Australian Open 2022 [Women] - Grand Slam

[Vince Evert]

Elina Svitolina will play Victoria Azarenka in her next match.....I will pick Vika what I have seen from both players

Vika must be a sentimental favorite these days. A huge turn around from eight or nine years ago when she was one of the top ranked players and copping a lot of criticisms over her noise pollution and questionable medical time out in a AO semifinal vs Sloan Stephens from memory.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

One of the many WD's & DQ's since the 1st of the yr.! Plenty of men and women are missing out of the draws & contributed was deporting Nole!

This has nothing to do with Novak...this is a womens tennis site....please take your fandom somewhere else.Thanks

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Vika must be a sentimental favorite these days. A huge turn around from eight or nine years ago when she was one of the top ranked players and copping a lot of criticisms over her noise pollution and questionable medical time out in a AO semifinal vs Sloan Stephens from memory.

I was down at Melbourne Park the 2 times Vika won,I have always liked her,she has had it tough over the years with a legal dispute with her sons' farther,stopping her from playing.I am just going on what I have seen from 2 players,to me Vika is playing better then Elina.

 

[Moxie]

Just looking at the draw,today's matches,bottom half,is not stacked like the top half of the draw,

G.Muguruza (3) vs A.Cornet.Alize can be a tricky player,though I feel Garbine can win this match up

A.Kontaveit (6) vs C.Tauson, this is where the teenagers AO will end.

A.Sabalenka (2) vs X.Wang- hopefuly the visa for Sabalenka's serve has arrived,she is running out of time.

Cornet giving Muguruza all kinds of trouble, as you predicted. I hope and expect she will right the ship.

 

[Moxie]

Tauson got the first set off of Kontaveit, at 2. @Hoergren will be over the moon right now.

 

[Moxie]

Cornet won the first and up the break in the 2nd now. Mugu on the ropes.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Goodness me how wrong could I have been
Mugu looks like going out and also Kontaveit......

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Teenager Clara Tausen upsets the No 6th seed Ana Kontaveit 62 64....quite frankly I did not see that coming after the great results Kontaveit has had in the last six months
In saying that Tausen's bhand was the 'story' of this match....impressive

 

[Moxie]

Teenager Clara Tausen upsets the No 6th seed Ana Kontaveit 62 64....quite frankly I did not see that coming after the great results Kontaveit has had in the last six months

I agree about Kontaveit. That's a shocker. And I'm going to be shocked and disappointed if Mugu can't pull this out, but less so.

 

[Hoergren]

Well - it was Kontaveit who couldn't find her gameplay - or rather she was not allowed to it. A brilliant match from Tauson. Tauson now #32 in the live rankings. Now it's interesting to see how it goes in doubles later today with Allison Von Uytvanck.

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Here the stats

 

[Moxie]

Disastrous match from Muguruza, I have to say. Cornet very good and tight, but still. SO disappointing from the Spaniard.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Another seed drops....I knew this could be a tricky match for Garbine

Cornet defeats G.Muguruza (3) 63 63.

 

[Moxie]

Another seed drops....I knew this could be a tricky match for Garbine

Cornet defeats G.Muguruza (3) 63 63.

You called that for "tricky," but jeepers, that score line. SMH.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

You called that for "tricky," but jeepers, that score line. SMH.

Garbine did not have a BP in her match against Alize..
Alize just called herself a 'dinosaur' on the tour lol! ....she also can be a Drama Queen at times

 

[Moxie]

Garbine did not have a BP in her match against Alize..
Alize just called herself a 'dinosaur' on the tour lol! ....she also can be a Drama Queen at times

That's throwing some shade. What out next match.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

That's throwing some shade. What out next match.

I have to see who Alize plays next
I know Clara will play Collins

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

OMG Sabalenka has hit 6 DFs so far in her match including one on BP

Somone please find her serve ASAP.....this is just too painful to watch

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

I Have No Words, as I cannot watch this match anymore as Sabalenka No 2 seed hit 6 DFS in the start of her match,including 1 on BP

X.Wang wins the 1st set over Sabalenka 61

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Colour Me Dead, a sighting of Craig Tiley as Sam Stosur ends her singles tennis career after her defeat by A.Pavlyuchenkova 62 62
There was a tribute to Sam on the court...

 

[Moxie]

If she can hold it together, Sabalenka is up a break in the 3rd.