To me, it sounded like “we need to find out if we have luck IN this f’in bitch.”
What does it matter though? Whatever a coach has to do to keep his or her players loose and motivated, right?

September 28th, 2012 at 4:57 pm

well, petrova is playing so well at the moment. radwanska looks flat footed, which is a surprise.

September 29th, 2012 at 12:36 am

hmmm, bagel!! who would have thought. lets see what will happen in the second set.

September 29th, 2012 at 12:44 am

just watched the clip. that really bad, on top of that they are laughing. i hope petrova loses today. c’mon aggie.

September 29th, 2012 at 1:04 am

Quite a comeback in the secondd Kimmi!

September 29th, 2012 at 1:08 am

ugh! too bad :(

September 29th, 2012 at 2:00 am

Too bad. Can’t stand petrova

September 29th, 2012 at 8:30 am

Scrappy match. But the right player won on the day, no doubt about that. Hard to imagine a more jekyll and hyde type character than Petrova. In the first set she was supreme, just didn’t give poor Radwanska a look in. And we saw why Petrova troubles Sharapova, looks much better than her, in fact. A much more natural serve (best on tour after Serena?), terrific volley, and solid ground strokes. But then she implodes, and lets people like Sharapova back in. Great fighting quality of Sharpie, we’re told. Rubbish. Sharpie doesn’t fight back against Serena, and that’s because Serena doesn’t let her. Petrova absolutely does. Radwanska didn’t fight back today particularly, although she did play better – it was all on Petrova’s racket. Petrova lives on her nerves, which is presumably why she gets so exhausted. Years off her life, I’d have thought.

Somehow, Petrova hung on in the 3rd, with the help of 2 double faults by Rad at exactly the wrong time. Odd – Radwanska closed out the 2nd set with 3 aces on the trot. Beautifully placed, and she’d served a couple of aces earlier when in trouble – with some power, I thought. Why not more often? Is it her shoulder, with that perennial taping?

See Laura Robson got through the qualies (Watson fell unfortunately) and plays Japanese veteran Date-Krumm, who is 42, more or less. She’s a natural leftie who plays with the right hand because apparently that is more acceptable in Japan. Intriguing to watch her fh, she doesn’t follow through the way all the players do today. If Robson gets through to the 3rd round, she’s due to meet – Radwanska.

September 29th, 2012 at 10:22 am

great match summary grendel. petrova was very aggressive and her serve is huge when she gets it but it seems like she doesn’t always get high first serve percentage.

The power from petrova won her this match imo. radwanska still continues to struggle against big hitters and that second serve was very attackable.

September 29th, 2012 at 12:47 pm

Kimmi
if you go to this site (http://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/petrova-stuns-radwanska-win-tokyo-title), there’s a comment by someone called Bempah who puts your point very forcefully. I’m sure it’s right, but don’t know whether Radwanska can do anything about it.

September 29th, 2012 at 1:08 pm

Grendel, I noticed that Laura got through to the main draw, but I didn’t know whom she’d be playing. This will be like some of Navratilova’s matches late in her career, where a player is old enough to be her opponent’s mother.

September 29th, 2012 at 4:25 pm

Andy Murray drops the F-bomb all. the. time.
What’s the matter? Everyone suddenly got religion?

September 29th, 2012 at 5:48 pm

Bill Macatee had to apologize to the US viewers at the USO final, that’s how bad it was.

September 29th, 2012 at 6:21 pm

Petrova has a very powerful serve. She’s also very intelligent, and is a cut above the ‘you know’ group of WTA players. It’s a pity her game fell apart after that bungee or trampoline jumping accident some years ago.

September 29th, 2012 at 6:28 pm

Yes, Colin, it is an odd thought that when Laura was barely even a gleam in papa’s eye, her Japanese opponent was a seasoned pro of 23. When Laura was 2 years old, Kimiko Date Krumm retired from professional tennis. She resumed her career 12 years later.

Laura won, but mentioned that Date-Krumm was a difficult opponent ” because she hits the ball very low so you have to bend your legs a lot more than I like to.” She plays a Spaniard I’ve never heard of now, Dominguez Lino, who beat Vinci. If she can win that, an enticing battle with Radwanska looms.

Alok – I hadn’t realised Petrova had suffered serious injury. She always had huge potential which somehow didn’t pan out. I recall her giving Venus Williams (when Venus was a real force)a damn good run for her money in Paris when she was very young.She’s 30 now, one wonders whether she can still challenge the best.

September 30th, 2012 at 10:53 am

Actually if you listen carefully you’ll hear he says:

“we need to find out if we have luck in this f’ing bitch of a time.”

So no one dropped an F bomb on Stosur.

October 1st, 2012 at 9:18 am

John, it seems like the Petrova haters on here were making a rush to judgment but totally ignore it when their Scottish superhero drops F-bombs all the time.

October 1st, 2012 at 1:19 pm