Li's year is not too bad really, and will be on a sharp uptick if she manages to beat Azarenka next round. Please, please, please.
wrt TV coverage, did anyone see Federer/Raonic and was it any good?
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
Raonic will undoubtedly be a major force in the game if he stays healthy so with that in mind I refuse to actually watch him play until it's abolutely necessary
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 10 May 2012 06:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh whoa I've just seen the score. though actually it's not really surprising at all given his game.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 10 May 2012 07:01 (eleven years ago) link
w/r/t Li, she may not be crashing and burning like stupid Kvitova but she hasn't won a title this year and also is responsible for one of the most annoying losses in a year that has been very generous with them
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 10 May 2012 07:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.wtatennis.com/player/vesna-dolonc_2257889_12874
Vesna DOLONC (SRB). OK then. Third name change in 14 months.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 10 May 2012 07:41 (eleven years ago) link
YEEEEEEEES SERENA
if she'd lost that, it would've been pretty major
serena/sharapova QF :D :D :D
― uberweiss, Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
just tuned in in time to see Verdasco double-fault three points in a row. -facepalm-
― Roz, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I've EVER seen Rafa play as awfully as he did in the final stages of that match. Literally couldn't put a ball into court. The penultimate FH that bounced before the net on his side. It genuinely looked like some sort of protest against the surface.
Rewarded with shirtless Nando though!
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
ya that was unexpected. stopped watching after Nadal went up two breaks in the third, then I looked up the scores five minutes ago to find that FeVer had somehow crawled his way back and won! still amazing though - don't think anyone apart from Djokovic has done something like that successfully against Rafa on clay before.
― Roz, Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
Oh Na Na, why you no break loud shrieking bitch when she seemed so determined to serve DFs?
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Friday, 11 May 2012 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
Serena eviscerating Maria will never get old.
I swear even if she suddenly had to play Maria in the depths of some Eastern European autumn tournament on the eve of a Kardashian wedding she'd still bring her A game to this match-up.
It could've been even easier had she not attempted that lazy and kinda arrogant "dropshot" that was worthy of Dementieva on her point to go up 3-0 in the second set but even though that allowed Maria to claw her way back for two (2) games, those three Maria DFs at 2-2 were hilariously inevitable.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
HEHEHE
disappointed with the lack of bagels YET AGAIN though, Serena. :@
― uberweiss, Friday, 11 May 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Don't ask me why, but I'm putting myself through the second, presumably final set of Azarenka/Radwanska. A-Rad drops her serve at 2-2 despite having a game point (lolol let's get on the back foot, hit with no depth and then make errors when pressed even slightly). Then, Azarenka gets smashed, broken to love:
00: BH return winner from Radwanska15: Laughable drop-shot attempt from Azarenka.30: Great FH return that Azarenka gets barely a racquet on40: DF from Azarenka
So now my hopes are up and I envisage them being ruined again.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Saturday, 12 May 2012 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
My hopes are now firmly pinned on Serena utterly molesting her in the final.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Saturday, 12 May 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link
serena doesn't lose tournaments she beats sharapova in. ever.and serena doesn't lose to azarenka. ever.
so i am not nervous.
― uberweiss, Saturday, 12 May 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
This is so, so, so great. Best so far? Serena falling over while Azarenka serves to stay in the set, Azarenka gets distracted and nets the ball. Two winners and a DF (on set point) later and it's 6-1. Dominant #1 my ass, and if not for getting injured St Kim in the semis, she wouldn't have a Slam either.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:12 (eleven years ago) link
Lol, Serena's final serve hits a dodgy spot on the court, bounces up and Azarenka compltely misses it. Apart from two really sloppy return games, that was... uh, so Serena's going to have 16 Slams by the end of the year. Not that we didn't know the tour was weak right now, but seriously, nobody has been able to match it with Serena since Henin, and unless Kvitova stops being retarded, we won't ever in all likelihood.
Smashing up Azarenka is making me appreciate her, I guess I will miss her when she's gone! (Still will never like her as much as Venus).
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
woz did breadstick serena this week
― abcfsk, Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
Sooooo the past year has seen Serena look utterly dominant and imperious in the warm-ups and then flop in the Slams? THE NEW SAFINA
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
I really really hope someone gets to say "But she won...Rome and Madrid" about Silliams this year. "Charleston and Madrid" might be more of a zing though. Somewhere, Dinara feels comforted.
