The Azarenka Test
The Azarenka Test
I’m not a betting girl, but if I were I would be facing quite the conundrum come Saturday’s women’s final. When we think about picking favorites for a match, we think about things like head-to-head, overall results on the particular surface, results at that tournament, and general results for the year. However, 2011 has become a slippery situation for the WTA because a new factor has crept in: The Azarenka Test.
If we take a look at Victoria Azarenka’s results from Indian Wells onwards, a curious pattern emerges. In Indian Wells she retired with an injury in the semis against Caroline Wozniacki, the eventual champion. In Miami, she was injury-free and went home with the title. Following that, she flew across the pond to Marbella where she was also the champion. Next came Stuttgart where she retired once again against Julia Goerges, the eventual champion. In Madrid, she lost in the final to Petra Kvitova, the eventual champion. In Rome, she retired against Maria Sharapova, the eventual champion. At Roland Garros, she lost in the quarterfinal to Li Na, the eventual champion. Finally, in Eastbourne, she lost to Marion Bartoli, the eventual champion.
Can you see what I am seeing? Since Indian Wells, in every event that Azarenka has played the eventual champion either was her or had to go through her in some way. It seemed in late April that an Azarenka retirement not only benefitted you in getting you to the next round, it all but guaranteed you the title. I’m sure crazier things have happened, but as time went on it just kept getting more and more strange, as if beating Azarenka placed a winning spell on you.
Once the Williams sisters were summarily dismissed from Wimbledon on Monday, the tournament basically became all about Maria Sharapova. How could it not? She is one of the two non-Williams to win the Championship in the past 11 years and the story of her triumphant return from injury after being the last teenager to win a grand slam women’s title is made for an eventual ESPN documentary.
However, we can’t count out Kvitova. The tall, big-hitting Czech lefty has already won 3 titles this year on 3 different surfaces. She will also be the first lefty in the women’s final since Martina Navratilova, who if my memory serves me right knows a thing or two about winning Wimbledon.
The one thing that Kvitova has that Sharapova doesn’t is a win over Azarenka. This is literally because of the luck of the draw, but if the past is to be our guide, then this factor may be as important as factors as things like overall 2nd serve points won.
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The Indian Head test pattern became familiar to the large TV post-war Baby Boom audiences in America from 1947 onwards: the Indian Head would often follow the formal television station sign-off after the United States national anthem with the United States flag.
The test pattern could be seen after sign-off while the station was still transmitting, while transmitting prior to a 6 a.m. formal sign-on, or even during the morning hours on newer low budget stations which typically began their broadcast day with mid-day local programs around 10 or 11 a.m.
During the late 1950s the test pattern was gradually seen less frequently, after fewer sign-offs, on fewer stations, and for shorter periods in the morning as much as new and improved TV equipment required less adjusting. Later the transmitter engineer showed the test pattern for as little as one minute after studio sign-off while he logged readings before turning off the power.
Towards the end of the Indian Head TV era, there was no nightly test pattern on some stations since automatic logging and remote transmitter controls allowed shutdown of power immediately after the formal sign-off. After an immediate transmitter power off, an American or Canadian audience, in lieu of the Indian head test card and its sine wave tone, heard a loud audio hiss and saw the video noise commonly called “snow,” indicating the absence of a signal on the channel. When broadcasters transitioned to color television, the color bars replaced the black-and-white test pattern image.
The primary and critical test pattern was not itself a card. Rather, it was generated directly as a monochrome video signal by means of an opaque metal cathode ray tube known as a monoscope which had a perfectly proportioned copy of the test pattern inside, permanently deposited as a carbon image on an aluminum target plate. This perfect copy provided the studio or control room video monitors, and home television sets, a standard for minimum distortions such as ovals instead of circles.
After adjusting the monitors, a cardboard mounted lithograph of the test pattern on a rolling easel in each TV studio would be videographed by each studio camera during test time. Then the adjusted cameras appeared identical on picture monitors. Back then television electronics used hot vacuum tubes and the operating characteristics drifted during the broadcast day. Alternately switching between the monoscope image and the test card image on a regular basis was means for keeping the picture calibrated.
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