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edy When: 10 Sep 17 23:52

1.9 rating (iirc and whatever that means) and up 36% from last year. Not too surprising with an all-US final instead of a Czech-German one.

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:52

Sep 10, 2017 -- 11:52PM, n88uk wrote:

What number was it Wisewords?

1.9 rating.

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edy When: 10 Sep 17 23:53

aaronh • September 10, 2017 6:30 PM BST
Saturday’s US Open Women’s Championship on ESPN – a battle of young American women in which unseeded Sloane Stephens convincingly triumphed over No. 15 Madison Key 6-3, 6-0 – earned a 1.9 overnight rating in the metered markets for the match portion of the three-hour telecast, 36% higher than last year’s women’s final from New York. It was the highest overnight rating for the match in the three years ESPN has held exclusivity for the US Open – first ball to last ball coverage. (Notably, because of the hurricane, tennis strongholds Miami and Ft. Myers are not included.)

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n88uk When: 10 Sep 17 23:53

Yer she will have a long way to go then. US audience sucks tbh. If this was UK lol it would get a huge audience. The 36% spike would be like a 360% spike.

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:54

Sep 10, 2017 -- 11:52PM, n88uk wrote:

Serena-Woz did 3.7-4.0 iirc. Serena-Vika x2 did like 4.7-4.9.The non-Serena finals done like 1.0-1.5.

Serena-Woz wasn't Serena's first ever Gramd Slam final now, was it? What was the rating for Serena's first ever Grand Slam final please.

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edy When: 10 Sep 17 23:54

I'm not sure how comparable the numbers are to the ones you mentioned. Isn't ESPN less available than what the US Open used to be on?

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detraveller When: 10 Sep 17 23:54

All moneyline and handicap bets won. Thanks Nadal.

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edy When: 10 Sep 17 23:54

Sep 10, 2017 -- 11:53PM, n88uk wrote:

Yer she will have a long way to go then. US audience sucks tbh. If this was UK lol it would get a huge audience. The 36% spike would be like a 360% spike.

50 million turning on the BBC, innit?

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n88uk When: 10 Sep 17 23:55

Don't know but generally ratings are down since early 2000s massively because back then American tennis was strong, so you probs don't want to go down that road Wisewords.

Serena and Venus stuff used to draw like 7-8.x in early 2000s, but I can't answer first ones off top of head.

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:55

Oh right. Well we're in 2017 now, not then. I still think Sloane is going to be a big deal.

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n88uk When: 10 Sep 17 23:55

Sep 10, 2017 -- 11:54PM, edy wrote:

I'm not sure how comparable the numbers are to the ones you mentioned. Isn't ESPN less available than what the US Open used to be on?

It is, but only slightly. Reason it's on ESPN in first place though is because on NBC ratings were tanking badly.

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Angela Rebecchi When: 10 Sep 17 23:56

Aussie Open 2018, Rafa here you go.

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:56

It's not like Sloane is some medicore athlete who fluked this US Open. She's a supreme athlete. Even a mug can see that.

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n88uk When: 10 Sep 17 23:56

Which isn't helping becoming Sloane become a star btw because tennis is on massive decline in USA.

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:57

It's been on the decline for a while, I agree. Serena winning all the time got boring for them.

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Angela Rebecchi When: 10 Sep 17 23:57

Federer 6/1 for Aus, Rafa 10/3...

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jin_kazz When: 10 Sep 17 23:57

everything is on decline in usa

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edy When: 10 Sep 17 23:57

How much longer until we'll be getting up at 4am for most of the year because most events are in China?

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caramba When: 10 Sep 17 23:58

very long.

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:58

That won't ever happen, edy.

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mesmerised When: 10 Sep 17 23:58

Serena will win two slams next year to overtake Margaret court and win 25

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:58

or if it does, it'll be very far into the future.

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caramba When: 10 Sep 17 23:58

events will be moving to Estonia and Latvia soon.

