what a sh1t tournament

I hear ya me brother. Don't forget about ta smurf clay.

i quite like the colour. think the players just picking on something to blame their play on. nadal already making excuses for when he loses to isner

don't forget about the delays

sh1te from Spain. I hope they follow Greece and Italy! Go broke ...Europe is in troubles.

very nice for trading: no scores anywhere?!

like the colour or not, don't forget they crushed smurfette and floor buffer smurf (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQVpOFXO6bo) to bits and pieces for the surface.

agree

The spanish are f*cking useless when it comes to urgency.

anyone know score llodra-seppi?!

sb operators having siesta?

From market I guess 1-0 Seppi in sets and on serve in 2nd set?

Scoreboards are as as **** as in Cincinnati and Rome + ask Roddick and Ferrer how the USO courts looked last year. I guess americans can be useless as well.

still not working. this is embarrassing.

Definitely the worst tournament I can remember.

wtf? went for a stroll, expecting to return and they sorted it out, but no! useless cnts

might have to bet on atp

Sorry, but I'm loving this tournament, the surface, the colour, the tennis level, all top players are playing their best... nothing to complain about... sorry again... but I'm loving this tournament

Loving it

Simon wins
Almargo wins
Raonic
Dolgo
Verdasco

nice profit so far.

ricky - Thinly wailed "I finally won some $$$ so could happily endure buttrape"?

Marin I don't understand sorry... if that means I like this tournament cause I won some money answer is no.. you can check my bank has more than doubled up since 1. March... this tournament is started yesterday or sunday.. isn't it?

Didn't mean to be unkind obviously, I'm just referring facts...

I mean.. who cares if you can't  check the result point by point.. you can try as hard as you want but you won't change it... this tournament is great! The crappy thing is that eurosport is not caring about it too much...

rickysomas1 08 May 12 15:49 
I mean.. who cares if you can't  check the result point by point.. you can try as hard as you want but you won't change it... this tournament is great! The crappy thing is that eurosport is not caring about it too much...

it's not their fault (for once). if matches aren't being tv produced, they can't show them.

oh sorry caramba... that's correct... my mistake about eurosport... sorry to eurosport too

this tournament is worst of the year

Come on, it is 2012 and we can't get info on a tournament played in a freaking EU country. How can you define it as anything other than massive cluster**** is beyond me.

It's embarrassing.  3rd world stuff from the spaniards.

Marin you are right about the fact that we can't get a stream and live scoreboard... but this doesn't turn the tournament into a crappy one... if u don't get info from Roland Garros I hope you don't say that that's a crappy tournament...

May 8, 2012 -- 3:49PM, rickysomas1 wrote:

I mean.. who cares if you can't

finally found the old pesetas to get the meter running again.

LOL Marin they were waiting for you to insult them to move their ass you should complain hours ago about it Good Luck everybody

be hilarious if rain now stopped play just as the sb gets going

May 8, 2012 -- 3:59PM, rickysomas1 wrote:

Marin you are right about the fact that we can't get a stream and live scoreboard... but this doesn't turn the tournament into a crappy one... if u don't get info from Roland Garros I hope you don't say that that's a crappy tournament...

Actually that is exactly what I would say.

oh it's ok then... it's a crappy fact that in 2012 we couldn't eget info for a while ;) Good Luck man

ricky where are you from?

Italy the gone country like someone here said

with greece we are not completely gone yet come on... there's still a little chance to survive...

Ahh OK then, I noticed you don't really understand English completely.

You are mixing quality of play (which we don't know about in any case) and quality of tournament organization (which is utter crap).

just knew a patronising comment was going to follow

no I understand english pretty well... the problem here was more ATP than the tournament organization... tournament organization is more about players accomodations, dressing rooms, referees, line judges, ballboys...

I know that quality of play is pretty good these days, we are watching many matches on streams... it was just a couple hours blackout... it can happen anytime, anywhere in the world...

Actually IT is also within scope of tournament organization. Not the software itself but the connections.

Both tournament have prize fond of around, what, 8 million Euros... that means they could have had a backup in place for relatively little investment. Organizational failure, end of story.

May 8, 2012 -- 4:25PM, good value losers wrote:

just knew a patronising comment was going to follow

Link me to one quality comment of yours, ever.

Marin I wouldn't call it organizational failure... maybe a little, VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY LITTLE MISTAKE.... end f story for me too good luck with your bets...

