ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

Oh yeah I saw his son in Wim qualies. But I was too young to see his dad so it doesn't count for me! ^_^

ferrer steamrolled zverev, too bad but impressive of him to get there

been away all week seems like I missed some good tennis. had a tennis dream last night though fwiw. can't remember which player was in it or if I'd even recognise them irl

of course Tomic wins a title the week after IMG drops him

people always say the interzome between Wimbledon and the US hard court swing is dead air but the kids just keep coming this year. 17-yr-old Borna Coric beats 7th seed Edouard Roger-Vasselin in Umag. Really impressed with his power, anticipation, mental strength - he won so many games from 0-15 or 0-30 down.

lmao, Young and Harrison won five games (and were fed two bagels) between them in their R1 Atlanta matches vs Sela and Smyczek.

and now Coric is in a main tour QF. New era it seems.

Coric a set and a break up on Fognini. I think he might be about to push Fognini into tank mode

two seventeen year olds making semifinals in a week?

Fognini thrives on this kind of dreamcrushing tho

h8 watching isner and hes always on

I'd like to highlight this hilarious wording from a story (caught it on Tennistemple):

"France's Gael Monfils has withdrawn from next week's ATP and WTA tennis tournament in Washington with a nagging right knee injury..."

I know what they're trying to say is that it's a joint event, but I can't help but read it as saying that Monfils was also entered in the women's draw. I think he might be too much of a headcase even for the WTA though.

nice job by stevie johnson to knock out isner + karlovic on consecutive days

props to pospisil, berdych is such a chump tho

I'm sorry, but my inner tennisforum/ATRL fangirl just has to say YAS VENUS SLAY ME QUEEN.

Azarenka out of the top 10! I mean it's hard to credit her not getting back in it, and it's also sad that now Ivanovic is in it but you've gotta think that by the Australian Open next year order vis-a-vis those two will be restored.

tbh if Ivanovic has her head back on, she should be in the top 10

nishikori/gasquet backhand rallys are p fun

rip nishi tho, too bad i had hi hopes for this match

pospisil/gasquet has been v fun

damn posp kinda got lucky there, nows gotta serve it out

all canada final in dc, rip us male tennis

huge win for pospisil, because he's defending so many points in toronto next week. Now he should stay in the top 50 even with a bad Toronto result.

lol @ bouchard bageled by a qualifier

Rogers run at Bad Gastein was pretty impressive from what i saw. clearly has a big game, was absolutely pummelling that forehand

haha this is surreal. huge forehand dtl winner and no crowd response at all

yea funny how quiet it was, v polite library clapping when she closed it out

yessss Hev.
Cibulkova really dragging this slump out now

sock takes the 1st set from raonic, canadians in turmoil

Serena absolutely slaying

sock was moving v well out there, too many 4hand errors tho

aahhhh have been on holiday, catching up on results and LOL @ Bouchard getting fed two bagels twice by the world no 113

Serena won Stanford huh? what a weird year for her - more titles than anyone else this year but not even one Slam QF

V excited by Naomi Osaka, the 16-yr-old Japanese player who beat Stosur in Stanford. This FH she hit in her next match!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-yPb1a3i9U

Approve of the Goffin/Thiem final last week in Kitzbuhel, surprised Thiem lost it (though Goffin had beaten him twice this year already)

Disapprove of the Raonic and Vandeweghe hot streaks

CSN leads Ma$ha 6-2 1-0 and if I tune in she will definitely choke, right?

meanwhile, Wozniacki has lost six games in three matches

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:DD

this match is sooooo bad and CSN just went and made it even worse

sock was moving v well out there, too many 4hand errors tho

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Sock has lost a lot of weight and could finish the year in the top 30 imo

holy moley that Osaka forehand.

wtf happened to novak

this was good http://www.wtatennis.com/videos/article/4060044/title/montreal-shot-of-the-day-thursday

damn that was fantastic

suarez navarro is so terrible

insane game here @ 2-2 3rd set raonic/lopez

lopez has held off 7 break pts so far

make it 9 wtf

Lopez having a great run this summer

yassss Raonic flopping at home. REALLY hoping that there's no gap between the decline/retirement of the Big Four and the coming of age of this summer's teenagers; I don't want Raonic sneaking a Slam in a transition period. and it's welcome to see Lopez transfer his form off grass for once (especially as he lost to Victor Estrella Burgos last week!).

saw Murray lose to Tsonga from 3-0 up in the third last night, he became very passive. Had a real chance of a comeback when Tsonga blew three MPs but missed a very makeable pass at deuce.

Venus really fought hard vs CSN, the Montréal courts look super-slow though. Peak CSN's game is wonderful but this QF run hasn't found her anywhere near it. The Ma$ha match really was a contender for worst pro match I've ever seen (current holder is that Safina/Rogowska USO R1 from a few years back).

Knew Wozniacki would push Serena, sounded like a good match. Happy to see Aga trash Vika again. Ecstatic to see someone finally deal with Vandeweghe - Ekaterina Makarova, you truly do God's work.

Anderson's loss to Dimitrov was one of the worst chokes I've ever seen. Easily top 10.

Dimitrov also did this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5E8H7ycogY

Full-on sulk mode from Serena at the end of the second set. What were those DFs and that netted BH!

Meanwhile, 15yo CiCi Bellis has just won a USO WC by winning the USTA U18s championship; she hadn't yet been born when Venus and Serena first played each other on tour (Jan '98).