ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

True! But it felt like a lot of players worked Wozniacki out, and look, here she is in 2004 back in the top 10 with a GS final and likely a SF spot in the YEC...

If they all finish 2-1 matches/4-2 sets, it's games %age right?

Right now, SW: 26-22, SH: 24-7, AI: 20-17

So, AI 7-6 7-6 SH, means AI: 53.97%, Williams goes through (54.17%)
Any other 2-0 result, AI goes through
Halep can't go out even with a double-bagel defeat (worst = 55%+)

2014, 2014, 2014. Bouchard doesn't have Sharapova-level game, god not even close, but she'll be like a cockroach.

Having nightmares about Halep losing to Ivanovic, eliminating Serena, then Kvitova flopping massively to Woz, and us somehow ending up with a Sharapova/Wozniacki final of even lower quality than that thing from the other day

xps I trust others on the maths, Twitter said that as soon as Bouchard won her second game, any two-set win for Ivanovic would do including 76 76. As soon as Bouchard won her first game, Halep officially qualified.

(I mean I trust other people than myself not other people than Michael! I have no idea what's right any more)

In applying the tie-breaking procedures, a conduct default or retirement shall count as a straight-set win or loss. However, games won or lost in matches with a defaulting or retiring player shall not be counted in the application of the percentage of games won method.

So if Halep retires...Serena goes through!

omg I turned this match off at 7-5 3-0 up

LIFE

Sharapova had three MPs for the straight-sets win she needed. LOST IT FROM 5-1 UP FINISHING WITH A DF LMAOOOOOOO

Yasss Aga!

And now Sharapova has to come back out and play a meaningless set. She must be seething and I love it.

Ah, AI beat EB one and three. I could've sworn it was two and three when I looked yesterday! So, yeah, 7-6 7-6 over SH takes her to 54.84% and into the semis.

Useless Radwanska can't even beat a Sharapova with nothing to play for.

And she's not even out yet! Wozniacki wins by any scoreline, Wozniacki and Radwanska go through.

Actually, I doubt this crossed her mind, but that set had surprisingly little effect on Radwanska's chances of progressing. If she'd won, Petra would have needed a straight-sets victory. So all that changes is that Petra can afford to drop a set now.

lol Petra flopped anyway NID NID NID

this halep/ivanovic match makes zero sense

So Halep didn't tank but choked the first set but still fought in the second and then LOST ANYWAY? uh, at least she's honest I guess, but well done on idiotically getting yourself into the worst possible scenario: three-setter with the SF tomorrow, losing anyway, doing it all in tremendously stupid fashion.

Meanwhile spare a thought for alternate Angie Kerber, who earned $60k this week for a nice little holiday in Singapore and didn't even have to touch her racquet.

Gotta think it'll be a Serena/Simona rematch in the final, too.

So this set between Coric and Nadal is also happening.

Winners/unforced errors:
Coric: 2/13
Nadal: 1/19

that was a pretty brilliant match and it will HURT for Wozniacki...

Yeah I don't feel like Wozniacki could have done much more than she did there... uh.. her game was even not-awful to watch for once!

I wonder if this will be like Sampras-Agassi in the men's YEC in '99. Andre thrashed Pete in the round robin, Pete was a different player entirely in the final.

Probably! Radwanska doesn't look very interested in stopping Halep getting to the final.

Great exhibition of what a good striker like Halep can do when given the same mid-paced ball over and over again. Her practice would have been tougher than this.

Really looking forward to the Halep/Serena rematch.

it begins..

Williams made to work straight away to save the 1st BP

1st DF, another bp

Intense right from the beginning, SW gets the game.

Halep wins her game to love.

way too many errors from serena = 2 more bps

Breaks.

Also not enough 1st serves.

Got her returns going and has Halep in all sorts of trouble.

this is a great game - Serena can't get Halep to make that fatal mistake.

finally, lame surrender: 2-2

and just about saves her game then breaks again: 4-2 williams. in a blink of an eye the match has turned, halep starts pulling more shots in the net, the crap challenge..

although my feed fucked up toward the end so couldn't get more detail, but it was on 1st bp for that game.

breaks back!! a df from sw (her 3rd) then Halep plays a great fh on 2nd serve to nail it.

Do expect Serena to have enough to (just about) struggle through a win on what I've seen so far.

3rd consecutive break.

SW wins the set - they are both struggling thru it.

set and a break from sw, disappointment sets in.

shit drop shot from Simona - you know she's disappointed too :-(

She should totally have tanked to Ivanovic. Can't believe she didn't. Her coach should have insisted.

no, she should have played better today. Looked like she started the more stable and accurate of the two but that lasted precisely three games. Missed those points to hold for 3-1 and then just didn't display anything. Woeful first serve % too. Serena was very on edge in the first set, understandably, but once she settled emotionally in the second that was that. Disappointing match really...

Felt like first serve % was pretty low for most of the players at this event, or that might just be going on some of those early horrorfests.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B05WjqSIgAAkgLq.jpg

ferrer/nishi 3rd set could be p good

great comeback here by nishi if he can close it out

KEI :D :D Shame about that other SF :( I take most of Federer's losses with the knowledge that he's like my age and can't win everything but losing to Raonic is the sort of thing that still hurts.

LOL at Pironkova going 0-3 in her group in Sofia in a year where she actually had a half decent case of being wildcarded beyond nationality in that she at least won a biggish tournament. The semis for it might actually be quite decent - Suarez, Pennetta, Muguruza, Petkovic.

LOL at yesterday's tennis. 6-1, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1. Two days, five breadsticks. On the ATP, everyone is Bouchard! #goldenage

Nishikori just going for slightly too much throughout that set