Tennis Talk 2021: Vol 20 (Prague, Budapest, Lausanne, Båstad, Hamburg, Newport)

It's great how this thread engages with posters. Must be the biggest clique on Betfair Forums, or any other forum for that matter. Just the same two or three people talking to each other. Easy to see why nobody else can be bothered to join in. 

Very easy for Giorgi. Striking the ball well, but under no real pressure.

Can't be many service actions like Parks. Literally jumps at the ball. Good when it goes in. Just about as far removed from a tennis outfit that I have seen.

Konta out of the Olympics.

who invited you drum?

I engaged with the casuals during RG and Wimbledon. Not many people here on a week with only lower level events.

OMG look who's in the main event of Newport tonight #cliquetalk

is that all we are to you sam? "casuals"?

Casuals are the posters only here for the Slams.

Everybody can post as they see fit, differentdrum.

It simply is the situation that the very few people that are on here do no necessarily have an interest in the same matches as you do, with so many simultaneous matches going on most of the time.

People have "broken into" the "clique" in the past, and have done so on the quick. Positivity helps break the ice

Or sometimes people are somewhat interested in your talking points, but don't know the answer to your question(s). E.g when you asked about Lausanne today, I turned on the Govortsova stream a few times at different moments, but there was always only an overview of the grounds with courts that had no covers on. I didn't catch a moment of them sweeping around on the covers of centre court.

"Everybody can post as they see fit, differentdrum."

they better not post any racism

Everyone here does engage, don't really see what the complaint is, it's not like it's a closed shop where no-one else is welcome.

Not a lot can be done about the lack of users, Betfair forum is losing users, everyone knows that, tennis has much less people following than football, a lot of other forums are dead.

If the complaint is on a day like today, probs because not only is it a week of mug tennis, there are 6 events going on, 5 going on at same time, you had like 10+ matches going on at same time, I note you talked about the rain delay in Lausanne, but no-one probably had the answers and no-one else was probably watching, just cos rain delay = move on to one of the other 10 options.

and WTA I mostly watch on betfair livevideo, which is commentator-free. So your question regarding the delayed British TV commentary for presumably the Kvitova-Sramkova match was a no-go for me personally as well. I don't think SamuelMertensBertens watches much tennis on TV or things like Amazon Prime either, given that speed is often vitally important for him.

I guess I could engage you with "Sorry, dunno" every time, but that does also seem a bit silly.

It's also that activity breeds activity, the more active users there are, the more those that are left will post. It's not that easy to just generate conversation yourself when there's so few people around, especially on a week like this week where discussion points are few and far between.

Jul 13, 2021 -- 11:39PM, edy wrote:

and WTA I mostly watch on betfair livevideo, which is commentator-free. So your question regarding the delayed British TV commentary for presumably the Kvitova-Sramkova match was a no-go for me personally as well. I don't think SamuelMertensBertens watches much tennis on TV or things like Amazon Prime either, given that speed is often vitally important for him.I guess I could engage you with "Sorry, dunno" every time, but that does also seem a bit silly.

Just saw what was said here, it was like this on Prime for some matches yday, Kvitova match wasn't only one like this in Prague, likely just technical error. Probs not even Prime, it's not Prime's own commentators on a week like this, it's coming from a world feed, probably WTA TV I presume.

Jul 13, 2021 -- 11:36PM, Giuseppe wrote:

"Everybody can post as they see fit, differentdrum."they better not post any racism

Everybody can post racism too. They will just have to live with the repercussion of you telling them how uncool they are.

lol I'll do more than that I'll get then BANNED

That would explain why you seemingly were the only to notice Eric.Cartman having gotten banned. Maniacally refreshing his profile in eager anticipation of it being gawn.

It's how you can always tell who got people banned. Like when Hamlin maniacally refreshed the profiles of GRANTCKING and tof and then came in here gloating.

before anyone else had most likely noticed the ban of even one of them, nevermind both.

All I noticed was a bunch of threads just disappeared altogether.

From the soccer forum?

Should be added engagement is literally always low on weeks like this. Something super, super special and abnormal would have to happen to get people really interested on a week like this. Even like 10 years ago the week after Wimbledon would be pretty dead.

the only person I've been trying to get banned recently is you

Politics defo some disappeared, dunno on football, didn't keep track of everything.

I'm switching my focus to the tennis forum now

you lot better behave

This forum is very well behaved.

if that's true you will have nothing to worry about

If you ever get me banned, I swear to you that my ghost will come back to haunt you as SuckMyBallsGiuseppe.

I'll keep an eye out for someone with that username

and then get them banned too

Jul 13, 2021 -- 5:22PM, edy wrote:

Why they still put summer outdoor events near mountains I will never know.

indeed. also a horrible advert for these towns to host a WTA tournament in the summer. No tennis fan will never want to move or even go there, unless they love rain.

Irony is that I'm pretty sure that tournaments like Bad Gastein were backed by their local tourism boards. Lots of tournaments all around the world actually are. To spread the word that those places exist and what a beautiful scenery they provide.

Probably works better with places like Portoroz than Bad Gastein.

any news on WTA post US Open?

Wonder if they will put Rus v Rakhimova in play seeing as they are in the middle of the 3rd game.

I've even seen them put matches in play in which the first set had completed this year, but I think overall they are a bit inconsistent on this topic. Last year I've seen them fail to put matches in play that they were just a little bit late for.

There should really be a consistent policy.

