ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

Ivanova def Jankovic was another amazing result

Best results ever! Except for Blake d. Del Pony.

Isn't there some way Azarenka can be taken out the back of Istanbul and shot so both Radwanska and CAKE can play?

easy, tennis Jeff Gillooly

Oh CAKE has pulled out of her match with Lena the (very) Lesser with a viral infection. This is kinda sad, except if you are an A-RAD fan! I guess, if CAKE recovers she can play Bali and beat up on useless bitches. Hmm. Lisicki, Penguin, Petkorazzi... maybe CAKE, good luck defending your Bali points, Ana you useless bint!

http://www.wtachampionships.com/page/LatestNews/Read/0,,12910~2491791,00.html

Istanbul time! Everyone looks more or less presentable dressed up, except for some reason Li looks like the most uncomfortable person alive. Radwanska is a bit "Polish beer maid" but I think it works. Wozniacki looks great, now let's hope she loses 0-3, but uh, yeah, Bepa and Aga, nice draw. Petra, if anything, looks even better. Bark! Win this thing, Petra! Azarenka didn't make it there in time post-Lux, guessing? I also hope she goes 0-3 in her group but since she got Stosur whom she pwns and slumping Li, she probably will get through. Srsly, she really needs to go away right now, if Woz is an opportunistic #1 whose main titles are overrated inconvenient out of the way Premiers, wtf is Azarenka's career? One slam SF!

Players boring when talking about their groups, only Stosur's comment demonstrates she actually knows who's in her own group, rest is variations on "Well, everyone's such a strong player". Vomit.

BARK PETRA!

(Also just want to whinge that if not for stupid work stuffing me around I COULD HAVE BEEN AT THIS and hating it in person. Grrr)

I cannot believe that's Kvitova

Stosur looks a little like she might be possessed by ZUUL

Li is vaguely reminiscent of one of my friends, esp that smile

Petra sloppy on serve but good enough to bark her way to a 6-2 6-4 win. Barking on Bepa errors in the penultimate game is not cool though Petra.

Radwanska up a break early! Shame her serve is such a pathetic puff-ball. Her forehand is going deeper than usual but also sadly more often into the net. I love her but I'd really rather watch her dismantle a brainless ball basher but the only BB in her group is Kvitova :( The difference in this match is if she can get to the net, because Woz's passing shots are not that great and Aga's touch at the net is really good. Pity she has minimal weapons to approach off in these kinda interminable neutral rallies.

Woz's drive-volley at deuce, 2-1 A-Rad serving was worthy of, uh, I don't know, someone who hits easy balls miles out at the net i.e. Rusty Venus, or Peak Shanksur.

Haha despite posting predictions this morning I managed to completely forget this was happening anyway. Not that it sounds like I missed anything. Why is Woz/A-Rad the most attractive match of the day? Fucked if I'm spending a minute on Ma$ha/Samanantha.

From 2-4 0-30 to 5-4. What a shit show.

Eva Asderaki should just award the match to herself and flick her hair around for a bit.

FUCK YES! Down three set points, A-Rad gets some decent serves, saves them all, then closes the game with a great BH volley.
Then breaks to love, the highlight being a gorgeously placed service return and a beautiful passing shot!

SERVE IT OUT AGA.

4-5 0-40 down and then A-Rad starts to play really well! She'll serve for the set! As we all know, that always bodes well in Women's Tennis.

Probably will end up like the Sweta match at the US.

The Turkish Airlines jingle, if played any more times, is going to make me want to kill.

ACE-RAD!

sick I know but ws A-Rad's coach

The Turkish Airlines jingle, if played any more times, is going to make me want to kill.

c'mon we've put up with it ALL YEAR, we're way beyond that stage now - i think it has actually driven me mad

you mean KAMAN, to use Woz's pronunciation, surely.

7-5!

Bad challenge A-Rad.

Fuck's sake.

That smash looks like I did it.

As does Woz's backhand slice, no wonder she doesn't use that very often.

Why has my stream that was decent 5 mins ago suddenly gone choppy. Why does this ALWAYS HAPPEN.

Internet having mercy on you rather than inflict this shit fest on you imho

They still haven't got rid of on-court coaching! Is this ever going to happen? God, just go away shouty Piotr Wozniacki.

That really is one of the most pitiful sets I have seen... recently.

i'm more interested in 75K Barnstable

2r Robson vs Watson

Since the last time I watched Wozniacki

xp ikr, finally that match occurs, though considering Robson only progressed because the world #280 retired while leading, I'd say Watson should take it easily

the Barnstaple tournament was where Anne K got racially abused last year, surprised she's bakc. Fucking Somerset dumb hicks

Here's an idea, Agnieszka, try to disguise your drop shots. Woz dead lucky to not have hit that one long but she shouldn't have known it was coming 10 minutes before it was.

Also it's OK to hit winners and shit at times OTHER than when your back is against the wall.

Woz DF to lose the break. Now if only Aga could serve like she did at 4-5 and 6-5 in the first.

Wow, A-Rad looked down and out and collapsed at 2-4 0-40, then suddenly turned it ON again - the deuce point was amazing - and then Woz DFed on BP, lol.

really doesn't sound like i'm missing much

Key hold for A-Rad. Watching a Polish stream. Male commentator incapable of excitement. Female commentator extremely partisan, evidently she doesnt consider Woz really Polish, corrupting Danish influence! Which is odd because the Poles aren't like that, and Wozniacki actually is Polish!

Kvitova is going to mop both of these up so easily huh.

LOLOL WOZ SMASH

Well here's where A-Rad gets broken to lose.

I am hoping for something similar to Wimbledon '10 when it comes to the Kvitova/Wozniacki match

You can bet your bottom dollar CAKE would not have been bossed around by Woz's forehand. That overhead was just not ever going to happen there.

Oh that forehand. That forehand. So so painful.

Woz error only delaying inevitable I fear.

I'm so glad I don't have to watch any more of that

LEARN TO SERVE, WTA. The #1 is just there for the taking if you want it.

Stosur won a game!

Stosur already has as many games as I thought she'd win in a set, with Maria not even on the score board. Errorpova has turned up. Court fairly sympathetic to Stosur's FH I guess? It's no super-fast indoors court.

Stosur 6-1! I am actually all for this as long as it doesn't open the door to an Azarenka berth in the SF.

Still think this match is NID. Sharapova will win 1-6 6-1 6-1 or something.

Or not. Congratulations Woz on year end #1 in the worst era ever! Congratulations Azarenka on probably getting minced by Kvitova in the semis!

Stosur/Azarenka is one of the most horrendous shit-fests you will ever see. Typical point goes like this:

Azarenka easily hits Stosur second serve OR Stosur hits weak return
Azarenka hits aggressively towards Stosur's left
Stosur floats hilariously bad sliced crosscourt BH about halfway up the net