British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Jajon · Club Coach

week 32 - WTA1000 - Cincinnati, USA Hard

KK · Club Coach

Jajon wrote:
I will say this was a very funny moment: x.com/kostekcanu/status/1954987590085644747

(Having a baby/young child out in that heat seems crazy to me)

Annabel Croft said she felt sorry for the parents as everyone would be looking at them. I just thought how selfish they were!

B00thy · Club Coach

That's exactly the word that came to mind when I saw this. I didn't find anything to smile about. The 'parents' are being unkind to the child, unkind to the players and unkind to the spectators. Disgusting

KK · Club Coach

And now the Daily Mail has run an article on it which has attracted lots of comments from those who know nothing about tennis criticising Emma e.g accusing her of blaming her loss on the baby, saying she is useless as she has lost again and should give up tennis. I wasted far too much time posting replies to them!

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Wow, 101 reasons not to read the Daily Fail!

wales1994 · County player

KK wrote:
And now the Daily Mail has run an article on it which has attracted lots of comments from those who know nothing about tennis criticising Emma e.g accusing her of blaming her loss on the baby, saying she is useless as she has lost again and should give up tennis. I wasted far too much time posting replies to them!

How can anyone see a super long and tight loss to the world #1 as her being useless? She might not ever win a slam again, but I'm really impressed with how she's put her head down this year, she's injury free and played a full year. Love to see her as a regular in the top 20, and right now - I don't think that's out of the realms of possibility.

Var · Futures qualifying

wales1994 wrote:
KK wrote:
And now the Daily Mail has run an article on it which has attracted lots of comments from those who know nothing about tennis criticising Emma e.g accusing her of blaming her loss on the baby, saying she is useless as she has lost again and should give up tennis. I wasted far too much time posting replies to them!
How can anyone see a super long and tight loss to the world #1 as her being useless? She might not ever win a slam again, but I'm really impressed with how she's put her head down this year, she's injury free and played a full year. Love to see her as a regular in the top 20, and right now - I don't think that's out of the realms of possibility.

They cannot even spell correctly in the Mail as well as writing garbage. Anything to generate interest.

indiana · Tennis legend

All I can say at the moment is thank gawd for Emma just now.

Otherwise, in both men's and women's singles tour and challenger events it is certainly the most non happening North American hard court period I can recall, with the various losses ( some very poor ), playing elsewhere or just missing.

General prep for the US Open MD and qualies looks awful.

Bring back the clay.