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PaulM · Tennis legend

Week 6 - WTA500 - Abu Dhabi Hard

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Loving the aggressive approach - its the only way she will make it back towards the top

paulisi · Tennis legend

Emma was playing on or inside the baseline.
Marie was ending up 2ft behind the baseline.
That was the big difference and Emma out hit and dominated her opponent.

Jan · Hall of fame

Excellent!!

Tanaqui · County player

Great result! Really good to see Emma trusts her body enough post-surgery to still play at this level, and is quickly shaking off the rust from not having played much.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Bravo ! i paid for Now tv day pass to watch this !

Peter too · Tennis legend

R1: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 296 (CH=10 2022) def BOUZKOVA, Marie (CZE) 36 (CH=23 2022) 6-4 6-1

R2: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 296 (CH=10 2022) v JABEUR, Ons (2) 6 (CH=2 2022)

Deucebag · Intermediate Club Player

Now for her biggest win yet .

Mervatron2 · Challenger level

Just watched the highlights. Impressive.

Hope she can gives Ons a good game.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

I haven't seen the highlights, but looking on tennis forums, they said that both players didn't play well, but Emma played better. Don't know what people who saw the match think?

markymc1983 · Club Coach

From the first few matches Ive seen this year I would say her biggest improvement is her ROS

Crispy · Strong Club Player

Helen40 wrote:
I haven't seen the highlights, but looking on tennis forums, they said that both players didn't play well, but Emma played better. Don't know what people who saw the match think?

Lots of breaks at the beginning. Emmas forehand wasnt great, and she was making errors as she was forcing the play - but she had the far bigger game, and looked better and better as the match went on. She performed like a rusty top player who was finding their way through a first round its probably the kind of performance that we would have expected of her without the injury setbacks. There seemed to be a lot more trust in the groundstrokes

indiana · Tennis legend

markymc1983 wrote:
From the first few matches Ive seen this year I would say her biggest improvement is her ROS

It's good to see the aggressive intent. In her US Open triumph she was pretty aggressive, particularly in her court position for second serves. It's good to see such intent coming back more into her game again.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Crispy wrote:
Helen40 wrote:
I haven't seen the highlights, but looking on tennis forums, they said that both players didn't play well, but Emma played better. Don't know what people who saw the match think?
Lots of breaks at the beginning. Emmas forehand wasnt great, and she was making errors as she was forcing the play - but she had the far bigger game, and looked better and better as the match went on. She performed like a rusty top player who was finding their way through a first round its probably the kind of performance that we would have expected of her without the injury setbacks. There seemed to be a lot more trust in the groundstrokes

Oh good. Hopefully her injuries will be behind her, and it will be onwards and upwards from here.

Var · Futures qualifying

Goodness Hevs made a good start 3-0 up in first set.