Draper shot a final round of seven-under-par 65 to finish with a four-round total of 20-under-par 268 and one shot clear of Andrew Bonhomme and Aaron Townsend.
Draper, 32, is among a rare group of sportsmen to succeed in two professional sports.
He won the Wimbledon junior doubles title before taking up tennis professionally in 1993.
He reached a career high of 42 in singles, but retired from tennis in 2005, shortly after winning the Australian Open mixed doubles title, to pursue a new career as a professional golfer.
Draper made a brief return to tennis when he agreed to coach Lleyton Hewitt at last month's Australian Open but turned down the chance of a longer term coaching job to continue with his own golfing career.
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Sunday, 11 February 2007 11:42 (6 years ago) Permalink
(Hingis won one too, but I'm not sure how much hilarity we're ever going to get out of her)
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Sunday, 11 February 2007 12:19 (6 years ago) Permalink
This was a good idea that never took off! Thus, revive.
Offseason now, so gossip rubbish instead: Dumped by Hingis, Radek Stepanek is apparently marrying Nicole Vaidisova!
cake!
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
i love the fact that one of the 10 ugliest sportsmen i've seen in the past 3 years is so unbelievably fortunate in matters of the heart, gives us all hope innit
― Just got offed, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
I like to think he's a real nice dude, but of course I've no idea.
Microscandal dept: Starace (best tennis name beside Smashnova) & Bracciali are suspended for a short while for betting insignificant amounts on matches not their own.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
Mardy Fish a strong candidate for best name IMO
― Just got offed, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fed vs Sampras at MSG, 3/10/08
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 06:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
1st titles of 2008, for reference:
WTA Gold Coast: LI Na d. Victoria AZARENKA 4-6 6-3 6-4 WTA Auckland: Lindsay DAVENPORT d. Aravane REZAÏ 6-2 6-2
ATP Doha: Andy MURRAY d. Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4 4-6 6-2 ATP Adelaide: Michaël LLODRA d. Jarkko NIEMINEN 6-3 6-4 ATP Chennai: Mikhail YOUZHNY d. Rafael NADAL 6-0 6-1
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 16:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
go davenport!!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 16:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
Week 2/2008, with all eyes on the AO anyway:
WTA Sydney: Justine HENIN d. Svetlana KUZNETSOVA 4-6 6-2 6-4 WTA Hobart: Eleni DANIILIDOU walk-over vs Vera ZVONAREVA
ATP Sydney: Dmitry TURSUNOV d. Chris GUCCIONE 7-6(3) 7-6(4) ATP Auckland: Philipp KOHLSCHREIBER d. Juan Carlos FERRERO 7-6(4) 7-5
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 14 January 2008 07:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
Watching Sharapova vs Obziler in the Israel-Russia Fed Cup tie now, and wow is the crowd noisy! Rapturous cheering on every serve fault by Maria, tauntingly SCREAMING along with her on every shot etc. Umpire totally unable to silence them haha!
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 2 February 2008 12:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
fuck what channel? we need to sign up for the tennis channle, i can't be missing stuff like this
― Surmounter, Sunday, 3 February 2008 02:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
I just go to myp2p.eu and check whether anything is available ("Live Sports" tab -> "Tennis" button). Note: playing stuff may in general entail installing various Chinese tv apps (sopcast, tvants, uusee...). That particular tie, however, is on some Israeli sports station showing through Windows Media Player or I guess any other .wmv-showing app.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 3 February 2008 10:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
How useful it is if you're not using Windows I've no idea. Also, quality unsurprisingly varies wildly; this Israeli broadcast is pretty decent.
Pe'er was double-breadsticked by the Shazbot right now, making it 2-1 to Russia. Elsewhere, France vs China will be decided by the doubles.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 3 February 2008 10:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
Murray knocks out Federer in the first round of the Dubai tournament.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7274636.stm
nice one you unpatriotic little shit.
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 3 March 2008 17:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
he was wearing a saltire cap when he was playing, which doesn't seem desperately unpatriotic to me.
