Meanwhile Muguruza got bounced in the Rd of 16 in Stuttgart and Madrid + lost in the Rd of 32 in Rome.
Muguruza went 4-2/62.5% in her 6 significant outdoor clay court matches (@Madrid & Rome) during her run into the 2016 FO which she won; she went 2-2/50% at those venues for her run-in this year. Trade 1 win for a loss from her '16 run-in and that would make for 3-3/50%, the same winning percentage as here. 1 result going the opposite way means she's not up to winning a Slam? Obviously not. For me Muguruza is one of those personalities that gets up for the big ones. That's seen in the fact that while she's won a mere 6 WTA titles, 33% of them are Slam titles. They say in tennis that you make your money outside of the Slams, and you make history inside of them. Muguruza is about history, she has that kind of mindset. She hired Sam Sumyk primarily because he piloted Azarenka to her breakthrough in Slam results. I'm not knocking your Halep pick generally speaking, I think it's a toss-up (I don't believe the 1st set winner will lose, unlike Halep's previous match), but I don't buy the reasoning that Muguruza's run-in results can be looked at as having anything concrete to say about this coming result. I'd be much more focused on the fact she hasn't dropped a set at this Slam to this point and that includes having faced 3 previous FO finalists & 2 previous winners in Stosur, Kuznetsova & Sharapova (& while Tsurenko retired, that match being played to the full wouldn't have interfered with upending that stat imo), while Halep has dropped 2 sets (against players - Riske & Kerber - who both do not like the clay of RG).
Appreciate the feedback but I do watch a ton of Tennis and the way people are playing before big events definitely does matter.There may be specific examples of cases where it didn’t matter but Halep going deep into tournaments on clay this season and Muguruza getting knocked out quite early was definitely alarming. Then Mugu rolled through an easy schedule in the first few rounds at RG and everyone decided to hop on her and totally dismiss Halep. Sometimes being tested early in these tournaments as Halep was, are what propels people to win it all. We will see but Halep looks like a different player now then in the past. Sloane is not who she probably wanted to see in the finals but it should be a great match.
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Quote Originally Posted by sandique:
Meanwhile Muguruza got bounced in the Rd of 16 in Stuttgart and Madrid + lost in the Rd of 32 in Rome.
Muguruza went 4-2/62.5% in her 6 significant outdoor clay court matches (@Madrid & Rome) during her run into the 2016 FO which she won; she went 2-2/50% at those venues for her run-in this year. Trade 1 win for a loss from her '16 run-in and that would make for 3-3/50%, the same winning percentage as here. 1 result going the opposite way means she's not up to winning a Slam? Obviously not. For me Muguruza is one of those personalities that gets up for the big ones. That's seen in the fact that while she's won a mere 6 WTA titles, 33% of them are Slam titles. They say in tennis that you make your money outside of the Slams, and you make history inside of them. Muguruza is about history, she has that kind of mindset. She hired Sam Sumyk primarily because he piloted Azarenka to her breakthrough in Slam results. I'm not knocking your Halep pick generally speaking, I think it's a toss-up (I don't believe the 1st set winner will lose, unlike Halep's previous match), but I don't buy the reasoning that Muguruza's run-in results can be looked at as having anything concrete to say about this coming result. I'd be much more focused on the fact she hasn't dropped a set at this Slam to this point and that includes having faced 3 previous FO finalists & 2 previous winners in Stosur, Kuznetsova & Sharapova (& while Tsurenko retired, that match being played to the full wouldn't have interfered with upending that stat imo), while Halep has dropped 2 sets (against players - Riske & Kerber - who both do not like the clay of RG).
Appreciate the feedback but I do watch a ton of Tennis and the way people are playing before big events definitely does matter.There may be specific examples of cases where it didn’t matter but Halep going deep into tournaments on clay this season and Muguruza getting knocked out quite early was definitely alarming. Then Mugu rolled through an easy schedule in the first few rounds at RG and everyone decided to hop on her and totally dismiss Halep. Sometimes being tested early in these tournaments as Halep was, are what propels people to win it all. We will see but Halep looks like a different player now then in the past. Sloane is not who she probably wanted to see in the finals but it should be a great match.
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