Toray PPO Tennis, Japan Championship Match: [7] Naomi Osaka (JPN) vs. [8] Karolina Pliskova (CZE) Their head-to-head was dead even at 1:1 coming into the final, with Osaka winning their most recent encounter. There are a lot of similarities in their games with a couple of glaring differences: Osaka is a major champion and she…
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Toray PPO Tennis, Japan [43] Johanna Konta (GBR) vs. [45] Donna Vekic (CRO) When you are winning and things are going well on the tennis court, your confidence soars and you feel almost invincible. When you have put the work in to get fit and you trust your body to go the distance in a…
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I truly believe that “an unexamined life is not worth living”. It is so easy every day to go about your business without stopping to assess your life. You are so busy and there are so many people depending on you, you don’t have time to waste; yet, it is not wasted time. What would…
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SIGNIFICANT RANKING CHANGES FOR THE WEEK OF 09.17.2018 Seventeen year old Amanda Anisimova gets the honor of being the top mover of the week. The American made it to her first WTA Tour final at the Japan Women’s Tennis tournament, all the way from the qualifying rounds. Although she lost to Su-Wei Hsieh, the American…
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SIGNIFICANT RANKING CHANGES FOR THE WEEK OF 09.10.2018 The mover of the week honors go to Andrey Rublev. Rublev fell thirty-three places to number seventy-one when he lost in the first round of the US Open. The Russian was a quarterfinalist last year and his inability to defend those quarterfinal points resulted in a decline…
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Absolutely not! The champion that Serena Williams is should have been able to rise above the call. Take it a step further, since she constantly talks about Jehovah, her faith that this trial would only make her a better player should have allowed her to rise above what she perceived was a “sexist response”. In…
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