Draper shot a final round of seven-under-par 65 to finish with a four-round total of 20-under-par 268 and one shot clear of Andrew Bonhomme and Aaron Townsend.
Draper, 32, is among a rare group of sportsmen to succeed in two professional sports.
He won the Wimbledon junior doubles title before taking up tennis professionally in 1993.
He reached a career high of 42 in singles, but retired from tennis in 2005, shortly after winning the Australian Open mixed doubles title, to pursue a new career as a professional golfer.
Draper made a brief return to tennis when he agreed to coach Lleyton Hewitt at last month's Australian Open but turned down the chance of a longer term coaching job to continue with his own golfing career.
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Sunday, 11 February 2007 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
(Hingis won one too, but I'm not sure how much hilarity we're ever going to get out of her)
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Sunday, 11 February 2007 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
This was a good idea that never took off! Thus, revive.
Offseason now, so gossip rubbish instead: Dumped by Hingis, Radek Stepanek is apparently marrying Nicole Vaidisova!
http://im.sport.cz/363/93634-article-pz54g.jpg http://sportsposterwarehouse.com/warehouse/vaidisova05ps-1.jpg
cake!
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i love the fact that one of the 10 ugliest sportsmen i've seen in the past 3 years is so unbelievably fortunate in matters of the heart, gives us all hope innit
― Just got offed, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I like to think he's a real nice dude, but of course I've no idea.
Microscandal dept: Starace (best tennis name beside Smashnova) & Bracciali are suspended for a short while for betting insignificant amounts on matches not their own.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Mardy Fish a strong candidate for best name IMO
― Just got offed, Saturday, 22 December 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Fed vs Sampras at MSG, 3/10/08
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link
1st titles of 2008, for reference:
WTA Gold Coast: LI Na d. Victoria AZARENKA 4-6 6-3 6-4 WTA Auckland: Lindsay DAVENPORT d. Aravane REZAÏ 6-2 6-2
ATP Doha: Andy MURRAY d. Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4 4-6 6-2 ATP Adelaide: Michaël LLODRA d. Jarkko NIEMINEN 6-3 6-4 ATP Chennai: Mikhail YOUZHNY d. Rafael NADAL 6-0 6-1
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
go davenport!!
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Week 2/2008, with all eyes on the AO anyway:
WTA Sydney: Justine HENIN d. Svetlana KUZNETSOVA 4-6 6-2 6-4 WTA Hobart: Eleni DANIILIDOU walk-over vs Vera ZVONAREVA
ATP Sydney: Dmitry TURSUNOV d. Chris GUCCIONE 7-6(3) 7-6(4) ATP Auckland: Philipp KOHLSCHREIBER d. Juan Carlos FERRERO 7-6(4) 7-5
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 14 January 2008 07:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Watching Sharapova vs Obziler in the Israel-Russia Fed Cup tie now, and wow is the crowd noisy! Rapturous cheering on every serve fault by Maria, tauntingly SCREAMING along with her on every shot etc. Umpire totally unable to silence them haha!
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 2 February 2008 12:50 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck what channel? we need to sign up for the tennis channle, i can't be missing stuff like this
― Surmounter, Sunday, 3 February 2008 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I just go to myp2p.eu and check whether anything is available ("Live Sports" tab -> "Tennis" button). Note: playing stuff may in general entail installing various Chinese tv apps (sopcast, tvants, uusee...). That particular tie, however, is on some Israeli sports station showing through Windows Media Player or I guess any other .wmv-showing app.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 3 February 2008 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link
How useful it is if you're not using Windows I've no idea. Also, quality unsurprisingly varies wildly; this Israeli broadcast is pretty decent.
Pe'er was double-breadsticked by the Shazbot right now, making it 2-1 to Russia. Elsewhere, France vs China will be decided by the doubles.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 3 February 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Murray knocks out Federer in the first round of the Dubai tournament.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7274636.stm
nice one you unpatriotic little shit.
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 3 March 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
he was wearing a saltire cap when he was playing, which doesn't seem desperately unpatriotic to me.
― ailsa, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Federer was too busy not thinking about yesterday
― Matt, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i was only referring to his disinclination to play davis cup. and i was kidding about that anyway - i care no more about it than he does.
still, 'unpatriotic' was probably a poor choice of word. well done young man!
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
It was more the "little shit" that you coupled it with, to be fair.
Anyway, yes, two out of three won against Federer now.
― ailsa, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
God knows why he'd want to play the Davis Cup. Who else is going to be on the team? I wouldn't want to be winning matches and carrying a team full of useless people in a tournament that has long since lost its cachet and relevance except in the eyes of really, really old tennis commentators.
