Yes, in Canada, the french language commentators clearly were rooting for her against Pliskova.. OK, that is easy, nobody really likes Pliskova anyway.
Doctor strange I didn’t say Simona didn’t play well. She played great and showed why she is a champion... and Bianca collapsed... not excuse Mr.Winer... I forget the idea around here is not conversation. Typical internet nastiness hiding behind your curtain, just like a bb.
5:37.. on a faster court the game would be over at this point as Bianca played some good strong shots, that would have been winners on other hard-courts.
Halep, what a fighter!!! Don’t see anyone else from the current female players has the same fighting spirit as she does. Yes, she is at the same time very composed.
Halep in the 1st set was being overpowered but great to see her winning again. She's been at the top for so long now but it never gets boring to watch her. Also her attitude and fight is of a different player then what she was. That is why she has won Grand Slams
wow what a match! brilliant rally for the first match head to head between the two grand slam champions. It shows us all that never give up. This tennis game tell a lots that it is not just a physical strength a great tennis player needs to have but mental strengths as well. the experiences also count . Bravo - job well done Halep
The difference between Halep and Andreescu is in attitude and personality. Halep is down to earth, honest, lovely, she respects her opponents, acknowledges their skills, admits her own mistakes. Andreescu is like Sharapova, too proud and cocky, has that "I am the best" superior attitude, which is not normal for her age. They both play good tennis but Andreescu will loose a lot of her fans with this kind of attitude. No wonder there was no hug at the end. I wouldn't feel like hugging such a person either, sorry.
@boxfrotwres You might be right but this time was different. They have the same origins, speak the same language so maybe that's why Romanian fans were expecting a hug. Great expectations...
Stop it, please! Bianca is a teenager. "I am the best" attitude is actually very normal for the age. (Teenagers' attitudes tend to be very polarized. Some are overconfident, some are extremely shy.) Many people are like that when they are young, ridiculously full of confidence and optimism and hope. She clearly hates to lose, yet she mustered a little smile. It's all good. Don't need to create drama where there is none.
@@amethyst2823Honey, spare me your psychology lessons, please. You are pathetic accusing me of creating drama when the only one who creates drama here is you, with your "stop it, please!" No wonder you defend the drama queen! Did you here about "freedom of speech" and "opinion"? Best of luck to you both!
@@flowerpower9741 Freedom of opinion, when it was invented, it was between gentlemen, meaning it required civility and respect as prerequisites. And if you think you are not creating drama when you spread unwarranted accusations, well that's an interesting point of view. Up to now, Bianca has not insulted anybody, and a little bit of teenage bravado has never killed anyone. I've seen plenty of it in my life. All the best to you, too!
Darren being back on her team is an advantage for her. She's back to her winning and fighting ways. That was just an example of what this little girl from Romania can do. Simply amazing.
@@uppertraps man she is a candian 100% ,she is a drama queen she is with 2 faces she consider herself more canadian than romanian because she have been helped by tennis canada its normal to be like that but in her cuore it will be and remains always a romanian woman with canadian citizenship so yeah i love halep a lot because she wasnt helped by romanian state but by her own parents and she invest her own money in the children of Romania ;) thats a fact !.
I'm a fan of Andreescu even though Queen Serena is still my favourite. Andreescu is a breath of fresh air and her emergence this year has been a wonderful addition to the WTA, which I believe is undergoing a renaissance after quite a few lean years. HOWEVER.....I'm not convinced Bianca i's the real deal. All those proclamations about her being the new Serena and dominating the women's game in the future is wide off the mark. Too many of the matches she wins are hard won 3 setters. This year as the hunter, she's been able to pull through, now she's the hunted and as the top players get the measure of her game, particularly her vulnerable serve, she's going to find it tough to replicate her amazing breakthrough year IMHO. To reach anywhere near the level of Serena's dominance she should be winning far easier matches. Too many of her matches go the distance and as someone who seems injury prone, I'm not convinced she's set to become a multi-slam winner picking up Serena's mantle as all of Canada seems to believe!
While she is a great talent and certainly has potential to be a muti slam winner, who in their right mind was dubbing Bianca the next Serena? I've seen people call Naomi that, Bianca not so much. Nobody will be the next Serena. These youngsters need to create their own legacy and the fans need to stop being prisoners of the moment, stop spewing hyperbole filled takes and let these girls live.
