I think it's time to get my hopes up (and then inevitably crushed) for a Davydenko comeback. I almost forgot how great he is to watch when he's playing well. Looking forward to his match against Ferrer tomorrow.
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 3 January 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
Did Azarenka really just w/d from her match against Serena because she had a BAD PEDICURE?????????????
I...what...I have heard everything now.
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 January 2013 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god it gets even better. A bad pedicure TEN DAYS AGO. How convenient that it only became impossible to play on after she'd trashed Lisicki and Pervak, but before she had to play Serena.
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 January 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
KING KOLYA on fire :)
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
absolutely amazing performance
― groovemaaan, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
that was a TREAT. incredible
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Cibulkova d. Kvitova 6-1 6-1
I hate this result even though I love Slovakia's finest midget.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Sunday, 6 January 2013 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
I love and adore that result! omg
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Sunday, 6 January 2013 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
lol how did I miss the news that Dimitrov and Sharapova are allegedly dating? well done both of them, if true.
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 06:49 (eleven years ago) link
I won't get cynical and say it's a publicity stunt, or because Grisha can't have the one he really wants (no, I don't mean Serena, I mean Monfils lol).
I am THIS CLOSE to booking tickets to middle weekend of the open this year. Getting flights is the bitch, I might take either a Friday or Monday off so I can take in an extra day as well. THIS WILL BE QUITE GOOD EXCEPT IF IT IS 5000 DEGREES LIKE MELBOURNE APPARENTLY IS.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Sunday, 6 January 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
ha no lie, my first thought was this was just Grigor's way of acting out against Mouratoglou.
DO IT. Wish I could again this year - the sunburn was worth it tbh.
― Roz, Sunday, 6 January 2013 08:14 (eleven years ago) link
smh Petra
This is the point where we have to abandon any hope that she'll be a dominating champion like she could be, and instead be a sporadic Sweta/Pierce type. She'll win Wimbledon again in like six years and in between there'll just be a whole lotta stupidity and laziness. Azarenka of course will be racking up the Slams.
Talking of Sweta, she won her first matches since beating Radwanska at RG last year in Sydney QUALIES. Took three sets to get past Foretz-Gacon and Cepelova.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
oh and the Doha final was disappointing yesterday - Kolya played like he had all tournament for one-and-a-half sets, but couldn't serve it out. Gasquet showed very uncharacteristic fighting spirit but his strategy of standing a million miles behind the baseline is not one that's a harbinger of his career going up a level. And Kolya sadly demonstrated that his peak level is too fragile and easily ended these days :(
― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 January 2013 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
SO FUCKING PISSED at line judges. Tie-break second set between Stosur and Zheng, gorge BH winner from Zheng gets called wide. Fortunately, it's overruled. Then Stosur double faults, and it's missed. She wins the tie-breaker.
GAARRGHHHH HOW CAN PEOPLE DO SUCH THINGS TO ZHENG!
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Monday, 7 January 2013 09:31 (eleven years ago) link
Despite being maybe the fittest woman on tour, Stosur's movement is, like her hands, made of stone. And she has literally no anticipation at all. That easy missed volley from Zheng, aaargh....
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
Meanwhile in Hobart, Peng has blown a double break third set lead to (top seed!) Hsieh, and they're in a final set TB.
Keys won her Sydney opener. She's fucked around losing in challengers for longer than I thought she would but I expect her in the top 100 in a few weeks, and thence to have a much better career than Stephens, McHale et al.
Nice to see Mrs Krumm win a rare WTA match. LOL @ Hantuchova adding yet another match to her list of losses after winning a bagel/breadstick first set.
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
Huh, last I checked the scoreboard Brian Baker had a 5-1, 40-0 lead. And now it's 5-3.
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 09:40 (eleven years ago) link
5-4 :/
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
Had a 5-4, 40-0 lead on his own serve. Now deuce. Ludicrous Janowicz volley to save the second MP in that game.
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
Baker wins on his eighth MP. Elsewhere, Peng beat Hsieh on her sixth MP. Do these players not know I've only just woken up.
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
...and Zheng came back from 1-3 down in the third to win on her 3rd MP. Stosur now on a 5-match losing streak in Australia, lulz.
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 January 2013 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
really hope Sharapova's overachieving personality influences Grigor a little bit
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
...and Grigor loses 1R to Fognini in Sydney. So much for that. (Such an implausible couple, Serena was more plausible.)
I wonder how bad the Kuznetsova/Wozniacki match was, but good for Sweta for pulling out the win. Apparently she requested a WC but they made her play qualies (in order for the terrible, useless Rogowska to notch up another 1R loss). Would they EVER have made certain other multiple Slam champs who fell out of the top 70 due to injury play qualies? Good on Sweta for sucking it up and not complaining. Remember how Ivanovic threw a hissy fit and refused to play in Canada over this situation.
Keys beat Zheng 0 and 4. That really shows how far she's come, last year she lost in the AO 1R to Zheng like 1 and 2. She's the real deal, HUGE HUGE game.
