Raducanu!!!

Then again, she might be a new Kournikova: highest paid woman on the circuit but never winning a tournament. Sad men shout out her name between points (already seen at Wimbledon).
 
HiredGun123 said:
If Wil



If Wilder was a paper champ, then AJ isn’t much better.

Pretty much most of his defences were against over the hill fighters like Povetkin and Pulev, or other paper champs like Parker. Then basically C level fighters like Takam, Breazeale etc.

Despite how Eddie Hearn builds it up, AJ’s CV isn’t exactly murderers row when you look at the reality. Some good names but the better ones were way over the hill. The next fight with Usyk is a good one though, real close fight in my opinion. People look at Usyk and Chisora and think Usyk will struggle at heavyweight but AJ isn’t a pressure fighter and swarmer like Chisora. He will give you room to work which might be a real problem against Usyk. Usyk has years of experience with big heavyweights in sparring and also the WSB before he turned pro. So when it comes to the stylistic matchup with AJ, I don’t think size is going to be a huge factor. I think that’s a real fight and massive credit to AJ for taking it and not vacating. I think it’s easily his biggest test since Klitschko, maybe even more so.

Fury has other good wins that get overlooked too, he took Chisora’s 0 and also give him the biggest beating anybody has in the second fight. still the only fight Chisora has never been competitive in. Bearing in mind Chisora is nearly 40 now and still giving younger and good level heavyweights hell, I think retrospectively, they were very good wins, especially handing him his first loss.

Also you can’t say Fury’s win and AJ’s win over Wlad is equal. No fighter gets better at 40 years old with 18 months out of the ring, it doesn’t happen. Fury beat the better and younger version who had dominated the division for 10 years, that’s just fact. If Wlad still had the confidence to finish the job, he would’ve stopped Joshua. Styles make fights anyway, Joshua stylistically was probably a tailor-made appointment for young Klitschko, fairly flat footed who will stand right in front of Klitschko’s jab. So with all his experience, He was always going to be a tough fight for AJ because he made a career fighting a lot of stiff upright fighters like AJ. That’s why he looked good in that fight, despite being older inactive and not the same fighter.
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I'm a fan of Fury but let's not forget he got beat off John McDermott, whatever the records say.
 
Abel Tasman said:
Interesting next game v Bencic which will be a step up in class. She has yet to meet a player in the top 20 in a major tournament so far. A great test of what she is capable of doing.
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Aye, quite an underrated player Bencic. Not made too much of a mark on slams yet, but still young and won the Olympic gold so clearly bang in form. Should be a good match.
 
I’ve seen Bencic a couple of times live. Both times she does everything not to approach the net, even when taking on a mid court ball with time, she’ll crack it and instantly retreat back to the baseline. It’ll be interesting to see if Emma tries to draw her forward into areas of the court she doesn’t like.
 
I wouldn’t blame her if she did represent Canada, when you consider the amount of people here all over social media and whatnot questioning her nationality and saying she isn’t British.

imagine being an 18 year old that’s grown own up here since being a baby and having people all over basically making you feel unwelcome and questioning your representation of the only country you’ve known in regards to living. Disgraceful.

still, she’s 18 and achieving big things in life, so I doubt she’s too worried about Ste from Preston spending their free time calling her Romanian or whatever on the Daily Mail comments.
 
Playing really well

bit of a shaky start but now looking confident and serving for the set

i almost think it takes her a few games to realise she does actually belong at this level and then she gets going and plays brilliantly
 
The way she closed that set out! You would think she’d been there and down it all.
this girl has it all in her locker!
 
HiredGun123 said:
Playing really well

bit of a shaky start but now looking confident and serving for the set

i almost think it takes her a few games to realise she does actually belong at this level and then she gets going and plays brilliantly
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Yes same as the other day - it’s either nerves or just warming up - once she warms up she seems to get the other girls number and just out plays them.
 
From the Beeb, "Raducanu scurries across the baseline, flailing her racquet around like Zorro and showing superb defence to force Belinda Bencic long."

I hope she doesn't waste any challenges on the perennial Whitby's best chippy dispute ;)
 
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