Tennis Talk 2021: Vol 21 (Palermo, Gdynia, Umag, Gstaad, Los Cabos)

first!

hello

Betfair took away Olyanovskaya's first name

Also, lots of players I've never heard of playing this week.

Baszak, who I have never heard of, must be real good. 4-1 up in 1st set and 365's odds on set 1 are 4/6 Baszak and Sasnovich 11/10, not sure I can ever remember such big odds to win a set while up 4-1.

4/5 as soon as Sasnovich goes 15-0, good stuff.

Also Kalinina withdrew now :(

Easy for Baszak.

Baszak has been starting underdog to hold every service game and has held 5/6 times.

Anshba is the biggest moonballer ever.

No wonder her matches norm take 4 and a half hours.

what a main event in Mexico. Gomez vs Mejia!

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Lol Ruse was drifting pre-off, but she has received a walkover.

Seemed real late withdrawal too.

Not a good start for Edy's Queenwen

owned by funky bounce on mp.

Shapo not happy there

Should be in Tokyo.

Market got rightly spanked there by a mis firing DS.

Where do we get streaming for the tennis at the Olympics?

https://twitter.com/Dimonator/status/1418406025053487106

what a potty mouth Steve Johnson

just the 69 min set followed by a 91 min one in Gdynia. Decider coming up next.

so easy for Korpatsch tomorrow.

it is 6-6 in 1st set in Heather Watson's match and total turnover so far is 3,000 euros. Even Aussie season graveyeard shift doesn't have such bad liquidity

I knew there would be some muggery with this Olympics stuff and seems as expected.

Well Aussie graveyard shift has a proper scoreboard, and a stream, so there's that.

yeah, I can't believe I got all excited over this.
Latter stages should be better and at least we have lots of other tennis going on.

All downhill for Musetti after going 2 nil up on Djoko in Paris.

they put Sakkari vs Kontaveit on an outside court

I see Korpatsch shortened. Was around evens earlier, now 1.75-1.8
Kucova played 3 hrs 55 min yesterday.

What a mug Joao Menezes

Jul 24, 2021 -- 4:46AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

yeah, I can't believe I got all excited over this.Latter stages should be better and at least we have lots of other tennis going on.

Yer I am surprised. I knew it would be like this, it always is.

Lol at Mugrin. Joao Menezes served for the match, lost 9 straight games to go down 5-0 in 3rd and now it's back on serve in 3rd .

WTA stuff

And Menezes served for the match again and got broken .

Musetti got r@ped in straight sets, served like a #200 WTA player or even worse
Pegula got humiliated to Bencic in straight sets which is the joke of the century
Cilic almost lost to #217 noname player on his best surface from 5-1 (40-0) whilst had 8 match points + 3 in tie break

Choke mountains on the first day, can`t wait for the rest. Don`t understand what is the point to risk your entire team and yourself, go under very strict rules in Tokyo and perform like a b*tch on the first day(sorry for my language), you either go for the Olympics and perform like a real animal or you don`t go,period

OMG Camila Giorgi being social AND smiling!
https://twitter.com/FiorinoLuca/status/1418845164051865608

Easy win for Kucova today. So classic.

Jul 24, 2021 -- 12:09PM, Traderx90 wrote:

Musetti got r@ped in straight sets, served like a #200 WTA player or even worsePegula got humiliated to Bencic in straight sets which is the joke of the centuryCilic almost lost to #217 noname player on his best surface from 5-1 (40-0) whilst had 8 match points + 3 in tie breakChoke mountains on the first day, can`t wait for the rest. Don`t understand what is the point to risk your entire team and yourself, go under very strict rules in Tokyo and perform like a b*tch on the first day(sorry for my language), you either go for the Olympics and perform like a real animal or you don`t go,period

Why is Pegula losing to Bencic the joke of the century, very easy to argue Bencic is a much better player.

Ruse vs Dodin is pretty bad. Don't know how Ruse is 5-5, on one hand she has been terrible, on the other hand Dodin is averaging like 2 double faults a game.

Ruse was missing so many returns on break point at one point.

It's basically either Dodin double fault, or Ruse misses a return.

Ruse selling goods?

Umpire not falling for Ruse's tricks.

Worst fangirling since Pigato in Parma:
https://twitter.com/ESPNtenis/status/1418933995639824393

Ruse saying she thought she was gonna retire today.

Will Alcaraz win 14 French Open's?

