ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

ATP really bringing the drama this year

TS don't sledge me mate vs don't tase me bro

Ben Rothenberg ‏@BenRothenberg 16m16 minutes ago Mason, OH
"I never had a match like that!" -Mo Lahyani, giggling as he leaves Kokkinakis-Harrison.

Love Mo. <3 Rothenburg's whole timeline is worth reading. https://twitter.com/BenRothenberg

Bencic era

Serena was a bit poor on serve (50% first serves in) but it still takes something to take her out when she's a little off. Legend Wingis Mk II era ftw, it'd be awesome if Bencic and Muguruza were splitting the Slams after Serena retires.

bencic/halep is a battle, both def fatigued

djokovic fighting to get back on serve in the 3rd set

18 minute game wow

murray 2 points from the match

fuckin novak is tough to close out man

props 2 andy

yessss

:-)

Fun match between Coric and Zverev - Zverev dominated on serve in the last set but Coric was mentally tougher in the TB. 75 36 76.

Kyrgios was injured or something and barely put up a fight vs Gasquet, lost in 56 minutes. Shame, Kokkinakis - who was reportedly displeased about getting dragged into his bff's antics - would have awaited in R2.

v impressed with bencic beating kerber in straight sets, thought they'd be a comedown from last week.

paires drop shots are fuckin up novak

murray getting rolled by dimitrov, smh

feli lopez takes out rafa

Rafa losing to Lopez off grass, the decline is even more real than I thought.

Schmiedlova's win over Radwanska in R1 was a beautiful masterclass, it's so nice to see a player peak like that. Her BH is a gorgeous shot and she can do so much with it. Even out-dropshotting Aga too. No surprise to see her in the SF, wouldn't be surprised if she beats JJ as well (against whom Pliskova gagged horrifically - she's so emotionless that it doesn't seem like she's nervous, but those DFs and errors...)

Somewhat impressed by Wawrinka scraping through given the week he's had. I tuned in to Djokovic/Goffin with Goffin up a break in the third and then Djokovic just steamrolled to the end.

bencic & Sloane w/drawing from new haven sucks, I was hoping to see them o well I understand for sure

murray is showing some nice scrapping

It must be hard for Serena to motivate herself to start well against Ivanovic when she knows that even if Ana wins a set, the collapse will be inevitable and absolute.

feds service game is so good

feli had 0-40 on rog's serve that turned into a rog hold and then fed broke feli rip

post-handshake this is charming imo

feli "you're fuckin flying all over the court"
rog putting his arm around him & smiling "we've got a few more years"

Bad boy Daniel Köllerer notches up another fail by being voted out first from the house in the third season of the German Celebrity Big Brother

dolgo really squandered his chance to win that tiebreak

That wasn't predictable at all

fed/novak final tomorrow

lmafo that last service game

i cant take dramatic serena

Federer peaking at net and continuing his Yung Bartoli returning approach today...Djokovic looks flummoxed and furious

Three DFs from Djokovic in that service game :o

lol what does young bartoli mean?

Returning from midway up the court, she used to do that all the time in juniors and when she first came on tour

i finally figured out the best sesh new haven to go to and went -- 3 qtrfinals, tserenko/pliskova abt to start

followed by safrova/cibu then radwanska/kvitova

rad, enjoy yrself!

*jealous*

tsurenko looks really good

cibu has been v feisty

wow drop shot after a long rally in the tbreak to take the set

Cibulkova is a personal fave, love it when her game is on

there are these chatty yung moms behind me that are like 'did u see serena in that article photos she looked like normal and not like a monster'

cibu really battled to get back in the 2nd set, had 40-0 to get to 5-5..........then hit b2b double faults at deuce to lose the set

I remember doing those fed service returns against one of my buddies who had a terrible second serve, which resulted in him almost killing me with a tennis ball

someone did 1 of those against me just on tuesday, but he was mostly joking, and i won the pt anyway so

match was def close enough that cibus bad serving and bad use of challenges was what cost her imo

wow murray/kyrgios rd 1 us open

I will be surprised if Kyrgios gets more than 10 games.

Kvitova trolling her fans by winning a couple of matches a row and facing her pigeon friend in the New Haven final. Out in R1 of US Open, then.