Tennis Talk 2023: Vol 30 (Naomi Osaka, San Diego, Davis Cup)

Nicole Gibbs @Gibbsyyyy
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Hahahaha why did no one give me this advice

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Genie Bouchard @geniebouchard
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I was told not to tweet today


Gibbsyyyy must have received a lot of hate for her earlier her tweet. Has deleted and put something nicer up.

Simo broke edy's heart

Thanasi serving for it, broken !

Toad what are your thoughts on Halep's situation and ban?

I trust the authorities ! Simona has an innocent persona but that might belie the fact she willing broke the rules ! How do you see it ?

It's the greatest injustice in sports since Werder's relegation due to the DFL not awarding bonus points for being a great and well-liked team.

I think Simona did as she was told by her team and they messed up and she was busted

edy do you believe Simona is innocent?

No, but it's still an injustice because she is cute.

WOW!!

what about you caramba?

https://www.tennisforum.com/threads/is-patrick-mouratoglou-involved-in-simonas-doping-scandal.1407931/

Thread for you, wisewords.

already read most of it yesterday

/ I started it!!!!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F57poJuXcAA6LRF?format=jpg&name=small
Alize not playing China!

CYHNA !

Oosty is incredible to watch

1.05 and guess what, NOW IN A DECIDER

Trainer DC. Seems in bit of pain !

I hate Trainer DC. Seems in bit of pain!

Oosty in an up and down match, this seems so unlike her right edy !

Trainer to court and also a ravioli please edy spagheddy !

Actually sounds quite like Ostapenko to me.

1.05    £63.69        £3,992.71
1.06            £232.07
1.07    £90.00        £865.11
1.08            £1,461.17
1.09            £3,135.35
1.1            £16,577.56
1.11            £17,921.08
1.12            £16,571.75

Huge rage shout from Jelena !

Remember when Ostapenko was 3-1 up this set?

Huge rage shout from Jelena !

Uh oh.....so 16 straight points it is for SheHulkOsty from here.

Incandescent with rage then holds to love !

Ok, maybe not 16 consecutive points for She Hulk.

A calm and nice handshake from Oosty at the end, now that was a surprise !

Oosty truly is a money making machine recently ! Long may it continue !

Big mis click by someone on Eikeri/Neel - 1.1 !!!

Sloane levels - we have another decider !

Sep 13, 2023 -- 8:37PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Big mis click by someone on Eikeri/Neel - 1.1 !!!

Danilina/Mattek-Sands prevail !

Sep 13, 2023 -- 7:03PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Trainer to court and also a ravioli please edy spagheddy !

Tommy Paul beaten !

1.1x backers burnt ! They mistook him for Novak perhaps !

Pospisil just scratched his shoulder and his price seems high in regards to prematch. Did he take a MTO?

Leo Borg almost favourite at one set all.

Didn't see an MTO. Market looks fair on play (though not on SP).

Oh Leo....

Toadie would you say you're a Kenny Omega man... or perhaps you're more of a Will Ospreay man???

calling Toadie!!!

AP or SK?

Tiafoe got himself a point penalty today when his opponent had match points. It was at 2-6 in the final set tiebreak, so chances for victory were slim at that point, but still....

https://twitter.com/TennisTV/status/1702396594795004118

Video of Tiafoe

some disagreements about the original call on X. Imo it should have been replayed. He had a play on it, no?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6BFunsW8AAHICX?format=jpg&name=small
Genie trying to recruit Ellen Perez to the picklebour tour!

NameDate retiredNationality
Barbora Strycova 08 Sep 2023 CZE

It's very official now.

https://www.itia.tennis/tadp/retired-players-list/

I think the Tiafoe point should have been replayed for benefit of doubt of the call having hindered Tiafoe.

I don't think the call was so late, that one could judge with conviction that it didn't bother the american.

Davis Cup clearly needs VAR like the US Open.

Yaroslava Shredova
27 Jun 2022
KAZ
couldn't even spell her name correctly.

Sep 14, 2023 -- 6:41PM, edy wrote:

NameDate retiredNationalityBarbora Strycova 08 Sep 2023 CZEIt's very official now.https://www.itia.tennis/tadp/retired-players-list/

For anyone else clicking on this link, it's super sad to look at all these names who are no longer playing.

I find "Alan Heughebaert" appearance on that list totally random. Otherwise it's known names, but then there is this guy who seems to have never even played a pro match and wasn't anywhere near being a good junior either.

Emma N or Maria S?

First singles action for Monica Niculescu in almost exactly two years. Nobody must have wanted to travel to Guadalajara for qualies.

Other almost exlusive doubles player like Guarachi, Schuurs and and Melichar-Martinez are also in the Q draw.

Very funky draw that's for sure !

Stevanovic is already back after her bad looking injury at the US Open.

Though wearing a calf bandage.

Collins in trouble here !

Someone's BOT going like awry in Harriet match

Zabiiako & Kasatkina в прямом эфире (Live!) today at 6 pm BST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek67FyI3sVo

Schuurs is really aspiring to qualify here by twice upsetting sub 1.1 favourites here.

https://twitter.com/RelevantTennis/status/1703159430907371746
Holger

The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), which is responsible for testing within the sport, asked for a six-year ban because of what they argued were "aggravating circumstances", believing Halep's doping was "repetitive and sophisticated".