He will win 3, then his arm will fall off.

Murray OUT. (Just singles confirmed for now, so could give doubles a try)

will stay in doubles.

Barty

1.12            £653
1.13            £600
1.14            £239
1.15            £12,987
1.16    £163        £863
1.17            £14,027
1.18            £1,880
1.19            £6,620
1.2    £11        £9,545
1.21            £537
1.22    £39        £107
1.23            £3,816

Ostapenko cooked.

1.04    £1        £586
1.05            £42
1.06            £316
1.07    £0        £1,411
1.08            £11,183
1.09            £4,973
1.1            £5,521
1.11            £2,190
1.12            £1,562
1.13            £1,763
1.14            £3,933
1.15            £4,985
1.16            £9,388
1.17            £4,245
1.18            £4,265
1.19            £7,126
1.2            £8,181
1.21    £2        £2,738
1.22            £3,794
1.23            £8,998
1.24    £2        £6,176
1.25    £2        £4,643

Mrs Monfils into a decider.

1.1    £25        £1,256
1.11            £386
1.12            £1,975

FAA set and break down against the monster Purcell.

1.24    £6        £1,205
1.25            £1,471
1.26            £2,152
1.27    £387        £678
1.28            £1,458
1.29            £297
1.3            £787
1.31            £2,026
1.32            £1,660
1.33            £1,188
1.34    £428        £4,111

Purcell broken as FAA ups his game slightly.

Big delay in the Svitolina match.

1.05            £31,191

Taken on some of this lump on Alja. She should win easy of course but that is too short.

Jul 25, 2021 -- 8:06AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

1.1

GSM Max.

Vintage Felix

what a horror show.

Jul 25, 2021 -- 8:18AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Big delay in the Svitolina match.

I'm not sure scoreboards even announce MTO's for the Olympics, so whenever there's a long break you have no idea what's going on.

2.7 FAA backer at 4-2 down in the 2nd set TB not had much change for their buck.

Jul 25, 2021 -- 8:47AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

Jul 25, 2021 --  7:18AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:Big delay in the Svitolina match.I'm not sure scoreboards even announce MTO's for the Olympics, so whenever there's a long break you have no idea what's going on.

Yeah. It's brutal. Couldn't tell if it was an MTO for Laura or not. Market was moving marginally in for Elina during the break, but that often happens with the big fav going into the decider anyways.

Kukushkin went from low 1.30's to low 1.50's after 1st set ended and 2nd set started. Long break. Still no idea what that delay was for, but he won in 2.

Garcia vs Vekic having a big delay now. Just restarted.

Bit weird in this day and age we have no streams for it. I mean it's only the Olympics in one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.

heat rule in effect between sets? before 3rd? Not sure what ITF's rule is, but if there is such a rule it should be in effect on a day like this.

Yeah. That is what I was thinking.

At least liquidity picked up on day 2. Not as good as normal tour stuff, but miles better than first hours yesterday which were dreadful.

Yeah. It was alarming in the extreme yesterday. Definitely a welcome improvement. Just wish we had decent streams for it. Wouldn't be the biggest shock to see Stefanos struggle here either. Lots of strange results pinging around.

1.01    £5,503        £6,182
1.02    £4,279        £6,096
1.03    £2,193        £3,930
1.04    £952        £1,970
1.05    £1,135        £13,332
1.06    £29        £7,608
1.07            £3,461
1.08            £16,580

Mrs Elina Monfils 1.01 out to 1.6 then holds to GSM!

Stefanos fully motivated here for Greece.

1 set all! We have parity!

Jul 25, 2021 -- 8:58AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Yeah. It was alarming in the extreme yesterday. Definitely a welcome improvement. Just wish we had decent streams for it. Wouldn't be the biggest shock to see Stefanos struggle here either. Lots of strange results pinging around.

1.14 out to 3.0!

1.27            £38
1.28    £1        £520
1.29            £179
1.31    £1        £12
1.32            £382
1.33            £374
1.34            £1,312
1.35    £1        £1,356
1.36            £3,360
1.37    £7        £4,247
1.38            £2,700
1.39            £4,191
1.4    £8        £4,289
1.41    £1        £2,390

Kei delivers as he knocks out Rublev!

this is so hot!
https://twitter.com/tennis_gifs/status/1419257038576758785

something wrong with Ruse again.

let's see if Danielle does a drama.

Struggling to breathe seemingly.

Cornet taught her all she knows.