Genie's Slippery Slope to Shitsville

[fitguy67]

reading list: https://www.google.ca/search?q=what+...PIWkgwSiyLnADg

summary: Self-absorbed + Surrounded (by yes-peeps) + Stubborn

the Canadian Tennis Federation should have read her the riot act after No-Handshake-Gate #1...to let that Stundkuntt repeat the same embarrassing horseshit a year later (BOTH TIMES getting wiped the next day by the very players she heavily outranked and snottily snubbed for incomprehensibly-stupid "reasons")...SMH embarrassing for her, and for the country's tennis authority to not even attempt to teach this talented youngster that representing your country is different from playing strictly for yourself a la WTA...unfortunately that talented youngster has now become a full-blown spoiled & self-absorbed twat who's lost whatever was special about her game to make people notice her in the first place

this is "comment dit-on"...LAME, hahaha

Genie's been in increasing need of a serious gauntlet of kicks in the ass for some time now, especially after her first case of hi-profile Fed-Cup dumbassery (and her dreadful lack of class in the Wimby SF against an injured Halep) but no-one is there in "oh Canada" to give it ...hence the slide accelerates

she could be another Sharapova...instead she's devolving into a Kournikova

[brodie]

hi fit guy

[fitguy67]

i was kinda' hoping...for the bitch's own good...(you know, smackin' your head on the pavement HARDER...will wake you up to the need to make changes better)...that she exited in Canada r1...

good work Bencic...Genie's now firmly at a crossroads...a turnaround would be nice...if not, a great "Trivial Pursuit" question in a dozen years

[w@lt]

She has the skill. She's proven it. I think it's mostly mental at this point. She needs a good coach.

[fitguy67]

the coach that brought her up from bubble-gum to T10 in the world...she inexplicably dumped last year at the height of her ranking..just about the time this terrible slide in performance kicked in...apparently she has very-recently changed coaches again...

the old "if it ain't broke" thing...she got too "hip" for her old coach that went from rags to riches with her...shortly after dumping her original coach, she inadvisedly got too hip to honor a photo-op handshake tradition for players representing their countries (not themselves) in the FedCup ..lot of her problems seem to stem from dumping her longstanding mentor-coach who'd been with her since primary school...the lack of guidance unfortunately seems to have freed her up to begin expressing immature (and snotty) attitudes that'd be best hidden till she grew out of them

all the talent in the world won't help if things ain't right "between the ears"...

[girlscoutcookies]

fitguy do you write for a living? if so, what is some shit of yours I can read. hernest hemwingway jr

[fitguy67]

scouter...

i can't cap worth a damn...

but i like to write out what i'm learning as I go...

and make the edges of text line up in a right-angled triangle...

[jtoler]

She just needs to play more to get her form back. She hasnt played consistently this year.

[fitguy67]

she's got the anna-kournikova gene...not the maria-sharapova gene...

anna didn't have the talent...genie does...

nice face...shame about the tennis...

[jtoler]

She's ok, shouldnt have let coach go. Her style is weird, she's ultra aggressive, never comes to net, and is more of a backboard. Watching her in Tour Finals last year was hilarious.

[fitguy67]

bump due to increased relevance=continued failure to gain anything akin to traction...

the slide continues...

[fitguy67]

yet another bump due to results confirming rather than refuting the thesis of this thread

[frugalgambler]

I am just curious if Genie is spending her time thinking about the lives of random SBR posters.

[Jeff_Black]

Do we ever think rhat she overachieved that year? Three slam SFs and a final is almost unheard of for someone her age and potential lack of experience.
Now the results are no where near the same. No confidence?

[w@lt]

Do we ever think rhat she overachieved that year? Three slam SFs and a final is almost unheard of for someone her age and potential lack of experience.
Now the results are no where near the same. No confidence?

I was just thinking about this very thing. IMHO, she's shown that she has the talent to be one of the best in the world (2014). The problem since her run in 2014 is her consistency, mental game, and confidence. We still see flashes of what she can do, but she rarely seems to maintain that level for long. Her confidence seems to be very fragile. I've also noticed that she can have a poor attitude (and body language) in adverse situations- she'll mope around the court, look at her coach, slam her racquet.

Perhaps she didn't really overachieve per se, but could it be that in 2014 she was playing with nothing to lose and less pressure. Then, here come the expectations, endorsements, media, etc.

She is still young. I hope that she can mature and work out the consistency and mental issues, and be back at the top on a regular basis.

[w@lt]

Good win for Genie this morning

[GoBlue77]

hopefully they have clay floors in the lockeroom too so Genie can stay healthy

[Gargo]

Good win for Genie this morning

Very solid win, Tracey A. said earlier this week that Genie would get past her, I had my doubts.....

[fitguy67]

something i posted last night in frugalgambler's thread

as for tomorrow's plays..."buy low" logic has me actually backing Genie tomorrow...i got her at +114 a few days ago, just in case the "her goose is cooked" wagon gave way to the realization that slams-Genie is a different animal...apparently not...she's softened even more to +139 as i type...so i plug my nostrils and add another half to make it a full play...i actually hope some maturity has been forged out of her slide and she starts to gain some traction...especially in the changing-room, lol

[w@lt]

Haaa. Burn on the locker room jokes. I got her at +140 last night

[rake922]

I think she's too sexy and she be banned from the sport

[kidthrillz]

Anyone taking a stab at her tonight (no pun intended)?

[cryptocap]

genie can beat timea

[w@lt]

Ugh. I didn't end up taking Genie, or watching, but it looks like she was up 4-1 in the first set then proceeded to lose 5 games in a row. 2nd set was down 0-5 at one point. Pretty Bouchardish, unfortunately.

[jtoler]

Poor Genie, not long ago the sky was the limit.

[w@lt]

Poor Genie, not long ago the sky was the limit.

Yeah, I was watching a little bit of her from '14 on YouTube last night, and she was GOOD. Hope she can figure out. Good news is that she is still super young. Plenty of time.

[rake922]

genie can beat timea

maybe... but timea is as solid as they come when she's in the zone