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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 August 2014 12:15 (nine years ago) link
CSN leads Ma$ha 6-2 1-0 and if I tune in she will definitely choke, right?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
meanwhile, Wozniacki has lost six games in three matches
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Maria Sharapova @MariaSharapova · 11mHere's a sweet treat… Original @Pinkberry and Smitten @Sugarpova. I named it "Smitten Summer!" What's your fave combo? #mysummerobsession
*stares at Twitter**stares at Sharapova hitting errors on my stream*
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 August 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
:DD
― cerealbar, Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
this match is sooooo bad and CSN just went and made it even worse
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 7 August 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
holy moley that Osaka forehand.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 7 August 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
wtf happened to novak
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 7 August 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
this was good http://www.wtatennis.com/videos/article/4060044/title/montreal-shot-of-the-day-thursday
― cerealbar, Friday, 8 August 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
damn that was fantastic
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 8 August 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
suarez navarro is so terrible
― johnny crunch, Friday, 8 August 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
insane game here @ 2-2 3rd set raonic/lopez
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
lopez has held off 7 break pts so far
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
make it 9 wtf
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
Lopez having a great run this summer
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 9 August 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 9 August 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
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
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 9 August 2014 06:13 (nine years ago) link
Full-on sulk mode from Serena at the end of the second set. What were those DFs and that netted BH!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 9 August 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
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).
― lex pretend, Saturday, 9 August 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
Sugarpova advert during the changeover at 2-5 in the final set lmaaoooooo
― lex pretend, Saturday, 9 August 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Venus wins for the first time in five years and Serena looks like thunder
― lex pretend, Saturday, 9 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
awesome
― cerealbar, Saturday, 9 August 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Tsonga really may have turned a corner. Certainly looks fitter.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 9 August 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Sunday, 10 August 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
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!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 August 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
For a few games it looked like Venus was going to pull level, then she descended again. Aga takes the first set.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 August 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 August 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
wow Tsonga. This title was completely out of nowhere
― lex pretend, Sunday, 10 August 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
terrible performance from Federer but at least he didn't lose 2-6 2-6 like honeymoonovic
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 10 August 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Monday, 11 August 2014 08:39 (nine years ago) link
Do hope Tsonga keeps this up and bags a slam somehow.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 August 2014 09:40 (nine years ago) link
lol dam paire wanted off the court
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
novak is playing p poorly
Simon has to work so hard against Novak and Rafa, fun to watch in a sadistic way
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
man what a brutal match
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
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$ha is light years better than last week, Madison is the same old same old. I know she's still young but I wish she'd just go POW on the tour rather than this halting, error-filled one step fwd one step back. I thought Eastbourne would have unlocked something but no :(
I expect Sweta to teach Bouchard another lesson in R2 :)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
Meanwhile, Barthel had a 5-2 lead and a SP over BZS. And didn't win another game.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 06:18 (nine years ago) link
Can't believe Petra nearly fooled me into thinking she'd become consistently great this time
*ignores her until 2017*
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Sholz @attheapollo 2mFixed MT @theoverrule Congratulations [all of Petra's future opponents] first career top 10 win beating a 2-time Wimbledon champion.
djokovic looks so average
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 14 August 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
fabulously entertaining match from Monfils and Federer. No clowning from Monfils and spectacular shotmaking from both.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 15 August 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
fed looking good
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 August 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/16/sports/tennis/applebees-a-suburban-staple-for-cincinnati-masters-players.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 August 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
haha Gulbis really did a 180 on Cincy. I remember him saying that it was the most boring stop on tour.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 16 August 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
I never really thought that this was the only suburban Masters event but I guess it is. Indian Wells is sort of suburbanish right?
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 16 August 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
fucking ugh @ Halep never getting over the finish line vs Ma$ha
― lex pretend, Saturday, 16 August 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
Did anyone see Stan btw, how did he lose to Bennetau after winning 6-1?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 August 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
ivanovic went into a coma mid 2nd set
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 17 August 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link