ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

https://twitpic.com/show/large/8g630j

<3

FINALLY on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLic-eiO5_8

huber is the worst

she really is.

Love Vesnina throwing a fit though - "What is wrong with the umpires at the australian open?!". And right at the end "We won that match like THREE times!" lol girl, I feel you.

really would surprise me to see many players admit to a double bounce down match point though

Youtube bringing the amazingness (also, Tennis Australia are such cunts about pulling down videos of the Open and they can fuck themselves) further here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cfi_QrRwzg

Su-Wei Hsieh is in her first WTA QF since 2001 in Pattaya this week. She made the SF and QF of her first two WTA events EVER, after going unbeaten in the ITFs, and I remember thinking that with results like that she was surely going to be a future top 10 player. Then, nothing for ELEVEN YEARS.

su-wei in the semis is a nice story

lmao maria. 4-6 4-6 vs kerber? how does that happen?

turned off bartoli vs vinci at 2-5 in the 3rd, now marion leads 6-5. and vinci's only one two points since then apparently. lolz.

vinci saves a MP with a backhand DTL passing shot. tiebreak. lol @ this

can we talk for a second about how the US is leading Switzerland 2-0 in Davis Cup

Fish beat Wawrkina in 5 and Isner beat Federer in 4

let me repeat that: ISNER BEAT FED IN 4

marion wins from a set down, 4-1 down in the 2nd and 5-2 down in the 3rd.

and today she beats zakopalova 7-6 6-0 from 2-5 15-40 down

marion u crazy girl

Waking up to Ivanovic and Wozniacki having lost is just the sort of thing that makes life worth living.

and wozniacki had triple match point lol

CoCo Vandeweghe @CoCoVandey
I don't know what's more depressing. Spending 5hrs in Houston airport or having my first stamp in my in passport be Mexico.. #tennisproblems
1:02 AM - 18 Feb 12 via Twitter for iPhone

uh...wow. you'd never guess she was a spoiled californian white girl, would you.

lollll wtf!

also i'm really ready for azarenka's little hot streak to end -_- FUCK OFF. although stosur being demolished is always welcome

Lara Arruabarrena Vecino

i just wanted to type the name of our latest WTA champion, it's kind of stuck in my head

most implausible since Angelique Widjaja? who also had a name that was notably fun to say out loud

...this must be the first time a player has won a WTA tournament since i've started watching that i've NEVER heard of. wtf!! who IS that?!

Spanish teenager, vaguely up-and-coming I guess. This time last year she was playing 10Ks but her rise started when she made the Marbella QF last year (the only Bogota QFist who'd actually made a WTA QF in the previous 12 months). Biggest pre-Bogota career wins: Barthel, Daniilidou, Niculescu, Johansson

So good to see A-Rad win her 8th title and move into the top 5. Always a joy to see her dismantle stupid, pouty bashers like Gorgeous.

Roz are you gonna go to the KL tournament this week?

pouty as compared to radwanska who is pure sunshine!

lol @ her being top 5
wta is currently so depressing whenever kvitova's not playing

lex I'm going to try but I'm pretty swamped this week. :( Also, the tournament organisers are being shitty as usual - I won season passes off some online contest thing, they told me to message them and I did but I never heard back. So I have no idea what's going on now.

The passes are wasted on me anyway - at this rate, I can probably only make it on saturday. Boo.

A-Rad has a poker face! Gorgeous is just whiny.

It's...funny to see Keothavong seeded in a WTA event.

radwanska does nothing BUT whine lol!

i'm currently enjoying her shading azarenka at every opportunity. i don't mind her personality but, like, plz learn how to accelerate your racket when you hit forehands :/

ahahaha yes, they appear to be BFFs no longer. s0 into A-Rad speaking her mind.

lol I like A-Rad but girl has total bitchface. It's one of the best things about her imo - she won't take bs from anyone.

THIS IS INSANE BALLS. But no lie, I'd prob fall in love with her if she wore this on court.

http://cdn03.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/140063242-419x704.jpg

Well done, Ivan Lendl - epic choke-fest serving for the match at 5-3 in the second but Muzz hands Djokovic his first defeat of the year anyway.

