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
only caught the last game. great stuff
― cerealbar, Sunday, 17 March 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
Del Pontiff this week, surely. sad I missed it, fell asleep after he lost the first set.
― Roz, Sunday, 17 March 2013 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
gratz Justine on your baby girl
still miss you much <3
both my fav players of the 00s are mothers now
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Myskina has a kid????
― Darth Icky (DJP), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
haha Myskina has about three kids
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
Myskina announced that she was pregnant with her first child, due in May 2008. She has previously dated Russian hockey player Konstantin Korneyev, but refuses to state the name of the father.[8] On April 28, 2008 Myskina gave birth to her first child, a boy named Zhenya (Yevgenyi). In August 2010 she gave birth to a second son[9] named Georgiy.[citation needed] On November 3, 2011 it was reported that she is pregnant with a third child, that just like the first 2, will be a son.[10] When she was interviewed about parenting with Tennis.com she quoted the following:
Being a mother is so different; it’s not that it’s quieter or faster, it’s just different. Being a mom is tough. You understand what’s good for you and the babies, while tennis is just a game. It’s fun because you have a different life when you step on the court but when the baby is sick you go crazy. When I lost a match it was really bad time, now I know it was a great time, so being a mom is tougher.—Anastasia Myskina, Tennis.com[10]
On March 1, 2012 she gave birth to a third child, named Pavel.[11][edit]
she's been popping them out since she retired
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol for some reason I just assumed she was still in some weirdo basement being an artsy model
― Darth Icky (DJP), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
also, did we all see this absurd rally from last week?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEvq8ybeyzg#!
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
oh my god
― Darth Icky (DJP), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
the moment when Wozniacki drifts forward, hits a shitty volley, and immediately moves back to resume moonballing is pretty special
also when a Kerber moonball lands in the service box and Wozniacki responds with...a moonball
that's how Woz turned the match around, apparently.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
there is a certain way in which Woz's game is fascinating, kind of like how roadkill is fascinating
― Darth Icky (DJP), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit @ this shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGKIQ7ykNsU
<3 A-Rad
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
sharapova a set and a break up against serena. this is weird
― cerealbar, Saturday, 30 March 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
that was more like it
― cerealbar, Saturday, 30 March 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
the women's final was hilarious (also pretty good), the men's final was absolutely dire (also pretty hilarious)
what could be even more satisfying than seeing Sharapova humiliated yet again? seeing her humiliated even after she played lights out, with Serena playing at 30% for half the match and giving her a set and a break lead!
95 combined UEs for Murray and Ferrer, two top 5 players whose strength is supposedly their consistency and accuracy, lulz.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 1 April 2013 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
Weeell, as a Sharapova fan seeing her lose like that was, in the end, tragically predictable, but at the same time ten times preferrable to another "this is literally the most NID thing in sports" confirmation. Don't know if this chance will ever present itself again, but on clay she could potentially get a look at it.
― abcfsk, Monday, 1 April 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
I really enjoy this "Maria might beat Serena on clay" meme that's going around, but I can't see much to it. If they're playing this year on clay, it's in a final. If Serena is playing well enough to get to a final, can anyone really foresee any outcome other than a beatdown? There's nothing particularly special about Maria's clay game, it's just that she is such a flop on grass nowadays. It's not like Serena can't play on clay - she can. But early losses are just a thing she does sometimes, and when she gets to the later stages, she tends to lose to a player with good clay pedigree. Look at Serena's FO losses when she actually gives enough of a crap to get past the first few rounds, say, QF or later. Capriati twice, Henin twice, Kuznetsova once and Stosur once. Three RG champions and one player who has made three semi-finals. None of them are disgraceful losses.
Sure, Maria performed well the last two years, but it's not as if Li Na is a clay court specialist or Sara Errani has big enough weapons to challenge the true elite on any surface. Serena would mutilate Maria in the final of any clay tournament they met in this year. Serena just hates the idea that she ever lost to Sharapova (twice!) and won't allow it again until she's barely able to move.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Monday, 1 April 2013 11:47 (eleven years ago) link