<3 Bella
― Roz, Sunday, 22 July 2012 10:47 (eleven years ago) link
It's sad, when I saw that Johansson had bagelled Hercog in 20 minutes I knew beyond all doubt that she would end up losing that final. Which she did. I wonder what would happen if Johansson ended up playing Vesnina in a final. They really are tragic.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 22 July 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
oh god
olympic draw being made
serena vs jankovic round 1 ahaha
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 July 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
loool just came in here to post about that.
Venus drawing Errani makes me sad though. Can't Vee catch a break?
― Roz, Thursday, 26 July 2012 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
clijsters vs vinci
1st round exit for kim??? :D
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 July 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
tomic v nishikori
murray v wawrinka
isner v o. rochus lol
sharapova v peer bitchiness ha
of course baltacha draws szavay 1r *rolls eyes*
possible djokovic v roddick and tsonga v raonic 2r
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 July 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
ugh and Keothavong got Wozniacki :(
Errani is a decent draw for Venus, if she's having a good day it should be easy for her, if she's not having a good day she can lose to like...VESNINA so her draw doesn't matter.
LOLOLOLOL @ Silliams/JaJa
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
fact: draw gods hate murray. maybe stan's arms will be tired carrying the swiss flag?
― Roz, Thursday, 26 July 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
stosur/clijsters 2r also possible
my vote for worst match ever
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 July 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Roddick gets Nole in the 2nd round
SUCK IT
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
Falla and Benneteau are interesting 1R/2R match-ups for Fed given that he's had to come from two sets down against both at recent Wimbledons!
The Stosur/Clijsters section also features Ivanovic, total nightmare
Heh, Lisicki/Sharapova 3R, though we knew that was coming
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 July 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
that would require lisicki to get past shvedova in r2 though
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 July 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ petrova v zheng 1r right underneath tatishvili v vogt
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 July 2012 12:12 (eleven years ago) link
predix
gold: azarenkasilver: kvitovabronze: s. williams over shvedova
gold: federersilver: djokovicbronze: ferrer over wawrinka
lol
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 July 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
3 live streams open
LET'S DO THIS THING
― uberweiss, Saturday, 28 July 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
erm is it just me or is the bbc stream...not actually working? it's just a big blur?
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 July 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
mine are working well
― uberweiss, Saturday, 28 July 2012 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
erm cornet wins the 1st set vs paszek 7-6
what the hell
― uberweiss, Saturday, 28 July 2012 12:03 (eleven years ago) link
Mariya Konovalova @MariyaKTennis8 breaks in the first set b/w Paszek and Cornet as Cornet takes the tiebreak. She breaks to start the second. Paszek has an injury.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 July 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
also are we gonna be doing this thing in here or the olympic thread? I've been in there
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 July 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
i'd have said here but i mean if everybody goes over to that thread i'll certainly follow, although i'd probably be wearier of posting every little tennis-related thought that comes to mind
― uberweiss, Saturday, 28 July 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
yeah indeed
wow @ how Darcis just screwed up serving for the match, that drop shot!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 July 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
michelle obama in serena's box chatting away to isha is the best thing i've seen ever
― uberweiss, Saturday, 28 July 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
Hsieh lost 1R :( :( :(
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 July 2012 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
Is there a stream for the Cibulkova match?
― groovemaaan, Saturday, 28 July 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think so...
li down a set to hantuchova lolstosur in a 3rd set against suarez navarro lol
― uberweiss, Saturday, 28 July 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
ahahaha Stosur/CSN is a rematch of a Wim 1R and Stosur managed to win there
Unsurprised about Li sadly
Kinda surprised useless Bepa beat the sometimes-dangerous Arvidsson
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 July 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
Watching the Li - Hantuchova match right now (in person). It's a bit dull. The other two matches on this court have been quite fun though.
I never realised how tall Isner actually is.
― Moon Fuxx (Jill), Saturday, 28 July 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
federer yet again loses the break lol wtf
2-2 final set
― uberweiss, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
urgh too many sports, too much work, and goddamn Federer is playing like shit - what do i do!?
