now watch, you're going to get Mardy Fish USO champion
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Monday, 20 August 2012 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
Or Isner. Or Querrey.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 20 August 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
And Stosur oh wait
― lex pretend, Monday, 20 August 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
20-minute bagel. Nole won 10 points. All those DFs o_0
totally read this as all 10 points won by novak being DFs from federer
listening to kerber talking to her coach down 3-0 in the 3rd yesterday was hilarious. "i'm down 2 breaks and she won't miss any shots and i've lost this now, ciao"
yes she literally said the word 'ciao'
― uberweiss, Monday, 20 August 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Not gonna happen but hope some random person wins the USO on the men's side, just cause it'd be cool to have five different winners at the majors (incl. the Olympics) this year. My biggest hope was Del Pony obvs but his other wrist is giving him problems. :/
― Roz, Monday, August 20, 2012 11:50 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Raonic is your best hope probably
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 20 August 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
although how important is Del Potro's left wrist, really?
You guys...I think Young might be about to break The Streak. A break up in the third against L. Mayer (who is DREADFUL, incidentally but obviously).
― lex pretend, Monday, 20 August 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
He did it.
This is the second 17-match losing streak Mayer has snapped! The other being when he lost to THOMAS MUSTER in his ill-advised 2010-11 comeback LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
― lex pretend, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Hahhahahaha wau
― Roz, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
as for this: although how important is Del Potro's left wrist, really?
I'd say very, given how he ended up taking the hand off and just slicing everything last week. :/
― Roz, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
LOL @ Roddick's racquet smash on losing the first set TB. Darcis (who is basically like a Rochus redux) twice choked a mini-break lead away but took the set with a fine pass.
Roddick's decline is fun to watch in a way his prime never was :D
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
item one: JUSTINE HENIN IS PREGNANTitem two: SERENA WILLIAMS IS DATING PATRICK MOURATOGLOU
tennis is not done with its bombshells this year
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 September 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/pc/Serena+Williams+coach+Patrick+Mouratoglou+AF7Yb07Z6cel.jpg
Sleazy I mean how nice for them.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 September 2012 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
idk given that Serena's past bfs include Brett Ratner and Drake I think this is a huge step up
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 September 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
Predictably, the guy Venus is supposedly dating is hotter.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Thursday, 13 September 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
who is Vee dating? I read something the other day where she told an Italian magazine that she was getting a lot of action from this new dude, and I was all like you go, girl.
sat a few rows from Mouratoglou during a match once and he def gives off skeezy vibes.
― Roz, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Elio Pis, a model she met on a photo shoot for her clothing line. Only photos on the net seem to be rubbish. I saw a Youtube that looked much better but I can't find it anymore (taken down prob).
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Thursday, 13 September 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
lol I had to read tennisforum and someone made the crack about "Will Justine attempt to breastfeed" and I laughed because I'm a bad person even though I <3 Justine forever.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Friday, 14 September 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
Having been on her bandwagon all year, am finally watching 16-yr-old Donna Vekic in the Tashkent final (against Irina-Camelia Begu). Youngest player in a WTA final for six years! She's not playing that well - it's her eighth match this week as she came through qualies, fatigue might be a factor - but I like the basics: good serve, good movement, good strokes on both wings.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 15 September 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
Soooo Begu won, 6-4 6-4.
It was a fairly even match, and mostly decided by their serving - Vekic really only played one loose service game in the first set, and otherwise each dominated their service games. Vekic did miss several putaways by narrow margins, but her inexperience really showed at two points - when Begu served for the first set and was clearly a bit nervous, Vekic just played a horrendous return game and didn't get any into play.
In the second set , I thought Vekic had turned the match around when she came back from *2-4 and played a brilliant game, including two really long, well-constructed, consistently aggressive points (the best of the match), to break back for 4-4. Then she just played a silly, loose service game again to be broken.
Anyway, in short I'm still impressed. Her serve is the most obvious weapon - she gets many free points off it, and it sets up tons of one-two punches. Strokes on both sides are strong, and she's no slowpoke around the court either. She seems to be aiming to develop an all-around game - some points she was content to rally and move Begu around, which worked sometimes; when she was out-and-out aggressive, she sometimes hit flashy winners but also missed more. So still a work in progress, but I'm still on the bandwagon.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 15 September 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, and I like her attitude and demeanour. Some fistpumps and "c'mons" to pump herself up as she was attempting the comeback, but not OTT; and NO SHRIEKING :)
― lex pretend, Saturday, 15 September 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
it's funny, so many tennis people I know complain that Robson is overhyped, but she's playing her first WTA final now - first British woman in a final for 22 years - and I swear not a single British person who doesn't already follow tennis either knows or cares. When I tweeted about this yesterday I got multiple responses asking who Robson was ;_;
Anyway she's not dealing with Hsieh's awesome array of clever shots at all well right now and tbh it's Hsieh I'm supporting.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 08:11 (eleven years ago) link
DROPSHOT RETURN OF SERVE <3
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
Can't find a decent stream of this. Would enjoy either player winning.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
Ok I guess the match is suspended.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
Erm. So Hsieh loses a 6-3, 5-3 lead and 5 MPs and gives up the set without a fight. Cut to her sitting with her coach at the changeover, laughing and joking as though she's leading 6-0 5-0. She really is an odd one.