― ailsa, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
Federer was too busy not thinking about yesterday
― Matt, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
i was only referring to his disinclination to play davis cup. and i was kidding about that anyway - i care no more about it than he does.
still, 'unpatriotic' was probably a poor choice of word. well done young man!
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
It was more the "little shit" that you coupled it with, to be fair.
Anyway, yes, two out of three won against Federer now.
― ailsa, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
God knows why he'd want to play the Davis Cup. Who else is going to be on the team? I wouldn't want to be winning matches and carrying a team full of useless people in a tournament that has long since lost its cachet and relevance except in the eyes of really, really old tennis commentators.
― edwardo, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
x-post take umbrage wherever you like it was all meant in jest, apart from the congratulatory bit. internet does not do deadpan.
But I genuinely like Murray. I also agree with the above post. I can't be arsed to even watch Davis Cup so I can't blame him if he's rather not play in it.
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
Andy Murray wins something
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 3 August 2008 21:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
He has won about 4-5 career titles before...but yes, its his biggest win
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 August 2008 21:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
this is his third title of 2008 alone. by far the biggest though! wish i could've seen it, sounds like a fantastic match, and it's good to see him encroaching on THE TRIVALRY even if i do like nole more (lol the way fed's playing, nadal/djokovic/murray is the real trivalry).
on the WTA, dinara safina has won two big titles in a row! she is the only woman out there who is stepping up to fill the void at the top. jankovic is going to be world no 1 next week, that is embarrassing. the WTA is probably in the worst shape i've ever witnessed.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
also i didn't know this thread existed!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh I know he's won stuff before but not a big tourney. It was a good match. He looks so much fitter and stronger than he was a year or 2 ago.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
Nadal will be #1 on 18/8. Can't quite believe Fed's slump post-SW19; loss to Simon, near-loss to Ginepri, loss to Karlovic. Thought he might have at least made a fight of the #1 ranking (his form was fine for 18 of 19 matches in Paris, Halle and London); I had this romantic notion of the baton being passed as Fed beat Nadal at Flushing Meadow (Nadal's points surge taking him past the repeating champ despite the loss). Fed will be lucky to get out of the sixteens in NYC. Does Beijing have any ranking points?
― Michael Jones, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah, it does. i think a few less than a masters event for the dudes, a few more than a tier ii for the chicas.
GOD that feels ridiculous looking at it! thinking about how much the olympics mean to, like, track&fielders and rowers and the like, and in tennis it's like...a TIER II.
anyway in other news, THIS is the 15-year-old saviour of the WTA who in the past month has taken sets from both serena and sweta, michelle larcher de brito: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kxaLo1riGo&feature=related
she makes sharapova sound like a trappist. seriously i can't believe she hasn't been asked to stop that bullshit yet, or like MURDERED ON COURT by a deafened opponent. that's not a grunt, that's a scream with a sustain pedal on. i'm not sure i'm going to be able to actually watch any of her matches.
oh and in other news silliams has pissed on her phone at the beach: http://serenawilliams.com/home/ sometimes you just long for the days before celebrities discovered how to work the internet themselves :(
(also note "enuf boring stuff" LIKE TENNIS)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
you know, i used to watch all the nonslams cuz my stepdad taped them. then i didn't speak to him anymore. i wish i knew when they were on -- i think i'm gonna have to get on top of that!
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
they're on every week! televised or not is another qn
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
exactly, that's the thing.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
Blake was asked about the partisan crowd before today's final and reminded everyone he's half English :)
BBC giving it "Blake is just happy to be here" bollocks - dude isn't here to make the numbers up. I think I'll be pro-Blake today, as he does things like this
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Sunday, 14 June 2009 13:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
Well done Andy!
― ailsa, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Bit of a dull game lit up by a few stunning forehands. Shoddy line calls all day, none of which helped Blake. Well done to Murray on being the first Brit in yonks to win Queen's, which I'm sure won't lead to even more Wimbledon hype.
