Tennis
The final Slam of the year is upon us, unfortunately with the weakest field for a Slam in forever: no Djokovic, no A Murray, no Wawrinka, no Raonic, no Nishikori, no Serena, no Azarenka and no Zvonareva. At least Sharapova is back, so that's something and maybe USTA can still get some tickets sold. On a positive note, all the withdrawals leave room for some young players to step up, which is badly needed especially on the men's side. It's very likely we get a new women's no. 1 since Ka Pliskova is defending a final here from last year. Weather forecast for this event is promising.
(note: no pictures of Grigor and Dasha in this version)
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:12PM, n88uk wrote:
Could be if Sloane is in the team. Dunno who US will even name.
luxure problem for them, but I don't see how they can dump Coco when she's been the anchor of the team (4-0 record this year in Fed Cup)?.
Who did she do that against exactly? Against Kanepi and CoCo who are slow big hitters, perfect match ups for Keys.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:17PM, caramba wrote:
Sep 9, 2017 -- 3:12AM, n88uk wrote:Could be if Sloane is in the team. Dunno who US will even name.luxure problem for them, but I don't see how they can dump Coco when she's been the anchor of the team (4-0 record this year in Fed Cup)?.
BMS can't play now, so swap her for Sloane.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:19PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:
wise, who do you think wins? Keys or Stephens?
I really don't know, sorry.
Also the factor I said yesterday that Keys has no b) game, if this become a nervous affair it's advantage Stephens because when you are nervous it's much easier to be a backboard, than it is to blast winners left, right and centre.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:17PM, caramba wrote:
Sep 9, 2017 -- 3:12AM, n88uk wrote:Could be if Sloane is in the team. Dunno who US will even name.luxure problem for them, but I don't see how they can dump Coco when she's been the anchor of the team (4-0 record this year in Fed Cup)?.
Tough one. Playing CoCo can be a mistake. I mean we're assuming Vika players, if she doesn't they're gonna win regardless. But I can easily see CoCo mugging, but tbh I can see all of them mugging to Sasnovich tbh. Belarus are gonna need Vika playing well though to have a chance really. If Vika is playing well she can easily pick up 3 points alone, she's a far better doubles player than Keys, Stephens, CoCo are.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:24PM, n88uk wrote:
Belarus will need a miracle if Vika doesn't play. Hopefully she plays semantically too because I have a lot of Belarusians super looking forward to this on Twitter, and it will be sad for them if it's like 0-5.
They also I'm pretty sure haven't had a chance to see Vika play either.
Price on Keys is woeful.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:28PM, n88uk wrote:
That's hypotheticals though. Keys isn't Serena, Keys is a ue machine a lot. She is generally terrible against backboards because she can't construct points, she can only blast the ball.Price on Keys is woeful.
Yeah but forget about what the price is. Who WINS?
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:29PM, n88uk wrote:
Hopefully it's -50 in Minsk, that will be a culture shock for the Californian Americans obv.
Sloane would think that was so disgusting, imo.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:29PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:
How would you guys price it up?
Madison Keys 1.49
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:30PM, wisewords wrote:
Sep 9, 2017 -- 3:29AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:How would you guys price it up?Madison Keys 1.49
So you think Keys is 66% fav wise, interesting. Earlier you said you didn't know...
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:30PM, n88uk wrote:
Nadal is 22-3 in grand slam SF's that has to be pretty much the best record ever surely?
Federer is 29-13 for comparsion.
Nadal's record sounds absolutely absurd.
She also just beat Venus, and will inevitably suffer from JBABS, just like Sevastova did after her Sharapova win.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:30PM, n88uk wrote:
Nadal is 22-3 in grand slam SF's that has to be pretty much the best record ever surely?
Robin Söderling is unbeaten in slam SFs
please use it a bit more often. thank you.
Living off ue's is fine when your opponent is Keys, most players beat her by living off her ue's. Keys has no base game to lean back on, if the errors are flowing there's nothing she can turn to.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:33PM, mesmerised wrote:
The problem with Stephens in this match up is that she likes to build up play before she puts balls away, she will have far less time to do that against someone like Keys, so she will have to hope Keys is nervous and isn't firing, which tbh, is more likely to happend the other way round, Sloane is much more of a confidence player.She also just beat Venus, and will inevitably suffer from JBABS, just like Sevastova did after her Sharapova win.
Sloane is going to need Keys not to be firing as she did Elina set 3, or last 2 matches. She will need Keys to be spraying errors. Lord knows Keys can do that but recently she's been lights out which would be too good for Sloane or anyone, bah Serena or Garbine.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:35PM, mesmerised wrote:
just said that at 3.34
Exactly !
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:38PM, n88uk wrote:
Is that start time. I thought it was normally 4pm local?
ES coverage begins 8:30pm UK time.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:37PM, wisewords wrote:
8:30PM FOR THE WOMEN'S FINAL.
Surely it's 1600 East Cost time KO (not 1530), so 2100 BST. The program on ES will start 30 mins prior is that what you're referencing to?
64 63 keys.
Sep 8, 2017 -- 9:45PM, n88uk wrote:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJP85fyXkAQcblA.jpg
will need to put this in the emoticon thread later.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/sep/09/maria-sharapova-failing-drug-t...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/sep/09/maria-sharapova-failing-drug-test-felt-trapped-tricked
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Sep 9, 2017 -- 3:55PM, tinyelf54 wrote:
what is sloanes current ranking?
22 she will be 17 after this http://live-tennis.eu/en/wta-live-ranking
