I've seen her play several times

Like paulis, I think she looks very well coached - very clean technique, and the thing that stands out (for me) is her 'bounciness' - she makes the effort on every ball to do the little jump before the ball comes, even the easiest of balls - lots of players are a little lazy and it shows very good discipline, well ingrained, to do it each and every time

But, not sure about power or consistency, my 'criticism' would be that it's a bit uninspired. She never/very rarely takes the ball very early, or goes down the line when everyone's expecting it crosscourt, or finds an angle that surprises you

And the match she lost by a whsiker against 14 year-old Barros at Roehampton was a real choke - not saying she does it often, I couldn't say, but that one was a match that she really had, every which way, and somehow found a way to lose it

But you can go a long way with very clean technique and good rigour on court 

dodrade wrote:

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Good to see Brooke win, she seems to have had unfair criticism on here sometimes over alleged excessive WC's and being a "Nepo Baby".

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 Such an impressive week for Brooke. But re the WCs point I recall an interesting discussion or two. Why does criticism seem to have been unfair?

Found this

https://nehandaradio.com/2012/07/08/reviving-the-tennis-legend-of-the-black-family/

Correct CD. I merely wondered, and still do, why dodrade was suggesting the WCs criticism was unfair. Did he maybe know more?

I have no position myself other than I don't recall anything that appeared unreasonable in the points of view. I suspect maybe best just move on ...

Separately, my regard for Brooke''s oncourt November achievements have been made clear elsewhere.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 2nd of December 2024 12:40:02 PM

LOL. I'll even let you off with coming back well inside the reasonable time period for correction of typos