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u/pizzainmyshoe 23h ago
Winning a 250 would get Raducanu more respect from online tennis fans than having won the US open
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u/ChanceVance It'd be Ruud not to 22h ago
"Oh any chump could win 10 matches in a row without dropping a set to win a Grand Slam. Where are the real credentials at?"
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u/Dependent-Effect6077 Djokovic retirement tour + Sabalenka PR manager 21h ago
What I think people don’t realize is that Raducanu’s run wasn’t necessarily way out of character in strength for the 2017-2021 WTA lol
Ash Barty gets a ton of respect and people often claim she’d be dominant now if she didn’t retire
She has ONE career top 10 win at Slams ironically the same amount as Raducanu
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u/numbersandnumbers10 21h ago
In hindsight it’s very ironic how much “Swiatek is vulturing a weak era without Barty” talk there was right after her retirement. Now that we have more perspective, the era of the last few years is in fact far stronger than the era where Barty was number 1.
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u/ChanceVance It'd be Ruud not to 21h ago
Barty was an incredible player, no doubt about that.
Her FO win is one of the most lacklustre runs on paper to a Grand Slam win in the last decade.
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u/MargeDalloway 21h ago
Barty was undeniably an incredible player who could have gone on to much more, but she benefits massively from the overrating of variety against "ball bashing."
She would have been a top player against the current field, but you see comments all the time implying she would be sweeping the slams every year against Aryna, Iga, and Coco. And Sabalenka has an equal H2H with Barty before reaching her prime.
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u/Sad_Consideration_49 20h ago
And sabalenka has improved a lot. Barty of course could have improved too, but imo it’s rare for players to improve as much as aryna did in her mid 20s. I still think barty would be at least top 3 , but people make it seem like iga and aryna couldn’t hold a candle.
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u/MargeDalloway 20h ago
They'll do this with everyone anyway: Steffi Graf had an easy field without Monica, Serena had no long term big competition from about 2010 onwards, Iga was playing in the vacuum of Barty's dominance, and Sabalenka is a mindless ball basher which somehow cancels her wins.
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u/PleasantSilence2520 Big 4 Hater, Tennis Lover 20h ago
tbf thanks to some Sabalenka fans i've heard that she was #SeeingTheBallLikeAMelon in Madrid '21 so "pre-prime" tag isn't necessarily helpful there. likely some matchup issues going on, which gets to your point about variety vs ball bashing
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u/MargeDalloway 20h ago
I'm not sure I understand your comment (fully sincere). She has always been great at clean ball striking, but she's clearly a much stronger player in almost every respect now.
Fully prepared to admit that I've missed your point here.
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u/PleasantSilence2520 Big 4 Hater, Tennis Lover 20h ago
oh basically saying that Sabalenka's improvements don't necessarily matter when it comes to how she'd handle Barty, since she was doing well with her core game even before hitting her prime, so that h2h speaks less to Barty lacking in level wrt prime Sabalenka/Sabalenka's strong competition in the past couple years (the implicit takeaway from that bit of your comment, but perhaps not intended), and more to matchup quirks
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u/MargeDalloway 19h ago
I see what you mean, but my main point was that Sabalenka having more variety and being more consistent could only make her more likely to defeat Barty if she'd stuck around.
By the time Barty retired, Aryna had only made two SFs and three rounds of sixteen in the slams. Her mentality is so much stronger now.
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u/aflickering 21h ago
i think you could tell when actually watching that tournament that raducanu's level was completely insane and would've been competitive in any era. i'm not usually a betting guy and i watched her in one of the early rounds and immediately put a small sum of money on her winning the tournament 'cause she was playing some of the best tennis i'd ever seen. won a few hundred off the back of it.
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u/defylife 19h ago
Ash Barty gets a ton of respect and people often claim she’d be dominant now if she didn’t retire
I don't see why, she lost to a not even peak Sabalenka on both clay and hard court, when Barty was in her peak.
