Federer beats Karlovic in two in Halle semi without ever having a b-p and only forcing deuce once. Grass court tennis LOL. Kei withdrew hurt vs Seppi :/
Simon currently trying to pull off the same trick vs Anderson (32 aces and counting) at Queen's.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 20 June 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
Seppi reaches his first 500 title when Monfils retires in the QF and Nishikori retires in the SF...
Kerber's 6-0 h2h over Lisicki is one of my favourite in tennis. Lisicki is more powerful and will hit more winners but is control of fuck-all in that match-up, Kerber just reads her game so well.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 20 June 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Poor Robson. Only gets 1 game off Gavrilova. Tough draw for qualies after so long off, but really, as hard as she hits and as nice as she seems to be, she was never going anywhere near the top 5 and if she were non-Anglo we'd have heard far less about her. Not all hype but mostly hype - the UK hasn't had much in the way of decent female players in aeons, but the WTA is stacked full of tall, slow moving girls who hit the ball hard and she wasn't that special. Even so it's hard not to feel a bit sorry for her!
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Saturday, 20 June 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
im going to newport tomorrow, think the lineup is sock v jan hernyck (??) then dustin brown v ivo
im p psyched shd be cool
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 July 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
live Dustin is always good, hope he wins
meanwhile Tomic lost R1 and got arrested in a Miami Beach hotel room yesterday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/33559994
― lex pretend, Friday, 17 July 2015 06:16 (eight years ago) link
hernych injures his knee at 1-0 1st set and has to resign :(
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 July 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
ivo also killed brown in like an hr
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 July 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
dam watched the replay of that jan fall & that shit hurt MY knee
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 July 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
fucked up i feel bad for him too
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 July 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
lol im rewatching sock/ivo (which is amazing btw omg go watch it) "there's no way thats a let" - sock
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 July 2015 00:26 (eight years ago) link
i could watch jack take blind swipes at returning ivos serve literally all day and be so entertained
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 July 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
tough loss for sock, ivo is going to DESTROY ram unless something bizarre happens
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 July 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link
murray/mahut second set has been v entertaining
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 July 2015 13:31 (eight years ago) link
damn i mean simon not mahut
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 July 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
GBR in Davis Cup is still a one-man team, lucky for them Murray had enough in the tank for that.
Title number two of the year for Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in Bucharest :) Really thrilled with how far she's come since I saw her in Wim qualies in 2013. Great revenge too, she lost to Errani in her first final in Feb and now beats her with brilliant BH angles.
This week's WTA titlists, Schmiedlova in Bucharest and Larsson in Bastad, are only the 3rd and 4th women to win titles in 2015 without dropping a set. The others - obviously - were Watson in Hobart and Pereira.
On the ATP, the men who've done it in 2015 so far are Wawrinka in Chennai, Gasquet in Montpellier, Federer in Dubai and Nadal in Buenos Aires. Only Federer had to win 5 matches, the others got R1 byes.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 July 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
props 2 raj ram, i def underestimated his return game vs ivo
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 July 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
Benoit Paire into his first final in two-and-a-half wasted years in Bastad. Cuevas threw such an extended tantrum at the end of the first set
I tuned in with Schmiedlova leading Stosur 5-2, cue total collapse :(((((
― lex pretend, Saturday, 25 July 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
good work by thiem to push monfils to tanking the 3d set
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 25 July 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
that was a fun match. Monfils didn't really totally tank though...just a terrible blip for a few games. He was incredible in the first set, huge kudos to Thiem for not only hanging with him but rising to meet his level. Great shotmaking by both.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 25 July 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
yea tank isnt fair, he stopped playing down 2 breaks in that last set but that is understandable i guess
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 25 July 2015 22:10 (eight years ago) link
berrer has played tomic p tough
nadal playing doubles w/ some 18 yr old vs bolleli/fognini is kinda fun to watch
― johnny crunch, Monday, 27 July 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
donald young wins one (1) match!
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
duckworth/nishikori is surprisingly hi quality!
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
10-8 in the tiebreak, duckworth!
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
Hyeon Chung's forehand looks pretty damn huge
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
sort of like Tomic's forehand when he bothers to hit it hard
kimiko <3
― Roz, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 06:19 (eight years ago) link
only way sock/gasquet could be better is if it was best of 5 sets
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 August 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
zverev/cilic is p good
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 August 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
cilic/kei semi is good
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 August 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
Radwanska/Kerber is really good. Divine cat-and-mouse point won with perfect drop shot pickup and lob by Aga :D :D :D
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Saturday, 8 August 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
it does seem crazy a qtrfinalist only wins $35k @ this dc tourney
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 8 August 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
i get distracted looking at how long isners legs are
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 August 2015 00:10 (eight years ago) link
lol i never saw his pic from espn body issue, he looks 100% like a centaur fyi
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 August 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
isner in like baseline rallies is something 2 see
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 August 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
6-6 tiebreak, isner serves an ace @ 141 mph
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 August 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
this is a super pressurized tiebreak
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 August 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
h8 isner but good on him there
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 August 2015 01:07 (eight years ago) link
cant fuck w nishi in deciding sets
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 August 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Muguruza following in the new generation's tradition of playing very badly following Slam breakthroughs. Down 5-7 0-5 to Tsurenko, albeit Tsurenko is on an 8-match winning streak and hit an absolutely breathtaking FH to go 4-0 up (and elicited an equally breathtaking racquet demolition job by Muguruza)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
are we done talking about the trials and tribulations of Eugenie Bouchard or is there still a little schadenfreude left to be wrung from the current state of her career?
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
When I saw that result I was super-happy for Bencic, the superior talent, who will hopefully beat Wozniacki for the third time this year tonight.
I guess at some point Bouchard will get it together and settle into the Hantuchovan 10-30 career her talent merits but she's done a fine job of quelling the intolerable hype by herself, and a lot more definitively than I expected.
Stephens FINALLY won a title while I was on holiday, I see? As did MARGARITA GASPARYAN! The one-handed BH lives!
Kerber has maintained pretty much the same level since 2011 but every year she does it in a different way. 2011-12: Slam SFs, a couple of tournament wins. 2013: unspectacular consistency everywhere. 2014: a bunch of big, close WTA finals, all lost. 2015: now winning those close finals but underwhelming in Slams
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
The Stephens match was actually really respectable/impressive. I was very surprised!
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
over Stosur or Pavlyuchenkova? former looked more impressive on paper (amazed Pavs got to the final at all)
Stephens has been playing really well for a few months (judging on what I saw on clay & grass). Her BH actually looks fixed, nowhere near the liability it used to be. Back in the top 20 by the end of the year IMO.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
Stosur imploded; all Sloane had to do was get the ball back over the net and Sam took care of the rest. Against Pavlyuchenkova, she was dictating points and hitting shots that looked intentional rather than magic happenstance, which was my overall impression of her game before this tournament. I agree, if she keeps this up she is going to be the #2 American by the end of the season.
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
only saw a little of bouchard yesterday but her serve looked really p awful couldn't tell if it was just her timing or what
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 17:24 (eight years ago) link
stan/kyrgios is v compelling
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 August 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
a linesman missed 3 calls on kyrgios shots and immed after one of them kyrgios im p sure purposely served directly up the tee and nearly drilled the dude
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 August 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
damn kyrgios is so talented & playing exceptionally rn but cmon
https://twitter.com/Dimonator/status/631657225375870976
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 13 August 2015 03:19 (eight years ago) link