ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

Five DFs in one game just now from Serena. Down a set and a break.

She's gone. Svitolina wins four and three.

cuevas/belluci has been incred entertaining

there've been some great matches already this olympics

When Serena hit that ace at 3-3, deuce, I was like, oh she's found her serve at last, that's the turning point! And then she completely fell apart and looked like she gave up too. I mean the 5 DFs were shocking but the last couple of games were total collapse.

Fognini has reeled off seven straight games to go from 1-6 1-2* to 1-6 6-2 *2-0 vs Murray. He's drop-shotting the defending champ to death.

Naturally, Fognini being Fognini, eight straight games is follows by losing six on the bounce - Murray through to the QF.

Nishikori for Gold.

Puig is on a mission in the women's. Loves playing for Puerto Rico so much. Her sets en route to the SF: 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1, 6-1. Really hope she gets a medal. I think Puig/Konta/Kvitova are the medallists I want at this point (and in the men's, Nishikori/Del Potro/Bellucci - Murray's got a gold already).

as a self-involved American, I would be super down with a Puig/Keys final

PUIG

I love Petra but Monica wants this medal very badly. Dug in after getting blown off court in the first three games, dropped a hidden breadstick to take the first set 6-4

stevie johnson perfect lob on break pt vs murray in the 3d set!

Puig just HAMMERED Muguruza 61 61. She is so fuelled by Puerto Rican pride, gonna call her for the bronze medal right here

― lex pretend, Tuesday, August 9, 2016 6:14 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOT BRONZE! Silver or GOLD!

bellucci looking good wow

luv this match

rafas gonna be tired for doubles

great comeback tho

monf double @ mp

im no doubles expert but this is p hi level stuff

rafas dfense really shines in dbles

lopez's lobs vs rumanias overheads all day plz

theres been like a dozen classic as hell matches this olympics bless

grats rafa/lopez

incred pt at deuce to give andy mp

wasnt quite as easy as the scoreline looks but andy through to defend his gold

Yeah that was a hell of a rally there.

Happy for Petra even though it was a crappy match - she really wanted that medal.

Crowd at this Nadal-Delpo match is insane. Feels like a football match.

well thats a break game for the rafa career highlight reel

another no doubt classic match for this week

delpo/murray best of 5 for gold
rafa/nishi for bronze

Wonderful. Tomorrow's final is maybe the only time I'll be cheering against Team GB this Olympics. I was concerned the way he got mobbed by the Delpo-chanters he was going to get another injury. He still hasn't quite left the court.

del potto showing murray a lot of respect in the on-court interview, humble guy

rafa/kei murray/delpo is a sick final 4 tbh

puig!!

id forgotten she was only 22, wtg girl

that's the second night in a row i went to bed halfway through tennis matches and woken up to surprisingly thrilling results.

Didn't expect Puig to come back against Kvitova on Friday night, and just couldn't keep myself awake through Nadal-Delpo yesterday. And Puig winning the gold! So awesome. So much great tennis this Olympics - so sad i had to miss so much of it due to damn timezones.

Puig and Delpo were so awesome yesterday, what a great tennis day

Oh Kei. Set and a double break up vs Nadal but now into a decider.

what a great battle murray/del potro

delpo has great movement/coverage for his size and skills

Lol was complaining about having to miss matches because of sleep - today I woke up and the match is still going! Vamos Delpo!

(Also omg that last rally.)

That Delpo pass was Murray-esque. <3

Murray will prob finish this off though, seems crazy it's even gotten this far.

I have no idea how they're still moving after all this...

great play by both guys, wld luv to see a rematch @ usopen

Congrats Murray and Team GB, but also to Delpo just for this whole week. Incredible stuff.

Whew, what a match. Regret not being able to see all the tennis I could but there was just too much going on.

Murray's not my favourite player but god I love him when he does things like this: https://twitter.com/Rellimj/status/765009897356419072

Fell asleep after the second set (which was because I was hungover but the quality at that point wasn't helping either). Murray had the shortest ever purple patch in the first set and then it all got pretty scrappy.

Soooooo happy Nishikori got bronze. Rafa can sit all the way down re: complaining about anyone else taking too much time to do anything.

Annoying that they don't give points for this, I know competing for points isn't the "point" of the Olympics blah blah blah but forget the supposedly unseemly motivation*, the rankings should at least make some sense. After their heroics this week it's ridiculous that Puig falls a couple of spots to 35 (and won't be seeded at the USO) while Del Potro doesn't budge from 141 (and I think his protected ranking has expired, which means the Olympic silver medallist either needs WCs to enter main draws or will be stuck in qualies and Challengers).

*which isn't even the reason they stopped awarding points, the reason is the endless politicking between the ATP/WTA and ITF...

watching opelka @ cincy, he looks good!

hes in a 3d set tiebreak w chardy rn

could def see him getting a wc for the open

i guess there are only really 3 discretionary slots the commentators were saying...still, seems crazy theyd make delpo have to play qualifiers