ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

i don't mind jim courier but he is talking A LOT

Serena will be 28th seed...and will get one of them in the 3rd round! PLEASE let it be Woz!

assuming woz gets into the 3rd round

Whoa, EPIC point there

fucking drop shot come on andy

assuming woz gets into the 3rd round

indeed! this is why I hope for one of the shriekers instead. Now Silliams will be seeded, my dream of a Serena/Woz 1R has died ;_;

where are you(s) streaming from? my usual go-tos have been shit these past few weeks.

i'm trying out the ones on http://www.lshunter.tv/tennis-live-streaming-video.html but they keep fucking freezing, might stop trying

got a decent sopcast one there, thanks.

instant break from murray in the second set, djokovic looking like he can't be bothered.

I can't open the sopcast ones for some reason and the others are all shit :(

Betfair streams all the masters events live.

Well there we go, a retirement anyway. We got that one point in the first set, I guess.

Zvonareva is such an awful tennis player lol. Her and Azarenka can both go away forever.

Hush about Bepa.

Took half a set for JaJa to start bitching :D

C'MON! Jankovic back from two breaks down to 4-4.

lollllll, another Ma$ha DF to give JaJa the set.

So impressed - at 1-4, a double break down, Jankovic looked totally helpless. She was barely winning points. But she dug herself in, the Sharapova DFs began and five games later here we are :D

Sharapova hit some great shots in that game.

And still couldn't win it :D Seven games in a row for Jelena.

Jankovic even coming to net now!

I don't want to be all hasty and use words like "revival", because I'm definitely not convinced of that, but this is the best I've seen Jankovic play - and the happiest I've seen her look on court - in, wow, YEARS

Handshake's gonna be fun in this.

:popcorn:

Best Jankovic has played in years was Rome vs Wickmayer and Venus 2010 I'm pretty sure.

I'm watching this on and off but the result is never in doubt. JJ will win.

Seriously pleasantly surprised about the tiebreak outcome! :D

Well, she totally lost it from midway through that set.

Still think JJ will wear Maria out physically and mentally in this third set :( Maria should've won the first set.

Unless JJ keeps up these nice inexplicable and weird misses! Maybe her form of the last 2 years is coming back to her :D

LMAO @ Maria smashing her racket. She hates JJ so much.

Yeah I'd forgotten the hate between these two!

jesus christ stop YELLING Maria. Intolerable woman.

I am thoroughly enjoying this. It's kind of old school. If, like, 2006 counts as old school. Neither are at their absolute best like they were back then, but the drama is delicious and the quality is mostly great.

Oi JJ's been shouting "come on" as well. She just can't yell as loud with her weird husky voice.

I'm enjoying it too, quality was really good through to the middle of the second set (apart from the Sharapova DFs, which have an entertainment value of their own). Since then it's been kinda bad but there's been enough Women's Tennis Drama to keep me amused.

Jankovic doesn't yell "come on" anywhere near as much as Sharapova, who is doing it on virtually every point she wins! Including the most innocuous Jankovic errors!

I guess JaJa being a huge drama queen every time she considers challenging might be pretty annoying though.

Did you catch the hand incident and subsequent JJ vs umpire and Maria vs umpire exchanges straight after? Delicious.

If I was Jankovic I'd be tempted to give Sharapova really slow, shitty second serves - Maria tries so extra hard to bash those and it usually results in an error.

xp yesssss

Maria's stare at JaJa after she dithered for what felt like a day over another challenge was quite hilarious, too.

lolololololol at that game

lololololol at this match

from both of them

Loving the clashing of tennis styles. Plus they are two, you know, INTERESTING PERSONALITIES. There are so few of them now... *sobs quietly*

A HOLD!!!!!!! <3

These break point returns... I literally just... UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DIE

Firmly into comedy territory now. What are some of these misses??

Is her last name Sharapova?

Has Jankovic served more DFs than Sharapova yet? Christ almighty.

Love how smug Maria looks :D

I watched that shitfest and they don't even give me a bitchy handshake for it? :(

After what was a truly horrific 11 months for me as a tennis fan after Wimbledon 2010 I have had Kvitova, Serena and Sharapova sweeping the last 5 biggest tournaments. Just the US Open now to top this all off for me plzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Maria didn't even mention JJ in the speech I don't think lol.

Never noticed this before this godawful/amazing match, but Jelena Jankovic plays tennis like a crab would.

..with the double faults! It's just a fact now that they'll never go away.

Nooooooooooo, Mrs Krumm "fell in the bath and injured her arm" and is out for a month :((((((

The USO basically worthless now :(((((

Damn. WTA accidents happen at home.

But Serena might still fall to some journeywoman in the early rounds. If not, it's a 6-2 6-3 final.

Serena Williams def Anastasia Rodionova 6-0 6-0 Anastasia Rodionova def Polona Hercog 6-0 6-0 Polona Hercog def Nadia Petrova 7-5 7-5 Nadia Petrova def Ana Ivanovic 6-3 7-6 (4)

Within the last few weeks. Poor Ana

"But Serena might still fall to some journeywoman in the early rounds."

WTF why would you even suggest this? :(