Meltdowns! WTA Young Stars Against Belgium’s Best 1
What an eventful day in Miami. Not that I was there to watch the game in person, I did catch the two matches featured Victoria Azarenka vs. Kim Clijsters and Vera Zvonareva vs. Justine Henin on streaming. What strikes me most was the resemblance of the (almost) complete collapse of both young stars, I have to say more so to Azarenka as she didn’t or possibly couldn’t get her mind to settle to even put up a fight in the second set. It’s close to a complete handover or you can say, worse than actually retiring from the match.
After since Azarenka lost the lead in the middle of the first set, she got wrecked up, cursing, shouting, swinging racket to the ground, spitting foul language (and received a warning). All drama. And still no result. She was not playing bad in my eyes, she just needed to play more rallies as Kim kept returning the balls. Read the rest of this entry →