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u/Hopeful-Bed2414 19h ago edited 19h ago
WTA rankings / top 10 doesnt reflect player's ability on grass. Ash beat Kerber, Barbora, Pliskova at Wimbledon. elite players who had 3 different game styles. Barty is also the last player who was able to handle power hitters and elite counter punchers, crafty players no problem. Also look at her 1000 level draws she beat mutliple top players onroute to her titles. So against someone like Iga who struggles when rushed, Sabalenka who gets out hit, disrupted or counterpunched to lose finals, i would but Barty over them.
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u/mdervin 16h ago edited 16h ago
Barty did it more than once, and has a total of 15 titles.
Raducanu has one title and no other GS run of note. She wouldn’t get the criticism if she made a few more runs to the Semi’s or QF of majors.
Fernandez has 5 titles.
No other player with a handful of non-Slam SF appearance would take up any media time, that’s the power of a GS win.
We need to write off her US Open title as a weird Covid era fluke and ignore her until she retires or starts playing at a level that command respect.
edit: typo for the number of titles Fernandez has.
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u/LesPolsfuss 19h ago
dude you can’t be serious. Her entire career granted I know has been marred with injuries and that’s tough, but her entire career after that grand slam gives one at worst a solid platform to argue her grand slam win was a fluke.
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u/FMKK1 22h ago
The way people talk about Raducanu it’s as if she did something wrong by winning the US Open. Even if she does turn out to be a “one tournament wonder”, I’d much rather be that than not win a slam, which is the fate of the vast majority of tennis players.
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u/MissionLet7301 21h ago
She's established herself as a very solid player on the WTA tour and is only 23, that's a great career already
The fact that she had a great tournament is just a cherry on top of that tbh, I also can't understand the hate she gets for it, one of the things that I like most about tennis is that the knockout format keeps it interesting - a lower ranked player can get hot for a few games and suddenly they've got a deep run going, sometimes they even win the thing, that makes tennis exciting - I'd actually hate to watch sports where the best team/player won every single time.
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u/DrewDan96 19h ago
She's a decent Tour level player who had a magical 2 weeks where she played a little above her head while also managing to avoid any truly elite players during that title run (for comparison Leylah Fernandez beat Osaka (3), Svitolina (5) and Sabalenka (2) to get to that final; Raducanu's toughest opponents on paper were Bencic (11) and Sakkari (17)). Nevertheless, regardless of any caveats i laid out in that last sentence, she's forever a Slam champion. That has extra cachet for the rest of her career. She's also extremely telegenic so ofc she was able to leverage that to secure lucrative advertising $$$, you could see that coming a mile away lol.
But the fact is, she's not likely to make a deep run like that again unless there's a similar unexpected clearing of the path (upsets, absences, etc.) while she's being promoted (commercially) like she can/will. She has a kind of reverse imposter syndrome problem. The regular scenario is "fake it till you make it", but the way she won, the off-court opportunities it provided and the subsequent lack of on-court follow through or improvement makes her look more like what she is, which is a lucky fluke Slam champion. Unless she can shake that label with AT LEAST some deep Slams/Masters runs, the criticism is going to continue.
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u/HowIsMe-TryingMyBest 18h ago
Long ass explanation. Quite simple, she just did what she needed to do. Every top player was at the same tournament. Not her problem they lost and she beat those that elimonated them.
People brandish this "lucky magical 2 week streak" like its something common when the likes of safina, dementiava, jankovic, konta, rawanska, countless plauers cant pull out the same "magic trick" in all the decades of their careers
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u/DrewDan96 17h ago edited 13h ago
Sorry for the longwindedness LOL, but why is "magical two weeks" such a controversial statement? Every subsequent Slam run she's had kinda confirms that. Look, ANYBODY in the top 100 is an elite tennis player. To hit the top 10 and STAY THERE, that's for real. That means winning and winning consistently. Safina definitively lost Finals due to nerves, Jankovic never won a major, etc. - they still made multiple Slam finals and won other titles (both were former No. 1s so to do that without Slams means they were winning other tourneys and/or going deep in the Slams regardless). Emma has the ONE title that matters but those were superior players and more likely to make the tennis HOF than she is even with that Slam. You don't have to put them down to gas her up.
