Grand Slam Day 4 - Australian Open 2024

[BobbyMorri]

Day 5 is here!!!!!!

Grand Slam - Day 5 - Australian Open 2024

Have fun Medvedev. try and finish before 2am for everyone. (in before a 4am finish) He did not finish before 2am.... It was nearly 4am. Anyway, "day 6" is here https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/day-6-australian-open-2024.1376316/#post-82191857

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[LukeParkerno1]

Hingis won three slams I think before she turned 18.

Rule changed after Hingis went through, there is a limit I'll look it up

 

[Drummond]

Hahahah how unbelievably good is Andreeva? She is a star. Love watching her. Her tennis IQ is off the charts and it’s what sets her apart from so many.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Okay so as a 15 year old you can play up to 10 events, with 4 more to be added with performance clauses (this is relevant for Mirra and Coco when she went through). This number (10) is increased by 6 events per year until the age of 17.

 

[juice t]

Hingis won three slams I think before she turned 18.

Actually it was 4

She won the 3 in 1997 as a 16 year old then won the 98 AO at 17

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Top 50 at 16

Holly molly

Serves at 185kmph and has little to no weaknesses, probably the best mover on the womens tour already. She just needs experience

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Hahahah how unbelievably good is Andreeva? She is a star. Love watching her. Her tennis IQ is off the charts and it’s what sets her apart from so many.

Playing like she's been on tour for a decade

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Playing like she been on tour of a decade

There's so many Russian and Czech girls coming through, top 4 seeds in the juniors are all from there. It's an absolute nursery of talent

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

There's so many Russian and Czech girls coming through, top 4 seeds in the juniors are all from there. It's an absolute nursery of talent

Bloody hell Russian tennis fans eating good

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Bloody hell Russian tennis fans eating good

Only starting to see the influence of a really good academy there. I won't go into too much detail to bore everyone, but I'll use an example okay. Maria Sharapova used the Nick Bolletri tennis academy to grow and develop in the US before her career, there were a stack of talent coming out of that academy.

There have been a dozen of those academys set up in Russia and Czech, and this was a decade ago, we are starting to see them pump out players now.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Hahahah how unbelievably good is Andreeva? She is a star. Love watching her. Her tennis IQ is off the charts and it’s what sets her apart from so many.

Look at her cakewalk draw now! Do we dare to dream a semi?

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Look at her cakewalk draw now! Do we dare to dream a semi?

Would love to see how she would handle Sabalenkas power hitting

 

[BobbyMorri]

Reminds me the last time a 16 year old made a semi.....Who was also Czech.

As long as she doesn't go out with Radek Stepenak, she should have a much better career than what Nicole Vaidišová ended up having.....

ps, Nicole now has 2 kids and is happy.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Okay so as a 15 year old you can play up to 10 events, with 4 more to be added with performance clauses (this is relevant for Mirra and Coco when she went through). This number (10) is increased by 6 events per year until the age of 17.

yeah, knew it is something like that. When Coco Gauff came through, there were calls to increase the amount they could play, but I recall the WTA stuck to its guns.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Reminds me the last time a 16 year old made a semi.....Who was also Czech.

As long as she doesn't go out with Radek Stepenak, she should have a much better career than what Nicole Vaidišová ended up having.....

ps, Nicole now has 2 kids and is happy.

Nicole was in Australia a week ago too was in Sydney

 

[LukeParkerno1]

yeah, knew it is something like that. When Coco Gauff came through, there were calls to increase the amount they could play, but I recall the WTA stuck to its guns.

Might be more calls as these young Russian/Czech's come through but yeah the rule is as stated. There are perfomance allocations, so Coco actually played 14 as a 15 year old

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Would love to see how she would handle Sabalenkas power hitting

Yep that will be a test and probably loses now however it's a matchup in the future I'm confident Mirra will win.

 

[YeoShuey]

Demon playing now.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Wozniaki in deep trouble lol

This is another girl that's coming through the ranks they are everywhere

WTA is so much better to watch

 

[yabsy]

Think they will add an extra match onto RLA today with the delayed start on the outside courts and this match being over so quick?

They definitely would have the option if the start time stayed at 11am.

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[LukeParkerno1]

Wozniaki OUT!

Timofeeva is another to watch for Drummond

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Good stuff Alex

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Every single match today has been a flogging bar Woz losing lol

 

[BobbyMorri]

Every single match today has been a flogging bar Woz losing lol

That was first a flogging, then it turned into a flogging the other way.

Woz had BP at 6-1, 2-0*.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

That was first a flogging, then it turned into a flogging the other way.

Woz had BP at 6-1, 2-0*.

To be fair there were 8 deuce games in the first set

 

[yabsy]

To be fair there were 8 deuce games in the first set

How could there be when only 7 games were played

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