ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

Hah @ Petkorazzi getting Ivanovic in on her antics for their doubles matches.

Hey look, Na Li lost again. How shocking.

i'm abt to go to bed but for those playing at home, Andy Murray is currently down 4-0 to Alex Bogomolov Jr - not to be confused with upcoming Ukrainian Alex Dolgopolov Jr who's currently ranked 23 and could feasibly take a couple of games off the world number 5. Nope Andy Murray is down 4-0 who turned pro in 2002 but has never been higher than 97 in the world. -_-

*down 4-0 to someone

bah, i need to go to sleep. i will be prepared to laugh/cry in the morning if Muzza actually loses to Bogie.

lolololololololol Murray

Hey look, Murray got broken at 5-6 to lose this match. Nice US hardcourt series for Murray.

safina up 4-1 against bepa

kinda lol but...

looooool so Murray managed to outdo last week's Worst Loss Ever already. And how did Wawrinka manage to lose to Granollers, with a bagel set along the way to boot?

Roddick's straight set loss to #62 Cuevas isn't quite as bad, but it's still pretty bad.

I haven't been keeping up with anything. Is Nadal physically healthy now?

^^he's just fine, lorax. form's been a bit off lately, but only when compared to djokovic who's completely slaying the competition.

speaking of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r1SafhJE_5o

lmao basically andy murray shouldn't be anywhere playing tennis right now, let alone playing alongside the guy who's arguably at the peak of his talents.

Love getting Martinez Sanchez in a tv match.

MaJo is doing her usual silly and cool trick shots mixed with endless unforced errors, but Clijsters is helping her along by playing truly shoddy tennis.

clijsters always has the ugliest dresses

OMG Ivanorazzi with the schoolgirl BFF antics every doubles match. Is this the WTA?

During the changeover after this point, Ana went to wallet and gave Petko some cash. Want to know why? Well, this is what Petko told me afterwards:

She actually gave me $10 but I had to give her change. So [the rules are] if you serve an ace on an important point, $5. If you serve a service winner on an important point, $2, return winner, $2. And this, where she gave me $2, was she said "OK, I'm going to serve a first serve and if you cross and put the volley away I'll give you $2." And she just had $10 so she gave it to me and I said I would give her the change later. Then, after that amazing most epic point ever, she said "OK. You can keep the change." We said that probably we would be the #1 and #2 in the world if the prize money was visible on the net post. So that's our way of motivating.

[...]

Convincing was hard work because last week in Indian Wells, I think, in the tiebreaker, I felt like she hit one or two double faults and didn't hit the returns quite as she's used to. Because I told her before the breaker, I thought it would be motivation but obviously it was some kind of scaring her. I told her "Ana we do the Petko dance if we win!" and I thought like, she's gonna go like "Yeah! Now I'm going to run even more!" but she went, like "Yeah. I'm going to serve two doubles and not put the return in." So I think she was scared back then. But now we practiced and now she's more comfortable. But she said before the match points she said she was getting so nervous because now we were winning it and she would have to do the Petko dance.

http://cowbell.typepad.com/forty_deuce/2011/03/losers-pants-winners-dance.html

And finally: The 4th round is looking amazing for the women.

those two are so adorable, love it! xp

it was nice watching Delpo rip Toaderling a new one last night :)

^^real no. 4 imo

Has Murray won a single set since the Australian Open semi?

negative.

That's quite a run for someone who went into the Australian ranked #4.

Petko - C Woz is pretty entertaining.

I wish I could watch this

Petkorazzi should be up like 5-0 now...her shots are so unstable though, she's powerful but when her strokes break down you just wince.

Wozniacki is as she always is, except making lots of random errors, ie there's not much left. And yet she'll probably win.

actually I wish I'd seen Woz beat Hantuchova in the last round, apparently Daniela blew a ton of set points then double faulted on MP. Obviously.

haha

PetKo can't throw away this lead surely

I really really hope not

please please please win, for all of us

Petkorazzi :D

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

she is seriously one of my favorites on the tour right now

easily wins the #1 wkiw award in the whole tennis world

Says Pet-V, "Most of the players think they can overpower Caroline, but it's the wrong approach".

She's also trending on twitter.. nice for 'just' a non-slam mid-tournament match.

A-Rad just won the point of the year so far - involved returning multiple Schiavo smashes, the last for a FH pass winner. On fire.

just woke up and saw the results. woo, petko dance!

more of Petko on Wozniacki:

"Most of the players think they can overpower Caroline. I think that's the wrong approach, because that's where she's most comfortable, when she can run and bring the most balls back. Then once you lose your concentration for once on your shot, she goes for it. Some like to say that she's pushing, but it's not like the balls are slow and not short, you know. They are quite deep, so you cannot really attack them.

What I try to do is mix it up and to make her play, and then when I had the short ball to go for it. Because if you try to hit every single shot with full power, full power, she just gets more comfortable, more comfortable, and eventually you're gonna miss. She's not gonna miss the last one.

smart girl.

although I'm, you know, my biggest fan, I'm also my biggest critic, as well

lol Maria, the important part here is not that you're your biggest critic, but your biggest fan!

What is Petkovic doing today? So awkward.. and Jankovic has turned on the error-machine in the 2nd set. Suddenly got a strong urge to see the winner of this match routed in the next round.

holy hell, Fish beat Del Potro????

They moved Ana/Clijsters to court 2, and of course that match turns out to be a cracker while we're left watching a hopelessly drawn-out error-fest on TV.

WTF, Del Potro?

Huge lol: Ivanovic led 5-1, 40-0 in the last set. But guess who won!

zomg Petkovic won

this is turning into my favorite tournament since Goran won Wimbledon

Clijsters goes through all these scrappy wins but will probably win the title anyway = she is the new Serena, probably. LOL Ivanovic. Thank goodness the tournament's website puts up highlight reels so could see a bit of Petko!

Was literally INFURIATED watching live scores last night and seeing Clijsters sneak through. Going by reports Ana didn't choke massively, though, and played fairly well in the tie-break etc.. still you can't do that stuff, Ana Ana Ana Ana Ana. Don't let Clijsters win this.

Aga looked so dangerous against Schiavone... still pulling for Bepa to win.

A-Rad is in some crazy super mode on the defense.

ladies and gentlemen, your new American men's #1:

http://nbcsportsmedia3.msnbc.com/j/ap/key%20biscayne%20tennis-1113430052_v2.standard.jpg

GO MINNESOTA

Surprising.

ugh can people please stop losing to Fish