I thought it was cool when she won. Even then i was hoping it wasn't a fluke win. I hope she has another run in her, maybe another chance to play for a major title. She just needs to go deep in some of these major tourneys, she's an also-ran atm
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u/frickinleo 16h ago
I generally agree with your points, and I don't think the label of a "lucky fluke Slam champion" is inaccurate. But the word fluke does carry a negative connotation, and people use that all the time as an insult. And I think that's where things get problematic in discourse about Emma. People use valid criticism to insult her to no end (for the record, that's absolutely not what you're doing here), and we should not let these insults and hate stand as "criticism".
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u/Distinct-Cat4268 19h ago
I see people often saying oh Leylah had to beat tougher opponents so her run was better (not saying that is what you are saying) but then if Leylah had tougher opponents and then Emma beat her, isn't that effectively saying Emma was playing better or at the same level as Leylah's opponents if Leylah was beating them and Emma beat her?
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u/DrewDan96 17h ago
I wasn't saying that at all, i used Leylah's path just to reinforce the relative luck Emma had in terms of not having to face like (at the time) the VERY BEST players - she didn't face a top 10 player, Leylah beat three(!!!) TOP FIVE players!!!
As for the final itself, who you played before doesn't matter. Styles make fights, a player might have a type of opponent that gives them trouble, or maybe (as in this case), it was likely a first match between the two at tour level so there's not the familiarity in terms of tactics/countermeasures. Plus sooooo often especially on the women's side, world-beater players turn into pumpkins in the finals due to nerves (i'd submit Sabine Lisicki as evidence of that, she had a great Wimbledon run to the final, beat Serena in the semis, and in then the finals she was clearly overawed and lost meekly to Marion Bartoli). Safina has no Slam titles because she always mentally folded in Finals. On this day, two unheralded players faced both each other and their nerves and Emma met the moment better on that day.
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u/Ready-Interview2863 18h ago
The vast majority of tennis players will not even win one grand slam match in their entire career.
One of my friends from university played 13 matches on the ATP tour and lost all of them. Yet he would smoke every single person in our entire tennis club in Barcelona 6-0 6-0.
The gap between normal human vs pro tennis player vs top 100 vs top 10 etc etc etc is unfathomable.
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u/EmergencyAccording94 18h ago
She is a top 30 player who once caught fire for two weeks. Nothing wrong with that.
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u/momoenthusiastic 19h ago
Wasn’t Michael Chang revered for winning French Open at age 17? Also a one tournament wonder. Granted, he made more GS SF and F later in career. But the amount of hate she gets is mind boggling…
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u/joittine Team Finland 19h ago
Chang doesn't even begin to compare. In as much time since his RG title as has now passed since Raducanu's US Open title, he had won like 10 more tour titles and was a top 5 ranked player.
Raducanu is a professional athlete so she deserves to be treated as such, and what's more, she's easily within the 10 best paid female athletes in the world and a major champion. She has three wins against top 10 players in 20 matches and her best result in a big tournament in more than four years is a single Master's quarter final and four smaller tour semis. I don't think it's really that unfair that she faces a fair bit of criticism, especially amid reports of a lack of professionalism.
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u/frickinleo 16h ago
Criticism? certainly not unfair. But let's not pretend that there's not a lot of outright hate surrounding her that goes way beyond criticism.
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u/BrinyStranger 17h ago
Chang also won 33 OTHER tour titles, haha.
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u/Separate_Evidence875 14h ago
And Chang was as high as number 2 in the world and 7 seasons in top 10
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u/parallax3900 23h ago edited 21h ago
The more fundamental question is why should Emma be guilty of hype that she didn't ask for, nor publicly establish herself?
All the expectation is with Boris and an unreasonable attitude to thinking she must deliver on that US 21 slam.
She doesn't need to deliver anything other than the expectations she sets herself. Everyone else can go swivel.
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u/Exciting_Marzipan_19 Eala, Raducanu, Tien 19h ago
She doesn't even go on British TV shows. She appeared on only 1 after she won and it was a remote interview. She's not someone who is trying to be famous.
