Wimbledon 2022

Good match, that Isner serve is a weapon but he also played well, tactics were spot on too.

Emma is still very young, she now has a whole heap of expectation on her and I think she may just have gotten caught up in the hype a bit, if she took those massive Pearl earrings off she might have been quick enough to reach a few more balls
 
manic111 said:
Her tennis has completely changed - at the US she was just going for every shot, as she's such a newcomer. She won a couple of matches and her confidence grew and grew, and she was hitting harder and harder and just blowing people away.

She's no longer able to play with that freedom as there's an expectation on her, and she's overthinking things more and more, and playing much less aggressively as a result. She's still got the ability, but 99% of the difference between 1 in the world and 100 in the world is in the head and hers isn't there right now.

She'll never win a tournament in the same way as she'll never play with that amount of freedom again. She's still got all the technical ability, but the question for her now is whether she wants to put the hard hours in, and learn to win matches the difficult way, when things aren't going to plan. The reason the top players win tournaments frequently is that (a) they get their head right more often than not, and (b) they solve problems and work out a way to survive even when their game is off. That's what Emma now needs to learn.
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Fantastic post.
 
State of these line calls yet again tonight, it's embarrassing to watch. Last one was plum on the line, maybe closer to the inside of the court than out.

3-1 loss for Draper but he was competitive with the 19th seed for the majority of the match.
 
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