You're new to tennis? Then here's your problem. The French Open is right around the corner. Top female players who fancy going deep in Slams usually don't care too much if they fail to go deep in the tournament they play at that immediately precedes a Slam (there are exceptional circumstances - such as if they have a personal tie to the tournament concerned; maybe the defending champion = they're defending ranking points; or it's a hometown tournament for them; or maybe they've just been in poor form and getting a few wins under their belt means more to them than fearing what the workload toll might take as a consequence). They usually like to get at least one hit-out under their belts, so fading them in 1st rounds isn't necessarily going to work, but once that early win is under their belts then it becomes a lottery. Do they care to go deep? This isn't knowledge that we're ever going to come by. But if, for instance, any big name loses tonight in a "surprising" straight sets loss, then you can rest assured the chances are they weren't beaten because they were trying heir hardest. More likely they reached the point where they just didn't care to spend more energy on a tournament that no longer interested them: what interested them was being as fresh and full of energy as possible for the French Open.
Because Halep won at Madrid, she's surely already managed to achieve her ideal workout before the French. Winning 2 straight tournaments and the workload that would require, then heading to a Slam and expecting to go deep, is a task no one but the best could begin to describe as realistic, and Serena (as the current best) didn't even bother with Madrid at all, so not even she imagined that was a task worth pursuing. Halep got what she wanted at Madrid, so how deep does she care to go here at Rome before she and her coaching crew say, that's enough, no more strenuous efforts? Clay courts take that extra toll on the body, so the nature of the surface concerned plays into this phenomenon (though it applies to all tournaments before any Slam, is my experience from watching).
You're new to tennis? Then here's your problem. The French Open is right around the corner. Top female players who fancy going deep in Slams usually don't care too much if they fail to go deep in the tournament they play at that immediately precedes a Slam (there are exceptional circumstances - such as if they have a personal tie to the tournament concerned; maybe the defending champion = they're defending ranking points; or it's a hometown tournament for them; or maybe they've just been in poor form and getting a few wins under their belt means more to them than fearing what the workload toll might take as a consequence). They usually like to get at least one hit-out under their belts, so fading them in 1st rounds isn't necessarily going to work, but once that early win is under their belts then it becomes a lottery. Do they care to go deep? This isn't knowledge that we're ever going to come by. But if, for instance, any big name loses tonight in a "surprising" straight sets loss, then you can rest assured the chances are they weren't beaten because they were trying heir hardest. More likely they reached the point where they just didn't care to spend more energy on a tournament that no longer interested them: what interested them was being as fresh and full of energy as possible for the French Open.
Because Halep won at Madrid, she's surely already managed to achieve her ideal workout before the French. Winning 2 straight tournaments and the workload that would require, then heading to a Slam and expecting to go deep, is a task no one but the best could begin to describe as realistic, and Serena (as the current best) didn't even bother with Madrid at all, so not even she imagined that was a task worth pursuing. Halep got what she wanted at Madrid, so how deep does she care to go here at Rome before she and her coaching crew say, that's enough, no more strenuous efforts? Clay courts take that extra toll on the body, so the nature of the surface concerned plays into this phenomenon (though it applies to all tournaments before any Slam, is my experience from watching).
Before today Begu was 0-5 vs. Azarenka. Azarenka had, in 12 sets, only once won less than 5 games in any single set against her. In a combined 2 sets today Azarenka won all of 5 games.
Anyone think the hottest player on tour since the Aussie Open ended (17-1 in matches played) cared about performing in Rome?
Before today Begu was 0-5 vs. Azarenka. Azarenka had, in 12 sets, only once won less than 5 games in any single set against her. In a combined 2 sets today Azarenka won all of 5 games.
Anyone think the hottest player on tour since the Aussie Open ended (17-1 in matches played) cared about performing in Rome?
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