ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

supposing this continues & he beats zverev 2morrow, this is a nice run to become a def factor @ roland garros, whereas like a week ago it wasnt so clear

Great to have a new, young champion at this level in the week the entire ATP top five goes 30something.

#MercedesCup 2R @TommyHaas13 (39) vs @RogerFederer (35) is oldest @ATPWorldTour match since 1982 Vina del Mar R. Cano (30) d. L. Ayala (49).

how is Hass only 39

wtf *Haas

of course haas wins

lmao murray/raonic/stan all upset @ 1st rd queens club

Watched all three (thanks BBC2!) - not exactly classics I have to say. Only Deliciano looked in any decent nick (his tennis was alright too, hur hur)

lol my friends mom calls him that also, id love to see him make a deep run @ wimbledon

Same! He did a couple of really lovely volleys against Stan (who looked pretty sluggish).

Any excuse to roll out my photo of Felle Fel from London 2012...

(I hope he wins this)

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strong field in dc this yr

kei v del potro tmorrow 3rd rd & likely kyrgios v sasha zverev also

bhambri/monfils is really entertaining

yuki!

mens side dropping like flies, stans 2017 is over also :(

thiem/schwartzman has been really interesting

diego w two great loong defensive rallies to save set pts 2nd set

diego back from 2-5 down to now be serving for the match 3d set

ppl have been really critical of thiem on twitter this match but imo it more shows how slow these hardcourts are that he cant hit thru diego when he can hit thru p much anyone; his 2nd serve has also been p bad tho tbf

ok that was dreadful lmao

sasha saves match pt vs gasquet in 49 shot rally

wow ferrer is 0-17 v fed

nadal/shapovalov may be fun

wow dennis gets a break

dennis has got a lot better since last yr

3rd set !

tenth deuce !

this set is insane

there have already been a shit-ton of sick matches on the mens side rogers cup

shap is so impressive rn

what a fucking match

Amazing result. Certainly a step up from trying to decapitate Davis Cup umpires. I was kind of shocked he beat Del Potro - figured he was at least another 12 months away from that sort of performance.

A L16 Nadal exit - along with a deep Fed run - was kind of what I was hoping for here, to set up Cincinnati next week as a straight shootout for #1. Better if Murray was still in the mix too, of course. He'll likely be #3 by Aug 21. Still, he gets to edge ahead of Nastase in the all-time list by being spared the drop this week.

he answered every time it looked like rafa had him in trouble, his composure was almost more impressive than his shots it was truly crazy

semis now

Evidently Azarenka had to withdraw from the US Open because of a child custody lawsuit with her ex.

yikes fed

He doesn't seem to have withdrawn from Cincinnati yet, which was the suggestion after that Zverev defeat. Just aches rather than an injury?

Meanwhile, Lu Yen-hsun has won his *29th* career Challenger. That must be some sort of record? To be that good on the second tier tour, but only have a 42% W/L record on the main tour (forever a hero for downing Roddick on the second Monday at Wimb '10, mind) - kinda of a singular achievement.

long week, too many coldplay concerts, hopefully hes ok

i figured theyd re-seed, cant be too often that a lucky loser gets a bye (tipsy @ cincy replacing kei)

fed out of cincy now

meaning another LL w a bye -- tom fabbiano

monfils w/draw also

tiafoe just knocked out a spent sasha zverev

watching flipkens in the quarters @ new haven, shes dwn a set to gavrilova altho could be worse, last yr here i saw her lose in quallies to kayla day

Laver Cup teams o_o

Team Europe (Borg)

Player

Rank*

Spain Rafael Nadal 1
Switzerland Roger Federer 2
Germany Alexander Zverev 4
Croatia Marin Čilić 5
Austria Dominic Thiem 7
Czech Republic Tomáš Berdych 19

Team World (McEnroe)

Player

Rank*

United States Sam Querrey 16
United States John Isner 17
Australia Nick Kyrgios 20
United States Jack Sock 21
Canada Denis Shapovalov 51
United States Frances Tiafoe 72

lol

Seeing as this is supposed to be the Ryder Cup of tennis, perhaps some Ol' Team Spirit will enable World to prevail, seeing as Europe kept beating USA in the golf with ostensibly inferior players. Strokeplay is not like matchplay, mind, whereas this is still regular tennis scoring.

Weird format though. Matches are worth progressively more over the three days. Europe could win the first eight rubbers, but lose Sunday's four, and it would go to a doubles single-set play-off.

I'm admittedly excited to see if Federer and Nadal will play doubles, which is the first time I've been excited about anything to do with Fedal in years.

This Nadal/Berdych doubles pairing will be interesting, pretty sure they used to hate each other.

Anyone else watching this? Loving the team reactions tbh, a bit like watching Davis Cup but with players you don't normally expect to interact with each other.

I'm admittedly excited to see if Federer and Nadal will play doubles, which is the first time I've been excited about anything to do with Fedal in years.

I take this back btw, all the Fedal shipping posts/gifs on tennis Twitter are getting on my nerves.