Tennis Talk 2019: Vol 26 (Winston-Salem, New York)

hmmm. now what?

Asia was holding quite comfortable

omg please give us audio

0-15 15-15 15-30

30-30

is uso q's gonna end with a mugbreaker or nah

deep down you already know the answer

30-40

40-40

40-A

something's gotta give here

40-40

Kakaya seems like a bit of a bish but still hot

A-40. crowd going wild

well

it's the big show

mugbreaker time

W-S about to start.

i really want muhammad to pull this off somehow

Inshallah

but not happening

Aug 23, 2019 -- 6:42PM, nofx wrote:

Inshallah

BROTHER! we can do this MASHALLAH

1.01 simply never loses.

not even allah can change that

1.01 only loses when it's Serena or Rafa

ive got some bets on possibly the worst womens doubles match ive ever seen stewart/talaba

Fergus mugged a call, Steve J not happy.

Fergus will end up being called a potato again.

who will win moustache or beard?

Aug 23, 2019 -- 6:58PM, edy wrote:

Fergus will end up being called a potato again.

I thought market was very muggy for this, but it seems it knew.

dont know why i backed paire as set 2 winner

COME ON BEARDO

6-1 0-6 would have been lovely, but reversed breadstick will do.

why is paire always like this? one set he looks like he doesn't give a **** then the next he plays great tennis.

what an annoying market, going from 1.77 to above evens for failing to hold at 0-5. like it matters ...

ffs

move this stupid tournament elsewhere.

With Big John not playing it anymore so he can concentrate on getting to the QF at the US Open, it serves no purpose in Winston-Salem really.

Also, 6-1,0-6,0-6? Really?

Johnson 2/11 on first serve points won in the final set

Aug 23, 2019 -- 7:42PM, TGMTEL wrote:

move this stupid tournament elsewhere.

this was for yet another rain delay btw, not the muggy scoreline.

Aug 24, 2019 -- 5:26AM, edy wrote:

Also, 6-1,0-6,0-6? Really?

Just imagine all the lines after that 20 mins 6-1 set!

Never trust a man with 70's porn-stache

Aug 24, 2019 -- 5:26AM, edy wrote:

With Big John not playing it anymore so he can concentrate on getting to the QF at the US Open, it serves no purpose in Winston-Salem really.

For once he's fresh going into USO. Shame he sucks at tennis these days.

Isner is still 16th in the race to london. Though yeah, apart from the Miami final and winning Newport for the umpteenth time he hasn't done much.

He also didn't play Winston-Salem last year and promptly got his best USO result in more than half a decade. Here is hoping.

Miami was before the injury and from when he didn't suck. A title is always a title, but it's not like he looked good in Newport.

oh great more rain in L'Aquila.

who was the genius that thought they shouldn't play the qf's 2 at a time instead of back to back

The heavy rain's really been screwing them over (and not having court covers, though barely any clay court tournaments have covers, especially at this level.)

I think they were meant to start on both courts at 9:30 local time. I don't think it rained then until now, but they still only started at 11 am...on one of the courts. In the latest OOP, the singles that were originally spread on both courts, are only on the primary court. The second court must be wrecked. Something like that also happened in Manerbio recently. First took them ages to get the main court playable, and even longer to get the second court into acceptable condition.

^that also answers your question, Siggy.

unacceptable!

Like, I looked yesterday night. Two singles QFs to start at 9:30 on the court courts.
Today when I first looked: 10:30 court 1, 11am court 2
Then 11am and 12am second court
then 11am (this had started) and 1 pm court 2

now all on court 1

*to start at 9:30 on the two courts

and indeed some of the doubles have been rescheduled to (indoor?) hard.

L'Aquila restarted indoors (where the rest will also be played)

Don't know if indoor hard or indoor clay and no video anyway.

what was the collarini score when they stopped, early second set wasn't it

Collarini led 2*-1 with a break

l'aquila doubles being played outside

weirdos

Probably decided a bit of rain and an unplayable court doesn't really matter in doubles.

and not seeing ****, 'cuz dat looks dark out there.

suspended for darkness

scores died for the current matches about 30 mins ago, Zanevska stream been running the whole time though, they've just removed the stream at 5-5 final set lol

and here I was thinking Camila's serve had defeated the yips

IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL WHAT CAMILA, IS COOKIN'

Can't someone just plug that baby?

What did man invent pacifiers for?

time to finally stop being clutch this week magda

what a mug camila

and then linette blows 2 set points

Aug 24, 2019 -- 1:35PM, wisewords wrote:

IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL WHAT CAMILA, IS COOKIN'

CAMILA SAYS

CAMILA SAYS

CAMILA SAYS

The linejudge on the bottom baseline has been asleep all match.

There've been multiple clearly missed calls on that line.

you should tweet The Bronx Openj and tell 'em ed

The Bronx Open*

oh no

another missed call by the linejudge where the umpire had to step in

Did hawkeye just mess up again?

Like mismatch text with graphic or something? I only paid attention to the graphic, which had the ball on the line, but there was some confusion in the crowd and Hurkacz's face.

not watching sorry

Was last night Poland's proudest sporting day of all time?

Two titles in tennis, AND Lewandowski scored three (!!) goals.

#edytrivia

When was the last time a Polish man won a singles title before Hurkacz did it?

Janowicz surely

nvm I see he never won a title surprisingly, would have been too obvious of an answer

Way way way way further back

It was Wojciech Fibak in 1982.

Jerzy got close. He had at least one championship point in Winston-Salem a few years ago.

2014 Winston-Salem final against Rosol. At 6-3, 5-5* Jerzy had 0-40 on Rosol's serve, failed to convert for his chance to then serve for the match. Then when leading 5-4* in the third set he had two championship points with Rosol serving.

Aug 25, 2019 -- 3:50AM, edy wrote:

Was last night Poland's proudest sporting day of all time?

I think so.

what a week for Polska. Can't believe I missed it.

Since there's no USO thread up yet, I'll just post this here.
https://twitter.com/usopen/status/1165349909530402819
Can't believe Vika is still wearing black in the New York heat.

I can't believe how lucky that loser Lorenzi is. Gets to collect at least (half?) a USO R1 cheque and plays someone I've never heard of in R1 so has a chance to earn even more.

Easy for Nedelko.

It's the reward for years and years of tireless work. For slugging it out in the challengers and futures (without having dodgy matches in his resumé) until he finally somewhat made it to the vicinity of the top100 at the tender age of 28. I'm absolutely certain Lorenzi is one of the absolutely hardest workers, even at his age. He is an inspiration for everyone.

Aaron must completely suck at tennis for opponent to be 1.02 SP at challenger level.

wrong thread