Wimbledon 2016 Banter

[GameSetAndMath]

The draw for the qualifying event is out. There are lots of girls I could even recognize: Alice Lim and Virginia Razzano of France, Grace Min, Vania King, Asia Muhammed, Taylor Townsend of USA, Ashleigh Barty of Australia, Tamira Paszek who usually does well on grass, Khumkhum from Thailand, Klara Kokkulova and the two doubles players from Czech, Michela Krajicek (Richard's sister) and Ursula Radwanska (Aga's sister).

Don't know what happened to Melani Oudin. She can usually be located in quals of GSs. She is not in the draw.

The quals starts on tueday for the girls. 96 in the draw. 12, who manage to win three matches get in.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Any update on Vika's health. If She is healthy, I would consider her a contender for Wimby.

 

[kskate2]

Any update on Vika's health. If She is healthy, I would consider her a contender for Wimby.

I wouldn't. Even when healthy and in peak form the most she did was losing a SF to Petra years ago. Her best surface is HC. I would expect her to have a strong showing at the Olympics and USO.

 

[10isfan]

Who are the contenders? Serena, Petra. Keys. Mugu.
Who should go far? Coco. Venus. Pliskova. Aga

Did I miss anyone? I hope Serena can get 22 here. She is running out of time. If Vka gets healthy by Rio and USO, Serena will have a tough time.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Mugu is not going to win back to back slams. Just based on that (being a member of WTA) I would write her off.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

Not to mention all eyes are going to be on Mugu now and she is defending finalist points. I would expect a Kerber style let down here. I hope Serena got in touch with Richard and he laid into her. Theoretically based on play Serena is the only real contender here; however, Serena has proven she can easily get in her own way, so here is to her not doing that this time. Keys could do something, but probably not.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

1st round of quals is over.

Alice Lim, Asia Muhammed, Hradecka, Michela Krajicek, Grace Min and Klara Koukalova lost.

All the others mentioned in the opening post have won their first round matches.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Melanie Oudin is currently ranked 392. That is not even good enough to get an entry in to qualifying. :cover May be Webster should put her name in the meaning for the phrase "flash in the pan". She is not even very old, she is just 25.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Here is the official grass court power rankings from WTA. According to them, the primary contenders are Serena, Kvitova, Aga, Sabine and Angelique.

0. Based on no facts or evidence, I think Serena has to wait one more slam and she will tie Steffi in USO, thus completing a DCYGS (delayed calendar year grand slam) :snicker

1. I think Aga cannot beat Serena herself. The only way she can possibly win Wimbledon is if somebody else does some assist and takes out Serena.

2. Kerber might actually do well as nobody is watching her now and expectations are low.

3. With Kvitova she can always win the whole thing and she can always go out in straight sets in the first round. No one can predict.

4. Sabine has missed the opportunity when she had and I doubt opportunity will knock again for her.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

I am hoping Serena gets serious and nips it in the bud here.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

The second round of quals is over.

Losers: Taylor Townsend, Ursula Radwanska, Virgina Razzano, Ashleigh Barty.

Winners: Vania King, Khumkhum, Hlaveckova, Tamira Paszeck.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Wimbledon released the the official list of seeds today. Venus missed out on having her own octet, due to Bencic coming back from injury. I suppose Wimbledon officials could have intervened here, but they choose not to.

 

[kskate2]

None of the top seeds are playing well right now. P3tra lost last week and today to virtual unknowns. Mugu lost in the first round of her home tournament in Mallorca last week. Sabine hasn't done anything all year and I wouldn't expect her to turn it on next week. Belinda is just coming back from injury and hasn't found form yet. Halep withdrew from the warmups. Kerbie lost early last week. That pretty much leaves a few dark horses (Coco, Madison, etc). You're right, Aga needs help to win Wimby. And then you have Serena and Venus who have never needed warmups to do well on the grass. You actually have to wait until the first week to see how their form looks.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

Serena after Paris

Well hopefully pissed off with something to prove Serena shows up like the one from above :devil

 

[Hoergren]

Victoria Azarenka has withdrawn from Wimbledon

.@Vika7 Azarenka has withdrawn from @Wimbledon with a knee injury. #Wimbledon

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

I think if Serena doesn't get it here when slams have been there for the taking and she has had relatively straight forward matches on routes to these slam finals, then she really needs to put in some extra work if she doesn't get Wimbledon make that serve stronger than it is.

 

[kskate2]

Wimbledon released the the official list of seeds today. Venus missed out on having her own octet, due to Bencic coming back from injury. I suppose Wimbledon officials could have intervened here, but they choose not to.

With Vika's withdrawal, Venus moves up a spot and does get her own octet.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

Venus got fortunate there. I am interested to see what happens here despite my gut telling me how I think players are going to perform at least the serve in theory should be easier for Serena.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

Hmmm....Vika needs to get things together her prime time to be collecting slams is closing fast. She should be in the Maria range at least, but then again Kvitova should be in that range too.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Wimbledon released the the official list of seeds today. Venus missed out on having her own octet, due to Bencic coming back from injury. I suppose Wimbledon officials could have intervened here, but they choose not to.

With Vika's withdrawal, Venus moves up a spot and does get her own octet.

This also helps the local Konta, who moved up #17 to #16. While everybody below Vika moves up by 1 spot, a move from #17 to #16 gives considerable advantage in draw. Now she is guaranteed to face a lower seed than herself in R32 whereas before she was guaranteed to face a higher seed than herself in R32. So, we have a high chance of seeing Konta in action on Super-Monday.

I think both Venus and Konta are well deserved of the upgrade. Thanks Vika!