― edwardo, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post take umbrage wherever you like it was all meant in jest, apart from the congratulatory bit. internet does not do deadpan.
But I genuinely like Murray. I also agree with the above post. I can't be arsed to even watch Davis Cup so I can't blame him if he's rather not play in it.
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 3 March 2008 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Andy Murray wins something
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 3 August 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
He has won about 4-5 career titles before...but yes, its his biggest win
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 3 August 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
this is his third title of 2008 alone. by far the biggest though! wish i could've seen it, sounds like a fantastic match, and it's good to see him encroaching on THE TRIVALRY even if i do like nole more (lol the way fed's playing, nadal/djokovic/murray is the real trivalry).
on the WTA, dinara safina has won two big titles in a row! she is the only woman out there who is stepping up to fill the void at the top. jankovic is going to be world no 1 next week, that is embarrassing. the WTA is probably in the worst shape i've ever witnessed.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
also i didn't know this thread existed!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh I know he's won stuff before but not a big tourney. It was a good match. He looks so much fitter and stronger than he was a year or 2 ago.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Nadal will be #1 on 18/8. Can't quite believe Fed's slump post-SW19; loss to Simon, near-loss to Ginepri, loss to Karlovic. Thought he might have at least made a fight of the #1 ranking (his form was fine for 18 of 19 matches in Paris, Halle and London); I had this romantic notion of the baton being passed as Fed beat Nadal at Flushing Meadow (Nadal's points surge taking him past the repeating champ despite the loss). Fed will be lucky to get out of the sixteens in NYC. Does Beijing have any ranking points?
― Michael Jones, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, it does. i think a few less than a masters event for the dudes, a few more than a tier ii for the chicas.
GOD that feels ridiculous looking at it! thinking about how much the olympics mean to, like, track&fielders and rowers and the like, and in tennis it's like...a TIER II.
anyway in other news, THIS is the 15-year-old saviour of the WTA who in the past month has taken sets from both serena and sweta, michelle larcher de brito: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kxaLo1riGo&feature=related
she makes sharapova sound like a trappist. seriously i can't believe she hasn't been asked to stop that bullshit yet, or like MURDERED ON COURT by a deafened opponent. that's not a grunt, that's a scream with a sustain pedal on. i'm not sure i'm going to be able to actually watch any of her matches.
oh and in other news silliams has pissed on her phone at the beach: http://serenawilliams.com/home/ sometimes you just long for the days before celebrities discovered how to work the internet themselves :(
(also note "enuf boring stuff" LIKE TENNIS)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
you know, i used to watch all the nonslams cuz my stepdad taped them. then i didn't speak to him anymore. i wish i knew when they were on -- i think i'm gonna have to get on top of that!
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
they're on every week! televised or not is another qn
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
exactly, that's the thing.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Blake was asked about the partisan crowd before today's final and reminded everyone he's half English :)
BBC giving it "Blake is just happy to be here" bollocks - dude isn't here to make the numbers up. I think I'll be pro-Blake today, as he does things like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYE8gper9VM
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Sunday, 14 June 2009 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Well done Andy!
― ailsa, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Bit of a dull game lit up by a few stunning forehands. Shoddy line calls all day, none of which helped Blake. Well done to Murray on being the first Brit in yonks to win Queen's, which I'm sure won't lead to even more Wimbledon hype.
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I predict Murray will cave under the pressure and be out by round 3.
― ailsa, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
he doesn't seem to be the sort to cave under pressure. but a friendly first-week draw would certainly be nice...
didn't watch the Queen's, but watched the Edgbaston SFs (Li d. Sharapova and Rybarikova d. Mirza) and a bit of the final today - Magdalena Rybarikova is a real discovery, such a classic grass-court game! Slices and volleys and good serving! she looks weirdly like Samantha Morton, too. i remember seeing a photo of her from her junior days when she lost some random final - she was posing w/the trophy and seriously looked like she was about to go bowling for columbine. so it was lucky for Edgbaston that she won today!
Haas beat Djokovic in the Halle final this week too.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
in other news, larcher de screamo gets a wildcard to wimbledon. FUN.
― Roz, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
The weird transatlantification of Murray's pan loaf accent has meant I can't actually hear what he's saying - it's just a series of droning noises that makes my ears stop working.
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
pan loaf accent
is that how you talk with your mouth full of bread?
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_loaf
It was once more expensive and regarded as more fashionable than the then more common plain loaf. Hence, to speak with a pan loafy voice is to speak in a posh or affected manner.
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
How on earth does Murray speak with an affected accent?! He just mumbles.
