I never thought Emma was gonna blow the match but man she's the most toughest player to watch right now. I get so worked up watching her play even though I knos the bar has been set too high. I just keep my expectations low but shes so frustrating to watch still.

What happened to Caroline? She was a rollercoaster of emotions the last 2 sets. You could just sense she was gonna lose because of the frustration.

When she won the USO something a lot of people said about her game , including the opponents she beat, was that she played fearlessly. And we saw that up until the first set of match points. And we’ve seen it recently sometimes like when she beat Azarenka and Serena. But it has been more or less absent for most of the last year. She needs to try and regain that mindset by any means possible

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I think she’ll feel ok once she talks to her coach

He didn't look too worried in the stands. Was on his phone while Emma lost the 5-0 lead.

Emma’s serve when firing is underrated. Two aces and big one to win.

That’s gotta suck for Uchijima. She really struggled to find her length in set 1 and most of 2. Then so close to taking it to a third with all the momentum on her side.

Yes but she couldn’t do anything about the lash three points

True

Good Emma won but that was a pretty bad second set, she really needs to stop choking these leads

It was a great second set at 5-0 40-15

fucking hell thank fuck for that jesus

Ok Thank god, she got over the line. Not a good sign, but at least she won

Where the hell did those aces come from?

I know haha

Thank Christ. I swear these days every match Emma plays I get five years older.

Why? She's the only player I watch and get massively frustrated. Its not fun fo watch her because there's always some sort of disappointment.

Ha same *some one will call us simps*

Three aces to finish this would salvage something at least! Edit: well that’ll do… but yeesh

Badosa vs Zheng could see another upset brewing with both of their current forms

If Zheng beat Badosa, I will forgive her beat penko in us

Rybakina :( was surprisingly close to pushing it to a third set but nope

emma first set: “oh, looks like she’ll blitz wta seoul.” emma second set: “erm, probably not.”

the worst thing about this is that now, even if Emma manages to battle through and clinch it, the psychological reinforcement/momentum that this match could have brought her is going to be completely shot through

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Yes she needs one. Can she have iga’s?

How to choke on a bagel

Four games in a row I can’t even 5-0 and 40-15. To lose now would be unforgivable

Emma, please don't pull the biggest choke of the year after completely dominating

It would be bizarre. But would also make her team realise her issues are mental.

Players without mental coaches are just shooting themselves in the foot, it's as necessary as a physio these days

Do we know if she has one or not?

If she does I haven't heard her talk about it. Definitely doesn't have a traveling mental coach like Iga

we've managed to go from what was looking like a very comfortable first round match over in under an hour to a genuine chance, if she wins this service game, that Uchijima gets back into the match and takes it to a very nervy third. Absolute insanity

She needs a head doctor

Raducanu girl wyd

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I may have to turn off

jesus wept. emma. i have a meeting in 10 minutes. she should’ve won it serving at 5-0. what is going on.

Lol fuck sake Emma

Massive unravel.

I wouldn't be too surprised if Emma lost after being 6-2 5-0 40-15 up. Completely falling apart

She’s prob now shitting herself. If she loses this she needs to get a psychotherapist quick. 5-0 and match points what they actual fuck

Wtf is she doing

how on earth has Emma not closed this out yet ffs

Mental issues. I really think she has

So Emma has two match points. At 5-0. Then plays horrendous 7 points. Whhhhyyyy

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Horrible 7 points. And I think is evidence of a mental block she has right now.

there goes the bagel

Dang, was looking forward to my breakfast bagel. 🥯

was that someone in the crowd with flowers to give to Emma at the end of the match lol

probably a simp... why does she have so many of them??

Haha

Emma is going to spend the next ten years of her career going back behind on every putaway attempt, only to surprise everyone and go open court on championship point at Wimbledon 2030.

Ha. She does it a lot for sure

Emma is pushing that first serve sometimes. Her first serve percentage is very low. She’s winning comfortably but, needs to fix this serve

Dasha really got injured again. What even is that luck? Some athletes just can't catch a break with injuries.

I saw it. Her knee just seemed to go on a routine movement. It’s a shame. She’s been building some momentum and has only been back for a year.

All that effort this year to get from ~#600 to top 50 again and this happens. What a shame.

