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Post by goldengirlsx3 on May 16, 2019 18:14:14 GMT -5
Meanwhile Rebecca/AP are rolling. News say they’ve won their 16th consecutive match since The Hague. This team has been on a rocket ship for the last several months. Not sure their coming back to earth anytime soon either! Lots of Brazilian teams want to win on their home soil.
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Post by goldengirlsx3 on May 16, 2019 18:17:11 GMT -5
Elimination brackets have been drawn. 2S gets the winner of ATeam vs team 2. KWJ/BS gets winner of Slovakia vs team 2. Alix & April are in a good position I think. Summer & Sara can’t beat them...And I don’t really think Agatha & Duda can either.
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Post by tamz on May 16, 2019 19:23:07 GMT -5
Elimination brackets have been drawn. 2S gets the winner of ATeam vs team 2. KWJ/BS gets winner of Slovakia vs team 2. Alix & April are in a good position I think. Summer & Sara can’t beat them...And I don’t really think Agatha & Duda can either. What did we discuss last night about jinxing 🤦🏻♀️😂🤦🏻♀️😂🤦🏻♀️
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Post by goldengirlsx3 on May 16, 2019 19:37:21 GMT -5
Alix & April are in a good position I think. Summer & Sara can’t beat them...And I don’t really think Agatha & Duda can either. What did we discuss last night about jinxing 🤦🏻♀️😂🤦🏻♀️😂🤦🏻♀️ Whoops!! 😬🤐😬 But seriously, my Girls need to make some ground up to make this race to Toyko interesting!! 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by tamz on May 16, 2019 20:43:22 GMT -5
What did we discuss last night about jinxing 🤦🏻♀️😂🤦🏻♀️😂🤦🏻♀️ Whoops!! 😬🤐😬 But seriously, my Girls need to make some ground up to make this race to Toyko interesting!! 🤷🏻♀️ Your girls are well. They’re already in Round of 16! They played two great matches today (according to the scores).
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Post by ajm on May 17, 2019 0:02:46 GMT -5
Elimination brackets have been drawn. 2S gets the winner of ATeam vs team 2. KWJ/BS gets winner of Slovakia vs team 2. Alix & April are in a good position I think. Summer & Sara can’t beat them...And I don’t really think Agatha & Duda can either. Alix and April need to worry more about not beating themselves first. They've lost three matches the last few weeks against teams they probably didn't think could beat them. Their inconsistency is really their Achilles heel right now.
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Post by tamz on May 17, 2019 0:30:29 GMT -5
Alix & April are in a good position I think. Summer & Sara can’t beat them...And I don’t really think Agatha & Duda can either. Alix and April need to worry more about not beating themselves first. They've lost three matches the last few weeks against teams they probably didn't think could beat them. Their inconsistency is really their Achilles heel right now. China and Netherlands I get. But Australia? They’re a solid team.
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Post by goldengirlsx3 on May 17, 2019 1:28:26 GMT -5
Alix & April are in a good position I think. Summer & Sara can’t beat them...And I don’t really think Agatha & Duda can either. Alix and April need to worry more about not beating themselves first. They've lost three matches the last few weeks against teams they probably didn't think could beat them. Their inconsistency is really their Achilles heel right now. I will admit that I don’t watch The ATeams matches much on the FIVB’s unless they are playing another USA team. I watched them quite a bit on PA in HB. They look like a very in sync team. Alix is improving. April is April. She is a stud. I always thought April was/is a bit slow on defense. That was somewhat exploited by teams even when her & Kerri were together. In a lot of ways they are still a new team still figuring things out and they will have these bumps in the road.
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Post by guest2 on May 17, 2019 1:37:32 GMT -5
Alix and April need to worry more about not beating themselves first. They've lost three matches the last few weeks against teams they probably didn't think could beat them. Their inconsistency is really their Achilles heel right now. China and Netherlands I get. But Australia? They’re a solid team. Figuring out who they do well against is really difficult. I would have thought it would be teams like Australia because a player like Mariafe or MHP could exploit April's lack of speed, which GG correctly mentions has always been her Achilles heel, as well as alix's seeming inability to affect hitters that much, but then there are teams like that who they play very tough and then struggle against the oafish Dutch. I think April and alix to some extent are more similar to April and Jen than April and Kerri in that they are a side out team that depend on things like serving etc. To score rather than grinding teams down with elite point scoring Ala April/Kerri
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Post by tamz on May 17, 2019 6:47:40 GMT -5
Scores of Vitoria/Taiana vs Finland: 21-14, 9-21, 15-13
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Post by tamz on May 17, 2019 7:47:31 GMT -5
21-18, 11-21, 15-17
WoHo places 25th in their first 4* event.
Graudina and partner are moving on to the Round of 24. WoHo were down 2-6 in the third set but tied it at 15-15, looking from the live scores.
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Post by goldengirlsx3 on May 17, 2019 7:54:47 GMT -5
Just curious about a couple of things...Someone more knowledgeable on the OLympic Qualification process maybe able to answer this.
1. With Britt saying they are not shooting for the Olympics at this point, why are they spending all the money to compete in these 4*? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to get Carly’s feet wet on the AVP and possibly make a few bucks in the process?
2. Can someone also explain why a team with high Olympic 2020 hopes as Day & Flint have are not over at a 4*?
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Post by donnyb on May 17, 2019 7:59:37 GMT -5
Maybe the ugliest match I have seen this year. Lol both teams Just could not side out.
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Post by ajm on May 17, 2019 8:01:45 GMT -5
21-18, 11-21, 15-17 WoHo places 25th in their first 4* event. Graudina and partner are moving on to the Round of 24. WoHo were down 2-6 in the third set but tied it at 15-15, looking from the live scores. I watched most of this match. Carly has a lot of potential but I feel like they are trying to make things too complicated too soon for her. She takes too many shots when she should be swinging away. Pulls off the net too often. Showing line then blocking angle. They should just play it straight and work on the fundamentals. She had her topspin jump serve going really well in the first set but then abandoned it later in the match. Carly has such incredible athleticism and physicality but they are kind of wasting it by overthinking everything.
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Post by ajm on May 17, 2019 8:11:51 GMT -5
Just curious about a couple of things...Someone more knowledgeable on the OLympic Qualification process maybe able to answer this. 1. With Britt saying they are not shooting for the Olympics at this point, why are they spending all the money to compete in these 4*? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to get Carly’s feet wet on the AVP and possibly make a few bucks in the process? 2. Can someone also explain why a team with high Olympic 2020 hopes as Day & Flint have are not over at a 4*? I think WoHo only played Brazil because they got the a wild card into the qualifier. Hard to pass that opportunity up. My speculation for Day/Flint is that the AVP told them they couldn’t play Austin if they failed to qualify in Brazil so they dropped out. Not a bad decision with two more 4 Stars coming up. I bet Claes/Sponcil now wish they’d done the same. Good opportunity for Day/Flint to pick up some prize money this weekend.
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