Expected! she ran out of gaz!! anyway I've seen har play worse so I'm not gonna complain. But in this kind of events no doubt Maria NEEDS to work on her forms. Second Caro was much fresher and that's a huge advantage as well.

to conclude good but not good enough.

Originally Posted by: Philli

Around this time last year, after getting beaten in the 3rd round by Zheng, she came up with a weird injury...apparently a bruised bone in her elbow...where the hell that came from is anybodies guess, but anyway she cancelled Miami at the last moment. It didn't stop her from doing a photo shoot the following week though.

My prediction...She'll go out in the early rounds of Miami. A few days to recuperate is not enough. 8 DFs and 39 unforced errors is the bottom line. She got away with her error rate with Peng because she made more than her, but it still took her 3 sets to beat her. Thomas can only do so much. He told her what she was doing wrong with her serve but Maria still went out and served double faults. She's either too lazy or too dumb to change her motion....and this is a 5 year old problem. The other big problem is having a fitness level that befits a professional athlete and not a fashion model. I can well imagine that after doing that Nike fitness video she was tired out from the shoot, showered and went home.

It's all very well to think to the future about a career after Tennis, but NOT to concentrate MORE on it yet.

Isn't it sad to wake up in the middle of the night and then to come up with information like above !  You must be really pissed off with yourself . Next time spare yourself and stay in bed.

Originally Posted by: Philli

Incidently, Bartoli looks better in that outfit than Maria 

hahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha

Originally Posted by: tgj92

Originally Posted by: Philli

Incidently, Bartoli looks better in that outfit than Maria 

hahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha

 Best joke ever

Caroline's words after the match against Maria:

"I definitely didn't expect such a score, but I'm very pleased about the way I played and the way I got my tactics to work. I'm also pleased about being in the finals," Wozniacki said. "It was very important for me to play good defense today, because Maria hits the ball hard. But at the same time I couldn't give her many short balls and let her dictate too much, because then she can be very dangerous. It was important to keep hitting the ball deep and making her move.

"Opponents have to play really well to beat me. I'm not going to say the names, because I can lose to a lot of players. But I can also win against them."

"Marion is another player who tries to play very aggressively and take the ball early," Wozniacki said. "She's not going to give me a lot of free points. To be honest though, I haven't thought about the final yet. Right now I'm pleased about today. I'm going to enjoy tomorrow, and we'll see what happens on Sunday."

Maria's words after the match:

Sharapova had shown flashes of her best in earlier matches, but her unforced error count was just too high against Wozniacki, who had 22 fewer than her with 19 errors. "That's her strength, and that's what she does best. She grinds her opponents," Sharapova said. "I rushed too many of my shots today. Sometimes I just missed by a few inches, and sometimes I should have been more patient."

Sharapova was already looking forward to Miami next week. "It's great to go and play again next week. I haven't played in Miami in many years. It'll be nice. I would have liked to go farther here, but I have another one next week."

Originally Posted by: liliu_wrj@yahoo.com.br

Originally Posted by: saggittarian

I am so glad I didn't watch the match Live. Now I don't think I can bear to watch the highlights. It will be too painful. These days when Maria lost it seemed that she gave the sets away rather than her opponent winning them. I am happy for her that she will be back in the top 10. That will be a great boost to her confidence. But she will have to keep playing matches and have good runs to at least maintain that ranking. I would like to see her in the top 5 obviously but for now to maintain the no.10 spot will be a job for Maria.

Maria admitted her play was flat. Only Maria herself knows why she played so badly. I bet not even her coach. She could have been tired as some said, she could have had emotional and personal crisis that drained her of energy and contributed to her lack of concentration. Who knows! Only she does. On that note, she lost to the no1. player in the world so it is not THAT bad.

Well done, Maria, in this tournament and hope you do just as well or better in Miami next week.

liliu - I can't see Bartoli beating Wozy.

 Saggitarian, I didn't say that I see Bartoli beating Wozniacki. Not only do I think that Caroline will win the match, but I will also support Caroline Wozniacki in the final. I sincerely don't like the way Bartoli plays. Her match against Wickmayer was a bore to watch. Caroline is much more consistent than Bartoli.

 

 liliu - I know you will support Wozy as you already said so. It was my way of writing to say more or less it is a forgone conclusion who will win this tournament

Originally Posted by: Linsted

Originally Posted by: Philli

Around this time last year, after getting beaten in the 3rd round by Zheng, she came up with a weird injury...apparently a bruised bone in her elbow...where the hell that came from is anybodies guess, but anyway she cancelled Miami at the last moment. It didn't stop her from doing a photo shoot the following week though.

My prediction...She'll go out in the early rounds of Miami. A few days to recuperate is not enough. 8 DFs and 39 unforced errors is the bottom line. She got away with her error rate with Peng because she made more than her, but it still took her 3 sets to beat her. Thomas can only do so much. He told her what she was doing wrong with her serve but Maria still went out and served double faults. She's either too lazy or too dumb to change her motion....and this is a 5 year old problem. The other big problem is having a fitness level that befits a professional athlete and not a fashion model. I can well imagine that after doing that Nike fitness video she was tired out from the shoot, showered and went home.

It's all very well to think to the future about a career after Tennis, but NOT to concentrate MORE on it yet.

 

Philli please spear us ur thoughts ... it doesnt matter what happens... all ur posts are negative twards Masha. I don't know m8 either u are an IDIOT  or ur  a Schizofrenic who likes to find negative in everything.

Honestly stop calling urself as one of Marias supporters because u are not. I understand to be critic about something but all u wrtie here on this forum has a negative attitude... always u have something negative to say ... and never something positive.. One advice : just do us all a favor : GO FUCK YOURSELF AND LEAVE THIS FORUM since u start really pissing me off .. fucking IDIOT!!!!!!!!!

I, thoroughly enjoy Philli's commentary

Hello everyone! It's me Nikkie. Just with a new account because an old one is still not working. I've been following and watching Maria in Indian Wells and sure on some way we are disappointed how she played against Caro but she did show some good moments in previous matches and I am sure she can take a lot of positive things from here to Miami and hopefully improve a bit more. It'll be interesting to see how she does there. :)