Robson is playing really well now.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think it's suspended? I'm watching the bet365 stream. I didn't pay attention for a second there but I'm guessing Robson's gone for a toilet break.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
That's what the WTA scoreboard is telling me (bc of "heat), but they've been wrong before.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
Oh it's the Hsieh comeback that's on now!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
From 6-3, 5-3, Hsieh lost seven straight games, and has now won four straight games.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
Hsieh wins 6-3 5-7 6-4. Second title of the year. Thrilled for her! At points in that match you could see why she was touted as the Next Hingis back in 2001...
― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 September 2012 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
Aw well done! Tough break for Robson, but she'll get there soon I think.
― Roz, Saturday, 22 September 2012 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
Aaaaaand we have the second British/Taiwanese final in 3 weeks in Osaka. Kai-Chen Chang showed up Stosur as the Worst Slam Champion Ever again (in over a decade Stosur has only won three titles, and none since the USO), having already ended the Robson hype in the QF - both in third set TBs. (She also beat McHale in R1, though I believe McHale is still recovering from mono.) Watson, OTOH, has cruised through a cushy draw without needing to beat anyone of particular note. Watson is much more the favourite than Robson was three weeks ago and won't give Chang as much pace to feed off. If Watson wins, she leapfrogs Robson to retake the GBR #1 spot, and also becomes the first British woman in the top 50 for probably like 93489392 years.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:18 (eleven years ago) link
Also, I watched the end of Flipkens beating Ivanovic 6-4 6-0 in Linz yesterday. As hilarious as you'd expect. Ana literally couldn't even sustain a simple rally - against Flipkens! - let alone come close to winning games.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
Any day Ivanovic loses is a good day!
Though Majoli was the far more likeable and interesting player (even if I hate her for beating Hingis), she trails Stosur in achievements imo (5 extra titles and her F wins were over some good players) - I'd take Stosur's three extra slam SFs.
Peak Errorer has come out v Murray. Quality shanking!
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
pretty amazing match already
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 14 October 2012 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
The Fed/Murray match yesterday was pretty much decided by two games - the terrible one where Fed DFed three times, and the AMAZING one where Murray came back from 40/0 with five scorching returns.
That game just there at 3-3 is the same thing, though more slice than accustomed to seeing maybe?
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Sunday, 14 October 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, so much for my guess that this would lead to an easy hold.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Sunday, 14 October 2012 09:33 (eleven years ago) link
So much crazy crazy forehand errors, and Djoko going ham on a racquet!
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Sunday, 14 October 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
Djoko saves match point and now its momentum shift in the 2nd!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 October 2012 10:49 (eleven years ago) link
Few unforced errors from Djoko: tie break now
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 October 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
This is an epic!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 October 2012 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
Incredible: 13-11 Djoko
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 October 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
unbelievable
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 14 October 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
The FH from Djoko when facing his first match point during the breaker was really godlike.
Djoko wins in the end...can't wait till the Aus Open, these guys will have some titanic battles in the coming year.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 October 2012 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
From what I watched (and had to switch off after the 2nd set) I felt there was more outpouring of emotion from Andy almost everytime he hit the net. Needs to perhaps re-assert a bit more control in future but I didn't see Lendl about (?)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 October 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
Saw the end of the second set. Murray served for it at 5-4 and was 30-0 up when Nole played a completely ridiculously great point including a mid-rally tweener and finishing with a dropshot winner, and that inspired him to take it into a TB. The TB itself was kinda chokey, Andy was stupidly passive and Nole should have finished it off much sooner but kept letting Andy back in. Left for brunch after that. Oh well, makes a change to see Andy choke the Masters finals and win the big ones lately.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 October 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
Watson won her final though! Saving four MPs! The true British talent this week.
I'm quite glad she's keeping her nose in front of Robson and grabbing all the milestones first - Laura's hype outweighs Heather's by so much, it can't be easy being permanently in someone else's shadow.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 October 2012 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't mean accomplishment-wise re: Stosur (I think Myskina and Schiavone probably battle for least accomplished Slam champ). I meant in terms of game.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 October 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link