I found that picture of Rybarikova looking like she's ready to go bowling for Columbine after losing the Wimbledon juniors final!
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6027/wozrybwimb2006juniortrophies6a.jpg
Fortunately today was more to her liking.
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/2d/fullj.78eac332e51971240cfb28c1cb4cf0ab/78eac332e51971240cfb28c1cb4cf0ab-getty-tennis-gbr-wta-aegon_classic.jpg
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 June 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
!!! interesting result for sure. fed dropped out?
― Lamp, Sunday, 14 June 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah...Djokovic was lucky to be in the final at all, he had to come back from 5-7, 2-5 down and save 5 match points against Florent Serra (!) in the 2nd round.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 14 June 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
waht
French tennis player banned for betting found dead
Natural causes apparently.
RIP Mathieu
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuckin' hell. (Though my initial shock was because I thought you meant Paul-Henri Mathieu...)
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh right, sorry! To avoid confusion to others: it's Mathieu Montcourt.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
The Lex's favourite choker, Richard Gasquet avoids getting suspended after testing positive for coke.
The full findings are here (pdf): pretty lol-worthy just for the kissing descriptions and finding out that he was allegedly "contaminated" at a Bob Sinclar event.
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
hingis should've found a french waiter of her own to blame. or maybe just one of the 9494439 atp players she'd slept with.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
her ban ends in january right? think she'll come back?
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf federer?! 5-2 up in the final set, somehow fails to serve it out twice and then DFs on match point in the tie-break to give Tsonga the win.
all credit to Jo-W for stepping it up right at the end, but still... that was some breakdown.
― Roz, Friday, 14 August 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Not for the first time, I switch off a Medvedev match thinking "he's got this", and check 30min later and he's barely won a game since.
Harriet Dart in the last sixteen is unexpected; saw her play Wimbledon qualies a few years back. Alcaraz taking out RBA two and love is scary stuff. Kyrgios flying too.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link
man this breaks my heart a little bit
Used to be rackets and strings, now this🙄🙏🏻🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/hdYjMDlMuo— Alex Dolgopolov (@TheDolgo) March 16, 2022
― Roz, Thursday, 17 March 2022 01:30 (two years ago) link
Age while entering the top-15:Rafael Nadal - 18y 10m 16dCarlos Alcaraz - 18y 10m 17d— YoungTennisGuns (@YoungTennisGuns) March 18, 2022
― johnny crunch, Friday, 18 March 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
Wow didn't see this one coming
World No.1 Asheigh Barty has announced her retirement from tennis.Full video with Casey Dellacqua on Instagram: https://t.co/4dvdLMIgOQ pic.twitter.com/4A6bhh3pJT— WTA Insider (@WTA_insider) March 23, 2022
― Roz, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 02:51 (two years ago) link
mad respect though, going out on top
― Roz, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 03:01 (two years ago) link
back to cricket
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 03:05 (two years ago) link
1 of the matches of the year thus far diego/stef in monte carlo, wow
― johnny crunch, Friday, 15 April 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
Whoa, that's the one match I saw nothing of today! I saw it was 6-2 5-2 and didn't think it was even worth checking the score again!
― Michael Jones, Friday, 15 April 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
yep diego came back to win the second in a tiebreak, then had a point to go up 5-0 in the 3d….but stef got momentum back & pulled it out, complete w a dive volley in his last game
― johnny crunch, Friday, 15 April 2022 21:14 (two years ago) link
Carlos Alcaraz won this tennis match pic.twitter.com/8Bj3es7QWT— Ricky Dimon (@Dimonator) April 24, 2022
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 24 April 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link
hes only lost 3 times this yr
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 24 April 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
The improvised shovel down the line to save the MP depicted above was bizarre.
Felt a bit sorry for Norrie in the midst of all the Barcelona rain - 3hr+ vs Fucsovics and then another epic vs De Minaur same day, while ADM's earlier last-16 match was a 6-0 (ret).
Grimly predictable recoveries from set (or set+break) deficits all week from Novak in Belgrade, only to get bageled in the decider by Rublev in the final. Excellent. Everyone is peaking too early again though! By the time Roland Garros is here, you know what's going to happen.
Swiatek finally dropped a set, but she's in Williams territory with this run. Even if Barty hadn't retired she'd be a long way off #1 by now.
Re: Russian/Belarussian ban at SW19 (sorry, strictly off-topic, but it's too early to start a Wimb thread)... where's the spirit of '73 in the ATP/WTA? I'm not sure what to make it of myself, but if the players' federations are completely against it then there has to be some action?