Errani trashing Kirilenko with a double breadstick is a GORGEOUS result. The infinitely more talented tennis player winning.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
So the only people to have ever beaten Rafa in clay finals are Federer, Djokovic and...Zeballos.
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
Zeballos' grunting is possibly the worst on the men's tour
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 11 February 2013 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
amazing performance tho
I saw the end of the first set - Zeballos was smacking everything as hard as he could, Rafa was pretty poor, especially on return. Pretty shocked Rafa didn't ride the TB momentum to victory.
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. So Nadal's last two tour defeats have been against players I had never heard of before the tournament concerned (Lukas Rosol! Who now has a new claim to fame - longest doubles match ever: 24-22 in the 5th w/Berdych over Chiudinelli/Warwrinka in the Davis Cup last week. Over seven hours).
― Michael Jones, Monday, 11 February 2013 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the start of 2013 has been very cruel for Wawrinka :/
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
Zakopalova d. Stephens 46 76(5) 76(5) in Doha. Stephens had a MP in the second set and served for the match in both second and third sets. Hype train goes CRASH into a tree.
Not that much of a surprise, I put money on it. Zak is a minor upset artist and you could have predicted a let-down for Sloane, especially in a tournament like this.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Serena world #1 :D she was crying and went down on her knees and shit o_O
― uberweiss, Friday, 15 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
My stream cut off at 5-4 in the third and I missed the end completely... so annoyed. Not surprised though, Petra was playing juuuuust boneheadedly enough to lose.
― Roz, Friday, 15 February 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
is it wrong that i'd kind of like Sharapova to beat Serena so she goes to 2 and Azarenka drops to 3, so I never, ever have to see another Azarenka/Radwanska game?
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Saturday, 16 February 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
goddamn, missed all of the last couple of days of tennis.
So Serena does care about No 1 after all, lol.
If I'd seen it I'd be gutted but as it is I'm just thrilled that Petra could play such a good match against Serena. I'd expected her to barely win games.
Did anyone see the Wozniacki drama earlier in the week? That family really is a fucking disgrace.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 16 February 2013 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
Fed after losing to Benneteau in Rotterdam: “I don’t want to leave, I want to play. I feel bad for the fans who don’t get to see me now."
#humble :D
― lex pretend, Saturday, 16 February 2013 09:10 (eleven years ago) link
He received a humble €1M to play here. Got tix for tonight, expected/wanted to see him play, damnit. Here's hoping the french hommes put on something enjoyable.
― willem, Saturday, 16 February 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
FFS WHAT IS THE POINT IN ON-COURT COACHING IF TATIANA GOLOVIN YELLS HER INANE AND OBVIOUS COMMENTS OVER THE TOP OF IT
― uberweiss, Saturday, 16 February 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
I miss Tati on court :(
― lex pretend, Saturday, 16 February 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
No bagels :( Disappointing, Serena.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 16 February 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://tennis.si.com/2013/02/28/ernests-gulbis-quotes/?sct=tn_t2_a3
a child's treasury of ernests gulbis quotes
*refrains from uttering phrase "poor man's safin"*
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
lol i think even he knows he's a poor man's safin. but well <333
― Roz, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
guess it's appropriate that today Ernie somehow beat Querrey from a double break down in the third. He smashed his racquet, got an audible obscenity warning and a point penalty...and yet that match somehow ended with Querrey DFing twice in a row from *4-5 in the TB lolllllll.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 February 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
everyone wants dimitrov to happen so badly. even novak
― cerealbar, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
nu-Gulbis' 13-match win streak ended today, which was predictable, but hadn't expected him to push Rafa so hard! great match. now let's just hope he doesn't lose the rest of his matches this year.
― Roz, Thursday, 14 March 2013 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
Kvitova served an entire game of DFs to lose the second set, and eventually the match, to Discount Masha. FML.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Thursday, 14 March 2013 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
Terrible from Petra. My perennial question is: WHAT has she been working on? She fucks the same shit up every time now. She seems content to be a sporadic Peak Pierce/Sweta type and get it together only on occasion, rather than maxing out her talent.
I wonder if Ma$ha will remember the shit Ma¢ha tried to pull on her this time last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3yLZTCBaE
I'm offended by the US time zones, making me miss what sounded like two great and dramatic matches last night, and the Roger/Rafa QUARTER-FINAL tonight.
I guess Gulbis will now go 0-18 for the rest of the season?
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 14 March 2013 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
Also, how many more close losses can Stan take this year...
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 14 March 2013 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
What kind of woeful performance by Tsonga was that
53 minutes!!!!
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 15 March 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
Someone needs to tell Del Potro that he is far too beautiful to be wearing such... hideously ugly shorts. Some beautiful tennis going on here, DP's backhand is not great but Nole is hitting wide a lot.. but some good tactics. And net play!
How the fuck has Wozniacki made a final? Oh, withdrawing Azarenka, moderately-banged up Kerber who got through because of withdrawing opponent.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Sunday, 17 March 2013 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
Does it with an ace! Del Pony :D :D :D
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Sunday, 17 March 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link