Tennis Talk 2021: Vol 26 (Cleveland, Chicago, Winston-Salem)

could be browser related also, on how bad it is?

Potentially, sure.

did you know it's been 531 weeks since a Swede played a singles semifinal on ATP main tour level?

Aug 28, 2021 -- 1:05AM, edy wrote:

Most likely a general issue that happens across all threads.

yup

is Anett going all the way?

That is a long time.

Who'd have thunk Söderling would never play another match after that incredibly dominant run through Bastad where he lost a combined five games against Berdych and Ferrer in SF and F...

Was quite a good season from Söderling outside of Bastad too. Won Brisbane, Rotterdam, Marseille

and then poof! ...gone like that.

Dart cramping big time at GSM.

Could have been huge carnage if that point went the other way.

Harriet Dart rising!

she's going to Flushing Meadows!!!!!

Like a Dart t the bullseye, she gets her ticket to try to be champion!

what a final we could have in store, Harriet 'The Power' Dart against Katie 'Middle of the Pizza' Boults

a battle of the brits! lets hope pizza boults wins and we all raise our pizza huts and pepsi maxes to her whilst granty slides into her DMs!

phil neville and higuain about to take part in the beckham machine in the derby of the lifetimes!

Caroline Dolehide imploded in the decider so far after bagelling in the 2nd!

Aug 28, 2021 -- 1:48AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

phil neville and higuain about to take part in the beckham machine in the derby of the lifetimes!

seething before, kept trying to back another goal in Columbus and they kept scoring

that was vintage MLS!

Toad do you believe in next Rafa?

For sure. He definitely uses the same doctors Rafa did too!

Toad they seem to be having some big night at Charles Town tonight. 13 races and some big names riding

I lose too much on UK racing to even look at the US stuff wisey! Tyron Woodley going to lose to Jake Paul Sat night?

Phil Neville is comical on the sidelines. can't see him lasting very long managing in the MLS

Aug 28, 2021 -- 2:01AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

I lose too much on UK racing to even look at the US stuff wisey! Tyron Woodley going to lose to Jake Paul Sat night?

Sunday night isn't it? going to be a funny fight. Woodley has no idea how to professionally box

Phil Neville is a PE teacher. Amazed Becks chose him

Aug 28, 2021 -- 2:02AM, wisewords wrote:

Aug 28, 2021 --  1:01AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:I lose too much on UK racing to even look at the US stuff wisey! Tyron Woodley going to lose to Jake Paul Sat night?Sunday night isn't it? going to be a funny fight. Woodley has no idea how to professionally box

Yeah. It's going to be a weird spectacle. Plus there is a lot of talk of these people taking a fall an being beaten on purpose to get the pay out and gig in first place.

Inter Miami scored some nice late goals for me recently. still they've not go much hope with Neville in charge

Young Rafa engaged beast mode there.

Aug 28, 2021 -- 2:04AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Aug 28, 2021 --  1:02AM, wisewords wrote:Aug 28, 2021 --

you believe that? I've heard the rumours too. it's no coincidence it's MMA guys he's handpicking. they don't know how to professionally box and he's picking older guys who will struggle to pick it up quickly

yeah, they are picking them very wisely, that's for sure. ben in the last fight looked like an old geezer from the pub who had never thrown in his life, was weird. i knew he was going to be poor but he was awful. wonder if tyron will be any wiser.

MMA striking is totally different to pro boxing. only chance Woodley has got is if he gets lucky

think Jake is obviously very skilled. would have him fav against KSI if they ever had a fight.

Woodley will last a few rounds. Askren had retired and had a hip surgery. he had no hope. it was a perfect pick by the Jake Paul team. I doubt it's Jake picking the opponents, it's people behind the scenes

Yeah. Jake not clever enough for that. Huge money in it for them to keep it going. A Jake vs Conor mega fight not out the question if he sparks Woodley out (he takes a tumble for cash).

Certainly going to be interesting where he goes after Woodley. looks like he has his eyes on Tommy Fury

goals are flowing in the MLS tonight Toad

surely tommy fury would beat him. though who knows. tommy is very limited and jake looks very skilled for an amateur.

