 2 WTA titles and was quite renowned for being a scrapper.

I was fearing the whole Tsonga situation / atmosphere / environment might have been a factor in the match with this one following it on to Chatrier, but absolutely not.

Take it you found nothing CD? Doesn't look injury related either.

We're getting a lesson in Spanish on Eurosport 1 now with Paula and Alex Corretja biggrin

 Sorry, Ace - nothing I can see on Fiona - and, yes, wasn't she abysmal? :::(((

I did read a little more about Diane Parry who, as you say, is rather surprisingly in the top 100.

The FFT have given her a South American coach and he decided to take her over there last autumn, and really ground her in clay, and that's where she won 160 points, winning some 125k event, or something - you'll probably know better than me. And made the semis in something too. In short, nearly all her points come from that swing as she's barely won a match since. Although that sounds a bit mean, as she's only 19, but....



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Sasnovich looks to be in awesome form looking at the early exchanges, surprised she's not ranked higher...

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She's very up and down. Emma withstanding a lot of pressure on serve to get to 5-3*

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Emma did so well to weather the storm and then impose herself
6-3

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Looks more comfortable in the slightly quicker conditions too. Although she's *0-4 down after a couple of long games.



-- Edited by PaulM on Wednesday 25th of May 2022 10:17:59 AM

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Sasanovich looks by far the better player tbh. Emma's shots caused her no issues in set 2, frustratingly Sas keeps responding to Emma's slicing with dropshots but Emma never seems to expect it. Some incredible winners from Sas, hope her focus dips in set 3 and Emma regains hers.

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Misses 5 break points and broken from 30-0. Think that might be it.

1-3*



-- Edited by PaulM on Wednesday 25th of May 2022 11:03:37 AM

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I'll stay with it for now Been enough fluctuations.

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Then again, 1-5* 



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Yeah Sasnovich deserved that. Far better on the day. But another 'first' for Emma, she'll have plenty more French Opens.

Should have broken in that third game though, might just have been enough to get her opponent to start over pressing.

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That was dire.

Onto the grass...

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She lost 6-3 1-6 1-6

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The good news is that there is no news of an injury. Yet.

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Yes hopefully got / getting over the back issue and now able to practise and acclimatise on grass.

Of course we hoped for better here but in the big picture no great drama and more experience gained 

Onward ...

In my ongoing looking much more to where she is in a year or two, having become a regular tour player, rather than be that much bothered about relatively minor injuries and / or poorer results ( or in the meantime view too much against her so totally unexpected  US Open title ), my one real wish is that she does sort out a more permanent coaching arrangement sooner rather than later ( and her family / other team behind her perhaps stop a*sing about and trying to be too clever about it ).



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No pace on Emma's first serve in the third set suggests to me that she is far from being fully fit. Her out wide serve on the advantage side has been her best serve on clay, yet we barely saw it after the first set.

There was a good spell in the first set, especially the game in which she broke for *3-2 but once Emma stopped hitting the ball hard, it was far too easy for Sasnovich.

Slow surfaces are difficult for Emma.





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