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What a negative and sad individual you are. I wish you success with your therapy and medication, but for the sake of the rest of the planets sanity, can you at least base your 'click-bait' comments on facts and substantive evidence.27-08-2024 05:19
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What part of my post is 'nonsense'? Back up your claims with some evidence. We can all have opinions, but when you make accusations you should be ready to provide a foundation for them.27-08-2024 03:50
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What an amazing game, a credit to both players and a shame that one had to depart so early in the tournament. QZ edged it on the basis of some outstanding serves, but AA's game was tough to crack - her backhand was almost unplayable. These two have set the bar very high, lets hope it continues. Thanks to both players and congratulations to Qinwen.26-08-2024 20:01
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Emma hasn't applied to Oxford, she has stated that certainly for the time being tennis is her priority - and that the amount of tennis she plays will be her decision. By the end of this calendar year, she is highly likely to be in the top 40 of the WTA rankings and consequently will not need to rely on qualifying or wild cards. She can enter 20 events per year, or 30, as is the right of all players. The phrase 'part-time' doesn't apply, even more so when being 'part-time' earns you in excess of $10 million per annum!26-08-2024 15:09
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Why is that some journalists try to create division when really people are simply expressing the similar thoughts and feelings, but in a slightly different way. ER has frequently said how much she, and the rest of the younger British players, owe a debt of gratitude to AM and how much he has lifted the whole UK image in professional tennis. KB is saying the same here and has done so often. All ER said was that life moves on, AM is not here, so the new generation of UK players have to get on without him, they are the hope now, they are AM's legacy. Time for journo's to stop sowing dissent and work a bit harder to report news, not insinuendo.26-08-2024 13:12
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Very much looking forward to the next couple of weeks, there will no doubt be some magnificent performances - not all will end up as winners, but some don't stop trying and that is what makes for good sport. As a Brit, I am delighted to see Emma Raducanu's return to this stage and am grateful that the UK has once again a female player who wants to win, and not content to just not lose. Whatever the outcome of her efforts at Flushing Meadow, she remains the only UK WTA player since Virginia Wade with the grace, physical stamina and tactical ability to excite a crowd, and worldwide TV audience. Good luck to all, may the best player win.26-08-2024 06:38
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It is astonishing that in 2024 we are still witnessing this total discrimination against 50% of humanity. Quite frankly, there is no excuse or reason for this disparity amongst equals - why hasn't there been a criminal case brought against the event organisers who persist in misogynistic activities? All discussion about men dropping their prize money, players boycotting events, spectators demonstrating has been and gone, it is history. Just do not allow any competitions or events that don't comply with equal access, opportunity and reward to take place. The slams did it years ago ... why not insist all other levels do it now?22-08-2024 05:22
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Judging success and failure should be easy, if you win you are successful, any other result is failure. But there is going to be, counting qualifiers, almost 200 very good, successful, female tennis players hoping to lift the US Open crown over the nest 20 or so days. Only one win do that ... all the rest will not. To suggest that those who do not are failures is ridiculous in the extreme. As has been the case for as long as tournaments of any kind have been competed for, the preparation to compete varies from player to player, mostly this has been down to choice or preference, sometimes it has had to be adapted due to illness or injury and sometimes the results in prior competitions have altered schedules and training - such is the lot of a professional athlete. Emma Raducanu has got herself into the position that she could be drawn against any of the top ranked players in the first round, and few people would be surprised if she were to be defeated, but equally few would be surprised if she were to prevail and continue. What, I believe, is different with her attitude and approach to that of many others is that whatever the result, she is likely to walk away with her head held high, knowing she will learn and progress. This is a far greater measure of success. And who knows, she might even lift the crown again.21-08-2024 09:18
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Yevgeny Kafelnikov's comment straddles two stools - the amount of games played, and the amount of money paid. They are intrinsically linked, but also separate. To isolate Iga for the amount she is paid is simply wrong - either all WTA players are paid too much or non, Iga has no control on the size of purse she earns for her performance. What Iga, and all the WTA players, have control (some!) over is how many events she enters. Emma Raducanu is opting out of some event qualifying (although the reason for her doing so is not clear) and has received significant flak for doing so, but this is a choice she has made. If we ever get to the stage when individuals are forced to play, then the concept of 'sport' is gone. Over the past few years the organization and amount of events in the WTA has altered, what needs to looked at very carefully is that those and future changes do not have negative impacts, not least on the players. And former players need to put more ice in their vodka!18-08-2024 15:53
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I accept your point that an image is being generated, but it is being generated by the media and comments written by the likes of you and I ... it is not coming from her (that I have noticed). With regards to how long sponsors will tolerate this, I can only put forward an opinion and that is that Emma is box office - young, athletic, talented, gorgeous smile, multi-national ... unless she does something totally outrageous and unacceptable, she will be in demand for very many years to come. Thanks for your reply.16-08-2024 14:36