ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

Really really great to see Kleybanova back so soon/at all, pulling heavily for her

Watson just beat Cirstea from 0-5 down in the third set. AMAZING

omg really? lol @ cirstea but heather!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kleybanova won! So damn happy for her. Wish we could've seen her reaction.

wonderful news!

VENUS DEF DATE KRUMM 6-0 6-3 :D :D :D :D :D

VENUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good day for folks coming back from illnesses

can't believe we won't be able to see venus/kvitova

this fucking tournament

nnnngghhhh I know right.

Fernando Gonzalez retired then. I don't think I ever had any strong feelings about him but he was spectacular to watch when he was on.

also, is not Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco the most amazing name since the heyday of Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi?

and have we EVER seen a six-foot big-serving big-bashing female player from Spain before? really curious about her. kind of expect her to beat Bepa next.

I looked up Petra/Venus's H2H and had completely forgotten. Petra leads 1-0 - and that was just her second WTA win, in her third ever WTA main draw, which is remarkable. Memphis 2008. I remember thinking she was going to become a huge star after that win. And she did!

(We don't mention that she immediately followed it up with a 2R loss to Kudryavtseva)

benesova def kuznetsova 1-6 7-6 (7) 7-6 (7)

only sveta.

another good one:

Barthel def. Jankovic 6-0 6-3

sharapova taken to 3 sets by peer

smh WHEN will she stop sucking? i miss 2005/6 maria. she was so consistent AND exciting to watch

benesova def kuznetsova 1-6 7-6 (7) 7-6 (7)

only sveta.

― nowadays suckers seem to be so fucking naïve (uberweiss), Thursday, March 22, 2012 9:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

another good one:

Barthel def. Jankovic 6-0 6-3

― groovemaaan, Thursday, March 22, 2012 9:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just coming here to post those. Such a quintessential Sweta scoreline. As for Jankovic, just RETIRE already.

To add to the WTA comedy, I went to bed last night as Christina McFail was leading Petra Cetkovska 6-0 4-0. Woke up to find she'd lost 6-0 5-7 1-6.

I still blame Sweta for Wozniacki btw, she created this monster. That wide open USO '09 top half, whoever won their 4R match was pretty much guaranteed a final place, and Sweta lost 6-2 6-7 6-7 despite controlling literally every point.

smh WHEN will she stop sucking?

this is her level now! the serve is gone and she doesn't have enough in her repertoire to make up for it. never did.

this pic cracks me up. do you think they're planning to kill Vika?

http://www.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/aef_ct_wire_image_lightbox/images/afp/photo_1332362752133-1-0.jpg?1332509110

OH MY GOD BEPA I WAS JOKING ABOUT YOU LOSING TO MUGURUZA AND YET YOU WENT AND DID IT

FROM 4-0 UP IN THE FIRST SET

USELESS PLAYER

extremely useless player :D enjoying this demise

Bepa, honey, nice of you to make room in the top 10 for Serena, but you probably didn't need to bother, she'd just have passed you anyway.

livescores killing me

i hate the world for not televising kvitova/venus

i mean really what the actual fuck

6-4 for venus tho :D

A MOTHERFUCKING BAGEL!

I LIVE

how i missed her

ughhhh I no longer care about Bepa losing to anyone but that is a terrible scoreline for Petra

I guess it's funny that when Venus was top 10 and Petra was out of the top 100, Petra won, and now that Petra is top 10 and Venus is out of the top 100, Venus wins.

apparently Tomic requested a coaching violation from the umpire and that his dad be removed from the stadium, lol

clijsters losing is always a joy :D :D :D :D

stosur down 6-2 2-0 against scheepers lolllllll. i love this tournament

Oh hai, Li Na, this tournament is yours for the taking. Win it all!

*5-2 to 5-7

scheepers you are even more useless than i thought

poor venus :'(

so fatigued ugh this fucking disease

ugh if she's going to come back and embarrass players I like - TWO of them in a row - could she at least fucking beat players I dislike as well?

Oh look this section opening up for Ivanovic or Hantuchova. THANKS VENUS PLEASE RETIRE

chris bradnam's commentary skills <3

"single ladies had a great video to go along with a wonderful song"

bless him

Most wonderful choke I've ever seen <3

The sad thing is with Venus you know Wozniak still has a chance, even after that absolutely disastrous attempt at serving it out.

This match is horrendous.

I missed the epic choke ;_;

Venus had better not fucking lose to Ivanovic now I AM REALLY SERIOUS HERE.

It's sad that Venus physically can't be intense throughout a whole match. One awesome point and then the wind's knocked out of her for the next 3. :( Love her so much. KEEP FIGHTING :D

poor heather, improved on her 6-1, 6-0 loss to Vika at the AO by just one game.

I really need Li to make the final from the bottom half. Avenge Wimbledon vs. Lisicki first, then beat Ma$habot and Silliams like I know she can.

This plan is going to go badly wrong at some point :/

Dimitrov breakthrough at long last? First ever top 10 win over Berdprych, and as 4R opponents go you could do worse than Tipsy.

I didn't realise the Murray/Raonic match was happening until it, er, didn't. It would've been interesting. Raonic seems very injury-prone, doesn't he? I really hope he maxes out at the Isner/Karlovic level and never becomes a Slam threat, cannot deal with those freakish big servers in the top 10.

Nice to see Nishikori still around. Less nice to see Kirilenko still around. Cake needs to kill her next.

I'm kind of hoping Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco makes it to the semis

CAKE beat Kirilenko 1 and 2. Every Kirilenko match should go like that. I like to think Marion was as offended by Kirilenko's recent success as me.

Serving at *4-3 up over Serena, Stosur committed three DFs looooool

HAPPY DAYS

Thought we were in for a choke. 5-2 had 2 match points, then down 0-40 on her own serve but comes up with 2 aces and an amazing 2nd serve and more aces to save further break points. LIFE.

why is it that Stosur suddenly matches up so well against Serena

20 aces in a 7-5 6-3 win loooooooooool

Serena played really well in every department towards the end of the first set, I didn't watch after that.

Stosur's kick serve and huge topspin are most effective against shorter players - look at how she owns Bepa and Li - and Serena is short enough that if she's not on point, she can really struggle against Stosur. But ultimately, she has enough strength and willingness to take the ball early to deal with the topspin, and enough weapons of her own (like the serve) that even playing at an average level she should be able to smother Sam first (whereas Li, despite the power, only has an adequate serve).

ummmm cibulkova is beating azarenka 4-0? wtf? how?

I WANTED SERENA TO BE THE ONE TO END THE STREAK

obvs not over yet etc etc blah blah tho

I totally want Cibulkova to do it!

Dominika!!!!!