2025 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy - WTA 1000

[MargaretMcAleer]

Sabalenka making light work of another Drama Queen on the tour, Kostyuk, winning the 1st set 61
Saba wake up you were lucky not to lose the 2nd set, broke Kostyuk when she was serving at 5-4
Lets see if Saba and her brain can serve out the match 6-5?
No broken,
A TB for the 2nd set, which is probably the fairest thing between these 2 players presently
Sabalenka in a tight TB comes pulls through winning the match 61 76(8) with a great drop shot to win the TB>
BTW Marta is a very 'highly strung young woman' she needs to take 'chill pills' she waste too much mental energy screaming and fist pumping on every point she plays, it becomes quite 'tiresome' to watch her play.
Maybe Marta and Sofia Kenin could become best friends, they both are 'way too highly strung' and it goes against them on the 'big points in tennis",
Of course No Handshake from Marta just a thrown racket, what else would you expect from her. Saba extends her H2H 4-0 over Miss Drama Queen
Saba is tough as nails when the Big Points matter in Tennis!

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

The Womens Singles QFs are now set,

Sabalenka (1) vs Zheng (8)
Gauff (4) vs Andreeva (7)
Paolini (6) vs Shnaider, since the departure of Safina, Diana has been playing solid tennis again
Svitolina (16) vs Stearns

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

There will be 2 QF singles matches,
Tuesday 13th May,
Not before 13.00,

Paolini (6) vs Shnaider (13) Jazz leads their H2H 1-0, this is their first meeting on clay

Not before 19.00

Svitolina (16) vs Stearns This is their first meeting

 

[kskate2]

News just in,
Rybakina will play WTA500 Strasbourg tournament ahead of Roland Garros, she reached the final in 2020
Quite frankly Iga Swiatek should join her, though I read earlier there are no plans for Iga to play another tournament before Roland Garros

Elena needs the matches. This is the result of her skipping Stuttgart after losing early in Miami. She's not doing herself any favors as far as rankings go. Even if she wins the tourney, the draw will already be made by Sat and she can't help herself there. I disagree w/ Iga. She's played what 8-9 matches on clay? She doesn't need anymore matches. In fact maybe she needs a week to get her head right. Where is her traveling shrink when she needs her?

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Elena needs the matches. This is the result of her skipping Stuttgart after losing early in Miami. She's not doing herself any favors as far as rankings go. Even if she wins the tourney, the draw will already be made by Sat and she can't help herself there. I disagree w/ Iga. She's played what 8-9 matches on clay? She doesn't need anymore matches. In fact maybe she needs a week to get her head right. Where is her traveling shrink when she needs her?

I agree that Elena needs matches, I also think Iga needs matches, her shrink dosent seem to be helping her with her head, its the way she is playing on the clay, it is some new found aggressive play that Fisette is instructing her to do, she is going for lines with little margin, thats not the way she was playing on clay when she was so hard to beat last year on the clay, she dosent appear to know what shot to use and is self doubting herself.If she losses at RG this year, I dont expect her to stay with Fisette, she has already told him to shut up in matches when he has been advising her from the players box.