This guys predictions lol https://lastwordonsports.com/tennis/2022/09/20/wta-seoul-day-3-predictions-including-emma-raducanu-vs-moyuka-uchijima/amp/

Why are these matches still going on? Shouldn't we be mourning till the Friday night session

Tennis is bigger than just one player. There's some amazing tennis happening right now. Deserves to be watched.

What are you talking about

Ooof Emma defo should have won that at the net

She should have, but moving forward to attempt to end the point is still progress, of a sort.

She won the set easily.

Nice to hear the small crowd are clearly involved from the start.

Right, here we go again then Emma...

Doesn't make a single first serve, Holds to love anyway.

Before Uchijima's error at the start of this game I was going to ask what the longest sequence of consecutive points held on serve between two players in history was lol

I dunno but a lot more than 8!

That's for sure, there has to have been some match where a whole set or more was just 40-0 holds haha

I watched Uchijima in US Open qualliies - I thought she was pretty good, I think the best young Japanese prospect, in part because she is much taller and has a bit more power than most of the others. Might not be easy for Emma, well nothing is right now.

First set was pretty comfortable

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Am shocked that KRISTYNA has the record and not KAROLINA! 😳

What’s more interesting is she hit 27 aces and 67 winners and lost the match

honestly still have no idea how to feel about the Garcia/Zhang match so many screaming winners so many unnecessary errors so many crazy moments (the 3rd set tiebreak from Zhang like wow) I was expecting some great hitting based on their history but this was definitely *something*

It was a great match. The key was zhang defence and accuracy. Hardly any unforced errors. 3 in the last set. 1 double fault all match

oh my god the way Caro had **eleven** more points than Zhang at the end? and a nearly +20 differential btwn W and UE? this will sting for quite a bit. she was simply not clutch at all today.

67 winners (including 27 aces) from Caro vs 8 UEs (in the last two sets) from Zhang.

Really great tennis from both of them. So many fantastic winners from Garcia but Zhang just wouldn’t go away and stayed so consistent. So much fun watching that match!

Zhang was so clutch. Stayed super solid and let Caro beat herself.

Wow. Impressive match and win from Zhang. Ridiculous beautiful ball striking.

what a match. Amazing point by Zhang to get to 5-3. So good!!!

Ridiculous from Zhang! 🔥🔥🔥

I need to go to bed but this Garcia/Zhang match is the shit

Lol how did Fruhvirtova beat Linette in the final?

It’s a 13+ hr traveling from Chennai to Seoul. Fruh is probably just tired from the past couple days.

Caro's ultra aggressive return position is sometimes really great and works amazingly, but other times she misses so many returns trying to hit winners that it doesn't work at all

She's a very interesting interview, if you haven't watched her press conferences from the US Open, I'd recommend it. She's very open and thoughtful and basically, she said that she has had to trust this method to return her game to this level and can't deviate from this ultra-aggressive approach, even if its not working in a match.

It's a great strategy overall, I just think she should mix it up at least a little bit. If it's a crucial point, make the return, don't dump the ball into the net going for broke. Especially on days where she's missing too much

It's a good plan, but its not as easy as it seems. On the Tennis Podcast, they talked about another player who said that to change her strategy was to admit that her game wasn't good enough to win. The mental confidence high-wire is so fraught in this sport. For Caro, who this year has reminded everyone that she is one of the most talented players on the tour but has spent literally years in the wilderness, sticking with an extreme strategy seems justifiable.

Wow I did not know Zhang is 33! She could pass for 18.

Shuai has had a wild career. Went out in the 1st round in her first 14 slams, before making the QF in Australia when she was like 27. Now playing some of the best tennis of her career at 33 and holder of multiple doubles slams. I love both of these players, not sure how I feel about the aggro they are developing for one another. For sure, this is probably not a great sign for Caro - she was so even tempered all through the summer, but is having trouble keeping her anger in check even though she is still playing brilliantly.

oh *dear* whenever Garcia's game is off by just a slight margin, playing ugly is never going to be in her vocabulary she still did well to get to a tiebreak from a break down but this third set will be interesting Zhang isn't gonna give her anything

I'm curious to see if she mentally recovers.

Zhang Shuai: "I need something to eat, breads etc"

I’ve been wondering this for a while but anyone know who that woman is that’s always sitting right next to Caro Garcia’ coach? I’ve always seen her there and to me she looks a lot like Caro which makes me think they’re related 😅

Her physio, Laura Legoupil

Thanks for that:)

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I think about Shuai serving too fast cause Caro was getting a towel and Shuai was already ready to serve

Why is the Moselle Open played in dark blue lights? Feels like an aquarium lol.