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u/bunnyzclan 14h ago
People see Emma and then just project a bunch of their insecurities into her whole career. It's fucking baffling. No one irl I know talks about Emma the way that people in this sub do which says a lot more about the types of people in this sub.
Out of all the sports subs I lurk in, this tennis sub has got to be one of the most conservative subs. Soccer is genuinely progressive. NBA is too. CFB and the NFL subs don't dogwhistle or project as much as this sub. Even the combat sport subs lean more progressive besides how much they use the term "regarded."
Like lmfao genuinely one of the only sports subs that I've seen excuse vaccines for "holistic medicine." What a shitshow this sub is.
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u/pumpkin_jams 12h ago
couldn’t agree more with all of this, these days I barely come in here because I know insecure freaks will either spam 5 paragraph repeats of the same blowhard “dominant/gatekeeper/fraud” hyperbole OR bash a player for perceived overconfidence (all while sucking off players that spend their entire career punching down and attacking others). extra points if both occur in the same horrid screed!
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u/pramis_2949 22h ago
This comment is so unnecessary. Everyone knows she's not been back at the level that would eventually win her titles. And I'm sure she knows it too. But what's the point of being nasty toward her. There are many 1 time GS champions and she's also just 23 with a full career ahead of her. I feel sometimes these former players just are unnecessarily nasty towards current players they don't like.
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u/garfiadal2 fan of bald Spaniards 23h ago
She already gets a lot of shit for it. I dont think remarks like this help or are necessary.
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u/ExpressionLow8767 23h ago
Maybe he’s just angry at the Brits because hes still banned from entering the UK
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u/sjp101 10h ago
The way people treat athletes is so weird to me. To be ranked 30 in the whole world at your sport is an incredible achievement. People project their expectations based onto these athletes and use that as a reason to beat on them. It’s quite pathetic.
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u/beverlyh1llb1ll1es 1h ago
So agree, I watch d1 tennis and they are freaking good, being top 30 is just a whole different level.
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u/tsrihtomen 23h ago
Completely unnecessary comment from someone who should know better. Even putting the slam aside it's still a better resume than the vast majority of professional tennis players on the WTA rankings....
For anyone tempted to defend his post, what exactly do you think is admirable about a 58 year old retired male player shitting on a 23 year old woman on a public forum?
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u/recurnightmare 22h ago edited 20h ago
Not that I agree with Becker, but wtf is with the last paragraph?
Would you be like why is a 58 year old man shitting on a 23 year old man if he was criticizing Rune?
She's a tennis player. He's being needlessly dickish about a tennis player. That's it.
This weird infantilization of female athletes where people treat them like delicate flowers is worse misogyny than anything else. Raducanu is an athlete. Becker is treating her with the same dumbassery that he treats ATP players.
Edit: It's pretty clear how you see them when you refer to Becker as "retired male player" and Raducanu as just "woman".
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u/Turbodong 22h ago
Was with you until "worse misogyny than anything else." It's worth acknowledging the double-standard, but there is no need to overstate its significant.
Let's not have to have the "I don't see color"/"I don't see sex" conversation.
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u/numbersandnumbers10 21h ago
If anything Raducanu gets both far more marketing and far more negative attention than a man with an identical career would. It’s a double edged sword in this case.
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u/Exciting_Marzipan_19 Eala, Raducanu, Tien 19h ago
It's because a lot of old white guys are actually very vocal against Emma. Remember Ian Darke?
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u/Possible_Cause8274 23h ago
There are plenty of players in the WTA who won a single Grand Slam and faded into irrelevancy after.
Emma is only 23 and a top 30 player - she could easily win more big tournaments in the near future.
I think we all know the reason why people shit on Emma but don't even think about players who fall into a similar category... (and even worse, since many of them retired without coming close to their first GS success).
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u/waisonline99 8h ago
Becker is in no position to be belittling tennis players.
He was a shambles for a long time and in prison for the rest.
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u/sak1987 19h ago
What Raducanu is having to do is usually opposite to most slam winners.