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
I predict Murray will cave under the pressure and be out by round 3.
― ailsa, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
he doesn't seem to be the sort to cave under pressure. but a friendly first-week draw would certainly be nice...
didn't watch the Queen's, but watched the Edgbaston SFs (Li d. Sharapova and Rybarikova d. Mirza) and a bit of the final today - Magdalena Rybarikova is a real discovery, such a classic grass-court game! Slices and volleys and good serving! she looks weirdly like Samantha Morton, too. i remember seeing a photo of her from her junior days when she lost some random final - she was posing w/the trophy and seriously looked like she was about to go bowling for columbine. so it was lucky for Edgbaston that she won today!
Haas beat Djokovic in the Halle final this week too.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
in other news, larcher de screamo gets a wildcard to wimbledon. FUN.
― Roz, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
The weird transatlantification of Murray's pan loaf accent has meant I can't actually hear what he's saying - it's just a series of droning noises that makes my ears stop working.
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
pan loaf accent
is that how you talk with your mouth full of bread?
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_loaf
It was once more expensive and regarded as more fashionable than the then more common plain loaf. Hence, to speak with a pan loafy voice is to speak in a posh or affected manner.
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
How on earth does Murray speak with an affected accent?! He just mumbles.
I found that picture of Rybarikova looking like she's ready to go bowling for Columbine after losing the Wimbledon juniors final!
Fortunately today was more to her liking.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
!!! interesting result for sure. fed dropped out?
― Lamp, Sunday, 14 June 2009 17:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah...Djokovic was lucky to be in the final at all, he had to come back from 5-7, 2-5 down and save 5 match points against Florent Serra (!) in the 2nd round.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 June 2009 17:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
waht
French tennis player banned for betting found dead
Natural causes apparently.
RIP Mathieu
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 15:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Fuckin' hell. (Though my initial shock was because I thought you meant Paul-Henri Mathieu...)
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 16:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh right, sorry! To avoid confusion to others: it's Mathieu Montcourt.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 16:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Lex's favourite choker, Richard Gasquet avoids getting suspended after testing positive for coke.
The full findings are here (pdf): pretty lol-worthy just for the kissing descriptions and finding out that he was allegedly "contaminated" at a Bob Sinclar event.
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 20:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
hingis should've found a french waiter of her own to blame. or maybe just one of the 9494439 atp players she'd slept with.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 20:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
her ban ends in january right? think she'll come back?
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
wtf federer?! 5-2 up in the final set, somehow fails to serve it out twice and then DFs on match point in the tie-break to give Tsonga the win.
all credit to Jo-W for stepping it up right at the end, but still... that was some breakdown.
― Roz, Friday, 14 August 2009 21:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh a complete rout after losing the first set, that's even better. God, I love Serena so much now.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Monday, 8 April 2013 12:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
10 games in a row to win miami <3her fight with jankovic during her final win in charleston <3
red clay time :'(
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
oh man if you can get to any source showing Youzhny/Djokovic, do so immediately
this third set is fucking incredible
yay working from home
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 14:13 (1 month ago) Permalink
lol, no surprise that Djokovic won (I was out) (though I saw the score and just assumed his ankle's still giving him issues)
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 15:25 (1 month ago) Permalink
If Youzhny wasn't a headcase he could have won; he had Djokovic legit on the ropes several times.
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 16:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
Anyone hear watch Dimitrov/Nadal? Grigor definitely had chances, and even kicked up the fight in the final game despite cramping. I only saw the final set, mind.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Friday, 19 April 2013 23:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
i wonder what sloane stephens thinks she's doing with this. the definition of coming at the queen and missing by a mile. i pity her if she's drawn to face serena any time soon, though given their rankings and the fact that stephens can't even beat hantuchova 2013, she'll prob be saved that fate.
http://tennis.si.com/2013/05/04/sloane-stephens-serena-williams-2/
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
This interview would be interesting and maybe even make sense if Sloane wasn't playing like wet garbage at the moment.
― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 16:52 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
wow this djokovic/grisha tiebreak was insane
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
please win grisha
― cerealbar, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
he did it!
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
that was so great
― cerealbar, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 21:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
WTA Year-End to Singapore.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 06:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
oh YESSS... just a few hours' drive away for me! :D
― Roz, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 07:18 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
unnnghhh I can't believe I missed yesterday's match, nothing about it made sense at all. Grisha choked for the set AGAIN but still won the TB after saving SPs? I went out at that point but all I saw on Twitter was Nole winning the second amidst DRAMA and Grisha cramping, and everyone saying the third set would be a formality, which it...wasn't?!
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 08:37 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Anabel Medina Garrigues becomes just the seventh player ever to bagel Serena.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 10 May 2013 10:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
(AMG's career record against top 10 players is 5-41. Of those five, three were retirements)
You know it's going to be 5-42 soon enough. She can't close it.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Friday, 10 May 2013 10:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
That pass that would have given AMG two MPs...
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 10 May 2013 11:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
The inevitable.
For posterity, all of Serena's bagels in her career:
Q1 Indian Wells 1997, l. Alexia Dechaume-Balleret 46 063R Roland Garros 1999, l. Mary Joe Fernandez 36 61 06SF Dubai 2005, l. Jelena Jankovic 06 34 ret.F Miami 2007, d. Justine Henin 06 75 631R Zurich 2007, l. Patty Schnyder 06 03 ret.RR Doha YEC 2008, l. Venus Williams 75 16 06QF Madrid 2013, d. Anabel Medina Garrigues 63 06 75
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 10 May 2013 11:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
great trolling by andujar this week
― groovemaaan, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:32 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Excuse me, I have to go onto Tennisforum for some quality schadenfreude. Five games. Best clay-courter going. Pah!
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Sunday, 12 May 2013 12:41 (1 week ago) Permalink
never gets old
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Sunday, 12 May 2013 12:46 (1 week ago) Permalink
Sure, but let there be no doubt that she plays a lot lot worse against Serena than other players the rest of the week / season. There's no excuse for that kind of hyper impatient game and it's all mental. She may lose anyway but not in such a pathetic fasion.
Oh well, so far the results are mirroring last clay season quite nicely.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 12 May 2013 12:52 (1 week ago) Permalink
Serena is also a lot, lot better than all the other players Maria beats. Why couldn't I have had this violently pro-Serena revelation 10 years ago?
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Sunday, 12 May 2013 13:32 (1 week ago) Permalink
In general yeah, but did she play a lot better than the others this tournament? Nope. Someone else will probably beat her at Roland Garros.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 12 May 2013 13:42 (1 week ago) Permalink
Does that matter even remotely? She won all the matches in front of her.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Sunday, 12 May 2013 13:43 (1 week ago) Permalink
My original point here is what's important to me: Maria didn't put up a decent fight and I'm pissed off.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 12 May 2013 13:45 (1 week ago) Permalink
Look at it this way - you can let go of expectations that clay significantly increases Maria's chances of beating Serena and then be pleasantly surprised if she backs up last year's RG.
― you made me the queef of your fart (edwardo), Sunday, 12 May 2013 13:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
All I have to say is LOL
― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Sunday, 12 May 2013 14:43 (1 week ago) Permalink
(@ Maria, not this convo)
― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Sunday, 12 May 2013 14:44 (1 week ago) Permalink
@BenRothenberg:"Thanks Maria! Thank you! Good try! Thank you!" -Serena to Maria at the net.
amazing
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 12 May 2013 14:57 (1 week ago) Permalink
I'm just gonna start calling Serena "Shade"
― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Sunday, 12 May 2013 15:24 (1 week ago) Permalink
:-D
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:13 (1 week ago) Permalink
kinda strange Gulbis doesn't join the conversation with an eloquent and well-mannered opinion of his own
― Ludo, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:38 (1 week ago) Permalink
that was amazing
quite an achievement to be the craziest person on court with Gulbis right there
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 20:07 (1 week ago) Permalink
YULIA. PUTINTSEVA. I knew her presence on the main tour would be worth it.