Garcia with 27 winners in one set 👀

Hello! Does anyone know if Federer is playing in the day session or the night session of the Laver Cup on Friday? Need to set my alarm for the crack of dawn if it's the night session!

Night, double is the last match of the day

Thank you - that’s really helpful :)

19-year old Svajda would be a good prospect if he had a better serve. Still showed so much fight there, saving 3 matchpoints and breaking Nakashima to take the match to a tiebreaker which he ultimately went on to lose but still fought so hard in every point in San Diego.

Look at that second serve!! Wow

Svajda is a great player and it's so unfortunate he can't find the consistency to get out of the 400s. That match he played against Sinner last year kinda still lives in my head lol. But these situations kinda just illustrate how *deep* the bench of talent is among all professionals. Mere mortals like us really don't have a means of making a dent.

Sinner always gets the dangerous unseeded floaters lol. Svajda, Draper, Altmaier, Fucsovics, PCB, Nakashima, Murray, etc etc…

I really feel like Sinner's *right there* on the cusp of understanding how to really handle these dangerous floaters. He's so close to finding the key in solving these matches in more straightforward fashion. I have faith he will get there; gotta have him fully energized for the QF/SF/F matches lol

Garcia is just so aggressive it's beautiful to watch

Great by Shuai to win that game after how impressive some of Caroline’s points were

I could watch Caroline Garcia half-volley service returns all day

Linette seems to have recovered well from Chennai final. Up a set against Hartono in Seoul...

Mugu coming to take tokyo to fund her trip to Gabon 😍

Fantastic from Muguruza!

UH ARGHHH

Wtf are these noises Papamichail is making? 😖

Winning this match would radically alter her career. She’s trying extremely hard.

Dasha tore her acl, just shit luck for her

Has it been confirmed as a tear? That's another 6-12 months off her career depending on the severity of the tear, a real shame. Especially after she worked her way back into the top 50 this year.

[Unfortunately yes.](https://twitter.com/Daria_gav/status/1572412821820026882?s=20&t=Pey2R_kl-j_CxyglY8pC4Q) 😔

which Dasha

Saville (nee Gavrilova) Happened in a match against Osaka last night

oh no. :( either one would be sad - she's just had to deal with so much.

Really terrible news considering how much she has clawed her way back up the rankings. She's one of those players that I've watched and wondered what could have been without the injuries, here's another one to fight through. Crap news.

Despina Papamichail, the woman Muguruza is playing right now, has won ~1/100th of Muguruza’s career prize money, and Papamichail is a few months older. Being a career fringe top 100 player is so crazy/amazing.

Now what is this grunt??

I’m high rn, and I just remembered Kyrgios really made it to a slam final and won 1 in doubles. My minds re-blown; what a timeline

Like, that really happened

Something I had always figured I'd have enough time to do was buy a ticket to watch Djokovic and Federer play a match in person. The only reason was to shout "Let's go Rafa" during the period between points or games and watch both of them exaggerate being confused and looking around to find him

Someone did this at the Djokovic/Thiem AO final and it wasn’t very funny lol.

Which tennis players’ fashion style do you think is best? Personally I think it’s either Naomi Osaka. Out of mens im not sure. I think Fed dresses really well but it’s way too preppy and formal for my liking. I think nick Kyrgios has some drip

IMO Osaka always looks a hideous try-hard mess. Kyrgios looks lazy and dirty. WTA: Raducanu, Muguruza, Halep, Kontaveit, Petkovic always look good. ATP: Rafa, Dimitrov, Rublev, Auger-Aliassime always look good.

Biceps.

Medvedev and Muguruza

I like Giorgi's dresses the best! I think her grandma makes many of the pieces with lace and what not...

Killer ace to get a big hold for Kudla!

So Sakkari is playing a clay tournament (Got a WC for Parma) in the middle of a indoor hard court swing. That tournament shouldn't even exist in the first place (considering the point of the season we are) or should be leveled down to a 125. It's basically made for players who are only good on clay (like Trevisan, Nuria, Zidansek, Sherif, Udvardy, they're all on the entry list) and need points because they don't know how to play in other courts or don't care about learning how to play in other courts. It could very good for her confidence if she actually won it, but I can see about 5 or 6 players there who I wouldn't put much stake on her beating in her current form. Tatjana Maria is on the entry list as well

Maria’s gonna lose to Maria ffs. Isn’t there a 125 she can poach somewhere?

