probs my favourite match all season especially with andreescu coming off the season she had winning Indian Wells, Rogers Cup and US Open. Halep had to fight exceptionally hard
Before anything, please know that the full video of this magnificent match can be watched also posted on TH-cam, 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 TH-cam. 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. Roo Bookaroo, Jan. 18, 2020
wow, very good comment, its just the beginning for BIANCA she is training in the south of Ontario with all her team ,SYLVAIN said that Bianca can do much better with her serve and that she can go to the net more often. SHE used to be slim when she was 13 but she exercise more and she became more large but it is muscle and if you look at her mother her mother seam to have bing bone excuse my English
Simona is like a water bug, getting to hard shots and doing something with the ball. I really wanted Bianca to win, but she had to grab that second set and didn't. well played girls!
Bianca needs to go through the video of this match and understand that her shot selection needs to change in order to beat this solid gritty Halep that is also in better physical shape than Andreescu.
Yeah you can see fitness did play a roll in this Halep W. In terms of shot selection agree again. Bianca needs to find a away to mix it up just a little bit more, pick her spots more wisely.
Simona at 28 hasn't ever won the U.S. open but at 19, Bianca has. Bianca should've taken the second set. There won't be any stopping her soon, if she keeps playing like that. A new super star is born!!!!
Elena please, think before you speak. Halep has only won two majors at 27 and 28 years of age. At 19 Bianca has only been a pro for two years and already has won a major plus the Canadian open and Indian Wells. Over 7 million in prize money. Making her fifth in the world. Simona at age 19 was 47th. At 21 she was 67th. So please, give credit, where credit is due.
I hope Bianca will indeed become a tennis superstar, but the comparison you are making is not quite right. Simona has competed during Serena's glory time. Now, that Serena is no longer who she was it will be far easier for anyone to win Grand Slam titles. Tennis Magazine considers Halep as the second-best player of the last decade after Serena. When Simona emerged not only the Williams sisters were at the top of their game but also other really great players: Sharapova, Azarenka, Radwanska, etc., much harder to surge to the top at that time than now. If we compare careers at the junior level, Simona has been number 1 while Bianca's highest rank was number 3. Even in Romania, everyone said Bianca will obliterate Simona, which perhaps gave Simona some extra motivation to show up and fight. Simona has proven one more time that she is hard to beat when she really, really wants it. As for Bianca, hopefully, her health will allow her to fulfill her potential which is very great indeed.
I'm surprised by your analogy. Especially you stating now that the Williams sister's aren't at the top of their game it'll be easier to win Grand Slam titles. The last time I checked they're still beating many top players. The last U.S. open comes to mind. If that were the case why hasn't Halep won more? Plus how can you say that the new generation of players aren't as good as them? But I guess if you have a problem winning one just needs to augment their bodies to gain an advantage. Not sure if that should be legal. Drugs aren't then why should that be... especially if it gives one an advantage to playing better? Is that really fair play? What's next, muscle implants?
Norm Sayle We can agree that she(Halep)should’ve have won more grand slams after 2013...Belinda Bencic hasn’t won a slam but she could’ve almost beet Andreescu so winning a slam at 19 doesn’t mean she’ll be better than Osaka,Barty,Bencic etc.
You can tell the other players don't like andrescu. Soon everyone will have her number. Osaka, Stephens, Ostapenko. Everyone know how to beat them as they have no variety
This is what makes tennis so entertaining. You never know what's going to happen. Especially against someone like Halep. Her fitness is amazing.
Even when it seems all hope is lost, Halep comes back for the beatdown and walks away victorious! Love her grit......
Yeah, she always scaring like that. Simona is a true, humbled champion.😊
Super sensational Simona! I admire your hard work! You don't give up!
Did you see that champion at the enddddddd?..💪 #Simona 💛💛😊😍😍😍
This was incredibly satisfying.
heeggie she outwitted the powerful andrescu. Incredible.
@@vidvidvid2012 No she just outlasted her. Andreescu had a back injury. Had to withdraw after this match.
@@user-gu1un7pb7k that is halep's strength though, speed and stamina. She can run for days
Interested to see how Bianca goes in 2020
Halep is the best though!
Halep is my best favorite player and Serena I just love watching her play 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Very cold handshake.
Great match, Jesus what was that? Excellent comeback 🥰 Simona
Halep's fitness level is incredible, you do not want to be out there for 2,5 hours in a physical battle against her unless your name is Wozniacki.
Yea but using your legs so much ain’t a good longevity move
probs my favourite match all season especially with andreescu coming off the season she had winning Indian Wells, Rogers Cup and US Open. Halep had to fight exceptionally hard
Before anything, please know that the full video of this magnificent match can be watched also posted on TH-cam, 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 TH-cam.
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.
