US Open 2012

MPs!

oh fucking hell Kim

ugh, saved, TB

depressing

oh god that miss ;_;

Robson has a really beautiful game

seriously impressive stuff from Robson here - a far cry from the petulant, sulky mess I saw at the AO earlier this year

incredible winner to get to MP again...

OMG that FH DTL

Amazing stuff. What a match!

wtg robson

Fantastic

i love her

incredible. well done, Laura!

she really played so well - even the defence was better than usual, her strokes were as gorgeous as ever and her serve was on point. but as Roz said the real improvement was mental.

and NO MORE ST KIM, HALLELUJAH

bye kim, no one will miss you!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

so happy for laura robson. YES.

goodbye kim! see you on your next farewell tour

haha u guys and kim clijsters

only issue I see for Robson is her poor speed

is the whole St. Kim thing just because she's a mom?

it's always been a mystery to me

it's because she was always so ~~nice~~

Robson's movement is still pretty bad but tbh even that was better than usual in this match. Her new coach is Zeljko Krajan (who took Safina to No 1 and transformed Cibulkova into a ballbasher) who's a hard taskmaster so maybe he'll iron out her giant lazybones tendencies.

St Kim has always been very keen for audiences to note her halo ever since she broke through.

I'm very confused, I thought Robson was the Brit everyone hated

Who am I thinking of? Someone on the women's tour

Also the ESPN coverage has basically spent all of its time extolling Clijsters' praises since the end of that match, even over Harrison's match. They just asked Lino about Clijsters and now they're asking Sharapova about her.

They ought to call this the 2012 Kim Clijsters Jackoff Sesh.

If Chris Evert says "Kimmy" one more time I may scream

^^this is that St Kimmy thing I have found so awful over the past decade, yes

I find Baltacha fairly grating as GBR players go, dunno if anyone really hates her though, it's not like she's v relevant

oh now that I see that name I think Baltacha is the player I am thinking of; the whole time I was watching Robson I kept thinking "huh why does Lex hate her, she's kind of brimming with potential"

come on Dodig, give us a match

sometimes it is fun to watch Sharapova rofflestomp someone

lendl watching murray is one of the funniest things

they should cut to him after every point

If Chris Evert says "Kimmy" one more time

gotta cute-ify. it's a compulsion. she was "chrissy" in her day of course.

She prefers to be called Chrissie now(again)!

I only acknowledge on Chrissy:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3-HNW9t7bnA/TLoASeLVwJI/AAAAAAAABNY/0CMv9FKI_NA/s1600/Suzanne%2B(4).jpg

grr ONE

would aknowledge on

Q. When is the last time you felt this good about your tennis?

NA LI: Last year in the French Open.

^^warning fired?

Q. If Kim advances, you would play her in the next round. Talk about what you would anticipate from that matchup. You could be her last professional match.

NA LI: It was really tough. I was play Kim this year in Australia, so I think both of us play very good in the match. But for me is the worst because next day is Chinese New Year. After I lose the match, I was like, What was going on? Everyone was so happy without me, so I was like, Okay, just take the beer and totally drunk. Next day I wake up, I was like, Okay, forget what I do yesterday. (Laughter.) You know, in China, how you say, if you lose the day, they are feeling a whole year is not so lucky. So I said, Okay, c'mon. I have four match points. Suddenly I was lost. I was like, Okay, totally lost. I just drink all the time, yeah. (Smiling.)

^^the question is irrelevant now (YESSS) but lol @ the answer, <3 <3 Li Na

I am sad for Clijsters. I was always a fan, though with the best will in the world, she was no Justine. The tie-break, just as I was going to work (I was late, but nobody cared) was the first of this slam I've seen. tbh her comeback was over a year ago as she never played well last 12 months, but she beat down a lot of players I had no time for, so.. hurrah. Yes she should have had a couple more slams (only that bum ankle stopped her beating Azarenka this year at the AO, and those FO finals were unfortunate) but by and large she showed up the elite from this generation as being (Serena/Venus/Henin/Ma$ha aside) wanting in nearly every department when she was on. I'm just glad we'll have a couple more years of Li being awesome and hopefully a lot of Petra slams to make it better.

no reason to feel sad for her, if she wanted to keep playing tennis she would

bye kim, no one will miss you!

i will miss her

yeah her part-time attitude has been one of the most annoying aspects of women's tennis since 2009 and it's telling how many fans she turned off with it - in her first career most people bought into her phony ~niceness~ but permanently moaning about having to, oh no, travel to Asia or play on clay got old pretty fast. remember when she pulled out of the Asian swing half a year in advance because she was afraid of radiation poisoning? smh.

in a sense, she should have had fewer Slams, given her inferiority to peak Serena/Justine/Venus; the only reason she has more than one is because she came back to vulture up the weakest era of women's tennis in decades.

and no matter how many times you get photographed visiting sick children in hospitals a truly NICE person doesn't let daddy go around throwing doping accusations at your peers and then refuse to correct him.

God are we judging whether people are TRULY nice now?? I will miss Kim, haters gonna hate.

Cibulkova wins a point with the help of a net cord. "POMEEEE!" she yells.

WHAT was that serve from Jovanovski :OOOOOOO

Jankovic is getting dictated to by LARA ARRUABARRENA VECINO. It's actually quite funny how her game has deteriorated into complete nothingness.

Klizan is...Rosoling against Tsonga atm. When Tsonga got the early break back I thought that'd be it but no...

With King Kolya up a break on Fish and Pironkova on a televised court this day can't get much better.

Klizan had 0-40 on the Tsonga serve at the start of the 2nd, Tsonga got out of it and then Klizan handed over the break with a woeful dropshot. The Rosoling has come to an end I think.