― Michael Jones, Monday, 25 April 2022 10:21 (two years ago) link
Loving the rise of Alcaraz/Swiatek. Never was too into Tennis but I've been fortunate enough to be around a lot of live matches lately by way working in the TV industry. Have quickly become a big fan. Seems like an exciting time with the tides of the Big 3 turning...
― tomorrow, Monday, 25 April 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link
Alcaraz: first player ever to beat Nadal and Djokovic on consecutive days on clay. 62 16 63 vs Rafa yesterday (I saw CA getting his foot taped at 62 12, saw that he lost the next four games, and didn't bother tuning back in!), 67 75 76 in 3h35 vs Novak just now. He has a 10-1 record in final set t/bs? Ridiculous.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 7 May 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
Tsitsipas-Zverev almost a non-event in comparison. Funny how the Next Gen, having failed to truly break through against the old guard (three of them have lost Slam finals from two sets up ffs!) are now becoming a supporting act to this teenager. My money was actually on Sinner or Musetti eclipsing them (or, once upon a time, FAA), and that may still be the case at Slam level. (Entirely possible Zverev beats Alcaraz today, of course!)
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 8 May 2022 08:27 (two years ago) link
Yeah about that
― castanuts (DJP), Sunday, 8 May 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link
Tim Van Rijthoven, ranked 205, who had played precisely one ATP main-draw match before this week (as a lucky loser, Winston-Salem 2016), has just won 's-Hertogenbosch as a wildcard. Beat Fritz, Auger Aliassime and Medvedev.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 12 June 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
“Living in the closet is impossible. It is too hard, it is pointless,” she added. “Living in peace with yourself is the only thing that matters, and fuck everyone else.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/18/daria-kasatkina-russian-tennis-player-comes-out-as-gay
Good for you, Daria!
― mizzell, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 14:04 (two years ago) link
bernarda pera wins back to back 250stwenty-four straight sets won i believe
always liked her game everytime i watched her but she'd regularly have dips where shed make tons of errors; today vs konteveit she was so solid, only dropped serve once & it was when she was serving for the match up two breaks
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 23 July 2022 13:00 (two years ago) link
Great stuff from Pera. Delighted to see Thiem string a few wins together, though he got thumped by Berrettini in the Gstaad semis yesterday.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 24 July 2022 09:03 (two years ago) link
Holger Rune's run to the Paris-Bercy title is quite... incredible:R1: WawrinkaR2: #10 HurkaczR3: #9 RublevQF: #1 AlcarazSF: #8 Auger-AliassimeF: #7 Djokovic (6 times champ)— José Morgado (@josemorgado) November 6, 2022
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 November 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
Hats off but I’ve got a feeling I have my NextGen hate figure :)Watched the deciding set vs Stan (gutted!) and saw the little exchange at the net (which was a bit harsh). Also saw last hour of Novak-Stef semi and about half of that crazy 17min last game in the final (on my phone, on a train, picture freezing as I lost signal). So, yeah, any Djokovic defeat is good but really not sure about Holger…
― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 November 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
What's wrong with Rune?
― the pinefox, Monday, 7 November 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
not sure if he was eventually fined but investigated by ATP last year for using homophobic slurs. also allegedly made up some stuff about Casper Ruud on social media
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
Yeah, he just seems fairly immature and brattish, yelling at his parents in the crowd etc; a particularly intense driven character who may grow into someone a bit more likeable :) The Ruud dispute was bizarre - genuinely seemed to have invented a locker room confrontation to deflect criticism of his own on court behaviour. And his “apology” (quickly deleted) for the homophobia was basically “sorry I’m not perfect LOL”. Not easy to grow up in the spotlight, but he’s not winning ppl over so far. Alcaraz, in comparison, is already hugely popular.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
good story
Djokovic once hand-picked him to 'impersonate' Nadal’s lefty forehand before a Grand Slam finalYet until last night, 33-year-old Matija Pecotic had never competed on the ATP TourThis is a story of redemption - a classic case of it’s never too late and you’re never too old 🧵 pic.twitter.com/fjcSwqqs9J— Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan) February 15, 2023
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
great scrambling match pt by dimitrov vs deminaur just now
saw the stat that this is dimitrov's 44th tour level semifinal & 12 consecutive seasons hes reached one...