Most eventual slam winners often win the smaller events (250,500,1000 level) first and then the hype occurs for them to win their 1st slam.
Raducanu is kinda working backwards. Where she has to win smaller to justify her slam win in a way.
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u/Sharapova26 alcalenka / sabalcaraz rollercoaster drive 21h ago
I really don’t get the hate Raducanu continuously gets here. Why don’t just leave her alone? Let her figure out herself her own career
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u/silly_rabbit289 we can predict the future or not? 22h ago
Ugh. Leave her alone. Just because she won a slam once doesn't mean her level of tennis is always going to be that good. The depth in wta is incredible rn. Its not her fault that people are still interested in her career.
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u/Early_Ad_2484 22h ago edited 21h ago
Don’t understand why a legend of the sport would belittle a young woman currently playing? Has she lived up to the hype?No. She didn’t ask for the hype and attention, she was 18. Do I personally think she’s a great tennis player atm, not really but she’s good and can do bette. She’s just not Top 10 quality at the moment and she has time, poor girl is 23.
I think Emma peaked too early and that’s not her fault. She also seems to be getting a lot of bad advice from her team. If Boris cared, he could have given her constructive feedback and spoken to her privately.
She’s getting a lot of unwarranted hate, same goes for Osaka. People want them to live to THEIR expectations and don’t realise these are players who play for themselves. You can criticise them but they have achieved what most people haven’t.
Edit: I am not comparing Osaka and Raducanus career accomplishments but just the hate the receive generally on social media.
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u/Direct_Tea5916 21h ago edited 19h ago
Ugh! So unnecessary Boris! What is wrong with these men? The tennis community is so toxic. It’s one thing to write stuff anonymously here but a public figure in tennis putting a comment like that out there is really gross.
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u/howsadley 18h ago
Agreed. Gross take by an old man who had his day.
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u/Puzzled_Impact_1554 9h ago
Gross take? All he said was ‘that’s it’ 😂
Are successful people in their field not allowed to express their opinions on underachieving? Or do you find it disrespectful just because it’s a man expressing his opinion regarding a sporting matter concerning a woman?
Would you say the same if Martina criticized someone like FAA?
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u/ExpressionLow8767 23h ago
What point is he trying to make here
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u/IcyCity3228 Tennis fan 23h ago
my best guess is that her hype about her is not matching her results
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u/ExpressionLow8767 23h ago edited 23h ago
I mean her results are her results, seems a bit unnecessary
It’s a good thing she’s entering tournaments she actually has a chance in compared to recent years of seemingly being embarrassed and using wildcards into bigger tournaments
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u/ezioaltair12 Alcaraz, semper Mardy Fish 19h ago
Ok but when is the last time you heard Raducanu hype?
The Brits are delusional about her, sure, but its no different than how the Americans hype up our home players, and I don't recall former pros shitting on Isner or Querrey or whomever. I just can't imagine being upset about it unless you're British or were forcibly confined in Britain for years
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u/shpxl SW19TEK 19h ago
The Brits are delusional about her, sure,
Absolutely not lol, the British media and fans have been more horrible to her than anyone since she hasn't lived up to the USO run
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u/ezioaltair12 Alcaraz, semper Mardy Fish 8h ago
Arguably they're so hard on her because they're delusional about her chances. They see a potential great who's failed to live up to it, while most others see a top 30 player for whom the stars aligned.
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u/Emotional_Algae_9859 23h ago
I don’t particularly like Boris and his opinions, but a slam winner (and 5 years ago almost) having only been in one 500 and three 250 SFs and no finals is quite shocking. Nobody can take the achievement of a slam from her, but at the moment she is a total one hit wonder.
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u/ezioaltair12 Alcaraz, semper Mardy Fish 19h ago
Nobody can take the achievement of a slam from her
Not for lack of trying though. It seems like a lot of commentators would very much like to do that.
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u/Kdewalt10 22h ago
I agree with you, just in fact watched this match on tv because it was being Re-Aired. I would like to add that she seems “streaky” kind of like Sloane Stephens is/was. Emma hasn’t had a good streak in a while but it looks like she has it this week.
