ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

can't stop watching this https://vine.co/v/ippiO22Lvjv

so casual <3

after her career Aga could make a fortune on the senior circuit as the female Bahrami if she wants

fed/del potro today should be interesting

yeah for once Delpo isn't the one most recently coming off surgery! I won't be in to see it though :(

Fritz has a shot vs Ferrer imo.

Saw a bit of Paul/Smyczek yesterday, surprised Smyczek won it after gagging so hard in the second set. Paul's game seemed kind of blah at first but he really started going for it when he made his comeback and it was like, why weren't you playing like this all along.

I really like Kasatkina's game too, the speed of her progress has been astonishing. Went from 370 to 72 during 2015 and is already up to 34 in the live rankings. Had played one WTA match in her life this time last year, now has two Slam 3Rs, two Premier SFs and a Masters QF.

She wasn't ranked highly enough to get into qualifying at RG or Wimbledon last year and this year she'll likely be a seed at both.

fed out w stomach props

LL zeballos takes the 1st set off delpotro!

& delpo may be hurt again :(

zeballos through

ton of upsets today

lmaoooooo @ Lisicki losing to Begu from 4-6 6-1 5-0 up

is there some sort of rule whereby only one Pliskova can do well in any given tournament?

Osaka thrashed Errani, fifth 1997 girl into the top 100. If she happens she could be huge for the game

enjoying this lefty battle zeballos/verdasco

wow @ that finish

super gutsy by zeb

so...apparently the ATP and WTA use different balls? and the women's balls are "smaller" and "livelier"? i had no idea about this!

pouille/ferrer each playing such attacking styles is cool.. pouille just took the tiebreak (1st ferrers lost this yr) to force a 3rd

I've been wondering when Pouille would make a move in a big event for a while now, good for him. End of Zeballos/Verdasco was ridic, yeah! Verdasco getting booed off court, lol.

V much enjoyed Niculescu utterly dismantling Vandeweghe. Made her look like she was lurching into every ball. Vandeweghe's volleys deserved a laughter track.

Today's tennis!

- Aga played a very tired third set vs Bacsinszky
- a peaking Kuznetsov is incredible to watch, so many highlight reel BHs from mid-second set onwards
- lmao @ Tsonga's meltdown at the end of the match, what was he thinking approaching on RBA's BH three times in the TB? Got burned every time. RBA is fun to watch, some great passes
- Serena looked completely disinterested towards the end of her match, Sweta was having a good day though. 3rd career win over Serena in a rivalry dating back to 2004

azerenka/muguruza has been great, v hi level

Dimitrov-Murray sounds messy. Dimi's response to a 1-7 tb loss was to win 16 of 18 pts for a double-break lead in set two. Murray almost got them both back, but Dimi just served out, saving a bp. My money is on a 6-1 Murray blow-out in the third.

not quite gregor just broke to go up 4-3

Ha! Murray led 3-1 and fell apart.

Losing from a break up in the third in two straight tournaments! At least we won't have to hear any nonsense about how fatherhood has transformed his game. Well, maybe in the bad way.

wow @ thiem seemingly breaking djoko @ 3-5, coverage going to commercial, only to comeback and say it was challenged and the shot was out

thiem currently 0/7 on break chances

they'd both sat down after that BP, neither thought it'd be in!

sveta looked so done in during that 2nd set, amazed she won it. some p cool points all in all.

same could be said for monfils, in this 3rd, tho showed sum guts & now onserve w the crowd behind him

this is a real battle, kei saved 4 mp's

each guy has separately looked cooked at pts, now tiebreak

nishi still pounding groundstrokes so deep was impressve

novak is only playing like a B- game and still ttly demoralized kei

Siegemund is SUCH a fun player to watch. This match vs Keys is v entertaining

sock has kind sulked his way into this L

super odd match

sock is exhibiting like intermittent chronic fatigue syndrome

Townsend just lost to a 69-year old in a 25k lol

lol nevermind, they haven't played yet

they just played, Townsend obv won 60 60 but Falkenberg won 12 points (had a game point in the second set!) and lasted 36 minutes (eight more than Tomic did against Nieminen that time in Miami)

there were videos! https://www.facebook.com/rgcoopersmith/posts/10154771146349535?pnref=story

this one from Falkenberg's Q1 win was pretty special https://www.facebook.com/rgcoopersmith/videos/vb.545924534/10154767608159535/?type=2&theater

I went back through Gail F's ITF history and she did actually win a round in the AO qualies - but that was 28 years ago, when she was Kimiko Date vintage rather than Bille Jean King vintage.

serving for the match over Djokovic and at 0-15 after a basic UE, Vesely hit maybe one of the best dropshots I've ever seen for a clean winner. Closed it out from there!

Vesely beats Novak! Nole started badly but played pretty good in the end. Vesely redlined everything and hit some of the best drop shots I've ever seen

lol xp

thought Djokovic was fine off the ground (if a bit passive in the last game) but his return wasn't there - he had a half-chance to break back at 3-4 but missed a couple of key returns

wow huh

first opening round loss for Djokovic since Madrid 2013 (Dimitrov)
first loss to a player out of the top 50 for Djokovic since Queen's 2010 (Malisse)
first completed loss to a player out of the top 50 on clay for Djokovic since Umag 2007 (Troicki)
first time Djokovic has failed to reach a Masters final since Shanghai 2014

damn so rafa looks better than he has in like 2 yrs

this match has been phenomenal so far

beset by terrible streams all afternoon :(

gross result to go w my gross stream

halep just got first set breadsticked by someone i have never seen play before

I can't watch but Siegemund is super-talented and full of variety. Until a couple of years ago she was a student who only played tennis part-time, but that was enough to get her into Slam qualies, and now here she is...