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 February 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
undercutting that, today was grigor’s 11th straight semifinal loss
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 18 February 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
unbelievable cincy final, 3h49m novak comes back and beats alcaraznovak said it felt like a grand slam final &it truly kinda did, really great drama
― johnny crunch, Monday, 21 August 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
Novak looked completely overheated and dazed while the sun was still over half the court (his first match in daylight this week!) - Alcaraz really let him back in with that loose game at 7-5 4-3. I had to sleep after Djokovic levelled. I clearly missed the ATP set of the year.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 21 August 2023 07:36 (one year ago) link
watched the third set live, a near-religious experience. djokovic is the goat goat
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 22 August 2023 00:29 (one year ago) link
that match point alcaraz saved at — what was it, 5-3? — with the running, looping forehand down the line? jesus christ. or his kamakaze returns of serve? the truly astonishing djoko double faults? one of the best sets I’ve ever seen
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 22 August 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link
post-roland garros revive! time to trade the squeak of the clay for the, uh, whatever sound sliding on grass makes! i finally broke down and bought a subscription to the tennis channel app, so i can keep matches on most of the day while i work. yeah!
big news for me is the return of tim van rijthoven. he's got a wildcard into s'hertogenbosch. first tour match since rotterdam in february '23. love his game. hope he can make some runs and stay injury-free.
― andrew m., Monday, 10 June 2024 21:12 (two months ago) link
Grass court season and once again I've entirely failed to look into tickets or travel or time off to see any of the 250/125/qualie-level action that's a train ride away. But the weather is dismal, so...
Boulter-Dart was a 3hr+ epic in Nottingham yesterday, pushing Dan Evans' glorious Midlands return back to the late evening, and that was inevitably suspended in the gloom at one set all. (Poor Dan - lots of Challengers in his future, you suspect, hanging on to the top 100 thanks to his stellar week in DC almost 11 months ago).
TvR was a set down to Zizou B (you can't escape him) overnight, I see.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 09:18 (two months ago) link
But the weather is dismal, so...
and now it's hailing on the court at libema!
― andrew m., Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:04 (two months ago) link
Nottingham event hopelessly behind schedule: still a men's last-16 match to complete from Thursday and no play so far today. Not sure if this means a main-draw special-exemption for anyone (e.g., the various Joneses) at Queen's/Brum cos they're still stranded in the east Midlands while qualies are underway for next week... can't seem to find a proper PDF on various ATP/WTA/event websites to confirm that (because basic info, as opposed to content, must be buried deep in 2024, it's the law).
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 15 June 2024 11:38 (two months ago) link
Perhaps worth commemorating: Sunday was the first time in 53 years British men and women have won Tour-level singles titles on the day. (Boulter won Nottingham, Draper won Stuttgart).
I did a bit of digging and established that it was: April 18, 1971:Roger Taylor beat Pierre Barthes in Palermo F.Ann Jones beat Billie Jean King in Las Vegas F.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:31 (two months ago) link
on the same day, duh
Really dislike how they play music in the breaks
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:57 (two months ago) link
Yeah, it’s awful. Pretty weird how the ugly branded edifice of this event suddenly looms up between Victorian houses in a pleasant side street next to Barons Court Tube. (I chanced my arm Saturday with resales on the gate - nothing doing). Also: Raonic hit 47 aces in beating Norrie yesterday. Golden age of grass court tennis is back.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:39 (two months ago) link
that big lug is going to force me to root for taylor fritz. unacceptable!
― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 June 2024 16:58 (two months ago) link
scary tumble for dan evans, who was forced to retire. he's been looking good lately too.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 June 2024 17:02 (two months ago) link
No dedicated thread yet but, WCs for Wimbled*n announced, no real surprises I don't think, glad to see Broady in the mix though.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 19 June 2024 16:42 (two months ago) link
nice win for draper over alcaraz @ queens club
the amazon prime federer doc came out today
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/movies/roger-federer-twelve-final-days-review.html
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 20 June 2024 15:38 (two months ago) link
Maxime Cressy hit 23 double faults yesterday in Newport, en route to a 7-6 3rd set win. I figured that must be close to a record for a three set match. Sure enough, it’s 25… held by Cressy, last year in Dubai.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 18 July 2024 10:22 (one month ago) link
Actually, that’s just ATP. Anna Kournikova hit 31 at the AO in ‘99. Cressy also one of seven male players to have managed the perfect game: four consecutive DFs. Last year in Marseille.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 18 July 2024 10:26 (one month ago) link
so nadal looks legit healthy now
― johnny crunch, Friday, 19 July 2024 12:49 (one month ago) link
Loved that he played Borg in r1. 20 French titles across the families.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 19 July 2024 13:08 (one month ago) link
Nadal about to serve (for the third time) for the win vs Navone in Bastad qf. Close to four hours.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 19 July 2024 15:34 (one month ago) link
crazy.. great fighting spirit & his body cooperatedassume he’ll pull out of doubles now lol
― johnny crunch, Friday, 19 July 2024 15:39 (one month ago) link