― Roz, Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
dear lord, petra
― uberweiss, Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Falla's returns were amazing
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
the ghost of pat o'brien is anchoring NBC tennis coverage
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
this new franken-grass is a joke btw, we'd be better off with the dirt
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Aga :/
― Roz, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
:D :D :D
if only keothavong had closed the deal yesterday this would be the best event ever
― uberweiss, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
Bodo on Sharapova representing Russia: Her attitude is "ungracious, and mind-numbingly so". Ungrateful for what she owes the USA. Hypothesizes that he'd feel the same the other way around, as if that's some distant possibility - glossing over the many tennis players learning their tricks out of the USA before competing for the country, not to mention the amount of European coaches doing their thing for american national teams in other sports, or football players spending their entire pro career in European leagues.
" I guess the money, creature comforts, and other attractions of the U.S. are more appealing than a life spent drinking in the piney mountain air of the Urals, or bobbing around in a boat in the headwaters of the mighty Don—great as it is to represent Russia in the Olympics!"
Really, dude?
― abcfsk, Thursday, 2 August 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
Americans are seriously the most bitter people about nationality
― lex pretend, Thursday, 2 August 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Remember the FUSS they kicked up when Bogomolov switched to Russia
Did Russia even care when Shvedova and Putintseva switched to Kazakhstan?
And you don't see them refusing to claim Navratilova and Seles' accomplishments as ALL-AMERICAN
― lex pretend, Thursday, 2 August 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Exactly. And then adds to that with offensive wisecracks and his theories about how her father feeds her ideas of 'Mother Russia'.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 2 August 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
No, actually. I do remember Myskina snarking on Sharapova for not really being Russian, though: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/tennis/2005-01-15-sharapova_x.htm
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 2 August 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah no one gave a shit about Bogomolov because he didn't win anything. Also please don't stereotype all American attitudes based on one writer well-known to be prone to provocation, thanks!
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Friday, 3 August 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
ya i thought it was a given that Pete Bodo is an idiot. Elsewhere on the same site, Steve Tignor, responding to a NYT times article on the global nature of sports, notes:
Speaking of nationalism, Chris Clarey writes in the New York Times, that its lines are getting ever harder to discern. Korean swimmers train in Australia, Lithuanians in England.
“It is not uncommon for swimmers in the London Games," Clarey writes, "to have much deeper connections with swimmers from other nations than with their teammates.” ...
... It almost seems that the more fluid national identity becomes, the more athletes want to hang on to theirs, even if they don’t live or train in their home country—blood, family, roots remain important, even in the abstract. Someone like Martina Navratilova had to leave everything and everyone behind for good when she defected from Czechoslovakia; not surprisingly, she embraced an American identity. She once stopped a reporter in mid-sentence after he addressed her with the words, “As an American...” Navratilova told him, “Thank you, you don’t know how long I’ve been waiting to hear that.”
Sharapova is an extreme example of the opposite, post-Cold War case. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, but she never had to cut ties with Russia or her Russian self. While it was annoying a few years ago to hear Sharapova say how much she wanted to beat the U.S. in a team competition—I think it was Fed Cup—I can’t begrudge her a desire to feel a link to her family and its history.
― Roz, Friday, 3 August 2012 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
btw I'm sad that one of the four men left in the draw is going to go home without a medal. And that it's prob going to be Delpo. :/
― Roz, Friday, 3 August 2012 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
fucking hell BOMBSHELL news - Sesil K alleges that the Bulgarian PM sexually harassed her when she was 14
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bulgarian-pm-accused-of-sexually-harassing-junior-tennis-player-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=25509&NewsCatID=354
her tell-all book, if it ever appears, will be must reading, with her history
― lex pretend, Friday, 3 August 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
"To be honest, to lose this way hurts a lot, it's very hard to talk about it right now," Del Potro said. "I have to go take a shower now and try to do my best in the (mixed) doubles out of respect for Gisela (Dulko). Someone has to win these matches, today it was his turn to win. At the U.S. Open it was my turn. That's the way it goes."
Classy dude.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
haha apparently Serena just obliterated Azarenka
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 3 August 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
loving life
can not wait for that final
― uberweiss, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
excellent. third beatdown of the year. She should do the same tomorrow as well. I might even tune in for that.
Delpo ;_;
― lex pretend, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link