And zero sets won vs Federer since his comeback, but that was a terrific, terrific match from Delpo. Both sets could have gone either way but Fed always had the edge on serve. Still, the fact that Pony played that well against a very sharp Roger makes me feel really excited for RG now.

weirdly unshocked by Murray beating Djokovic. he can do all these things over three sets but...

lulz @ A-Rad's grab-the-cash-and-get-out pitstop in KL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kacntxp1tY

This is very great as an exhibit for the fauxness of the EVERYONE LOVES EVERYONE WTA, except Maria throwing shade on everyone with her facial expressions but at least trying to pretend this isn't beneath her (and everyone else). Petra = so adorbs.

maria's laugh is spectacularly annoying. absolutely determined not to say anyone else's name, isn't she? reminds me of the williams sisters' press conferences back in the day.

smh @ try-hard woz

Oh god, could there be anything as wonderful as waking up to find out that Jankovic has lost again? Well, finding out that Azarenka has suffered the least traumatic or sympathy-garnering thing that would nonetheless force her out of tennis so I get to enjoy her retirement while not feeling sorry for her. But anyway!

Finding out Hantuchova has lost is better. I think actual retirement is on the cards for Jankovic though.

so wish I could've watched last night's matches (not as if there was coverage anyway) - so many epic chokes.

Sloane Stephens led Care Bear 6-2 5-1 40-15 with Care Bear sobbing into her towel...lost that game on a DF, proceeded to lose 6-2 5-7 4-6.

And the big one, Azarenka leading Barthel 6-4 5-1 before Mona clawed it back...but then in the third set it was Barthel who couldn't hold on to a 4-1 lead, or serve it out at 5-4 or 6-5. Final score, Azza 6-4 6-7 7-6. Poor Mona, they've played three times this year in early rounds and twice Barthel's given her hell but been unable to close it (and the third time she won one game, lol).

Azza's bf Sergei Bubka also choked a 5-0 first set lead to KING KOLYA.

The fall cometh for Pavlyuchenkova. Vania King seriously owns her.

scheepers def kanepi 6-3 6-2

that bandwagon stalled rather quickly didn't it

this virus is wreaking havoc on the draw, huh

anyway congrats McHale, plz build on yr momentum and don't be an Oudin

a lesson has hopefully been learnt by the US media there. Oudin will fall out of the top 300 after Miami, incidentally. Good stuff from Jamie Hampton in making the 4R too - one of the most unheralded young Americans but has quietly made her way into the top 100 with zero hype.

IW is always quite prone to draws falling apart, I'm not convinced all the players put their full effort into it - I remember Ivanisevic bitching about the desert location with nothing to do back in the day. look at the carnage in the year Hantuchova first won, for instance - http://www.wta96.com/wiki/ltourn.php?nr=371

Really unimpressed with Llodra coming over all racist.

didn't expect that from llodra smh

just joined petrova-stosur. petrova wins the first 6-1, stosur wins the second 7-6. can just imagine how this has gone smh smh smh smh smh smh smh smh

Stosur just completely MISSED a smash

You probably won't be surprised to learn that Petrova served for it at 5-4 and had a MP in the TB

can someone explain the scoreline for Cibulkova/Vinci to me:

7-6 (5), 0-6, 2-1

did Cibulkova run to the concession stand for 15 minutes or something

scoreLiNa! would rather be watching that. possibly Cibulkova tanked the end of the set, though she has sucked this year and this is Women's Tennis so it could be anything

Oh look, guess what Petrova did on BP. Double fault five miles long

yes nadiaaaaa 1 more game plz

This is so much better than I expected from Nadia, I thought she was pretty much done and about to retire from singles! God, watching some of her shots, she has been such a waste of talent though.

4 errros from 0-30 of course. oh nadia

UGH nadezhda

the point she played to get to 0-30 was so good as well

xcfgvhbjnkhbgftrfhjgh so vile so vile so vile