enjoying this lefty battle zeballos/verdasco
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
wow @ that finish
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 March 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
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!
― k3vin k., Sunday, 27 March 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
pouille/ferrer each playing such attacking styles is cool.. pouille just took the tiebreak (1st ferrers lost this yr) to force a 3rd
― johnny crunch, Monday, 28 March 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link
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.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 28 March 2016 07:34 (eight years ago) link
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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 28 March 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
azerenka/muguruza has been great, v hi level
― johnny crunch, Monday, 28 March 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 28 March 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
not quite gregor just broke to go up 4-3
― johnny crunch, Monday, 28 March 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
Ha! Murray led 3-1 and fell apart.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
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.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 08:29 (eight years ago) link
wow @ thiem seemingly breaking djoko @ 3-5, coverage going to commercial, only to comeback and say it was challenged and the shot was out
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
thiem currently 0/7 on break chances
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
they'd both sat down after that BP, neither thought it'd be in!
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
sveta looked so done in during that 2nd set, amazed she won it. some p cool points all in all.
― pandemic, Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
same could be said for monfils, in this 3rd, tho showed sum guts & now onserve w the crowd behind him
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 31 March 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
this is a real battle, kei saved 4 mp's
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 31 March 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
each guy has separately looked cooked at pts, now tiebreak
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 31 March 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
nishi still pounding groundstrokes so deep was impressve
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 31 March 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
novak is only playing like a B- game and still ttly demoralized kei
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 April 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
Siegemund is SUCH a fun player to watch. This match vs Keys is v entertaining
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link
sock has kind sulked his way into this L
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 10 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
super odd match
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 10 April 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
sock is exhibiting like intermittent chronic fatigue syndrome
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 10 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Townsend just lost to a 69-year old in a 25k lol
― groovemaaan, Monday, 11 April 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
lol nevermind, they haven't played yet
― groovemaaan, Monday, 11 April 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
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)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
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!
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
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
― groovemaaan, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
wow huh
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
damn so rafa looks better than he has in like 2 yrs
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 17 April 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link
this match has been phenomenal so far
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 17 April 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
beset by terrible streams all afternoon :(
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Sunday, 17 April 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
gross result to go w my gross stream
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Sunday, 17 April 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
halep just got first set breadsticked by someone i have never seen play before
― pandemic, Thursday, 21 April 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
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...
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 21 April 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
yah. the first set and a half (which is all i watched) i was amazed at the variety she showed. v attacking, came to the net a ton, hit a bunch of v good drop shots and also often faked the drop shot and instead played beautifully deep sliced forehands nicolescu style.
― pandemic, Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
milestones! in front of her home crowd, Cagla Buyukakcay becomes the first Turkish woman to make a WTA final, and with it the first Turkish woman to make the top 100, and she'll be the first Turkish woman to play a Slam MD this summer - this will get her direct entry to Wimbledon if she doesn't qualify for RG
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 23 April 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
Siegemund just out-Aga'd Aga. Never looked in doubt
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 23 April 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
also, the fourth non-top 70 player in a WTA Premier final this year so far
#94 Puig @ Sydney#88 Ostapenko @ Doha#85 Vesnina @ Charleston#71 Siegemund @ Stüttgart
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 23 April 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link
and this also makes the first single-nationality final of the year, strangely
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 23 April 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
Cagla Buyukakcay, first Turkish WTA titlist!
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Sunday, 24 April 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
djokvic is really good at the running x-court forehand
― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 May 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
obv also really good @ other shots
― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 May 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link