~ Stop & Smell the Roses ~

Even though Serena (may have) sustained an injury initially, as she has done
before, I believe she played it up when she fell behind in the set and
delayed as much as possible (the rain delays helped too), to throw off
Daniela (who has a tendency to lose focus) by overdoing the "injury" bit.
Then she returned with the pants on covering both legs which (supposedly)
had both spasmed. The rules of the All England Club do NOT allow pants to be
worn on the court but noone questioned or cautioned her about them. She
suddenly was able to move around normally which is unusual with this type
spasm, especially when both legs may have been affected. She was losing, she
put on the "I'm injured" act (again) and demoralized Daniela who lost focus
and was unable to get back into playing her game. She (Serena) had also
asked for a bathroom break in the middle of the game which was denied.
Another delay tactic. You may have noticed that after that game, she no
longer had to use the bathroom. When she played the match she lost, she
claimed it was because of a sprained thumb she had sustained during her
match with Daniela. She never even gave her opponent any praise for having
won the match from her. The Williams sisters have done this before and will
likely do it again to gain the sympathy of the crowd, to delay matches and
ultimately to throw their opponents off their game. Nice folks! Just my
personal observations.


~ Stop & Smell the Roses ~
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raffy Crucillo" <raffy.crucillo@...>
To: <danielahantuchova@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 03 July, 2007 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [danielahantuchova] Re: daniela vs serena


I was thinking that, too. If Daniala finished the 2nd set quickly before
the rain delay, they could have started the third set earlier (before the
rains), and she could have built a good lead to finish the match.

On the other hand, could it be that Daniela did not want to profit from
Serena's injury during the 2nd set? She even approached Serena when she was
down (and looking concerned). Just my thoughts.


On 7/3/07, tenms1 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> They showed few games on Slovak TV - our commentator was very kind to
> Daniela's game which I think was one of the worst Daniela ever played
> in Wimbledon. Those horrible backhand errors in the final set - it was
> just another player, not Daniela. In addition Daniela served several
> times on her own half !!! - that's something unbelievable for somebody
> playing professional tennis, especially when it is several times...I
> guess Daniela was mentally broken, she was not able to play her game
> and it was a big dissapointment especially after what she said before
> the match - that she wants revenge. She got it...Probably anybody else
> from TOP20 would beat injured Serena...maybe. Anyway, this time
> Daniela beat herself - she paid very high price not to serve out the
> 2nd set at 5:3 - if she won the game and the set by 6:3, then she
> would probably beat Serena before rain delay during which Serena
> recovered from the muscle injury (probably only by 50%)...But now it's
> late to speculate. It was a real good chance for Daniela to beat
> Serena in Wimbledon, did not happen. The life is continuing. I don't
> think Daniela would have such a form so she would beat Henin in the
> next round. In other words, Justine is going to give Serena a lesson
> how to play on grass ....
>
> >
> > Oh ok, serena might be injured but she could win the match if daniela
> > gets distracted. Daniela could have won the 2nd set at 6-5 had she
> > stayed focused.
> >
>
>
>


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