Roo Bookaroo, Jan. 18, 2020
wow, very good comment, its just the beginning for BIANCA she is training in the south of Ontario with all her team ,SYLVAIN said that Bianca can do much better with her serve and that she can go to the net more often. SHE used to be slim when she was 13 but she exercise more and she became more large but it is muscle and if you look at her mother her mother seam to have bing bone excuse my English
Top tennis player 4ever Bianca andreescu 👌
Amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEAM HALEP !!!!!!
J'adore Andreescu. Pour moi, c'est la number one !
Simona Simona. I just love hearing her fas chanting her name every where she plays. Congrats my tennis Queen.😊👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Fighter girl activated 💪 👊 👏 🇹🇩
Great match
Simona is like a water bug, getting to hard shots and doing something with the ball.
I really wanted Bianca to win, but she had to grab that second set and didn't. well played girls!
Tennis Queen Biancaaaaaa
Halep 🔥🔥🔥🔥🤩🤩🤐🥰
Simona is the best tennis player SuperSimo unstoppable when she wants
Simona is great, but she is not the best. Serena by number of titles is still the best player ever.
I love Hingis smart player
3:54 Wow, what a view!
@@8357580 what do you mean?
@@8357580 Do you understand me!? :)
4:30 is the turning point, very high pressure
Singam Biancaaaaaa
I want to watch the whole match just because it's Mary Pierce commentating 😊
3:33 Such a super-reaction and perseverance is not a sin to envy! :D
7:38 Sweet moment of superiority is read on Simone’s face ......
I don’t think it’s a superiority smile
@@georgiana5295, your opinion is very interesting, but not sincere.
You work with parents is good. Be here on Saturday at 10:30am, ok!
SimWONa Halep 💪 the Best simple
Simona is great but she is not the best. Serena Williams, by number of titles, is the best player ever.
Bianca needs to go through the video of this match and understand that her shot selection needs to change in order to beat this solid gritty Halep that is also in better physical shape than Andreescu.
Yeah you can see fitness did play a roll in this Halep W. In terms of shot selection agree again. Bianca needs to find a away to mix it up just a little bit more, pick her spots more wisely.
Vanessa Bianca Andreescu she the one making MatthewCampbell to falling in love with her now also she so Beautiful Ms Angel face
They are both from Romania
ok! halep!
Power 🅱️ianca
GO SIMONA!!!!!
Andreescu needs to step up her fitness
Halep is the FN Boss!!!!...........that is one chick you will not beat more than she beats you. Unless of course you are "Serena".
Lucky
Simona at 28 hasn't ever won the U.S. open but at 19, Bianca has. Bianca should've taken the second set. There won't be any stopping her soon, if she keeps playing like that. A new super star is born!!!!
She won Wimbledon who is better than Us open.
Elena please, think before you speak. Halep has only won two majors at 27 and 28 years of age. At 19 Bianca has only been a pro for two years and already has won a major plus the Canadian open and Indian Wells. Over 7 million in prize money. Making her fifth in the world. Simona at age 19 was 47th. At 21 she was 67th. So please, give credit, where credit is due.
I hope Bianca will indeed become a tennis superstar, but the comparison you are making is not quite right. Simona has competed during Serena's glory time. Now, that Serena is no longer who she was it will be far easier for anyone to win Grand Slam titles. Tennis Magazine considers Halep as the second-best player of the last decade after Serena. When Simona emerged not only the Williams sisters were at the top of their game but also other really great players: Sharapova, Azarenka, Radwanska, etc., much harder to surge to the top at that time than now. If we compare careers at the junior level, Simona has been number 1 while Bianca's highest rank was number 3. Even in Romania, everyone said Bianca will obliterate Simona, which perhaps gave Simona some extra motivation to show up and fight. Simona has proven one more time that she is hard to beat when she really, really wants it. As for Bianca, hopefully, her health will allow her to fulfill her potential which is very great indeed.
I'm surprised by your analogy. Especially you stating now that the Williams sister's aren't at the top of their game it'll be easier to win Grand Slam titles. The last time I checked they're still beating many top players. The last U.S. open comes to mind. If that were the case why hasn't Halep won more? Plus how can you say that the new generation of players aren't as good as them? But I guess if you have a problem winning one just needs to augment their bodies to gain an advantage. Not sure if that should be legal. Drugs aren't then why should that be... especially if it gives one an advantage to playing better? Is that really fair play? What's next, muscle implants?
Norm Sayle We can agree that she(Halep)should’ve have won more grand slams after 2013...Belinda Bencic hasn’t won a slam but she could’ve almost beet Andreescu so winning a slam at 19 doesn’t mean she’ll be better than Osaka,Barty,Bencic etc.
2 X ROMANIA
You can tell the other players don't like andrescu. Soon everyone will have her number. Osaka, Stephens, Ostapenko. Everyone know how to beat them as they have no variety
If your can tell all of that, maybe you should work for tennis association.
@@malod Well I'm just a human being.... with perfect vision
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Her howling is annoying. It is just too noisy!
Sembra che giochino a chi distrugge per prima la palla. Tranne qualche smorzata della Andreescu un tennis noioso e poco spettacolare.
_I think Bianca was on her period today._