At least maria and Maria will both be seeded so it won't be another opening match again lol

Do you think Emma goes far in this tournament? Looks like another good opportunity but I thought the same at Potoroz. I've been keeping my expectations low just so I don't get disappointed . I know shes young but I really get frustrated watching her.

Could run into Fruhvirtova next round and then Linette. Might be tough, Linda is in good form and Linette can be tricky.

I'm back, haven't really been checking in here because of the insane and queen's funeral coverage where I am somehow segueway into Fed's news that I felt like the past 2 years it was endless newstream of things ending.

Can someone help me out? As far as I could tell playing only 4 matches A-day will not end the tournament on time.

Fruhvirtova is still in Seoul's draw it seems. I was expecting her to withdraw after the long week she had in India. She is scheduled to play later against Wickmayer. Kasintseva from Andorra, also a very promising 17 year-old, got a LL spot in Seoul and won her match against Pacquet. 6/2 6/2. Great result. Hopefully this will be the end of her slump. She broke the top 200 barrier way before Fruhvirtova but she is having a tough year.

Seems like players are taking their chances instead of withdrawing. Siniakova played in Portoroz 2 days after coming back from USO, and won the whole tournament. Tatiana Maria is playing 3rd week in a row, each time in a completely different timezone. Fruhvirtova & Linette reached F in Chennai & are playing today in Seoul.

Can't belive Jack Sock will end Federer's career with a fat L

Fed’s knee comments are heartbreaking.

Can you summarize what he said?

Looking forward for the match between Kudla and Verdasco.

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Have you taken your meds today

Im watching highlights from day 1 of san diego and my God if JJ Wolf actually develops a good backhand he will be insane

catching up: how is saville? any news? i really like her

getting an MRI tomorrow

thanks

Really hope the reports about Russia are untrue. Makes me worry

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Lol they don’t give a fuck about their athletes

high liklihood they are true. CB governor has resigned and when she took the job her condition was no draft where are rublev and meddy rn? anyone know?

Meddy is in france and is exempt from service. Bad situation for Andrey tho ​ Andrey is mostly in Spain tho

who is andrey?

Rublev

ok why bad for him?

Idk if he has an alternate citizenship like the rest

We also know he completed National service, unlike Medvedev, albeit the athlete stream. I wouldn’t worry too much about this though, there’s a long way to go from prisoners and people we can be racist against to rich white professional sportspeople being called up

Meddy has a condition from his premature birth he cannot serve

Yes, I know. I’m thinking Rublev here

lol

if they are in russia... game over

First we started seeing major sponsorship from online betting, now we have commentators literally discussing odds and payouts on air. Shit's embarrassing.

In Polish football league (Ekstraklasa) an online betting company became the main sponsor, and they are now showing live odds during each game at the stadium, on the centrally positioned LED screens (alongside the pitch) so everyone can see it, including players lol

Oh god, the poor players, lmao

I cannot fucking stand how much they talk about gambling on sports broad casts. And look at my username!!

which channel?

Tennis Channel. Watching Eubanks and Kreuger in San Diego right now.

Will the laver cup survive after this year? I just don’t see it being as big of an event anymore with Federer retiring. Don’t think Nadal or Djokovic will play anymore and Murray will be done

Being as its federers last appearance, will it be a big presence of alot of players xoming in to say farewell and wellx to watch him play one last time?

I personally loved it last year even though none of the big 4 were there

Last year was embarrassing for team world 😭. They came so so close to winning in 2019 against a better team Europe. Even 2017, 2018 were somewhat competitive. Last year was just a bloodbath

Yeah I mean it would have been nice for it to be more competitive I guess, but I'm not too bothered as it’s just an exhibition(or maybe cos I’m European haha). I just loved the vibe of team Europe last year, nice to have just the younger guys for once :)

Players confirmed for ATP 500 in Vienna: - Medvedev - Tsitsipas - Zverev - Berrettini - Sinner - Tiafoe - Thiem Looks amazing already

so who is playing Basel at the same time? I saw Alcaraz is confirmed, anyone else? (Alcaraz, Ruud, Musetti, FAA)