Tennis Talk 2022: Vol 35 (San Diego, Cluj-Napoca, Florence, Gijon)

stopping play for the 4th time now.
They show no respect for Iga.
They wouldn't do this with Serena.

They're trying again.

don't mess with The Qinwen!!!

where are you edylein? Qinwen is rocking WTA San Diego!

Qinwen is going to be in the WTA top 3 in the next 18 months

Iga getting bullied by Qinwen!

still winning.
think Zheng will make top 3 eventually (even as a good shot at no 1), but 18 months is too soon.

top 3 18 months, top 1 maybe in 3 years

Iga is very good at dealing with adversity

4 games in a row for Iga since adversity

6 in a row!

if WTA wasn't so muggy I'd say it with greater confidence.

Oct 13, 2022 -- 10:36PM, wisewords wrote:

where are you edylein? Qinwen is rocking WTA San Diego!

edy was watching this
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1580714662319951872

it appears that Dangerous Donna Vekic is back!!!

5 wins in San Diego for donna!

Donna* 6-1 final set against an injured Sabalenka

I'm definitely not getting Naomi Osaka's Bianca-copying childrens' book 'The way champs play'
She needs to be focusing on the dayjob!

So the qualies in Naples today were called off because the courts have.....waves and foot prints in them, eh?

They will supposedly scramble to play qualies at some other venue as they try to get the courts playable for the main draw.

I knew South Italy was poor, but didn't know it was this bad.

They better get the courts in order. Seppi has it penciled in as the second to last tournament of his career.

Mr Lumpy loves to bet on Iga's matches

I'm happy to learn this week that at least some places in California seem to get decent amounts of rain.

shame it had to be this week though.

Players are back.

Shelby with better fashion sense than all of them?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfLiCM4VQAAj-T0?format=jpg&name=small

Only Bouchard (mistakes player party for club and looks quite unflattering on her body) and Contreras Gomez (mistakes player party for prom) are dressed inappropriately imo. Ostapenko's shoes are not good if they are plateau as they look.

Samsonova possibly slightly overdressed, but I think it is still ok. Sloane should have gone with another bag.

Tomljanovic, Krejcikova, Pera and Mattek Sands wore it best from what I've seen.

José Morgado
@josemorgado
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7m
For now, the main draw is postponed to Tuesday.

Court surface from Florence is traveling to Napoli for a last minute change…

regarding Napoli

Oct 16, 2022 -- 12:42AM, edy wrote:

They better get the courts in order. Seppi has it penciled in as the second to last tournament of his career.

https://twitter.com/marioboc17/status/1581711346168569856

That's so disrespectful. I hope the organisers of the upcoming Ortisei challenger in his native south tyrol have some say over their wild cards instead of the Italian Tennis Federation deeming it a waste there as well.

Danielle seething
https://twitter.com/tennis_gifs/status/1581748835117780992

Oct 16, 2022 -- 5:21PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

Shelby with better fashion sense than all of them?https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfLiCM4VQAAj-T0?format=jpg&name=small

Shelby

Danielle is such a feisty dreamboat. great player to have on the WTA

meanwhile Dangerous Donna won 6 matches in San Diego!

Oct 17, 2022 -- 12:45AM, wisewords wrote:

Danielle is such a feisty dreamboat. great player to have on the WTA

Would be even cooler to have her retire and scream relentlessly at the referee and other kids before getting into a brawl with other soccer moms.

https://youtu.be/gQEgr2Ec6Co?t=655

Look what Li Tu and Yibing Wu did last night.

Iga Schwontek!!

Oct 17, 2022 -- 12:48AM, edy wrote:

Oct 17, 2022 -- 12:45AM, wisewords wrote:Danielle is such a feisty dreamboat. great player to have on the WTAWould be even cooler to have her retire and scream relentlessly at the referee and other kids before getting into a brawl with other soccer moms.

did you see what Colleen did today?