@@trixiebuster3287 yes I take your point, it was a generalisation and I apologise for my choice of language....though interesting she's retired against Pliskova. I worry she's too injury prone. She should be the freshest of all the ladies in the WTA finals given she has played much less than any of the other 7 finalists this year AND she's only 19 years old.
10.5 minute highlight video? Thank you WTA!! So sick of these tennis "highlights" that show 1 point a set. And these extended highlights are always from fans. To see it on the official channel in HD is awesome. Keep it up!
WTA looks greater than the ATP. Because of so many young talents, in 1 year we have found Andreescu! :D Previously in 2018 was Osaka.. Add the developments of Halep and Barty and we have great players!
This could have easily been a close straight sets win for Bianca, written off by Simona due to lack of match play but no, she didnt want it that way. Amazing effort and beautiful tennis from Simona. Great match
Before anything, please know that the full video of this magnificent match can be watched also posted on RU-vid, beautifully filmed by Romanian ACASA TV LIVE for the Romanian audience back home, under the title "Simona Halep - Bianca Andreescu". Anybody who enjoys watching great women’s tennis should take a look at this high-quality match between Bianca Andreescu, the 19-year old Canadian/Romanian who beat Serena Williams in the final of the US Open, and Simona Halep, the 29-year old Romanian who beat Serena Williams in the final at Wimbledon. If you've watched both Grand Slam finals involving Serena Williams, the superstar of the past, you can realize immediately after just one or two games in the present match in Shenzhen that the level of play between the two Grand Slam winners, Andreescu and Halep, is markedly one notch higher than in their finals against Serena Williams. Both players seem pretty closely matched here, in spite of the almost 10-year age gap and the huge difference in their experience of play at the very top. The Romanian full-match video (ACASA TV LIVE) betrays its partiality, showing mainly the on-court interventions by Simona's coach, Darren Cahill, with their dialogues (in English) clearly recorded, and very few by Bianca's coach, Sylvain Bruneau. Bruneau is caught by the camera watching the event from his seat in the stands among the group of Bianca's supporters. Bruneau also finds it necessary to come down to give Bianca his own pep talks and pump up her resolve, but most of these interactions are ignored here. How the two girls react to those rapid instructions is not clear. Tto us viewers the two players seem rather slightly irritated, or frustrated. They voice their frustration in response, openly rebelling against the coach's tone of voice and what they sense is the critical attitude of their coaches. It is not clear either whether they can or do really make a positive use of those pieces of instant advice in the heat of the action. All this was before the knee injury Andreescu suffered in her next match that forced her to stop playing and to retire from the tournament, to everybody's huge disappointment. Notice that Bianca is wearing her golden Christian cross necklace, possible as a good-luck token, faithful to her Romanian Catholic background. Whenever she wins a major match, she can be seen very quickly making an unostentatious sign of the Christian cross on her chest, as she did at Indian Wells and at the US Open. Romania is still a traditional Catholic country, and Bianca Andreescu, a Canadian-born citizen, is still faithful to her early Romanian education and parentage. Interestingly, Simona Halep, with the same Romanian Christian tradition, also does a furtive sign of the cross at the end of this match. My favorite, in spite of this Shenzhen loss, remains Bianca Andreescu, who never fails to fascinate me with all the aspects of her remarkable personality on and off the court. Her game is marked by superb athleticism in shot-making and her ferocious amount of power, highly unusual in a 19-year old female player. She always demonstrates excellent tactical sense and most often good finesse in her instant reactions, including her relish for a variety of shots, with the most effective drop shots in female tennis and the fun of some spectacular lob shots. Bianca demonstrates a certain sense of an artistic temperament in tennis, not afraid of taking riks to deliver elegant moves rarely (if ever) seen on a court. Perhaps to escape the boredom of the non-stop baseline slugfest. She plays an aggressive game, willing to finish the point quickly, and coming to the net for a winning volley. In the second set, Bianca even delivers an unusual and very amusing "between-the-legs" shot in the second set, when she is fighting at down 2-4 that proved highly entertaining to the Chinese public. BIANCA AND RESCUE could be an amusing nickname for her. That clownish shot led to her winning the