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Report edy June 14, 2023 5:37 PM BST
Given that he seems to rarely burst into hysterical laughter in response to my constant stream of hilarious offerings, that is something that has to be assumed, yes.
Report wisewords June 14, 2023 6:03 PM BST
classic Cornet!
Report wisewords June 14, 2023 6:04 PM BST
odds on Tom Hill being Maria Sakkari's coach when the Aus Open 2024 commences?
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 14, 2023 6:12 PM BST
I laughed about edy declining my super cool pic making fun of Mladenovic, who he clearly hates, saying he likes the one he has which is as bland as twitter profile pics get.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 14, 2023 6:12 PM BST

Jun 14, 2023 -- 12:04PM, wisewords wrote:


odds on Tom Hill being Maria Sakkari's coach when the Aus Open 2024 commences?


1.45

Report SamuelMertensBertens June 14, 2023 6:14 PM BST

Jun 14, 2023 -- 11:37AM, edy wrote:


Given that he seems to rarely burst into hysterical laughter in response to my constant stream of hilarious offerings, that is something that has to be assumed, yes.


you haven't really said anything really funny in a while but about five years ago you averaged 1.5 hilarious comments per year over a four year period.

Report edy June 14, 2023 6:17 PM BST
Germany is full of bored lawyers that specialise on sending silly copyright claims, so on twitter I always choose to take pictures that are public domain.

Also, Fuji-san + sakura + part of an excavator is not bland.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 14, 2023 6:19 PM BST
they would sue over Mladenovic's face/TFL's logo?
Report edy June 14, 2023 6:22 PM BST
Like, the other week there was a story about an AirBnB renter being sued over her photograph wallpaper in one of her rooms that was visible on the pictures she put in the AirBnB offering.

The photographer had allowed the picture to be used for the wallpaper that woman had bought, but not for use on the internet. The woman had no chance.
Report edy June 14, 2023 6:56 PM BST
Thiem is even falling apart against the Travaglias of this world these days.
Report wisewords June 14, 2023 7:57 PM BST
Sad
Report wisewords June 14, 2023 8:02 PM BST
that's a very bad loss for Thiem. things not getting any better for him
Report wisewords June 14, 2023 8:04 PM BST
edy will Natasha & Daria's YouTube channel reach 30,000 subs before 1st Jan 2024? they currently have around 14,000 subs, and the number is rising all the time. what do you think?
Report edy June 14, 2023 8:07 PM BST
No
Report wisewords June 14, 2023 9:06 PM BST
I'm going to guess they will have 25.4k subs by then.
Report wisewords June 14, 2023 9:06 PM BST
remember to bring up this post on New Years Eve
Report edy June 14, 2023 9:12 PM BST
Sorribes Tormo vs. Errani tomorrow Scared
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 12:10 AM BST
Excited
Report edy June 15, 2023 10:01 AM BST
Last time those two played SST broke down from the physical toll.
Report edy June 15, 2023 10:21 AM BST
Heard Mladenovic cried all night and then decided to retire from her rain delayed match against Sapfo without another point played.
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 1:42 PM BST
what went wrong for her to lose her level so badly over the last few years? she doesn't live the life off court? she's only 30
Report edy June 15, 2023 1:51 PM BST
No idea. It is very puzzling how dramatically she lost her level at such a young age still.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 1:57 PM BST
https://www.wfae.org/charlotte-area/2023-06-12/charlotte-approves-65-million-for-new-tennis-complex-west-of-airport
Bye bye Cinci?
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 1:58 PM BST

Jun 15, 2023 -- 7:51AM, edy wrote:


No idea. It is very puzzling how dramatically she lost her level at such a young age still.


the alt coin equivalent of WTA.

Report edy June 15, 2023 2:05 PM BST
Charlotte should theoretically be the better place for a tennis tournament.
Report edy June 15, 2023 2:06 PM BST
I see all the coins had another simultaneous fall this night, with rumours of Binance being behind it.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 2:44 PM BST
I know about the new fall, this time all crypto, hence my seething.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 2:45 PM BST

Jun 15, 2023 -- 8:05AM, edy wrote:


Charlotte should theoretically be the better place for a tennis tournament.


Let's hope so. And hope papa Navarro is in it longterm and not just to be nice to his daughter.

Report edy June 15, 2023 3:07 PM BST
Iga was invited to the graduation ceremony of the Rafa Nadal Academy, where she got to touch and sit next to Rafa.