CoCo Vandeweghe @CoCoVandey 5hI have never played a person with worst sportsmanship... Putintseva...
CoCo Vandeweghe @CoCoVandey 5h...How can anyone comment on my game style after you have already won the match in such a negative way is unbelievable!...
CoCo Vandeweghe @CoCoVandey 5hHer exact words were "You are a terrible player only serve. I win all the rallies" that comment is totally uncalled for...
CoCo Vandeweghe @CoCoVandey 5h...and on top of it your father clapping while you say this haha, unreal! #venting
Yulia Putintseva @Yulka1995P 7mAnd by the way saw a twit of Coco... Wont comment much!Really surprise that people can act like that after losing to younger player:p
Yulia Putintseva @Yulka1995P 3m@jakedavi5 haha i did:D i think she is angry coz before the match she thought that im not her level of player:p lol
RobOsna @RobOsna 3m@Yulka1995P haha, she is just a bitter bitch. Good luck in your next match Retweeted by Yulia Putintseva
Maxime Parans @MParans 5m@Yulka1995P Hahahaha, just bitter that you were the better player out ther Retweeted by Yulia Putintseva
Yulia Putintseva @Yulka1995P 2mAnd by the way no matter who is at the other side i am respecting that person! And always shaking hand in the end of the match!
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:37 (4 days ago) Permalink
Her exact words were "You are a terrible player only serve. I win all the rallies" that comment is totally uncalled for...
fucking lol
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:53 (4 days ago) Permalink
Yulia serving TRUTH there
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Monday, 20 May 2013 20:57 (4 days ago) Permalink
really looking forward to CoCo's bitter early retirement
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Monday, 20 May 2013 21:05 (4 days ago) Permalink
looooooool did yulia lie? <3 her
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Monday, 20 May 2013 22:57 (4 days ago) Permalink
Wozniacki extends her losing streak to five: Voegele, Suarez Navarro, Shvedova, Jovanovski, Zheng. It's so beautiful how every player is supremely full of confidence when they face her these days, no matter how deep their own slump.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:34 (2 days ago) Permalink
imagine a Woz/CoCo doubles team
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:35 (2 days ago) Permalink
oh hey Sloane beat Pironkova? (I know it's not at Wimbledon so it almost doesn't count but still, with how Sloane's been performing that's a surprise to me)
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:38 (2 days ago) Permalink
Pironkova's been even worse, 3-11 for the year before this match
(but not as bad as Paszek, who is 1-10 in 2013...although that's pretty much where she was at this time last year)
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:44 (2 days ago) Permalink
hmm from that standpoint would the Zhang Shuai be more impressive? I don't really know some of these players that well
― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 17:55 (2 days ago) Permalink
Zhang Shuai is barely a top 100 player at her best and only qualifies for WTA MDs occasionally these days.
Stephens won a couple of matches last week in Rome - Pennetta (just coming back from injury, could barely keep a ball in court) and Bertens (which is a no-caveats decent win). Brussels is basically where all the slumping players who desperately need matches/wins have come instead of taking a week off before RG, though (hence Zheng, Wozniacki, Goerges as well). Ideal place for someone like Stephens to find a bit of form.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 18:26 (2 days ago) Permalink
now that uni has finished, i have 3 months to do nothing but watch tennis :D starting with a bit of vinci/putintseva
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:44 (Yesterday) Permalink
putintseva's footwork omgi can't believe she managed to get all the way around a vinci CC slice to hit a forehand inside out winner. LEGEND
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:46 (Yesterday) Permalink
this match is really nice
but vinci running away with it now :( putintseva broken from 40-0 up (punctured by a racket smack as she lost serve ofc)
― buenos noches, do not approach us (uberweiss), Thursday, 23 May 2013 16:51 (Yesterday) Permalink