It's been 10 years! I don't know why anyone is surprised. A few catty remarks a decade ago ≠ depthless hate 4eva.
How about that Petkovic, 12-10 and 8-6 in the third victories on back-to-back days to clinch the tie. Fed Cup MVP.
Victor Estrella Burgos in Quito, first Dominican to win an ATP title! His late-career blossoming has been pretty great to see.
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 February 2015 11:09 (nine years ago) link
mathieu is playing well v dimitrov
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 February 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
wow dimitrov ripped some winners @ mp down a la sharapova
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
that was Peak Niculescu against Flipkens there, no other player's game puts such a huge smile on my face. The slices, the lobs, the volleys, that ridiculous moment when she ran around her BH so far she was standing in the tramlines and just smacks an impossibly angled inside out BH winner.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
muellers playing well, just took out dimitrov & won 90% of his 1st serve pts
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link
yeah I thought that might happen, the bits of Muller's matches I've caught this year have been pretty whoa. Bit of a servebot but just in great form
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 February 2015 06:43 (nine years ago) link
Niculescu <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olGFuVtzdas
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 February 2015 07:28 (nine years ago) link
Kerber was very flat admittedly but that was some performance from Fran <3
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
xp problem is that peak niculescu is just not that great w/r/t most of the tour, any player better than flipkens would not have let her dictate play like that
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
took great enjoyment in that 2nd set smack down of bouchard that mona b just inflicted. hope she can keep it up in the decider.
― pandemic, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
yes! well done mona 4-6 6-1 6-2.
― pandemic, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
MONA!
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 February 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link
Also, Bouchard seems to have stolen Azarenka's coach in the past few weeks. Vika tweeted this after the match:
https://twitter.com/vika7/status/565980142447919104
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 February 2015 06:48 (nine years ago) link
Barthel's next opponent is Zahlavova-Strycova...and her coach is Zahlavova-Strycova's husband.
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 February 2015 07:01 (nine years ago) link
only saw the scoreline but lol @ murray
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
didnt realize nishi was playing memphis, awz
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2015 01:08 (nine years ago) link
wow krajicek goes s&v @ set pt hm
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
he def needs just to win on 1st serves
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
getting to be a p epic game here @ 5-4 kraj
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
this match has been really good
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2015 03:13 (nine years ago) link
Young v Tomic was hilarious. Young was playing at a much higher level throughout (Tomic inexplicably passive, mostly) but kept flopping on BPs, needed a terrible Tomic DF to edge the first set TB. Then as soon as he started to take BPs he'd immediately flop his next service game. Choking for his life throughout the third set yet Tomic couldn't take advantage. Probably the best I've seen Young play in terms of shotmaking though that's not saying much.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 07:10 (nine years ago) link
The Rodionova sisters' head-to-head is hilarious, of course.
R2 Las Vegas $50K, 2012: Anastasia d. Arina 52 ret.Q2 Dubai 2015: Arina d. Anastasia 62 01 ret.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 09:54 (nine years ago) link
Puig v Tomljanovic is such patchy, bash-and-hope tennis. Rallies ending in either a huge winner or a wild miss seemingly at random.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
berdych is steamrolling thru simon
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 February 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Puig v Tomljanovic has turned into a completely crazy rollercoaster
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
Tomljanovic lost a 7-6, 4-2 lead. Failed to serve it out twice in the third set. Had three MPs in the final TB, absolutely ballooned a putaway drive volley into the back fence (like actually into it, no exaggeration) on the first. Basically choking for her life throughout the whole second half and Puig just let her get away with it! How, when your opponent is visibly shaking and can't get the ball in court, do you just gift a DF and dump a BH into the net like that.
I watched the whole of that 7-6 5-7 7-6 mess and now I have PTSD
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
wow, Luca Vanni, a 29-yr-old Italian who had never won an ATP-level match before this week, qualified for Sao Paulo and has made the final. Blew a couple of MPs in the second set amidst a disgustingly partisan crowd (one thing to cheer on your local hope, another to hoot and whistle between serves) but impressed that he came from a break down in the third!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
And he blew kisses to the crowd afterwards :)
oof Petko. 5-1 up over BZS and then meltdown. BZS's hustle in full effect too...
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
And then BZS has a meltdown from 6-5 up and throughout the TB.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Incredible defence from BZS. She's so much fun to watch, even aside from her antics and gesticulations and rants, of which there have been plenty today as well
― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 February 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
kei is making this dropping first sets thing a habit
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 February 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
querrey w a great get/fh winner 3d set tiebreak
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 February 2015 03:48 (nine years ago) link
& yet he's sabotaging himself w/ errors and even had a double fault too
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 February 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
loool and a second double
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 February 2015 03:51 (nine years ago) link
Turn on to watch Petko final and.........she's playing Clijsters????
― pandemic, Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
damn this tourney has no luck, #1 seed bounced early (lol) rest of the belgians knocked out early.
― pandemic, Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Kim can still bash it mind you.
Was looking frwd to the Final tho :(
― pandemic, Sunday, 15 February 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
quintessential St Kim masterplan to swoop in to a) save b) win your own tournament at the last minute
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
Wawrinka hits one of the best drop volleys I've ever seen and one of the worst dropshots I've ever seen on consecutive points. Good tennis here generally, Berdych looking confident
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Berdych went away at the end of the second set and got broken on a dead net cord to start the third.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Banger of a BH pass from Stan, double break!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
Not seeing this much-vaunted New Berdych in 2015. That was v much the Same Old Berdych. Couldn't recover from a slight wobble and his opponent raising his game, third set looked close because that wasn't peak Stan either but it wasn't really - some of Berdych's errors, especially off simple shots, were miles out. Decent match though!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
This Flipkens/Cornet match. The Flipkens overhead that bounced before her own service line. Cornet responding with one of her patented DFs-into-collapsing-on-the-ground.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
A lengthy interlude of Cornet gesticulating, screaming and repeatedly beating her towel into the ground over her inability to challenge <3
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Cornet goes into hysterics for the second time in 5 minutes over a call. To be fair to her she's actually been right both times! But maybe this is why you don't piss away all your challenges too early in the set, Alizé...
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
omg it happened again at 6-6 in the tb
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Cornet wins the first six games of the match, and the last six games from 0-3 down. What happened in between will scar me forever
― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 February 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
kei has been mad testy abt his rackets & their string tension this tourney
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 February 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
love watching Diyas when she's playing well. Finished off Petkovic with a clean dropshot winner then two clean return winners to win <3
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link