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Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - ItsOurTime - 09-08-2015
Unlike Sheik to leave an opportunity to kick someone this long
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - LordLucifer - 01-18-2016
Booted out of the Aussie Open in the first round ................... again !!!
Straight sets too !!!
Don't go changing on my account Ms. Stosur !!
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - flyboy77 - 01-19-2016
(01-18-2016, 10:44 PM)TheSheik link Wrote:Booted out of the Aussie Open in the first round ................... again !!!
Straight sets too !!!
Don't go changing on my account Ms. Stosur !!
i watched 10 minutes - it was unbearable......she couldn't even flick a dead ball to one of the ball boys/girls with any skill....
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - laj - 01-19-2016
I put it as a Keyboard Warrior v Dual Grand Slam Finalist and former US Open champion. There's only one winner there.
She has issues with pressure for sure and at 31 is probably at the wrong end of her career but. hey, who can knock her record.
When a keyboard warrior can achieve better than that then pipe up and bag them. Criticise where it's warranted but to call someone of that ilk a dud as they once did, well get out and do better or shut up.
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - PassIt2Carrots - 01-19-2016
I'll never understand why people derive such pleasure from criticising Stosur. She reached the pinnacle of women's tennis in winning a Grand Slam which correct me if I'm wrong was vs Serena Williams on the anniversary of 9/11 in her home court.
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - DJC - 01-19-2016
(01-19-2016, 05:08 AM)PassIt2Carrots link Wrote:I'll never understand why people derive such pleasure from criticising Stosur. She reached the pinnacle of women's tennis in winning a Grand Slam which correct me if I'm wrong was vs Serena Williams on the anniversary of 9/11 in her home court.
I have to agree; tall poppy syndrome perhaps?
She is a frustrating player to follow though :
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - Gointocarlton - 01-19-2016
Turn it up fellas, she's choked in the first round at her home Open now 4 times. She, like any other sport person, is open to criticism, despite past achievements, when you put up performances like that.
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - LordLucifer - 01-19-2016
(01-19-2016, 04:26 AM)laj link Wrote:I put it as a Keyboard Warrior v Dual Grand Slam Finalist and former US Open champion. There's only one winner there.
She has issues with pressure for sure and at 31 is probably at the wrong end of her career but. hey, who can knock her record.
When a keyboard warrior can achieve better than that then pipe up and bag them. Criticise where it's warranted but to call someone of that ilk a dud as they once did, well get out and do better or shut up.
She played a woman ranked 112 in the world who then broke down and twice needed medical treatment to her right leg and she couldn't knock her off.
Seriously, if you are ranked in the 20's, this should of been a mere formality !!!!
Quote:Sam Stosur has lost in the first round and is out of the Australian Open. Again. This should be a news story but is not.
Stosur losing in the first round is no longer a surprise for, disappointingly, she has too often been here before. Stosur lost to Pliskova of the Czech Republic in straight sets at Rod Laver Arena on Monday night and even more disappointingly it was not even to the good Pliskova sister.
Australia's top woman lost 6-4, 7-6 to the 114th ranked player in the world, qualifier Kristyna and not her twin sister Karolina, ranked 12 in the world
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - PassIt2Carrots - 01-19-2016
(01-19-2016, 07:52 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Turn it up fellas, she's choked in the first round at her home Open now 4 times. She, like any other sport person, is open to criticism, despite past achievements, when you put up performances like that.
Not the criticism, it's the enjoyment that they get from it.
Re: Stosur vs Sheik 2015 - Gointocarlton - 01-19-2016
(01-19-2016, 08:38 AM)PassIt2Carrots link Wrote:Not the criticism, it's the enjoyment that they get from it.Dunno that its enjoyment but it might be. I get angry (more for her) watching her dish that up at the oz open every year, she's is bloody better than that. With all the talk of match fixing in tennis, it makes you wonder.