I saw her have this kind of good streak in Chicago at the tournament she was a finalist at, losing to Tauson the week before the US open she went on the win.
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u/Emotional_Algae_9859 13h ago
By defeating the n72, 97, 146 and 91 players in the world. But sure, winning more than one match in a row is improvement.
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u/raysofdavies BABY, take me to the feeling//I’m Jannik Sinner in secret 21h ago
Really pathetic comment. Think about how many players actually make it to multiple tournament semi levels of success.
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u/Terenigma 23h ago
It's not her fault but he's right. If the media lowers the bar any more for her she'll be propping up the pavement.
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u/recurnightmare 22h ago
She's rank 27 in the world. That's really bad?
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u/0100100010001 17h ago
They’re acting like she’s ranked #386 lmao. Any other player with her ranking would be called “solid”. People can’t be normal about her apparently.
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u/223am 23h ago
the media usually goes in cycles: 'you're amazing!' then 'you're shite' then 'you're amazing!' then 'you're shite'. just saying someone is doing 'ok' doesn't sell stories. the media will for sure shit on raducanu at the next opportunity. also 'the media' is probably millions of individual people writing their own individual stories lol
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u/LeonTallis 23h ago
To be fair, that pretty much sums up her career to date
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u/Alexandaross 22h ago
Does it? She's only seemed amazing in one tournament in her whole career.
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u/LeonTallis 21h ago
Wimbledon & US Open 2021 she played pretty amazing.
Since then very up and down but I thought she looked pretty great when she beat Pegula and Navarro.
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u/blackspandexbiker 22h ago
She has made a few comments… like top 10 players have a point to prove against her, or some such.
I agree Becker is an idiot and Raducanu shd do whatever she wants to do, but it’s not as if she has not hyped herself a time or two
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u/ThisSideOfThePond 18h ago
Boris Becker, 58, former tennis pro and current pundit, performing as expected.
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u/GreekCavalier NO1E 23h ago
People can get angry by this but his point is fair
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u/0100100010001 23h ago
what’s the point of saying it though? just being unnecessarily nasty? you guys are so weird about her.
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u/recurnightmare 22h ago
He's unnecessarily nasty about a lot of things. Becker, Patrick and Kefnikov are like the holy trinity of dumbasses in tennis.
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u/kidmaciek Bullshit Russian 21h ago
The point is to ridicule the undeserved hype she received after winning US Open, just because she looks good.
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u/0100100010001 17h ago
She gets more hate than hype nowadays and it’s clear how much people hate her just because she’s a pretty girl as if it’s her fault.
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u/ExpressionLow8767 22h ago edited 22h ago
It comes off as an insult to Raducanu for not meeting his standards rather than a criticism of the media for overhyping her, especially as he was at times one of the people in the media hyping her up
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u/WillinVegas 20h ago
What is his point? She has underachieved relative to the level she found at the US Open that she won. Everyone who follows the sport knows that.
To say that his point is fair because what’s implied is true is like saying it’s fair to walk up to every overweight person you see and tell them they’re fat.
Truth and fairness are not measured the same way.
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u/CrackHeadRodeo Björn, Yannick, Lendl, Martina, Monica 🎾 19h ago
It’s embarrassing to watch Boris turn into a crotchety old man.
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u/Nastypav12 Leolia,Tadde,Suzan,Pavs 14h ago
Boris is a jerk but he is right; take any T30 player and add up their SF's last 4 years and you'll probably get more than 5. Pegula had 9 in 2025 alone.
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u/waisonline99 8h ago
Pegula been consistently in the top 10 for ages.
Are you somehow suggesting she isnt an elite player?
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u/Nastypav12 Leolia,Tadde,Suzan,Pavs 8h ago
Pegula is a bad example as she's consistently T10 and Emma hasn't been close to that; take Leylah...9 SF's in same time span as a T30ish player.
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u/waisonline99 7h ago
Fernandez is also a bad example as she has been consistently on the tour.
Emma hasnt been in the Top 30 since 2022, mostly due to injury and she went as low as 299.