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jin_kazz When: 10 Sep 17 23:58

Sep 10, 2017 -- 11:57PM, edy wrote:

How much longer until we'll be getting up at 4am for most of the year because most events are in China?

tmrw

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n88uk When: 10 Sep 17 23:58

As I said USA is the only slam country where the slam isn't a massive deal. Like this Nadal beating Anderson will barely be relevant in America with NFL starting. Wimbledon is a huge deal in UK even when the World Cup is on.

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:59

dk, did you take your Masha poster down and replace it with Sloane after last night? I forgot to ask before.

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wisewords When: 10 Sep 17 23:59

Sep 10, 2017 -- 11:58PM, n88uk wrote:

As I said USA is the only slam country where the slam isn't a massive deal. Like this Nadal beating Anderson will barely be relevant in America with NFL starting. Wimbledon is a huge deal in UK even when the World Cup is on.

Agree about the Nadal bit, but Sloane winning is a huge deal in the USA I'm sure.

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jin_kazz When: 11 Sep 17 00:00

yeah, bought one today in the local shop and replaced masha's poster

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mesmerised When: 11 Sep 17 00:00

Sep 10, 2017 -- 11:58PM, n88uk wrote:

As I said USA is the only slam country where the slam isn't a massive deal. Like this Nadal beating Anderson will barely be relevant in America with NFL starting. Wimbledon is a huge deal in UK even when the World Cup is on.

this is because they're only interested in Tennis when American's are dominating.

An American male hasn't won a slam for the last 56 slams

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wisewords When: 11 Sep 17 00:00

Sep 11, 2017 -- 12:00AM, jin_kazz wrote:

yeah, bought one today in the local shop and replaced masha's poster

nice. next on your list you need to burn your one of The Asset and replace it with Mervyn King

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edy When: 11 Sep 17 00:01

Sloane is far too black to score with large swathes of the US population. She'll need to put up about 10-15 slams before she sees some respect from them.

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GRANTCKING When: 11 Sep 17 00:02

Sep 11, 2017 -- 12:01AM, edy wrote:

Sloane is far too black to score with large swathes of the US population. She'll need to put up about 10-15 slams before she sees some respect from them.

edy this is ur last warning ok, I dont want to have to report u!!

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Journeyman When: 11 Sep 17 00:02

The way Sloane played in the final will have picked her up fans among those who were watching her for the first time.

If they then keep watching her and see her playing a default passive/retrieval game in a detached, disengaged fashion they will quickly lose interest.

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n88uk When: 11 Sep 17 00:02

No American man is a problem. I think the real problem though going back even further is because they are so biased towards Americans, they want every tourney to be like this women's one with 4 American women in it. Where half the top 10 is American like the 70s and 80s, but this will never happen again as the game is too competitive now.

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edy When: 11 Sep 17 00:03

Serena wasn't exactly embraced until she had won a whole lot either. Venus started being embraced when she started being seen as a gracious loser.

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wisewords When: 11 Sep 17 00:03

Sep 11, 2017 -- 12:02AM, n88uk wrote:

No American man is a problem. I think the real problem though going back even further is because they are so biased towards Americans, they want every tourney to be like this women's one with 4 American women in it. Where half the top 10 is American like the 70s and 80s, but this will never happen again as the game is too competitive now.

Not that competitive obv, there were 5 USAers in the quarter finals.

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n88uk When: 11 Sep 17 00:04

The real key on that Journey is more what she does in terms of winning. If we're sitting her going into USO next year and she's done nothing then she will have been forgotten about already. If we're sitting here with her with another slam and world #1 then she will be a big deal.

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wisewords When: 11 Sep 17 00:04

This Head of US Tennis woman doesn't ever come across well when I see her making speeches. She always stumbles over her words.

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wisewords When: 11 Sep 17 00:06

Kevin hijacking his own runners up speech interview back from this wretched woman. Good work Kev.

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edy When: 11 Sep 17 00:06

Skander Mansouri or Mark Verryth?