Oct 17, 2022 -- 1:43AM, edy wrote:

https://youtu.be/gQEgr2Ec6Co?t=655Look what Li Tu and Yibing Wu did last night.

cool rally!

cost me some wettqoutens with her sulk retirement. Luckily it was only small stakes.

Oct 17, 2022 -- 1:50AM, wisewords wrote:

Oct 17, 2022 -- 12:48AM, edy wrote:Oct 17, 2022 -- 12:45AM, wisewords wrote:Danielle is such a feisty dreamboat. great player to have on the WTAWould be even cooler to have her retire and scream relentlessly at the referee and other kids before getting into a brawl with other soccer moms.did you see what Colleen did today?

Yes, she had some abs trouble or something and chose a weird moment to retire.

the WTA scheduling is really muggy.
WTA 1000 next week, then an entire week of nothing.
Then WTA finals and the day after that the BJK Cup starts.

imagine if Barty hadn't retired and we'd have the big Schwontek/Barty rivalry. instead Barty ran scared

Oct 17, 2022 -- 1:57AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

the WTA scheduling is really muggy.WTA 1000 next week, then an entire week of nothing.Then WTA finals and the day after that the BJK Cup starts.

as a result Iga is not playing the 1000 or BJK Cup finals.
Had they scheduled differently,
like WTA 1000 (Gua)
WTA 500 (SD)
midweek start-Sat finish WTA Finals
Tuesday start BJK Cup
she likely would played everything but San Diego.

Unless she hates the Guadalajara altitude.

Colleen basically didn't move throughout the final set. Hit some big shots still. Expected her to retire early in the set, she didn't....retired later then after having had just won a point. Maybe the pain got sharper. No idea really.

part-timer Naomi is over. is there anyone who can challenge Iga?

Oct 17, 2022 -- 2:03AM, edy wrote:

Colleen basically didn't move throughout the final set. Hit some big shots still. Expected her to retire early in the set, she didn't....retired later then after having had just won a point. Maybe the pain got sharper. No idea really.

sounds like I got what I deserved then. Score looked close, Coco was in every game.

arrogant Zheng. but it will be a while. Coco, but probably not next year. Barty might come back at some point. But 2023 will likely belong to Iga.

edy do you all go loco for Coco in the Twitter group chat?

Grant is the big Colleen fan.

And indeed he was all "Oh look, unbreakable Coco is playing right now" today.

BK seems back and is probably Iga's biggest threat for now.

wonder if Iga dominating everything will make it more likely for the older past successful players to retire sooner?

you're saying RG final next year will be POJD in my face against Iga?

who is old other than Angie?

hard to say with the WTA Illogic Tour but seems a likely final.

It's really impossible to say who'll be in good form 8 months from now.

but BK has been solid since spring of 2021 until now when she's been injury free and not rusty.

people such as Kvitova, Kerber, Azarenka, Halep

yeah maybe. If their goal is to win Slams. If it's just to boost the bank account, they might play on for longer.
Simona + the self proclaimed Mastermind is no more btw.

there's still grass for them!

Simona fully ditched The Mastermind? I know he's working with Rune but I thought it was while Simona was recovering from injury?

Oct 17, 2022 -- 2:04AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

Oct 17, 2022 --  2:03AM, edy wrote:Colleen basically didn't move throughout the final set. Hit some big shots still. Expected her to retire early in the set, she didn't....retired later then after having had just won a point. Maybe the pain got sharper. No idea really. sounds like I got what I deserved then. Score looked close, Coco was in every game.

....she had also taken a medical timeout after the 2nd set and got treatment for something on her torso.

Games were close because Kayla Day is Kayla Day and Colleen has some big time power to just hit and hope when she can't move or doesn't feel like moving.

Oct 17, 2022 -- 2:14AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

there's still grass for them!

was just thinking about Wimbledon!