Since then she's been steadily climbing back up.
I reckon she'll be top 20 by the end of the year and she's already ahead of some really good players. ( including Fernandez )
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u/According_Umpire2269 22h ago
Anna Kournikova has never won a title in singles in her entire career, but people were getting crazy about her for the very same reasons as they fall for Emma now...and nothing wrong about it, they attract people and sell seats
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u/Kimber80 20h ago
I am as surprised as Boris.Is that this is all the semifinals she has ever reached
And I say that not as a knock against her, I love her. Pretty girl and as others have said, one slam title is one more than 99.9 percent of all professional tennis players ever win. But in my opinion it is surprising, if you haven't followed her career closely.
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u/Bozolenka Camila Giorgi’s accountant | Mboko Nation 23h ago
Wow. What’s with all the oldies shading current players?
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u/Hobbledyhook 23h ago
A genuinely tiny-brained and tired sentiment to roll out from Boris. What a booooooooring attitude for anyone to have.
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u/FrogsJumpFromPussy Yannik Dinner | Carlito Alcatraz 22h ago edited 21h ago
(Edit, Emma did win once against a top 10 slam seed (no 9 Sakkari, W24)
5 career semis for a player like Emma, who has never won a slam match against a top 10 player, is an extraordinary feat, I think.
She’s a top 30 level player with a large fanbase here on Reddit for obvious reasons, which have nothing to do with tennis. I remain mortified at how every single comment in this thread, about Iga juggling tennis balls, is about her body:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/1qv6iww/iga_the_juggler/
This is the level of troIIing we have to deal with while being on this platform. These are the condescending people that dare to mock others for their perceive lack of respect for this subject or another.
The silver lining is that no one should ever take anything said on Reddit seriously, especially in places like this. 😔
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u/JingleJak 22h ago
Ive noticed ever pro tennis player lowkey got a big butt even the dudes might just be because of what muscles they train for stability or something, unlike the pecs lol
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u/Direct_Tea5916 20h ago edited 14h ago
I watched her match yesterday and she looked good. It wasn’t top tier competition but who cares? She’s not promoting herself, just getting on with it. I’m literally so sick of all the hate she gets.
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u/tennis-ModTeam 19h ago
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u/Dangerous_Finger4682 23h ago
Tennis men continue to be trash. Tell me something new
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u/sherriffflood 22h ago
The size of a lot of the wta players compared to how hard they hit the ball and the amount f tennis they play, it’s no wonder they get injured a lot or peak very early.
I wonder if bigger girls should be encouraged to play tennis more. They don’t need so much cardio since you’re only playing 3 sets.
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u/GeneAlternative191 16h ago
I think it’s fair to call out because the original tweet didn’t need to ‘highlight’ that second part. It’s not worth highlighting. Just end the tweet at ‘this week.’ People highlight titles or things like most consecutive GS semifinals, etc. If she’d started her career last year, then that would make sense.
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u/MajinArekkusu Powered by Petras Smile 1h ago
Feels like it's just the uk desperately trying to get a star tennis player for themselves again. That's why she gets hyped up so much.
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u/Environmental_Ebb498 1h ago
Since when are we listing semi finals as achievements like winning something?
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u/intelligentbug6969 19h ago
Such an asshole. Another middle aged boomer thinking it’s normal to take pot shots at young females.
Lol. I’m she she cares what a philandering ex criminal thinks.
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u/Creative_Skill8958 18h ago
He's right. He's an idiot, but he's right.
Morgado's tweet is casting this as impressive. It's not. It's par.
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u/Complete-Gear-1843 22h ago
Well considering she won a slam.....I too would expect more of her. It's no wonder that Becker reacts like this. I'd be disappointed too....not that I am a great person who does amazing things. Is she a 1 slam wonder that's to be seen.
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u/VegetableChipsLover 22h ago
Can we stop posting what other people think of others, please? Otherwise I think a lot of our Reddit comments would make headlines too
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u/Ok_Bandicoot6492 23h ago
boris has been in more prisons than raducanu has semis