who stops her? Halep tries and Muguruza is there too
The queen had to breathe, her shoulder hurt a little more and withdrew from Madrid to be more ready to Romewhere she is favorite for the second consecutive after her impressive performance last year when she lost just one set and demolished in the final 6-0 6-0 Karolina Pliskova. After all, when she is on the cloud, the 20-year-old Polish woman Iga Swiatek flies impregnable, as al Roland Garros 2020, who won without giving up a set. A result that seems possible again to look at the streak of 23 games in a row of the new number 1 who took the place of the pre-retired Ash Barty. The other young women are recovering, but far away. From the 19 year old Brit Emma Raducanusurprise queen of the last US Open, who is taking a bath of humility, at the “new Williams“, To the cetanea Leylah Fernandez in crisis of settlement, at the 18 year old Coco Gaussat the school of sliding and patience on red, to the 22-year-old Canadian Bianca Andreescuwhich reappears after two years of physical and psychological problems.
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THE OPPONENTS
To look for Swiatek’s opponents, we need to look elsewhere. Starting with Simona Halep that when it seemed by now on the avenue of the sunset, it gave a swerve by marrying the technical direction of Patrick Mouratoglou. “Weird, I’m not an easy one, I need to feel really okay, but he seems to like my game and how I am. So it was easy to explain to him what I go through before, during and after the matches ». At 31, with 2 Grand Slams won in 3 different Grand Slam finals, the former number 1 of 4-5 years ago, specialist in red, Simona is well aware of the more fluctuating situation than ever in the tennis women: «In Madrid, was Jabeur the last” top 10 “in the race already in the quarterfinals? I’m not surprised, the WTA scene is very open: everyone work hard and anyone can win anywhere. So I don’t look so much at the rankings, better focus on your game. Today, in spite of her number 21 in the world, the Romanian who gave a blow to 2, Paola Badosain the house of the Spaniard and in the fast conditions of Madrid, she is preferred to the imperfect beaters Sabalenka, Sakkari, Kontaveit, Pliskova, Ostapenko, Pegula and Anisimova. At 25, Belinda BencicOnce the physical problems have been overcome, she seems more than anything else happy to be there but unwilling to undergo other pressures after having endured the onerous label of “new Hingis” since she was a child prodigy. Instead the number 3 in the world, Barbora Krejcikova, outgoing Roland Garros champion, after having skipped Indian Wells, Miami and Madrid, for not having elbow problems also given up in Rome, the only one of the top 20. An outsider? Due. Garbine Muguruza who in Madrid started the pressure to play at home like Badosa but in Rome, under the guidance of Concita Martinez, can do the bang. The dream of the aesthetes, on the other hand, is the juggler of all talent and imagination, the 27-year-old Tunisian Ons Jabeur.
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