ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

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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*stares at Twitter*
*stares at Sharapova hitting errors on my stream*

: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

― johnny crunch, Thursday, August 7, 2014 1:11 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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).

Sugarpova advert during the changeover at 2-5 in the final set lmaaoooooo

Venus wins for the first time in five years and Serena looks like thunder

awesome

Tsonga really may have turned a corner. Certainly looks fitter.

A-Rad/Makarova is a really good match. A second tie-break. Absorbing enough that I can't bother watching Fed squander lots of break points but still win.

Venus started well. 1-0.
Aga dug herself out of two straight 0-30 games, 1-2.
And then Venus has COMPLETELY fallen apart and can't land a ball in court. 1-4!

For a few games it looked like Venus was going to pull level, then she descended again. Aga takes the first set.

Aga serves out to love, closing with an ace. Looked like all those three-setters caught up with Venus, who occasionally got first-strike blows in (but mostly missed them wildly) but struggled in every longer rally.

wow Tsonga. This title was completely out of nowhere

terrible performance from Federer but at least he didn't lose 2-6 2-6 like honeymoonovic

Tsonga regularly served over 140mph in this tourney, definitely something going on fitness wise

Just watched the Rad/Villiams highlights. Venus may not have won, but wow did she look good in that short blue thing she was wearing.

Do hope Tsonga keeps this up and bags a slam somehow.

lol dam paire wanted off the court

novak is playing p poorly

Simon has to work so hard against Novak and Rafa, fun to watch in a sadistic way

man what a brutal match

remember when Simon was the only man to beat all of the top 4 (other than the top 4) within 12 months? still, Djokovic still in honeymoon phase (both re: wedding and Wimbledon) I presume.

I guess Tsonga was tired but flopping to Youzhny in R1 is funny given the hopes he raised last week.

Stephens' win over Petkovic is her first semi-impressive win in so long.

Watched all of Sharapova/Keys, Ma$ha is light years better than last week, Madison is the same old same old. I know she's still young but I wish she'd just go POW on the tour rather than this halting, error-filled one step fwd one step back. I thought Eastbourne would have unlocked something but no :(

I expect Sweta to teach Bouchard another lesson in R2 :)

Meanwhile, Barthel had a 5-2 lead and a SP over BZS. And didn't win another game.

Can't believe Petra nearly fooled me into thinking she'd become consistently great this time

*ignores her until 2017*

Sholz ‏@attheapollo 2m
Fixed MT @theoverrule Congratulations [all of Petra's future opponents] first career top 10 win beating a 2-time Wimbledon champion.

djokovic looks so average

fabulously entertaining match from Monfils and Federer. No clowning from Monfils and spectacular shotmaking from both.

fed looking good

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/sports/tennis/applebees-a-suburban-staple-for-cincinnati-masters-players.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

haha Gulbis really did a 180 on Cincy. I remember him saying that it was the most boring stop on tour.

I never really thought that this was the only suburban Masters event but I guess it is. Indian Wells is sort of suburbanish right?

fucking ugh @ Halep never getting over the finish line vs Ma$ha