Week 16 - WTA500 - Stuttgart, Germany Clay

Var · Pro player

RE: Week 16 - WTA500 - Stuttgart, Germany Clay

Var · Pro player

Var wrote:
indiana wrote:
Certainly a loaded QF featuring the top 4 ranked players in the world - Swiatek, Sabalenka, Gauff, and Rybakina.

Rybakina has won and Sabalenka has won her first set. To come is Swiatek vs Radacanu ( TNNS app currently showing a 4 pm BST start time ) and Gauff vs Kostyuk.
Yeah but Paolini took Rybakina to 3 sets and Sabalenka is currently in a deciding third set. These matches are tight.

So Vondrousova beats Sabalenka. Emma up next.

-- Edited by Var on Friday 19th of April 2024 03:14:38 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

Nice start from Emma. Iga went 40-0 up then Emma fought back and broke!!

Peter too · Tennis legend

Emma 6-7(2)

nicofrance · Strong Club Player

Very good performance from Raducanu even though she lost that first set .

If she can get some better draws over the next few months she should climb the rankings quickly .

LordBrownof · Futures level

She's very Iga to win this now, breaks straight away. Emma maybe running out of steam. Has played really well though.

Var · Pro player

LordBrownof wrote:
She's very Iga to win this now, breaks straight away. Emma maybe running out of steam. Has played really well though.

Thats the closest Emma has got to Iga and still more to come so she will be happy with that. Did say she was worried about fatigue before the match so no worries now. Not been a good day for GB tie breaks!

paulisi · Tennis legend

Emma is really playing well.
I'm not sure Iga has had a touch a match as this on clay for a while

-- Edited by paulisi on Friday 19th of April 2024 05:17:14 PM

Jan · Hall of fame

Emma still fighting hard - some great defence in that last point to hold!

Peter too · Tennis legend

QF: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 302 (CH=10 2022) lost to SWIATEK, Iga (POL) 1 =CH 6-7(2) 3-6

They have played twice before with Iga winning 4 & 4 in Stuttgart in 2022 and 3 &1 in Indian Wells in 2023.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 19th of April 2024 06:44:00 PM

Var · Pro player

Peter too wrote:
QF: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 302 (CH=10 2022) lost to SWIATEK, Iga (POL) 1 =CH 6-7(2) 3-6

They have played twice before with Iga winning 4 & 4 i Stuttgart in 2022 and 3 &1 in Indian Wells in 2023.

Good performance from Emma still on the route back. Also on Iga favoured surface. In her own words, still more to come. Keep healthy.

Tanaqui · Club Coach

Really good to hear Emma played well and that's a decent score against Iga on clay, especially at this stage in Emma's comeback.

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

Peter too wrote:
QF: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 302 (CH=10 2022) lost to SWIATEK, Iga (POL) 1 =CH 6-7(2) 3-6

They have played twice before with Iga winning 4 & 4 in Stuttgart in 2022 and 3 &1 in Indian Wells in 2023.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 19th of April 2024 06:44:00 PM

They met as juniors at junior Wimbledon 2018 and Emma only won 1 game on that occasion. Swiatek was unseeded at the time and went on to become the champion.

Var · Pro player

Promising post from Emma on Instagram this morning. After a tumble in yesterdays match - dust it off and try again.
www.instagram.com/p/C59MsalLxKA/

GAMEOVER · Satellite level

GAMEOVER wrote:
Peter too wrote:
QF: RADUCANU, Emma (GBR) 302 (CH=10 2022) lost to SWIATEK, Iga (POL) 1 =CH 6-7(2) 3-6

They have played twice before with Iga winning 4 & 4 in Stuttgart in 2022 and 3 &1 in Indian Wells in 2023.

-- Edited by Peter too on Friday 19th of April 2024 06:44:00 PM
They met as juniors at junior Wimbledon 2018 and Emma only won 1 game on that occasion. Swiatek was unseeded at the time and went on to become the champion.

Following on from my comment about Emma and Iga meeting at junior Wimbledon(quarter finals) 2018 in a fore taste of what was to come Emma had beaten Leylah Frenandez in the 2nd round. There were a number of other players that year who went on to make their mark in tennis including Coco Gauff, Burel, Xinyu and Xiyu Wang, Avanesyan, Volynets, Fran Jones, Cocciaretto, Rakimova,Tauson, Stearns, Diane Parry, Osorio, McNally, and Qinwen Zheng. The exceptions were the runner up Leonie Kung and top seed Whitney Osuigwe.

-- Edited by GAMEOVER on Saturday 20th of April 2024 09:21:35 AM