Go....Naomi....!

OSAKAAAAAAAAAAA!

Both players crushing it at the moment. Won't be any long rallies in this one!

What a great digout from 00:40 down for Osaka!

legendkillar wrote:Both players crushing it at the moment. Won't be any long rallies in this one!

Kvitova strikes the ball so well, nbut for some reason her game is a bit boring to watch.

Kvitová what a lame TB she played there. She saved 2 TB's with some gutsy stuff and then let the net chord get in her head and sulked it. Osaka set her intention with that bullet BH on the second point of that TB. 

Go Osaka!

And she takes the first set!

It’s refreshing to see how fearlessly women play compared to men.

legendkillar wrote:Kvitová what a lame TB she played there. She saved 2 TB's with some gutsy stuff and then let the net chord get in her head and sulked it. Osaka set her intention with that bullet BH on the second point of that TB. 

Go Osaka!

Kvitova is quite 1d.
Hence the stressed nerves.

3 championship points saved and then Kvitova breaks back!

This is what makes women’s tennis so dodgy, they just don’t possess the mental strength that most men have.

luvsports! wrote:3 championship points saved and then Kvitova breaks back!

Not saved, wasted.

bogbrush wrote:This is what makes women’s tennis so dodgy, they just don’t possess the mental strength that most men have.

Ouch....

Go Naomi, FIIIIGGGHTTTT!!!

Btw, Kvitova bloodcurdling screaming is such a turn-off.

Talk about the understated celebration!

Gorgeous girl!

bogbrush wrote:This is what makes women’s tennis so dodgy, they just don’t possess the mental strength that most men have.

I am willing to cut Osaka some slack given first time she's met Kvitová. However I agree with that premise for most of the players in the WTA.

I too think Osaka is made of sterner material, as she later showed. 
It’s been a feature if the women’s hand since, well, forever.

Would I be guilty if a hate crime if I suggested that alongside their superior powers of empathy, women are a bit more vulnerable under pressure than men?

bogbrush wrote:I too think Osaka is made of sterner material, as she later showed. 
It’s been a feature if the women’s hand since, well, forever.

Would I be guilty if a hate crime if I suggested that alongside their superior powers of empathy, women are a bit more vulnerable under pressure than men?

In your dreams....
I am yet to meet my match in that department.

Oh Naomi baby, well done, super play, missed that serve for the match in 2nd set, but a great comeback in 3rd and she didin't melt.

Can she hold all 4 GS hahah go go go

bogbrush wrote:
Would I be guilty if a hate crime if I suggested that alongside their superior powers of empathy, women are a bit more vulnerable under pressure than men?

Can't say I've seen that, most woman I dealt with pressured me into Hotel rooms 

But agree in principle, that's why they should stay home, take care of kids and hubby and not worry about the pressure of the outside world so they don't get vulnerable 

bogbrush wrote:I too think Osaka is made of sterner material, as she later showed. 
It’s been a feature if the women’s hand since, well, forever.

Would I be guilty if a hate crime if I suggested that alongside their superior powers of empathy, women are a bit more vulnerable under pressure than men?

No, but I would say I understand how you've arrived at that conclusion. Simply by the caveat women are more openly expressive about their emotions and can be visibly noticed that emotions driven by pressure or other factors are affecting them. 

But

I wouldn't say they are more vulnerable to pressure than man. Men just conceal and hide it better. Some think by coping or living with pressure is dealing and handling it better. I'd disagree with that premise. Hence why more and more campaigns and awareness is being raised about men and their feelings. 

From my own experience I've been not just vulnerable to pressure but even imploded. Like the whole snowball effect. Sometimes you can't reverse the momentum. 

Take Federer, Nadal and Djokovic out of the tour and the ATP becomes the WTA.