Carlos rueing his life choices.

https://www.tennisforum.com/threads/the-2023-off-court-pictures-thread-inc-retired-players-%F0%9F%93%B8.1399143/page-288#post-84235414

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Report edy June 15, 2023 3:15 PM BST
Andreescu is 1/15 on break points (7 or so of the unconverted break points being set points)
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 3:21 PM BST
link not working :(
Report edy June 15, 2023 3:32 PM BST
Must be the camera emoji in the title. It gets translated to "%F0%9F%93%B8" in the link, but I feared it wouldn't work for everyone.

https://www.tennisforum.com/forums/general-messages.12/

page 288 of the off court picture thread.
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 4:11 PM BST

Jun 15, 2023 -- 7:51AM, edy wrote:


No idea. It is very puzzling how dramatically she lost her level at such a young age still.


indeed. don't think she's had any terrible injuries, so that leaves not enough training or not living professionally and well off the court

Report wisewords June 15, 2023 4:13 PM BST
first link worked fine for me
Report Angela Rebecchi June 15, 2023 5:05 PM BST
1.1    £11,321.78        £11.04
1.11    £9,143.49        £3,755.87
1.12    £9,107.29        £13,212.16
1.13    £12,309.07        £12,208.77
1.14    £11,262.06        £44,849.89

Stefanos backers
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 5:22 PM BST
the English women are GOATing for Laura in Nottingham
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 5:24 PM BST
who puts a camera in the URL Cry
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 5:39 PM BST
Laugh
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 6:11 PM BST
Sara won the first set 6-1!
Report edy June 15, 2023 6:28 PM BST
Sara struck back and won the second set 6-1!
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 7:03 PM BST
it's locked at 3-3 in the 3rd set!
Report edy June 15, 2023 7:09 PM BST
Sara just a moment ago went ahead for the first time in the final set though after Sara had always gone up a break previously.
Report edy June 15, 2023 7:16 PM BST
I just know SaMeBe is sitting in his chair and cursing at the two of us.
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 7:18 PM BST
he's a huge fan of Sara so he must be super nervous right now
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 7:18 PM BST
it's locked at 4-4 in the 3rd but I think eventually Sara will find a way
Report edy June 15, 2023 7:21 PM BST
Yeah, Sara should just so be able to edge it in the end.
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 7:22 PM BST
We must not count out Sara though. Sara can find a way when she finds her confidence. it's 50/50
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 7:24 PM BST
what an absolute warrior Sara is!!
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 7:26 PM BST
Sara wins! Sara gubbed:

1.1            £10.93
1.13            £1,864.11
1.14            £3,249.75
1.15            £3,283.44
1.16            £4,314.64
Report edy June 15, 2023 7:31 PM BST
SST truly is Errani's pigeon - 6-0 in the H2H now for Errani, and in four of those matches Spanish Sara was favourite.
Report edy June 15, 2023 8:00 PM BST
The last four that is.
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 8:20 PM BST
did the Stef & Paula relationship get exposed as a prank yet?
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 10:11 PM BST

Jun 15, 2023 -- 1:16PM, edy wrote:


I just know SaMeBe is sitting in his chair and cursing at the two of us.


no I'm happy for you that you got someone to do this silly gimmick with unlike that time when you did 20 posts about X Wang all by yourself.

Report edy June 15, 2023 10:20 PM BST
I did it with X. Wang too? Pretty sure you mean when I did it with Choi vs. Choi when everybody else was sleeping during the WTA125 in Seoul at the end of the 2021 season.
Report edy June 15, 2023 10:21 PM BST
It was a very classic match that ended in a TBOTAJ and Choi was saved in the end by Choi starting to cramp.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 15, 2023 10:35 PM BST
oh if you say it was them I'm sure it was. Your love for WTA125 is stronger than you brain is rotten, and I wouldn't know the difference between all these hipster players.
Report wisewords June 15, 2023 11:18 PM BST
I still can't believe Choi won that one
Report edy June 16, 2023 9:34 AM BST
Well, Choi was big prematch favourite at about 1.1, but yeah, Choi caught a big break when her opponent, Choi, started suffering quite severe physical problems on the finishing line.
Report edy June 16, 2023 7:41 PM BST
Qinwen hired Wim.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 17, 2023 12:34 AM BST
Shocked
As a Chinese person, she probably won't mind a little discipline that all the other girls can't put up with. This could be big.
Report edy June 17, 2023 8:10 AM BST
It's Saturday and the W15 Kursumlijska Banja still has not completed the first round.
Report edy June 17, 2023 8:12 AM BST
Palmas del Mar challenger in the meantime is on schedule and Nishikori has quietly made the semifinal in his comeback tournament there.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 17, 2023 10:45 AM BST
Sorry Kei, another person ignored in my opening post.
Hope his body holds up.
Report edy June 17, 2023 10:56 AM BST
Not sure how serious and long-lasting his plans are. Could imagine he is just trying to get into shape for a respectable farewell at the US Open and Tokyo, but hope his body holds and he will be around beyond this second part of the 2023 season.
Report edy June 17, 2023 11:13 AM BST
Looks like Sapfo's gameplan these days is to mostly do a regular overhead serve as her first serve and to do the ducking sidearmed slice serve as her second serve.
Report edy June 17, 2023 11:49 AM BST
Looks like covers in Nothingham and the outside courts at Berlin are not ventilated.

