ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

phew! wayyyy too close tho. shame i missed that and yet am here for this boring match between two useless players

i'll root for azarenka because watching kvitGOATva bludgeon her into submission is v fun

it wasn't really that close - scoreline only looks it because of Petra's first-set blip and then Stosur ~fighting~ when 0-5 down in the third. Apart from that Petra dominated fairly easily.

Some really great play from Bepa right now! There is basically no chance this will continue.

zvonareva looks more senile when she does this fake smiling thing she's adopted than when she was crying and yelling all the time

I don't understand why anyone would be a fan of Azarenka.

This match is bad and boring and I refuse to watch any more of it.

Save the WTA, Petra. God knows you're the only one who can. None of these other girls are worthy to polish Justine's trophies!

She's got it in the bagggggg

Wimbledon + YEC <3

hello tennis thread. It's been a while. (hello, ilx too tbh)

am not watching this as i'm stuck on the late shift at work, but Vika's down a break already. :D

this is getting funny

:D

lmao wish I was watching this. BAGEL HER PETRA.

ewwwww a game :(

lol. btw did you all know that if Petra wins this, only 115 points will separate her and Caro? :D :D

way to serve it out Petra. -_-

kvitova's footwork smh

literally wtf

-_-

well knowing kvitova she'll break to love with 4 return winners now :D

k maybe not

-_______- WOMEN'S TENNIS

that was hellish but finafuckinglly

Streams so laggy so I missed this first set, though by the looks of the scoreboard thing that was probably for the best.

Here is my wishlist for the rest of the day.

1. Petra wins second set 6-0
2. Petra takes enormous cheque from WTA and then continues to thumb her nose at conventions of what a "marketable player" should be by continuing to be herself
3. Victoria Azarenka suffers the mildest, least painful injury that can nonetheless completely end her career for good.

this is soooo boring

Okay Petra, keep calm and remember Wimbledon.

bahh

That's right, Azarenka. You blow leads in those games. Oh that look of anguish....

zomg AWESOME recovery passing shot from the very left corner from SuperPetra! Thanks for showing up, just in time.

really really never in doubt

wimbledon + yec <3 thanks for saving this year for me, kvitova. the tour would be absolutely NOTHING without you

WTA = saved. Finally, a champion who gets shit done, doesn't act as if she's entitled to it, doesn't engage in gamesmanship, and will contribute to the sport by being a great champion instead of someone who will ham it up for cunt journalists who expect players to smile, look pretty and parrot their lines back to them. Now, improve on that AO QF and #1 is yours, Petra!

HURRAH

Makes up for the fact that neither of the men's finals just now went how I wanted (I mean, love Tsonga, but love Del Pony more). And Mrs Krumm just won an 100k, so no retirement for her just yet (lol Larcher de Brito won a 25k, thank god that she never happened. Can you imagine if the top 10 included Azarenka, Larcher de Brito AND Wickmayer? Things can always get worse!)

No mention of Anne Keothavong winning both the singles and the doubles at Barnstaple?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z598ILPYTp4

miss her so much :( :( :( watching her during the indoor seasons from about 2005-2007 was always so awesome. unbelievably talented. and also batshit insane which is always good

highlights:
vs martinez charleston 2004
vs hantuchova luxembourg 2007
becoming a mental giant every time she played serena on clay
hitting kick serve aces over lindsay davenport's head
beating henin charleston 2006
beating capriati charleston 2002
orange juice

You can always treasure the fact that she still managed to beat Ivanovic this year!

Tremendous results all round. Kvitova only a few points shy of #1 and she'll probably get it next year. Good for Keothavong and Krumm, too!

CAKE gets to play in both YECs, bizarrely. Yes, that disgraceful Bali tournament that no one cares about happens this week.

I care about it. I care that Ivanovic loses and drops out of the top 30 (please).

Had an idea, though. If you take a wildcard into an event like this, it should automatically count as one of your "best 16" no matter how you do. That way it isn't just freeloading points onto people on an arbitrary basis.

Basle SF: Nishikori currently leads Djokovic 2-6 7-6 5-0! Injury?

wtfffff why wasn't i watching that

(nishikori WON, with a BAGEL)

Granollers d. Del Potro in Valencia. Maybe an even bigger WTF. No one should lose to Granola!

Federer now gets Nishikori in the Basel final instead of Nole. He'll probably win that. He's only won one title this year - Doha back in Jan - and there was a risk that he'd be titleless when it drops off, but I think he'll probably hold on to this one...

meanwhile before anyone thinks about it LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN BALI. Aggravating tournament. Why does it exist. Ignore it and maybe it'll go away.

tbf i wouldn't put it past ana to actually lose that final

Medina Garrigues getting those unwarranted points isn't much better. 255 points already!!!! For two retirements!

If Djokovic loses a couple more, he probably loses the claim to greatest year ever, right?

I'm the first to say that competition now is greater than it was in the past, but hard to argue that 66-5 is greater than 82-3.

wow and I forgot Fed went 92-5 in 2006... I kinda feel like Djoker is giving it away in tournaments that don't matter as much... but I guess that's still giving it away.

medina garrigues is in the final via two retirements? lolllllllllllllll

annoyed i missed kvitova def kuznetsova. i assume that was either an amazing match or an absolute horrorshow

Oh god, Ivanovic wins Bali again in a preposterously nobbled, injury-ravaged field full of weaklings and Roberta Vinci. Look, just scrap this event and make it a "best-off" of the 9-16 players if you must, run it before Istanbul so it doesn't close the season and stop giving wild cards and having it clash with Fed Cup finals.

Nishikori to be seeded at AO, surely? :D :D :D

Woo I am going to see Tsonga vs Fed on Sunday @ATP finals! I've lost track of things a bit since USO - are either of them much off the boil atm?

sweet! They just played each other in the Paris-Bercy final last week. Fed looked good, Jo-W not so much. The last three games of that match was pretty dramatic though as Tsonga looked like he was about to make a comeback - he didn't but the match could be closer this time around since he's generally less nervous when not in front of a French crowd.