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Rich2310 · County player

Week 19 - WTA1000 - Rome, Italy Clay

Tennpar · Club Coach

Sonay smile

Jan · Hall of fame

Like everyone else, I'm so impressed with Sonay and so pleased for her!

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Peter too wrote:
Emma gets 19 year old Maya Joint WR 78.

-- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 6th of May 2025 04:31:41 PM

Tricky draw for Emma, Joint another young star on the rise.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

dodrade wrote:
Peter too wrote:
Emma gets 19 year old Maya Joint WR 78.

-- Edited by Peter too on Tuesday 6th of May 2025 04:31:41 PM
Tricky draw for Emma, Joint another young star on the rise.

To be fair, if Emma got a top-30 player, we'd say it was tricky, if she got a WR 90 player who used to be top-30 we'd say it was tricky, if she gets a good youngster, we call it tricky...

Maya Joint is exactly the sort of draw that Emma should like (except drawing Sakkari biggrin )

Australian-American, college-not college, Maya is doing well but she's had plenty of losses this year to people outside the top-100

Emma may lose but she's got pretty much the best draw she could hope for, in my view, given it's a 1000

B00thy · Intermediate Club Player

Fair enough, a top 30, top 40 opponent, in the first round, would be tricky at the moment for Emma, but then again, for any of our players, not especially Emma. For Emma in particular, I feel she is going through a lot of change in her game, with an unstable coaching set-up, which makes the first round an additional factor, because so much of her game is in a state of flux. Starting the match with a clear strategy, executing her strategy as closely as possible, is more of a factor than who she's playing if they're ranked 31-60. If she executes, her confidence rises, and she will probably beat them because if she's playing at 85-90% of capability she's better than anyone in that bracket.

LordBrownof · Futures level

Katie still can't move well on the red stuff. Very frustrating. Down and nearly out.

DavidC · Tennis legend

R1: Katie Boulter(GBR) WR40 lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova ( ) WR52 3-6 3-6

Var · Satellite level

DavidC wrote:
R1: Katie Boulter(GBR) WR40 lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova ( ) WR52 3-6 3-6

Wonder if the injury is still having an effect?

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Id say there is a decent shout Katie will be passed as GB number one by Emma or Sonay; all things being equal, gap will be substantially lower at end of the FO, and certainly by Wimbledon, we could see a new number one player.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Emma has started and is playing super aggressive

B00thy · Intermediate Club Player

Comes back from 2-4 to take the first 7-5.

Yes, lovely to see her attacking ..

-- Edited by B00thy on Wednesday 7th of May 2025 07:46:55 PM

christ · Futures level

How come we can all see that she is much better off attacking, but Ms Raducanu (and her "team") appear unable to see the same thing?

B00thy · Intermediate Club Player

Maya must be thinking it's her lucky day .. Emma's level has just dropped massively .. from 5-3 up and dominating, her focus as completely gone .. and it's 5-6 ..

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

christ wrote:
How come we can all see that she is much better off attacking, but Ms Raducanu (and her "team") appear unable to see the same thing?

It seems like we've been there, got the t-shirt, so many times.....