Has Betfair slowed down the streams?

I know it will always differ from tournament to tournament, but the events with very basic graphics, so ATP Båstad for instance, feels like they're normally faster than this.

Lugaid Ó Cearbhaill @Dodgson_32
Read it on TF

"Fun fact : Caroline Wozniacki could be #100 this week with her remaining 2019/2020 points (832)."

classic rankings

Kamilla Rakhimova with a wee bit of a collapse

Pre match Rebecca Sramkova drift on the money so far.

She looked, to me anyway, to be on the verge of cramping in her previous match.

https://youtu.be/AHC5tbMX_SY

Iga and Hubert battled it out for the ultimate Polish tennis crown.

oh look we have a commentator for tennis on Nando's

oh no it's Error Clearly

he's doing the Querrey match as well.

Benoit on fire, JPV cooked!

1.17            £9,417
1.18            £24,195
1.19            £21,729
1.2            £31,883
1.21            £41,891
1.22            £43,220

https://twitter.com/TimeaOfficial/status/1415928911230287874/photo/2

Burel setting the venus flytrap.

Won like 14 points in a row now.

Clara B fell. Looks ok, but trainer is coming on.

Didn't look that ok to me lol. She could barely walk.

market meant from ~1.36 to ~2.80, now back to 1.6-1.8

The definition of just guessing really.

to me, the walking just after something like this happens usually looks worse than it is, because there's an element of shock, pain and carefulness, but the fact she is walking at all is a good sign. We'll see soon.

Burel also does the Del Potro of walk so slowly between points in normal times that you can't get a great read.

the Claras both so young and they still know all the tricks.

this going for shots not a good sign though.

Garcia did a long look towards Clara's side as she was sitting down, and cameraman didn't show Clara so I thought a retirement was imminent but it was false alarm.

Moved fine to that drop shot!

Took your advice and posted my first flag

I was thinking about her the other day, and that she was unflagged.

She is playing right now, in semi's of a $60k. Got a good win yesterday. Plus beat Linda at Wimbledon, ie. must be good.

Actually pretty sure I have stream of this $60k. They stream them on La Liga TV, which takes like 30 seconds to sign up to.

Stream there:

https://www.laligasportstv.com/media/video/ll-ef8b6173-4d48-4078-01b6-08d92c08da56

Clay Madrid 2021 (Q) 1st Round Kristina Mladenovic 3-6, 7-5, 6-7
not a bad result.

and for a Spaniard to be able to play on grass is a good sign.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6fzJAKWUAAVd70?format=jpg&name=900x900
Kiki Bertens calling it a career after the Olympics.

Forehand has defo been developed on a clay court. Looks modeled off Rafa's (right handed though).

The players in Lausanne look like the walking wounded, but maybe it's not surprising with the scheduling.

and Schunk

Jul 17, 2021 -- 1:33PM, n88uk wrote:

The players in Lausanne look like the walking wounded, but maybe it's not surprising with the scheduling.

looks the same with Budapest. These mugs not used to going this deep in tournaments.

when was the last time we had a Brillenschlange in tennis?

Qinwen beating a former Madrid semifinalist in Palermo qualies.

Galfi looked like the walking wounded in R1.

Think some of the players have been grinding really hard recently though. Kalinina for example has won the last 2 weeks, can't even remember the last time someone won 3 weeks in a row.

Kalinina even beat Edy's fav Qinwen in both those weeks.

Kalinina's record is quite ridiculous actually. Has actually won 4 straight ITF's on clay, beat Kerber at the French, but was absolutely hammered in R2 by today's opponent Danielle Collins 6-0, 6-2.

Collins with trainer on, but I think it was just to remove/readjust the tape on her arm.

was hoping she'd win today so we get Collins vs Poots.

Collins getting conned here.

Lol that is a straight con.

Now calling for supervisor.

Jul 13, 2021 -- 2:54PM, edy wrote:

I miss wisewords. I hope he's really just decided to stay away/close his bf account, and that he's fit and healthy.

never seen again here after that afternoon when he had issues with the Betfair site.

Burel streaking points early today.

so rare to see hardcourt tournaments outside in Europe. But makes perfect sense to play on them at this part of the season.

few months old, but I missed it at the time.
Podcast with Ana Ivanovic.
https://twitter.com/insidetennis99/status/1396166349458710528

The market kinda hates Burel.

TZ bigger odds now than she was a break up in 2nd.

Lausanne trophy pretty nice.

Ed Salmon@fogmount
Yikes. Putintseva, Zidansek, Martincova, Burel, and Voegele all withdraw from Gdynia. Five lucky losers in the main draw, including Jamie Loeb, who lost her 1st-round qualifying match in straight sets to #482 Weronika Falkowska.

Gdynia will be muggy.

Kalinina is still down to play next week for the 4th straight week after W, W, F.

Free points really for someone to take advantage of.

I'm with Edy btw, the grass courts in Newport just look so slow.

Gauff out of Olympics
https://twitter.com/CocoGauff/status/1416834632188796929

#carambatrivia: If Jenson Brooksby wins today, he'll be the 4th male ATP title winner born in the 2000's. Who are the other three?

so Elina is gonna be Elina Monfils now. That's gonna be weird for a while.

Jul 18, 2021 -- 8:53PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

#carambatrivia: If Jenson Brooksby wins today, he'll be the 4th male ATP title winner born in the 2000's. Who are the other three?

jinx trivia