point, whereupon she managed to come back to 4-all and to eventually reach a match point at 6-6 games with 6-6 in the tie-breaker, which she, unfortunately, was unable to concretize. This is the cruelty of tennis. You can reach match point, and still lose the match. It also showcases the unpredictability of the end result and the huge role of chance. The whole match can turn around on one single shot 1/10th of an inch off the line. This is exactly what happened to Andreescu, Halep recovered mentally and physically, reasserted her dominance, playing her way to a final win. Simona Halep, much slimmer and lighter, less powerfully muscled than Bianca, proves that her baseline shot-making is just as good as her opponent's. Very trim and fit, with beautifully sculpted legs, Halep also enjoys the definite advantage of being the fastest-moving player on the female tennis circuit. Her swift sprints from corner to corner, often winning the point with a fabulous shot, are simply awesome. She even incredibly manages to retrieve a few of those otherwise irrecoverable drop shots from Andreescu. In contrast, Bianca, when compared to earlier this year, in Auckland, Acapulco or Indian Wells, seems less willing to go for an all-out sprint to catch the ball, dashing from corner to corner of the baseline, or storming the net. At Indian Wells, Bianca herself explained her success: "I ran like crazy". She was on fire then, ready to engage all her reserve of energy to chase the ball. She even looked a little slimmer there, and mentally more alert. Here, in Shenzhen, she is a bit less fast, more slow-moving, sometimes even looks a shade sleepy, as if losing interest in the point, no longer prodigal of her energy on apparently lost points. Too often, she is not even making a move towards a shot that she too quickly judges lost. As one commentator explained, this is a mistake, you have to extend your racket even if the point seems lost, because you never know what may happen. Bianca is here slightly less sharp, less on her toes, less hungry for the point than when she was earlier in 2019, still a definite underdog. She is here more economical of her energy, less eager to gamble all-out to retrieve an impossible shot. At times one has the impression that she has to shake herself off some sleepy spell. Perhaps she is tired, not sleeping too well in China. Somebody mentioned she might have been on her period. Very possible. Bianca does recognize that she has "good days" and "bad days". It's not clear which one was the case in this match against Simona Halep, a bit of each. Let's note that Bianca has not improved on her sometimes habit of smashing into the net. Truly, in such a balanced contest where skills seem to be fairly equal, the luck of a few critical points does decide the final issue, with the match easily going either way, as if balanced on the fine edge of a knife. This built-in unpredictability remains part of the charm and attraction of a match between two equally gifted players. In any event, this confrontation between two balanced styles is among the very best tennis WTA can offer this year and we are extremely lucky to have it here on RU-vid. Looking at the roster of the top female players in the WTA round-robin in Shenzhen, one gets the feeling that Bianca Andreescu seems a bit too plump, too heavy compared to the others. She still is only 19, and has quite some teenage fat to lose. Becoming leaner, slimmer, and wirier, without losing muscle mass and strength, would certainly improve her mobility, especially light-footedness and lateral speed, where Simona Halep demonstrates undeniable superiority. Becoming lighter may also decrease the forces at impact on Andreescu's joints, knee and shoulder, decrease the incidence of injuries and improve her chances of longevity at the top echelon of the game. Too frequent and recurring injuries might shorten her career drastically, as effectively happened right after this match. Bianca has to quit the round robin during her next encounter. Already at this young age, she is forced to skip too many tournaments. Her meditation or visualization model should be more along the lines of Venus Williams rather than Serena Williams.
The handshake is quite surprising, it’s not what I really expected. I was hoping for more affection considering the fact that Simo is someone Bianca looks up to and also, Simo gave some advices to Bianca.
@@seaweed1992 No, Bianca is very classy, but is young and doesn't like to lose. In fact they are both friends and Andreescu told the press Halep was one of her idols.
Sa-i fie rusine mucoasei Andreescu pt modul cum a reactionat la mingiile castigate!Niciodata nu am vazut-o reactionand asa,nici macar cand a castigat in fata Serenei Wiliams!O felicit pe Simona pt lectia de tenis pe care i-a servit-o.Pana acum am fost un simpatizant al Andreei ,dar comportamentul ei lipsit de sportivitate fata de un fost nr 1 mondial ma face sa nu o mai plac!
