Quote from: nikona on March 10, 2017, 09:58:35 PM

Svitolina grinds out a win against Wang. Incredible match, both players giving their all but Svitolina missed loads of great opportunities to win the match with ease. She had 20 breakpoints and was able to convert only 7 times. Especially when she was 0-40 up and a chance to make it 5-2 but she couldnt break and the match eventually went to a tie breaker.

Actually for some reason I always feel that Svitolina plays loose in the first set ( as if the matches are fixed, like in the case of Fernando Verdasco ) and then he just comes strong in next sets.

I always wonder how good she would do against big players and when that happens her level of play is very high, Svit is one player whom I would back to win the tournament but never bet on matches where she is favorite.