Tennis Talk 2023: Vol 13 (Stuttgart, Barcelona, Munich, Banja Luka)

Nadal looks finished from what I've been reading, going the same way as Fed and Muzz, career ended by injury, last match was losing to McDonald, sad way to go out.

With stubborn/competitive players like that, injury is the only way they will go out.

some German humor going on while CaGa is getting an off court MTO.

let's go Potapove

Potapove Potapove!

PONR for Djoko or will he continue to do his muggery?

Market not buying this MTO from Lajo. But odd timing to do a TMTO, serving to stay in the set.

Djoko so passive today.

time for him to do some heroics again, already saved a break from 0-40 down.

that was anything but heroics. Losing the TB from 6-3 including a Djokosmash at 6 all. Guess he doesn't care that much about his fans in Banja Luka.

Primarily went to Bosnia to visit the mountains that some guru told him are pyramids.

Apr 20, 2023 -- 3:15PM, wisewords wrote:

expecting Potapove to give fragile Caro a Stuggart lesson too

don't mess

Apr 20, 2023 -- 3:05PM, wisewords wrote:

Ons gonna own Bea tomorrow now

with my authoritah

edy do you think we'll get a Natasha Zabiiako vlog from Stuttgart or they'll combine it with Madrid after DK's massive fail this week?

There will surely be one. The vlogs tend to be uploaded on Saturday mornings I think, so we might see it reasonably soon.

cool. thanks for the Saturday morning info. she's got about 7,000 subscribers at the moment. will be cool to see how many she has by the end of 2023 if she stays consistent with the vlogs throughout seasons clay, grass, US swing, asian swing, tour finals etc

Iga Schwontek... too good!

if Kasatkina wins USO, 4 MIL

if Kasatkina won USO, maybe she could get to 100,000 subs

Novak as 61,400 subs on his channel currently

If Kasatkina wins the USO, Netflix will pay Zabiiako lots of money for all the material and exclusive rights.

US Open Beergirl has 115k

Didn't know that Novak had a YouTube channel. Does he talk about pyramids a lot?

What's the channel of US Open Beergirl? I need to know for research.

Kasatkina won't win USO. she can't play tennis very well on hard courts

Novak hasn't posted on it for like 9 years

her name is Meg Lucky.

do any other WTA players have their own channel?

Apr 21, 2023 -- 2:33PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

her name is Meg Lucky.

Yeah, I had found out as much already before making the post and I also found a blone that I thought might be her, but that channel has 161 subscribers (no k)

the Vimbledon has a successful channel. it has 1,480,000 subs

compared to WTA with 385,000 subs

Oh, were you talking about her Instagram? 'Cuz that Meg Lucky with the 161 subscribers on YouTube even has a video talking about how she's US Open beer girl.

yeah, insta. even more famous on YT then.

edy any other WTA players that you know of with a channel?

woah Stuttgart commentator just said Iga (?) shines bright like a diamond.

Apr 21, 2023 -- 2:38PM, wisewords wrote:

edy any other WTA players that you know of with a channel?

no

Apr 21, 2023 -- 2:38PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

yeah, insta. even more famous on YT then.

161 is less than 115.000.

that's copyright infringement. they'll be hearing from my lawyers

oh only 161. I have way more than 161 followers on my YT

I don't.

you got over 5,000?

my actual YT channel, not the gimmick one with feet.

Apr 21, 2023 -- 2:40PM, wisewords wrote:

you got over 5,000?

no

great day of WTA action. thanks Potapove, Ons and Iga Schwontek

Potapove will be top 5 in her career. nailed on

Aryna against Potapove and Iga against Ons. peak WTA power tomorrow

sad times. 714 times more people just want to look at pics of beer girl rather than hearing her talk.

is Potapove in your fave top 20 yet caramba?

not a big fan of Putinpova no. Great player though.

thought you might say that

and market slowly realizing. Big big odds to beat Coco Gauff twice.

edy have you seen Potapove in any of the Zabiiako vlogs? I can't remember seeing her. of the Russian/Kazakh women I've seen Kasatkina, Anya Kalinskaya, Pavs, Rybakina, Putintseva, Alexandrova

she had some really close ones against Jess. made her really realise how good she is

made me* realise how good she is

she was big underdog against Kostyuk in IW I think it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aK6JnyFmk

ALL THE LEAVES ARE BROWN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7_bMdYfSws

WE KEEP IT ROCKIN'

Mirra Andreeva - Celine Naef rematch today. Last week, these two youngsters met in the final of the W60 Chiasso. Naef dominated much of it, served for the match, had three match points, was visibly irritated in that game (she is very......hotheaded in general on court, Almost Erika Andreeva level), kept shouting and moaning and being distressed.....and suffered a monumental meltdown after the third missed match point (a somewhat routine attacking shot) that she never recovered from.

