To call the Vinci match a fix involves extreme ignorance.
So Vinci was 4-0 against Cornet beforehand. Big deal. Does losing 4 straight to her opponent mean Cornet is forever incapable of ever beating her? Nonsense, of course. So if one goes beyond the 4-0 hth record Vinci brought into that match, then one would have found that
(1) Vinci had only ever won 30% of her 1st round French Open matches, whereas Cornet had only ever lost 30% of her 1st round French Open matches. These historical stats said that this stage of this tournament was a prime spot for Cornet to end her losing ways against Vinci.
(2) Vinci had made the final in Nuremberg played the previous Saturday, and a mere 2 days later was being asked to defeat a top 30 ranked opponent playing in her home Grand Slam (Cornet is French). For a player 32 years of age, that's physically no simple walk-in-the-park task. It's no surprise the 3rd set scoreline was so one sided: Vinci ran out of gas.
(3) If Vinci was throwing the match, why at 2-5 down in the 2nd set did she bother to fight to break Cornets serve to eventually get it back to 4-5 before she lost the set? Why did she fight to win her serve at 0-5 down in the 3rd set, instead of just mailing it completely? Since when does showing some pride (to avoid a bagel) have anything to do with fixing? Why did she needlessly spend energy fighting a cause she was, from this fixing pov, helping to lose?
I see others have offered various replies to your assertion, but none have mentioned that these are females: they feel like garbage once a month. just remember you have no idea if your player was passing blood out of her box just before, during and/or just after the match. If she was, how can you be surprised she lost, no matter what her odds?
To call the Vinci match a fix involves extreme ignorance.
So Vinci was 4-0 against Cornet beforehand. Big deal. Does losing 4 straight to her opponent mean Cornet is forever incapable of ever beating her? Nonsense, of course. So if one goes beyond the 4-0 hth record Vinci brought into that match, then one would have found that
(1) Vinci had only ever won 30% of her 1st round French Open matches, whereas Cornet had only ever lost 30% of her 1st round French Open matches. These historical stats said that this stage of this tournament was a prime spot for Cornet to end her losing ways against Vinci.
(2) Vinci had made the final in Nuremberg played the previous Saturday, and a mere 2 days later was being asked to defeat a top 30 ranked opponent playing in her home Grand Slam (Cornet is French). For a player 32 years of age, that's physically no simple walk-in-the-park task. It's no surprise the 3rd set scoreline was so one sided: Vinci ran out of gas.
(3) If Vinci was throwing the match, why at 2-5 down in the 2nd set did she bother to fight to break Cornets serve to eventually get it back to 4-5 before she lost the set? Why did she fight to win her serve at 0-5 down in the 3rd set, instead of just mailing it completely? Since when does showing some pride (to avoid a bagel) have anything to do with fixing? Why did she needlessly spend energy fighting a cause she was, from this fixing pov, helping to lose?
I see others have offered various replies to your assertion, but none have mentioned that these are females: they feel like garbage once a month. just remember you have no idea if your player was passing blood out of her box just before, during and/or just after the match. If she was, how can you be surprised she lost, no matter what her odds?
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