Tennis
Grass court tennis: the andrew castle appreciation thread
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True. Imagine a lot of players wouldn't even tweet it. Give the customs officer the side eye.
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wouldnt say he choked slip
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Zemlja played a good point on MP and then held easily for a 50/50 tiebreak
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It's more than just WTA though, all sorts of people are just clearly desperate for Bouchard to do well. You had British journalists who pretty much never tweet about WTA telling us straight after her win against Kerber.
The seed report for RG from Wertheim was how she's getting back. I suppose it's relative, she's playing better than last year, but then on commentary they talk like she's heading back to top 10, whereas in reality she might not even make thet top 30 I was predicting at start of the season (is outside top 30 in race now). |
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she has been playing better this year but today was the worst I've seen from her probably since before grass season last year
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probably since vinci owned her at new haven last year actually
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It's all relative though. Because playing better. She's still like #34 in the road on the year.
Last year she wasn't even top 100 form form for most of it saved by that QF AO run at start of the year, so it's all relative. But this continualy desperation to push her anytime she does anything does come across very desperate. |
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Was Vinci vs. Bouchard streamed?
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pretty sure I watched it
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And something I said like a month ago is even more prevalent now about how Muguruza, Bencic have done big things but have very small profiles. If WTA don't start pushing Muguruza hard now they truly are mugs.
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Yer I'm pretty sure I watched it too.
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Muguruza isn't blonde and pale enough
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WTA thinks they only have to push blonde dolls 'cuz that's who the sugardaddies with all the money like
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they have been "pushing" Serena though...
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have they?
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if we look at her success compared to Sharapova and especially Bouchard...
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Was Serena really pushed?
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Too bad Carina is an even worse player than Bouchard. She's the ultimate blonde doll
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Carina would've probably won more than 2 games today
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Anett
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or Andrea
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helps if the blonde doll is either from north america (genie) or has been americanised (masha)
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true
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Chipmunk isn't northern american enough
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or carina
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true
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Bye KrisPlis
market made her a fave in the 2nd set again |
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have the pliskova's played eachother before?
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Eastbourne Qs and challengers
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not since 2013
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have played each other 10 times in tournaments (including juniors)
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^tongue in cheek
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2006 $10,000 Cavtat CRO Clay Round 3 (Q) PLISKOVA 6-3 7-6(1)
2006 Malta ITF Junior Tournament MLT Hard SF PLISKOVA 4-6 1-6 2010 $25,000 Bratislava SVK Hard 16 PLISKOVA 3-6 3-6 2010 $50,000 Kurume JPN Grass FR PLISKOVA 7-5 2-6 0-6 2010 $50,000 Gifu JPN Hard SF PLISKOVA 6-4 6-2 2011 $25,000 Vendryne CZE Hard QF PLISKOVA 6-1 6-1 2011 $100,000+H Ningbo CHN Hard 32 PLISKOVA 6-3 6-4 2012 $25,000 Grenoble FRA Hard FR PLISKOVA 7-6(11) 7-6(6) 2012 $25,000 Andrezieux-Boutheon FRA Hard QF PLISKOVA 3-6 2-6 2013 Eastbourne GBR Grass Round 3 (Q) PLISKOVA 6-7(5) 6-3 3-6 in a future software update, the ITF might want to consider putting the first name into the winner's column as well, not just the surname |
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who remembers Urszlua's and Agneiszka's match-up in Dubai about ten years ago? Easy 2-0 victory for Urszula
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wonder if we're gonna get a kaplis vs konta final this week
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