ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

it was bad earlier but it's good now! Nole playing well now, Rafa...serving well, at least. Djokovic may have cause to regret a couple of half-chances for a more emphatic lead.

beautiful wrong-footer from Djokovic.

Djokovic fails to take advantage of ANOTHER 0-30 lead on Rafa's serve

i'd love it if my stream wasn't shite

99% positive nadal will win :[

ha, i'm leaning the other way

and have done ever since Djokovic stopped looking fatigued towards the end of the first set

though he does seem unable to take ANY of the many chances Rafa's presented to him

have you got sky or are you watching it on a stream. if so is yours any good because mine is not

stream from http://www.livescorehunter.com/Livescores/Livescore-Tennis.html

it was good right up until 5-5, wtf

suspect it's my internet connection going inexplicably shitty rather than the stream though

thanks! yeah this one http://www.livescorehunter.com/index.php?option=com_lsh&view=lsh&event_id=43856&tid=57334&channel=0&tmpl=component&layout=popup&Itemid=286 is good

uhoh 30-30

tiebreak!!!

first four points all against serve...

all 5 haha

can't believe this turned into such a great match after that awful first set

i dont want such a one-sided tiebreak

whoa at that FH winner for 6-2!

i hate djokovic's parents so much

good match from the little i saw of it

great match, great result, and the rapidity with which both of them had their shirts off after the match ending can only be applauded.

haha every WTA player i follow on twitter has gotten on Djokovic's dick with a swiftness

WTF and ugh, how is Mardy Fish on the brink of the top 10? BEGONE. Nice to see Roddick drop to 14 with the clay season about to start though! Scope for him to be a 12-16 seed at Wimbledon and maybe draw Rafa/Rog in the 4th round!

Ivanovic reacted to her epic choke by pulling out of this week's Marbella tournament. Honestly, what a wimp. Can always be relied upon to run away every time she has a setback.

Damnit, girl.

Ah, the start of a season - excited about seeing boring names playing just because it's on clay.

All the drop shots and long rallies seem very exciting now. I'll be sick of it when the FO is done, though.

this woz match was really hilarious

loving this even though it's corny as fuck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK42LZqO0wA&feature=player_embedded

Today, Sweta lost to one Irina-Camelia Begu, the World No 137 who had never won any WTA match prior to this week. Point and laugh.

Watching Wozniacki/Jankovic. Last three points of first set: netted Jankovic drive volley; Jankovic FH shank that's yet to bounce; Jankovic smash straight into the bottom of the net. Yeah I know. And Wozniacki's horrible top makes her look radioactive.

Don't tell Clijsters, she'll have to flee America.

Words can't describe how much I despise Wozniacki and Jankovic. Hate Caro slightly less though, so I suppose I'm, er, happy. Congrats to her on another tournament win.
I really like Peng so hope she makes the final.

Peng and Vesnina are doing a decent job on the clay.

Peng has put up such good results this year but I worry about burning out a bit, she's played a hell of a lot.

Fight Peng! Let's not go and lose to friggin Vesnina now.

Lame.

Absolutely no chance I'll be watching a Wozniacki vs Vesnina final. Yuck.

This was a better match.

Clijsters "sprained her ankle" "dancing at a wedding" and has seized the not-at-all-predictable opportunity to pull out of RG FIVE WEEKS in advance. Not even trying with the excuses any more. God, she is the worst.

Fed just lost in straight sets to Jurgen Melzer at Monte Carlo

I saw the last few games, Melzer was playing well but Fed was doing pretty much nothing. Not sure he's any more "done" than he was in '08 but this time it might actually show in a Slamless year...

haven't watched any tennis in weeks, and the first thing I see is Petkorazzi losing the first set 4-6 to Woz after being up 4-1. -_-'

There was a shocking result from the women's match this week, Na Li won a match! (And then lost her next match in straight sets to Sabine Lisicki, but still!)

Oudin won a match, too! And then got a walkover, then a third set bagel from Brianti. Believe!

Rezai managed to lose to the #497-ranked Moroccan wildcard in Fes, lol. Big ups Nadia Lalami for becoming the first Moroccan woman in a WTA QF, though.

The SRB/SVK Fed Cup tie last week was hilarious, so much drama in that. Jankovic was initially benched (I think she was ill)...but that just set it up perfectly for her to ride in as the heroine to save the day after Ivanovic retired. Hantuchova lost both her singles rubbers in front of her home crowd, and then also lost the deciding doubles...from 6-2, 5-1, 30-0 up. And then apparently Ivanovic was nowhere to be seen when the Serbs celebrated when they'd won.

Oh yeah, and the Groths divorced. Back to Jarmila Gajdosova already.

And! Last night Donald Young tweeted: Fuck USTA!! Their full of shit! They have screwed me for the last time! #enoughsaid

Then apologised for the language but not the content. Then deleted his Twitter account. Wonder what went on there.

J Görg owning Stosur at home in Stuttgart. Finished off the first set with some great points, set point with a drop.

Not sure exactly what happened with Young but he's always had a very contentious relationship with the USTA because they've been begging him for years to get a real tennis coach instead of using his dad.

OMG Görges owning Wozniacki so far.. first set was tight, though, no breaks, but now it's 3-0. And Wozzy just got owned trying to moonball her way back into the match.

Julia could have won that first set a lot easier, she kept getting overexcited and bashing putaway shots 5 miles over the baseline whenever she got an open court. Playing görgesly right now though! Woz is terrible today even by her standards. Errors even when she tries to moonball.

sadface, I am singing in an Easter service and can't watch the owning

The owning completed with a service winner!

A couple of months ago, Goerges was losing to Han and Medina Garrigues on clay.

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