#StaySafeVera
Report edy June 17, 2023 12:39 PM BST
Silvia Ambrosio switched to Italy Shocked
Report edy June 17, 2023 1:48 PM BST
https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/14alidf/this_was_a_graphic_shown_at_the_2003_us_open/

Very sweet graphic of one slam wonders.
Report Angela Rebecchi June 17, 2023 2:20 PM BST
End of the road for Fery, odds on backers probably not feeling too great !
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 17, 2023 4:10 PM BST
Tumaini Carayol @tumcarayol
"I can't believe it. I *still* can't believe it. Maybe it's home umpiring, huh? I don't know." - CORNET, Alize to herself a few games after a questionable call in Nottingham.
Report edy June 17, 2023 4:34 PM BST
She got an unsportsmanlike conduct warning early in the first set, presumably for that or moans connected to that.
Report edy June 17, 2023 4:35 PM BST
Meanwhile Rakhimova can't win a game against someone who lost to Eden Silva twice this grass season. Laugh
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 17, 2023 4:52 PM BST
Jodie Burrage vs Katie Boulter in the final tomorrow. If this doesn't lure n88 to the phorum, I don't know what will.
Report wisewords June 17, 2023 9:59 PM BST
The Burrage is on fire!
Report wisewords June 17, 2023 10:06 PM BST
Laura has had a very good debut as WTA Nottingham TD!
Report edy June 17, 2023 10:46 PM BST
Look who is in the main draw of the Gaiba WTA125, drawn to play Pigossi in the first round!
Report wisewords June 17, 2023 11:10 PM BST
is it Pigato?
Report wisewords June 17, 2023 11:20 PM BST
is that the real Jana Cepelova?????????????
Report edy June 18, 2023 9:06 AM BST
It is the real Jana Cepelova!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report edy June 18, 2023 9:07 AM BST
Set to play her first match since October 2020.
Report edy June 18, 2023 9:08 AM BST
The baby is old and independent now, so she can come back to match play.
Report edy June 18, 2023 4:14 PM BST
Tiebreak of Truth and Justice for the title at the former Top Shelf Open.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 4:42 PM BST
These Stuttgart fans think Struffi is playing a Slam final.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 4:44 PM BST
going absolutely nuts over Struffi saving a MP.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 4:45 PM BST
DJ getting them even more excited by playing music at 6 all.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 4:46 PM BST
but they are very sportsmanlike, no cheering for 1st faults etc.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 4:48 PM BST
big gasp as Struffi makes an error to go MP down again
Report edy June 18, 2023 4:49 PM BST
Vera is winning so the world is still good.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 4:49 PM BST
one lady definitely orgasmed when Struffi almost made a miracle save on MP, but it wasn't meant to be. GSM Tiafoe.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 4:51 PM BST
I'm not a fan of the commentator less streams, but definitely cool when it's great atmosphere like this. Probably good work from the producers as well, with placing microphones.
Report edy June 18, 2023 5:21 PM BST
Producers should have given us a celebratory week with Nishikora man back.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 7:26 PM BST
Dutchies love to clap just as much as Germugs.
And are also super much into their home player today.
Report edy June 18, 2023 8:04 PM BST
Gaibledon must be the only tournament all year, all levels that has no qualification draw. WTA125s never have big Q draws, but I don't remember any that had no qualies whatsoever.
Report edy June 18, 2023 8:06 PM BST
Danilovic sounds just like the kind of grass mug who could lose at Gaibledon as a huge favourite against someone I have never seen play and who has never played a pro match on grass.
Report edy June 18, 2023 8:09 PM BST
Jacqueline Cristian (0/4 on grass) vs. Sinja Kraus (21 y/o, has avoided grass like the plague) - what a dream. Love
Report edy June 18, 2023 8:10 PM BST
Three singles matches in Berlin tomorrow - pffft.
Report edy June 18, 2023 8:13 PM BST
They should get a move on, given that Wednesday and Thursday are meant to have rain. Not much in volume, but over long hours.
Report edy June 18, 2023 10:00 PM BST

Jun 17, 2023 -- 10:52AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:


Jodie Burrage vs Katie Boulter in the final tomorrow. If this doesn't lure n88 to the phorum, I don't know what will.


He got himself a girl, I can feel it. N88 betrayed the age old principle of "Bros before female individuals" and that succubus gave him new priorities away from us.

I coincidentally happen to know that he flirted with swiss Timea at least once....

Report edy June 18, 2023 10:52 PM BST
Nishikori caps his comeback week with the title.

Either get a bit tight or tired in the end though as he initially let go a 5*-2 double break lead in the second set.
Report SamuelMertensBertens June 18, 2023 10:56 PM BST

Jun 18, 2023 -- 4:00PM, edy wrote:


Jun 17, 2023 -- 4:52PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:Jodie Burrage vs Katie Boulter in the final tomorrow. If this doesn't lure n88 to the phorum, I don't know what will.He got himself a girl, I can feel it. N88 betrayed the age old principle of "Bros before female individuals" and that succubus gave him new priorities away from us.I coincidentally happen to know that he flirted with swiss Timea at least once....


Love

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