2018 Kerber def. Serena
2019 Simona def. Serena
2020 no tournament
2021 Barty def. Ka Plis
2022 Rybakina def. Ons

could have hit and hoped for a few more games!

playing grass court tennis is a totally different sport nearly

don't say this with edy around.

wow edy said Colleen has some big time power!

Serena might come out of retirement to play Wimbledon?

Serena is already pregnant with her second child. There is no coming back from her in singles no no no no no way.

Oh, seems like people only thought Serena was pregnant because she was fat.

No official announcement as far as I can see.

"While @Simona--Halep takes time to recover, she encouraged me to seek a new collaboration," Mouratoglou wrote.
this seems fishy. Like Simona couldn't afford to pay him while she recovers or Patrick would go broke if he didn't take on another player.
Either Simona retirement or Patrick firing imo, the latter being more likely.

it's cool that dangerous deadly Donna got to the final this week. she's been doing WTA Tour since she was 16. deserves to achieve something big, hopefully will in the next few years

Must have noticed how poorly Brady is doing and cancelled whatever plans she had of possibly coming back.

"Patrick, I like you, but I'm not clinging to you" imo.

Oct 17, 2022 -- 2:21AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

Must have noticed how poorly Brady is doing and cancelled whatever plans she had of possibly coming back.

Both marriages recently went poof too....

I always thought Simona liked Cahill and she found it really difficult that was married with kids

or Patrick: "Now that we're having intercourse regularly I don't want to make the same mistake I did with Serena so I'm stepping down as coach. There was no pre-nup with the billionaire boyfriend, right?".

Oct 17, 2022 -- 2:22AM, edy wrote:

Oct 17, 2022 --  2:21AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:Must have noticed how poorly Brady is doing and cancelled whatever plans she had of possibly coming back.Both marriages recently went poof too....

Both?

The marriages of Tom Brady and Simona Halep.

Cahill coaching Sinner is a big loss for the WTA.

Mouratoglou on Halep – “The more you know her, the more you love her”

I think Patrick deliberately posted pictures of himself and his wife and kid(s) on holiday when the Halep divorce made the media and rumours about them started swirling.

He did do that edy

Oct 17, 2022 -- 2:07AM, edy wrote:

And indeed he was all "Oh look, unbreakable Coco is playing right now" today.

classic Cooper

https://www.instagram.com/p/CjkVdm6sQpQ/

Flag material btw.! Will only need to wait like 10 years for him to appear at the pros.

Mouratoglou has also been hyping up another six year old in multiple videos, but I don't think he's given the name of him.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjpr3vauiwb/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CjST8Gypydx/

Second kid is gonna make it big. Has chosen a fantastic role model.

does Patrick coach Lindy?

(Noskova) also edy can you point me in the direction for the weekly schedules for the female UTR events?

I don't think Noskova is with Mouratoglou's academy. Think she actually was completely brought up within the Czech system. The Fruhvirtova's are with Mouratoglou.

An overview of what UTR tournaments happen in what week can be found at

https://www.universaltennis.com/ptt-tournaments

Make sure to change the "Open Registration" filter to "Event Status (All)". You can get details like draws, standings and stuff when you click view, but you'll need to make an account to view that information.

Li Tu, who won the Seoul challenger this week, rekindled his career through Aussie UTR btw. after he had struggled to break through with the pros initially and had worked as a coach for years.

Iga Świątek
@iga_swiatek
This is the best prize/trophy ever! Thank you San Diego for an amazing (cloudy) week and this unique vibe. I love it here.
And congrats @DonnaVekic for your amazing run! And sorry for waving my hands at the net.

At least she's aware that this is unsportsmanlike! I wonder if she'll stop doing this.

When Iga waves it's unsportsmanlike, but when Jack Sock protrudes his butt cheeks at the net it' seems to be funny. Never understood that. Both ok imo.

Butts are more funny.

thanks for the info edy!

this website seems to have minimal info edy. when is the next US based women's UTR event scheduled? there was one last week with the likes of Sasano, Brady and some others.