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Tennis Talk 2021: Vol 16 (French Open)
Tennis Talk 2021: Vol 16 (French Open)
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cute
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The Osaka story is being portrayed on the News as if everyone is supportive. Is that really true or just a reflection of today's world?
Lots of people are truly stressed out and would gladly settle for answering a few questions at a press conference. They don't have a financial comfort blanket. Osaka needs to engage the real world instead of acting like a prima donna. She can afford to get the best help and she can afford to take as much time out as she wants/needs. In a relative sense she is very fortunate. Sadly, by not pulling out initially, she is now garnering all the headlines instead of the actual tennis. How can that be good for the sport? |
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It can be good if changes to the press conference rules are triggered by it.
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they can do the mixed zone thing. then she'll be asked about her poor clay court preparations from 25 different journalists instead of 1 or 2.
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Fiona Ferro playing someone I've never heard of today.
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You haven't heard of the world number 297
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other than the occasional idiotic question, like how Simona's sex life is post breast reduction, there's not much wrong with press conferences.(Personally I would change the above to reporters always having to say their name and organization and that info being on press conference transcripts so they can be ridiculed by everyone). I just don't find the need to change how something is working because one player out of hundreds have problems with it. I would maybe even be open to having her be exempt from doing these press conferences if it's so much a problem for her and do other work for WTA instead, but not sure if that is viable because then more players might say they can't do press and then it will all be a big mess.
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*WTA/ITF/Slams
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If often takes the introduction of an "extreme" position to generate a meaningful debate.
We are all different ........ “Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh... thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of... different tastes, different... preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains... built of copper and wire, steel?” |
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Surely there are no differences in opinion on strawberries in general. Everybody, without fail, loves themselves a strawberry. There are only differences regarding the best kind.
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Ann Li just missed point to deliver the tournament's first double bagel.
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are you saying she didn't dish out a bagel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbkInTnNQ28 ?
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also, will Gasparyan get a fine?
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Why are you linking eurotrash to me?
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it's my Ann Li gimmick. I'm never linking other songs in that genre.
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Ferro lost a set 1-6 to someone SamuelMertensBertens had never heard of before today.
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Ferro should defo get a fine.
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Liang was a decent junior, but then transitioned really, really bad to the big girls. Not surprising, given that she's shorter than 160cm.
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Can you believe Sakkari missed that on set point just now?
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Pome was 160 cm, she did alright.
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or is.
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You have to be truly exceptional to make it on the main tour if you have lil stumpy legs.
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and Cibulkova had burned out before her 30th birthday.
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she must have loved playing in Stuttgart.
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Sorry, I don't get it.
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big pic of herself on the wall for her to look at.
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Was it in an elevator?
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did you know Greet is pronounced as Great?
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ffs, I see Rendy is in a Slam again.
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cool. a win for my system of backing players against players I have never heard of after this didn't work out so well last week with Niemeier.
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If 99% of players can cope with a press conference why is there any need for debate?
Surely there is already a process in place to deal with individual issues with journalists? I think the issue here is primarily Osaka, not press conferences. She's the one who needs to make a change. Just concentrating on tennis might be a step in that direction. |
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oh, true
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Oceane Babel dreams dashing here.
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Osaka wanted to just concentrate on the tennis during RG by not making herself available to press distractions.
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at wimbledon they make you sit next to strawberries all day long those bastards
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house on Berankis, anyone?
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The English have always been known as especially dastardly.
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Also I have lactose intolerance, and at Wimbledon I see cream everywhere. It's not fair on me as I would like to eat it too but can't. It should be banned.
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hear hear. cancel wimbledon now!
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