Players have been moaning about court quality ever since the tournament was changed to clay a few years ago too and they are doing so again this year. Not just because it's crushed smurfs and their remaining blood that makes the courts slipperey apparently.

Having some IT/Livescore problems for a few hours can happen and doesn't really harm anyone important, but to still not be able to get the courts laid out properly after this many years is just lame.

players are allowed to skip the tournament if they don't like it... aren't they?

All Masters1000 (ATP, Monte-Carlo being the lone exception) and Premier Mandatory (WTA) are...well...mandatory as at least the WTA name suggests. They'd have to come up with some injury excuse to skip the tournament. There might be penalties for skipping, even with injury, or less money from a bonus pool. Not sure about that, would've to take a look at the rulebooks.

Our always happy go lucky frenchman Simon had this to say about the court condition: "I do not notice any difference from last year. These are the worst courts of the clay court season. I do not feel good about them. They almost gave me a sprain in training."

Long nosed spanish (ATP250) clay master: "The courts are sliding a lot. It's a different, unique surface that isn’t used in any other tournament. It’s so close to Roland Garros that we prefer to play on red clay. The court is not in the best condition. You slip a lot and hopefully there will be no injuries. To [stay upright] on the court you need to make a real effort. But Ion Tiriac and Manolo Santana wanted to have a blue court and there we have it. They, in favour of the show, wanted this court and we have to comply." -

Our favourite Sergiy on tour "After playing a match on blueclay court 6 I can say with full responsibility on my shoulders that it is the worst court of @ATPWorldTour."

All three players won the matches after which they said that, so it's not like they made those comments because they were pissed about losing or anything

Our resident self-described cow on ice was more cautious in her comments, but also said it felt like the courts were rather uneven.

unneccassary 45 min gap now. add sh1t scheduling to the list

edy     08 May 12 16:44 
There might be penalties for skipping

think the tournament counts towards rankings whether you play or not, so you get a big fat zero. there may be bonus pool stuff too.

Rickysomas1
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Sorry, but I'm loving this tournament, the surface, the colour, the tennis level, all top players are playing their best... nothing to complain about... sorry again... but I'm loving this tournament


And Ricky: who of the top players has shown their best tennis yet? Who of the top players has played yet???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Did Djokovic show his best tennis to get past Gimeno-Traver???


This tournament is so **** and the surface so slippy that probably Isner or Raonic will win the turnament.

I've seen Del Potro looking like he hates to play here although he won his match comfortably.

gawd what a travesty. so far seen em water the court too little, too much (enough at least for Djoko to stop the game) spray all over Cilic's clothes leading to him having a fit, spray on a player having Mto and now taking the piss with sweeping Davy's side of the court 

hope this moaning from most rather than a handful of players is enough and it doesn't have to take serious injury to insure this is the last time with this crap
ffs it's smurf blue all year round go feckin sponsor that

I like different colour surfaces...I like people sliding on clay , getting their shoes and socks dirty..Having to whack their tennis racquet on their shoes to get dirt off.

This feels like I am still in the hard  court season.Doesn't feel like clay.

Can't they have blue colours on the clay they used to use?

Having said that..This court is clearly difficult to play on.That is a good thing in one sense.It should be a challenge . It is not like there are holes on the court.It is not a badly designed court, but it's so new to everyone and therefore a tough challenge.But  that should be seen as a new test not a bitch moan just to go back to comfortable normality

I have never seen so many tie breaks in tournament.

I know this is fast gravel but this doesn't make sense.

May 9, 2012 -- 5:57PM, sammybizzle wrote:

Having said that..This court is clearly difficult to play on.That is a good thing in one sense.It should be a challenge . It is not like there are holes on the court.It is not a badly designed court, but it's so new to everyone and therefore a tough challenge.But

May 9, 2012 -- 5:57PM, sammybizzle wrote:

Having said that..This court is clearly difficult to play on.That is a good thing in one sense.It should be a challenge . It is not like there are holes on the court.It is not a badly designed court, but it's so new to everyone and therefore a tough challenge.But

board...

hope all this moaning from most rather than a handful of players is enough and it doesn't have to take serious injury to insure this is the last time with this crap.
ffs it's smurf blue all year round go feckin sponsor that

ignore that, board... now it's even quoting myself. anyway:

ffs afraid of a new thing... it's just clever marketing. they sold it to you with a bs story about better visibility and it being a test while it's a hazard and you bought it. complaints are legit and coming from across the field not just from players that are in disadvantage because of it.