Cam ai dreptate Marcel ma așteptăm la final la un schimb mai cald de cuvinte și mai ales din partea româncei din Canada pt ca șimo e fost nr 1 mondial și performante mult mai multe da parca am mai văzut filmul acesta la romani mai precis la olteni
Felicitari simona asa sa faci si miine sa lupti a venit vremea sa castigi si tu turneul campioanelor ca doar esti o campioana nuo asa grei maine cu svitolona bateo 😉😊🚀🚀🎾
@@xxyy2597 I think Andreescu was bitter and got a taste of her own medicine because Simo stacked all her coaching breaks and injury timeouts together. After that, she came back and won the match.
Days like these when you realise how important having a good team backing you up can turn the match around. Streamed this live and all I can say is Simona executed whatever Cahill advised her which eventually got her to win. She did say in the interview he provided a big boost in her confidence like he always does and also that she called him too many times on court so she wasn't allowed to call him more. Simo all the way ❤
This match was IT, my tennis soul has been fed. The WTA has been starved of high-quality matches you see every Masters - even 500 level - Both players were in it from the beginning, no sporadic shifts in momentum. Halep was a beast and kept fighting and beat Andreescu by being fitter and more experienced. Great things are ahead of Andreescu, her edge over Halep is her 'I am not going anywhere' mentality which is what gets you titles as most top players take themselves out, especially in GSs. Andreescu hit 35+ winners, a bit more unforced errors, Halep 20+ winners and 30 something unforced errors - most WTA matches have far more errors than winners from both players and it becomes a game of 'who hit fewer errors'. most are overvalued due to who is playing and not the actual game. Halep can win and should win this but I fear she was only on fire today because she knows Andreescu is a threat. I hope to see a rematch between the two in the final.
Deus Ex Machina Barty vs kivota in China open was quality match aswell . Barty hit 31 and Petra hit 34 winners . Barty hit 20 unforce errors and kivota hit 28 unforce errors
There is nothing more Beautiful , than Romanian ...Stile! Thank you , So much Simona and Bianca ! Nu e nimic mai Frumos, decit Stilul ... Romanesc....! Multumesc, Mult, Bianca si Simona !
In the WTA tour with male coaches you do see this father/daughter dynamic. Case in point Muguruza and Sumyk. I think Halep is very tough on herself and she carries the burden of always having to represent her country in a positive light. I think she has to some respect let go of her demons and the results are starting to show. I think with Darren being Australian might have rubbed off on her.
Very important win for Halep there. This year, Halep, Pliskova, Kerber and Bertens, all late 20s and early 30s, have been rocked by the arrival of a new group in their early 20s and even teens, with no respect for experience. They were all players who seemed in the ascendancy 12 months ago. Halep won Wimbledon this year, the jewel in her crown, but elsewhere hasn't been as effective. Bertens and Pliskova have been consistent for large sections of the year but struggled to really push through tough matches, and Kerber has had a few really tough losses in close matches against much younger players when she was starting to build momentum, which I think has really dented her confidence. So Halep struck a blow for the middle aged today. She also looked a bit fitter than Bianca with the puppy fat.
@@densiooo Women tend to not compare to each other so well. Example, Djokovic doesn't appear any skinnier just because he's stood next to muscle man Rafa. Whereas a perfectly svelte woman can look bulky next to a skinnier one. Women have to have more body fat anyway. So what I'm saying is I don't think Bianca is necessarily gaining weight, more that we see her next to pint-sized Simona.
Please. When they get to Federer and Williams's age then let's start comparing ages. However tennis players are now peaking in their late 20's and even 30's. Even here you can see Halep is the far fitter player. So let's not make this an issue. Osaka had some ordinary losses this year too...and she is 19? So to draw sweeping conclusion based on age brackets is redundant in my opinion. The only thing that might be impacting on the 'late 20's' players, as you say, might be physical and mental exhaustion from a big season.
@@jordanaus75 if you'd understood my point, you'd realise I was indeed saying late 20s early 30s isn't old nowadays, hence those players being in the ascendancy 12 months ago. But when players a lot younger than you suddenly come along and push you aside, then suddenly you start to wonder whether you're as young as you felt.
Great play from both Simona and Bianca , I am proud Simona you fought back with great defense as usual plus turning it into offense congrads to you the energizer battery simona Halep .Talent and beauty is impressive as well as being gracious .Simona if you receive this message write me back.