Not that this result doesn't make me v happy and appreciative of her.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
lex -_-
US OPEN F AFTER NEARLY DYING ISN'T A FLOP. AND SHE WAS INJURED IN MELBOURNE OK BYE
not that i'm saying she'll definitely win RG lol. it will be a nervy mess. i can just hope
― uberweiss, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
ugh roger do you not want to be no. 2? What the hell was that service game?
― Roz, Sunday, 13 May 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Lol not the most awe-inspiring win from Fed but I guess he got it done, even if he needed a little help from Berdych's bone-headedness.
― Roz, Sunday, 13 May 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
Serena, on men complaining about the Madrid clay: "We ladies don't complain we just do our best. On the WTA (tour) we are real performers, we are not about going out there and being weenies."
Serena now trolling the ATP as well as the WTA. Is she trying to make me like her or something?
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Sunday, 13 May 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome back, Serena!
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Sunday, 13 May 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
“I see some of her previous matches and then she plays against me and produces 13 aces,” joked the Russian. "What about the other matches? I am flattered that she likes to do that against me."
LOLLLL Maria. Yes Serena hates you but she also plays well against you because you have NOTHING to hurt her with. Serena does literally EVERYTHING better than you.
― uberweiss, Monday, 14 May 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
US OPEN F AFTER NEARLY DYING ISN'T A FLOP.
she totally gets that pass for Wimbledon but she was amazing throughout the entire USO series and also the USO itself until the final!
Obv as things stand now she's RG favourite but that slam has history of turning into a mess so the winner will probably end up, like...Lepchenko or someone.
I really never thought Federer would be in a position where getting back to No 1 and breaking the Sampras record might happen...
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 14 May 2012 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's still a ridiculously superhuman effort tho
plus she lost to stosur because of racist schedulers k
― uberweiss, Monday, 14 May 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
good to be back in a country with wta traditions
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/7202595274_cc164b4a95_z.jpg
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
nalbandian/murray match is amazing from what i've seen
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
BTW, Radwanska still has not lost to anybody other than Azarenka this year. 0-6 against Azarenka and 32-0 against everybody else.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
how embarrassing for 32 people smh
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
But not for Petra Cetkovska! Who beat her... at some other tournament, probably a Slam once, or something, and just beat her again. (Radwanska is rubbish on clay, anyway).
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
haha. I watched part of the second set, then had to turn it off, it was so bad. Aga didn't look like she wanted to be there at all.
Anyway, Woz already down a set and a break to AMG lol
― Roz, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe Woz is hoping that by falling to #8, she will then rise back to #1 to show people it was no fluke?
PLAN GOING EXCELLENTLY, CAROLINE.
― neil young & crazy town (edwardo), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
NID that Petrova would play her peak tennis against Serena
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
Cetkovska owns Aga. 3-0 against her and all in the past year.
Wozniacki might even fall to No 9 this week if Li Na does well :D
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :D
SUCH an important win for Serena. Toughing out a 3 setter on red clay against a tricky opponent will do wonders for her confidence going into the French. This is what she couldn't do in Rome and Madrid 2010. So happy!
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Women's tennis in general is so bad at clay right now. All of the top players suck on clay.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
Rome and Madrid for Serena!
http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af264/JamieOwen3/serena-gif.gif
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Welcome to 2008 - specifically the day after Justine's retirement
+ 13 singles slams
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Justine could still win Roland Garros now, even without warmup.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
She didn't in 2010
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
Well, if fully motivated.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
she wasn't motivated in 2010? after the AO final and winning stuttgart?
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Justine's comeback was such a disgusting flop :( She basically never got her serve under control during it.
I really want Venus to come through the bottom quarter in Rome. And then lose to Kvitova obv.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
LOL, Azarenka routines Peer and then 20 minutes later is suddenly carrying an injury so bad she has to w/d.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
yes justine's comeback was amazing :D
thanks for giving serena that one last slam win over you, girl! :D :D :D
becoming clijsters' bitch was hilarious too
― uberweiss, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
nothing more beautiful than seeing ivanovic choke away 6 set points. and it was so NEVER IN DOUBT <3
― uberweiss, Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link