Iga is one of my favorite female players to watch these days. How she is
able to change directions on her ground strokes, especially her
forehand, is amazing to watch. I love how focused she is match-to-match
and how much work she puts in to improve her game.
She is like Sampras, great champion and under looked in her greatness.
On 25/03/2025 2:15 pm, Scall5 wrote:
Iga is one of my favorite female players to watch these days. How she
is able to change directions on her ground strokes, especially her
forehand, is amazing to watch. I love how focused she is
match-to-match and how much work she puts in to improve her game.
She is like Sampras, great champion and under looked in her greatness.
I'm a big Iga fan too, but I never get the feeling she's invincible.
Every time she wins a slam I wonder if that's the last one. I know she
puts up a lot of bagels and breadsticks, but it just doesn't look super dominant when you watch her play. I really wouldn't be surprised if she
never wins another slam.
Sampras was very different. He produced goat level tennis regularly and often looked unbeatable off clay.
On 25/03/2025 2:15 pm, Scall5 wrote:
Iga is one of my favorite female players to watch these days. How she
is able to change directions on her ground strokes, especially her
forehand, is amazing to watch. I love how focused she is match-to-
match and how much work she puts in to improve her game.
She is like Sampras, great champion and under looked in her greatness.
I'm a big Iga fan too, but I never get the feeling she's invincible.
Every time she wins a slam I wonder if that's the last one. I know she
puts up a lot of bagels and breadsticks, but it just doesn't look super dominant when you watch her play. I really wouldn't be surprised if she
never wins another slam.
Sampras was very different. He produced goat level tennis regularly and often looked unbeatable off clay.
On 3/29/25 3:10 AM, Whisper wrote:
On 25/03/2025 2:15 pm, Scall5 wrote:
Iga is one of my favorite female players to watch these days. How she
is able to change directions on her ground strokes, especially her
forehand, is amazing to watch. I love how focused she is match-to-
match and how much work she puts in to improve her game.
She is like Sampras, great champion and under looked in her greatness.
I'm a big Iga fan too, but I never get the feeling she's invincible.
Every time she wins a slam I wonder if that's the last one. I know she
puts up a lot of bagels and breadsticks, but it just doesn't look
super dominant when you watch her play. I really wouldn't be surprised
if she never wins another slam.
Sampras was very different. He produced goat level tennis regularly
and often looked unbeatable off clay.
Swiatek is a real puzzle. She seems to oscillate between playing with
supreme confidence, as evidenced by her ready willingness to go for a line-hugging kill shot as soon as one presents itself. For many players
this eagerness to hit a risky potentially point-ending shot would be
read as impatience, possibly to stay out of longer rallies for various negative reasons. But over the years she has demonstrated that yep, she
does indeed have the necessary kill shots, and it is an integral part of
her game to use them.
But then sometimes she seems to lose this confidence and she starts
hitting balls that can be attacked...short and more to the center of the court. This of course would get anyone into trouble, and for her it's
often fatal.
I think that there's a part of her that *fears* playing extended
defense--has little confidence in it, like you see with some players who really do not want to be anywhere near the net because they fear
volleying. She seems to get the same willies over playing baseline defense--which she *can* do fairly well, but if she is pushed to playing
it over a certain threshold percentage of strokes, it saps her
confidence, she quits going for winners (but this is the core of her
game!) and that's why she loses.
When she first came up she seldom showed this weak spot, and when it did appear, it seemed to appear for an extended period during which time she
was pretty woeful, but once past it, quite dominant. But lately the oscillations seem shorter; she can get into fits of this sort of self-
doubt right in the middle of a match.
She's less effective and invincible than before. Let's see if she can
get this cured. She *does* have the shots, that's for sure. She's not a
lot of fun to watch, like Raducanu when she is playing well.
On 29/03/2025 12.10, Whisper wrote:
On 25/03/2025 2:15 pm, Scall5 wrote:
Iga is one of my favorite female players to watch these days. How she
is able to change directions on her ground strokes, especially her
forehand, is amazing to watch. I love how focused she is match-to-
match and how much work she puts in to improve her game.
She is like Sampras, great champion and under looked in her greatness.
I'm a big Iga fan too, but I never get the feeling she's invincible.
Every time she wins a slam I wonder if that's the last one. I know she
puts up a lot of bagels and breadsticks, but it just doesn't look
super dominant when you watch her play. I really wouldn't be surprised
if she never wins another slam.
Sampras was very different. He produced goat level tennis regularly
and often looked unbeatable off clay.
Off clay, Federer looked more often unbeatable. Much more. Even on clay, Federer looked more often unbeatable than some clay greats like Kuerten,
for example.
Remarkable.
On 3/29/2025 5:10 AM, Whisper wrote:
On 25/03/2025 2:15 pm, Scall5 wrote:
Iga is one of my favorite female players to watch these days. How she
is able to change directions on her ground strokes, especially her
forehand, is amazing to watch. I love how focused she is match-to-
match and how much work she puts in to improve her game.
She is like Sampras, great champion and under looked in her greatness.
I'm a big Iga fan too, but I never get the feeling she's invincible.
Every time she wins a slam I wonder if that's the last one. I know she
puts up a lot of bagels and breadsticks, but it just doesn't look
super dominant when you watch her play. I really wouldn't be surprised
if she never wins another slam.
Sorry, I disagree. When she is handling out bagels and breadsticks I
think she looks very dominate. Plus she is the 3x returning at Roland
Garros.
Sampras was very different. He produced goat level tennis regularly
and often looked unbeatable off clay.
Granted. I only was comparing their similar media/social profiles for
being under looked. Iga does have first strike tennis from the back
court but nothing like Sampras' nuclear blast serves, running forehands,
and superb crushing volleys. Not to mention his flying overheads.
On 30/03/2025 4:20 am, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
On 29/03/2025 12.10, Whisper wrote:
On 25/03/2025 2:15 pm, Scall5 wrote:
Iga is one of my favorite female players to watch these days. How
she is able to change directions on her ground strokes, especially
her forehand, is amazing to watch. I love how focused she is
match-to- match and how much work she puts in to improve her game.
She is like Sampras, great champion and under looked in her greatness.
I'm a big Iga fan too, but I never get the feeling she's invincible.
Every time she wins a slam I wonder if that's the last one. I know
she puts up a lot of bagels and breadsticks, but it just doesn't look
super dominant when you watch her play. I really wouldn't be
surprised if she never wins another slam.
Sampras was very different. He produced goat level tennis regularly
and often looked unbeatable off clay.
Off clay, Federer looked more often unbeatable. Much more. Even on
clay, Federer looked more often unbeatable than some clay greats like
Kuerten, for example.
Remarkable.
Federer looked unbeatable v anyone except Nadal & Novak.
unbeatable v the greats of his era eg Agassi, Becker etc
Sure if you look at eg 2004 USO final v Hewitt, Federer looks like a
genuine boat, completely unbeatable. But that was against Hewitt so has
to factor into deliberations. Which slam finals did Federer look
unbeatable v great players? Nadal was unbeatable at eg 2008 FO final v Federer 61 63 60, Novak also reached that level v a red hot Nadal in
2019 AO final 63 62 63.
Your choice of Kuerten is poor given Guga thrashed peak Federer at 2004
FO 64 64 64, and Federer won the other 3 slams that year and Guga surely wasn't peak.
I may look like I'm being hard on Federer lol, but I will say he was
probably the best ever at beating lower skilled players. Nobody else
ever got up to beat those guys every time like Roger did. That counts
fro something, high level consistency is important.
However he always
seemed to play 2nd fiddle v Novak and Rafa and has a poor record against
both guys.
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