You know what's tragic about the WTA website? If you go to a tournament's page it links you to their social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), but at least as far as I can find there is no link whatsoever to the actual tournament website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-2jhzsSCeI

New Kasatkina/Zabiiako vlog

Swiatek vs Ons going to be a real block buster potentially !

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Madrid update:
OUT: Djokovic, Nakashima
IN: Mmoh, Fognini
Next: Zhang

Putinpova getting owned today.

https://twitter.com/bcnopenbs/status/1649130581760831494
cool content based on one of the all-time tennis memes

Apr 22, 2023 -- 7:08AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Swiatek vs Ons going to be a real block buster potentially !

nice jinx!

Bea's voodoo didn't work in time!

Also, karma for Ons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOC8Ygg-JNc&ab_channel=WTAFansShow

Shame for Ons. I was going to put her in the top 10 in the carambarankings after Charleston, but forgot about it.

are they trying to kill Stuttgart? compare this week to the MASTERPIECE that was WTA Charleston 2023

if like edy I'd paid for a ticket for today, I'd be pissed

organisers probs telling the doubles players than we gotta have 7-6 5-7 17-15 now

Ons was defo enjoying that Halloween thing a bit too much

btw, that's her RG in the balance. she's got 4 1/2 weeks to recover from a calf strain. they can be slow to heal. it's not a bad injury if you just let it heal naturally, but lots rush back too early from it

Updated caramba rankings.
1) Iga
2) Sabalenka ↑
3) Rybakina ↓
4) BK
5) Pegula
6) Ons ↑
7) Kvitova
8) Bencic ↑
9) Potapova ↑
10 Garcia ↓

wow Potapove!!

btw, anyone heard anything about Simona? or is that her done? she got Masterminded

very silent

BK not done much in recent weeks, but only losing to Sabalenka so she'll stay in her spot until someone else does something big.

Apr 22, 2023 -- 9:53AM, wisewords wrote:

wow Potapove!!

the disrespect from Betfair to not even have her in the outrights until I pointed it out today.

Roland Garros and the other Slams.

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1 & 2 - The #1 (Iga Swiatek) and #2 (Aryna Sabalenka) will face each other in a WTA final for the first time since the AO 2018 (Halep-Wozniacki) and for the first time on clay since RG 2013 (S. Williams-Sharapova). Luxurious.

hopefully no injuries!

Andy Murray was sacked from his coaching gig by his five year old daughter.

And since it sounds that she is pausing on tennis altogether for a while, he really must have been a horrible coach.

Am kind of jealous of the person that got Mirra Andreeva as a flag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz9OOtcI_Qs&ab_channel=Pongfinity

Otto Virtanen showing off his serving skills against recreational players.

hey edy, are you excited about another two weeks Masters!

always

Serving for your first title three times, including four match points, and still losing must kind of suck for Botic.

doesn't sound much fun tbh

that's his Sunday ru(i)ned

https://twitter.com/popalorena/status/1650128522311094273
classic Sabalenka

https://twitter.com/KaroPL4ever/status/1650129979789791232

edy pretty please could you translate what Sabine and Petko are saying here

Petko: Here is the most mentally challenging moment, or at least for me it would be. The pressure of driving this car off of the ramp in front of all the people in the arena and thousands of others in front of the screens.

Sabeen: The ramp used to be higher, didn't it?

Petko: Yeah, much higher.

Followed by laughter of both about Iga speeding around as she drove down the ramp.

Petko: Heinz Günthardt (the stadium announcer) just said she'd drive off the ramp with max 2 kph and Iga Swiatek paced around like she did through her last season - dominant and a bit fast. I think the German traffic police will have a look before Iga drives this beautiful blue car to Poland. Though I don't know if she'll drive herself, probably not. But she's a reckless (not sure if this is entirely the correct word, but I don't know any better....it's more in good spirits than accusatory) driver, don't you think?

Sabeen: *laughter* That's what it looks like. I think a few people in the Porsche arena held their breath for a moment there.

Petkovic: I know someone else who drives a bit recklessly. You know her very well too. It's our common friend Angelique Kerber. If she's underway on the Autobahn, everybody should be cautious.

woah, unprovoked attack at Kerber there in the end!

Thanks for the translation, edy.

hahaha thanks edy. it was the bit at the end about Kerber that prompted me to seek out a translation. I didn't know whether she was saying Angie was a fast or slow driver. now I know; she's a speedster!

I wonder if there was ever any truth to the rumors that there was some dislike between Angie and Sabine. I always want to believe that Jools, Petko, Angie and Sabine were all best of friends forever. Shame they never won Fed Cup.

out of the 4, who would you say was the least successful tennis player?