Kaia Kanepi
Maria Sharapova
Pundits talk about the transition from defense to offense—Sharapova specializes in the transition from offense to more offense.
Pete Bodo
I think she's in very good form right now.
Kaia Kanepi, referring to Sharapova
The shot? Probably the swing volley because I don't have to bend my knees. I can just kind of jump up and hit it.
Maria Sharapova
Kvitova was so far off that, when she tried to knock the clay out of her shoes with her racquet, she swung and missed.
Steve Tignor
3 comments:
It's moment's like when Sharapova was down break point at 3-3 in the second set when I find her incredibly hard to root for. She totally circled the wrong mark!
It's just like when she was playing Golovin in Miami (06 or 07 maybe) and Golovin rolled her ankle and Maria just turned her back and took practice swings.
Like her professionalism and focus are really positive attributes...but her uber-competitiveness can be unattractive.
But in terms of tennis, Petra came with the wrong mindset today. I think she should have come in with the plan to blow Maria off the court and then to use touch sparingly. Instead, at first, she kept trying to bring Maria to net but with poorly executed drop shots. And then she tried to emulate Vika and hit the ball to Maria to induce errors and take away angles...and while that kind of worked for awhile, Petra just made too many UEs.
And when she finally got a little momentum from being mad, the irritation dissipated because she was vindicated on the next wrong call. I kind of wish the second wrong call didn't happen so soon. We could've gotten a good match.
The linesmen really did a disservice to Petra today.
Petra is a mess. Something needs to be done.
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