It also believed she must have been using a prohibited substance or prohibited method from March 2022 at the latest.

The ITIA suggested Halep was blood doping in order to boost her performance at Wimbledon and the US Open last year.

The ITIA also asked for her results to be disqualified from 8 March 2022 through to her provisional suspension on 7 October 2022.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/66805953

this article makes Halep sound extremely guilty

The Tribunal didn't agree with ITIA on most of this.
https://twitter.com/yasminstefsyed/status/1702993588315967942

from the BBC article:
"If Halep did use contaminated Keto MCT as she describes, it could not have been the sole source of the Roxadustat detected," the report said.

Halep has "not been able to identify the source of the other Roxadustat".

The report said: "We recognise our conclusions involve a finding of something which in itself appears highly improbable; that around the same time in 2022, Ms Halep ingested Roxadustat from two entirely separate sources [the supplement and somewhere else].

yeah, she'll have some explaining to do on this.

In her statement presented to the independent tribunal, Halep said the Keto MCT supplement had been recommended by her physiotherapist Candice Gohier to help with nasal problems.

edy's bullying caused all this.

Gohier got the supplement on the advice of Frederic Lefebvre, the director of physical preparation at Mouratoglou's academy.
!!!

However, Halep did not disclose the Keto MCT supplement on her Doping Control Form for the urine sample that tested positive on 29 August and she also did not mention it in an interview with the ITIA on 26 October.

At June's hearing, Halep said she had forgotten about it on both occasions.

this is also not a good look

Very clever to prepare a contaminated supplement as your get out of jail card.

....if only someone hadn't botched the calculations and contaminated it far too little.

edy: "this is why I'm drunk, because I drank this Coca Cola and it has alcohol in it! no way did I drink alcohol otherwise!!!"

police: "there's only a 1% ABV in this Coca Cola. you're 5 times over the legal limit for driving Mr. edy. you've got some explaining to do Mr!"

Hey caramba, good to see the new 3 future maiden winners ATP comp. Just a thought that it may be sensible to launch the new WTA at the same time for symmetry? As you have clearly numbered the comp as 'version 2' there's no reason that the version 1 winner can't still get their flowers if Garcia somehow manages to string together 7 matches in a fortnight. Maybe you have a plan for this though.

Has edy started drink driving because of the constant pasta references whenever he appears

Sep 17, 2023 -- 8:19AM, Journeyman wrote:

Hey caramba, good to see the new 3 future maiden winners ATP comp. Just a thought that it may be sensible to launch the new WTA at the same time for symmetry? As you have clearly numbered the comp as 'version 2' there's no reason that the version 1 winner can't still get their flowers if Garcia somehow manages to string together 7 matches in a fortnight. Maybe you have a plan for this though.

You mean when Aga comes back and wins Wimbledon.

Sep 17, 2023 -- 8:22AM, Journeyman wrote:

Has edy started drink driving because of the constant pasta references whenever he appears

bullying can get to ya.

If Woz can make a respectable comaback at 33 and take the eventual US open winner to 3 sets then Radwanska can come back at 34.
Particularly as her game was more about creativity than endurance anyway.

Definitely the best Polish player not to have won Wimbledon (ahem)

You betcha. Wimbledon 2024 is Aga prime time and glory for edy.

good luck edy! you're gonna need it

No luck needed.

you can't trick the law that easily!

Slow start Pliskova !

hi Toad! who you got for WTA Guadalajara outright winnera?

winners*

Ons to go all the way wisey !

Sep 17, 2023 -- 8:19AM, Journeyman wrote:

Hey caramba, good to see the new 3 future maiden winners ATP comp. Just a thought that it may be sensible to launch the new WTA at the same time for symmetry? As you have clearly numbered the comp as 'version 2' there's no reason that the version 1 winner can't still get their flowers if Garcia somehow manages to string together 7 matches in a fortnight. Maybe you have a plan for this though.

I don't have a plan at the moment. I'm still mad at myself for not getting it up before Coco won. But yeah your suggestion is a good idea. I'll think about it some more, but will have it up fairly soon if I decide to go ahead with vol 2 before vol 1 is completed.

Genie off to an electric start !

Classic scenes in the final rubber ! Dan Evans - take a bow !

ATP China this week is Wednesday start this week with final Tuesday next week? Then Astana and Beijing next week has this weird schedule as well and things return to normal with Shanghai the week after that.

is Genie back?

edy why no subtitles for Kasa/Zab live??

Zabiiako hasn't gotten around to it yet.

Maybe software has gotten better and she doesn't need to really do it frame perfect, but timing subtitles can be very tedious in general. I did some of it about 20 years ago. Made me want someone to come around to put me out of my mistery.

Strange shot choice !

Sep 17, 2023 -- 7:51PM, edy wrote:

Zabiiako hasn't gotten around to it yet.

doesn't matter. I ready a summary of what the Russian segments were discussing

Sep 17, 2023 -- 7:55PM, edy wrote:

Maybe software has gotten better and she doesn't need to really do it frame perfect, but timing subtitles can be very tedious in general. I did some of it about 20 years ago. Made me want someone to come around to put me out of my mistery.

edy's mistery is my misery