Tommy's basically a novice. Would probably be a 50/50

would be a natural step up to fight an actual boxer. think jake will have all eyes on conor though for the monster pay out. tommy a risk for nowhere near as much

quite surreal that theo and weller having a fun boxing match in a gym has turned into the pauls taking on mayweather and mayber conor. from small acorns big trees can grow hey.

that's probably why they've invited Tommy over to fight on the undercard, to have a proper look at him. and see how he deals with mind games etc

yeah that's exactly what i was thinking. tommy would do well to win it but make it look hard.

not sure how good Tommy actually is, and don't know anything about his opponent

wisey, i layed a goal in montreal and orlando, both scored so happy days right? no, both over ruled for offside

next Rafa needs to shape up

wow just saw Anthony Tomlinson got knocked out. he was a 1.1 favourite

Aug 28, 2021 -- 2:27AM, wisewords wrote:

next Rafa needs to shape up

is he on the juice you think?

set YMER!!!

young rafa went completely awol there.

Ymer is young Rafa's kryptonite.

Fun fact. I said hi to Ymer at Wimbledon this year. Seemed a very nice chap. Same as Felix.

Inter Miami! lol

more offside. lame

brutal

thought he was on from the replay too, bad angle i guess

Carlos held 4 times, and since then seems like he is going to be broken each time!

you getting up for city vs arsenal wisey? what your thoughts on it

ymer on fire!

next Rafa getting totally owned

EPL not the easiest to predict, usually you'd expect City to win easy but Arteta is in a bad spot. do they want Arteta to stay as manager? I'll say a 3-1 win for City

Aug 27, 2021 -- 11:46PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

next week not looking great. how many roofs these days? 2?

Yes.

Aug 28, 2021 -- 2:45AM, wisewords wrote:

EPL not the easiest to predict, usually you'd expect City to win easy but Arteta is in a bad spot. do they want Arteta to stay as manager? I'll say a 3-1 win for City

5-0, a total beatdown. Arteta out surely

SaMeBe! Good news! You missed Dallas if I remember correctly. Well, well, well....there will be a women's UTR event in Dallas next week!

Signed up to it are legends of the women's game like Liga Dekmeijere and Marcela Zacarias in addition to the many prodigies. The real UTR highlight is elsewhere next week however. Swedish hope Maja Radenkovic is joined by Elitsa Kostova and future top500 player Darja Semenistaja to lead the way at the UTR in Sofia.

What's with that reaction?

Did you ever post the good news that you had on the same day you gave sadness to the forum by spreading the news about Lorenzi's retirement?

who's the best? ANETT'S THE BEST!

Aug 28, 2021 -- 7:49PM, edy wrote:

Did you ever post the good news that you had on the same day you gave sadness to the forum by spreading the news about Lorenzi's retirement?

yeah

Was it the news that you had found a former forumite on twitter?

Svitolina not in peak shape here.

great first set this, a real battle!

Someone teach Cornet to not take balls out of the air on set point against if the ball is going to land wide.

Aug 28, 2021 -- 9:01PM, edy wrote:

Was it the news that you had found a former forumite on twitter?

NO it was the shirtless pic of Paolo in that same thread.

Cornet with the MTO now.

Aug 28, 2021 -- 9:15PM, edy wrote:

Someone teach Cornet to not take balls out of the air on set point against if the ball is going to land wide.

maybe Swedish Robert would have told her that if she didn't skip lunches with him.

Aug 28, 2021 -- 9:15PM, edy wrote:

Someone teach Cornet to not take balls out of the air on set point against if the ball is going to land wide.

why didn't you?

She forgot.

Aug 28, 2021 -- 9:16PM, edy wrote:

Cornet with the MTO now.

such brutal conditions in Chicago.

The dying swan act.

Feels like there will be many withdrawals/early retirements in New York.

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WTA 250 CHICAGO: Final
Svitolina leads 7-5, 3-0 and Cornet obviously has a right (wrapped) upper leg issue. Picture here shows her exchanging with her boyfriend/coach during change-over - saying in French "it's a final" - indicating she can't or doesn't want to retire.

Wish I knew French. I could have taken bigger risk.

what a cheap trophy they gave to Anett!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E95y9qCWYAY0Jct?format=png&name=small

and Chicago gave Elina a fruit bowl.

Aug 28, 2021 -- 10:22PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

what a cheap trophy they gave to Anett!https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E95y9qCWYAY0Jct?format=png&name=small

Anett deserves better!!! least she didn't have to share this one

Shibahara and Aoyama each got one as well - no sharing.

Jonas Björkman would have won more games today.

and I'm talking about 2021 49 years old Jonas Björkman here.

Mikael's done well this week. Just got a lil nervous today.

Yeah, but winning like two return points in an entire match has to be a bit disappointing.

Dude doing the introductions  before the final at the W25 Braunschweig earlier: "Weather could have been better, but we managed to make the courts somewhat playable"