Tennis Talk 2024: Vol 8 (Dubai, Santiago, Acapulco, San Diego, Austin)

wow !

Not a good idea from Pegula to smash it at her opponent there imo.

Insane winner none the less !

Is Jess past it and will never win another WTA 1000?

or is this just ring rust?

Somewhere in between I would say. But she has always been over rated I feel.

Mar 3, 2024 -- 2:45AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

1.09

Done by my own spacing !

1.09    £3,749.76        £1.51
1.1    £3,672.70        £3,878.63
1.11    £3,319.39        £4,824.57
1.12    £1,956.19        £59,314.18
1.13    £1,822.43        £26,067.41
1.14    £1,904.84        £28,767.77
1.15    £1,859.31        £24,096.35
1.16    £1,859.31        £8,743.50

1.01    £2,859.84        £1,938.16
1.02    £2,708.90        £2,345.45

Pegula

She won 2 more games after these low prices !

Mar 3, 2024 -- 3:39AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Somewhere in between I would say. But she has always been over rated I feel.

the receipts are coming now I see.

Marta vs Katie, what a cool final.

Mar 3, 2024 -- 3:41AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

Mar  3, 2024 --  3:39AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:Somewhere in between I would say. But she has always been over rated I feel.the receipts are coming now I see.

I think I am too old to follow this lingo ! But I guess it is all subjective ultimately because the spectrum of her ability has always been very varied, as with most players amongst pundits

I think she's a bit tired after last season's efforts. Will hopefully be refreshed next season after a lot of earlier losses this season and no WTA Finals.

receipt might be wrestling lingo, I thought it was widespread. Anyway, what I meant was ww said mean things about you and now you said this about his fave.

Mar 3, 2024 -- 3:43AM, edy wrote:

I think she's a bit tired after last season's efforts. Will hopefully be refreshed next season after a lot of earlier losses this season and no WTA Finals.

yeah, but also old. 31!

Mar 3, 2024 -- 3:46AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

receipt might be wrestling lingo, I thought it was widespread. Anyway, what I meant was ww said mean things about you and now you said this about his fave.

as payback aka a receipt.

31 is no age.

Aga was washed at that age.

so was Andy Roddick.

and Maria Sharapova

Paolo Lorenzi entered his prime at that age.

I'm going to be in his bad books but my love for him is unconditional !

I always thought receipts were if you make a claim about what someone said you can ask to see receipts such as screenshots etc as proof !

and Diego Schwartzman

Mar 3, 2024 -- 3:49AM, edy wrote:

Paolo Lorenzi entered his prime at that age.

Italians are a different breed. Flavia aged like fine wine

Flavia wisely used sun protection, unlike Vinci.

Thiem, Murray other examples although injuries likely played a part with the former and for sure with the latter.

turns out it was wrestling lingo
receipt
A term for returning a particularly stiff move back to a wrestler. This is usually done when one wrestler is being legitimately hit by his/her opponent's blows, and the wrestler being hit will send a legitimate move or hit back to the opponent as a wordless reminder to not hit so hard. Can also be used to refer to other aspects of the wrestling presentation, such as going into business for him/herself in a promo.

what a shame, it should be used outside wrestling as well.

Mar 3, 2024 -- 2:14AM, wisewords wrote:

screw you Toadie! screw. you.

this was a rather stiff move.

Famous Italian-Americans from Florida
Celebrities, Actors & Entertainers of Italian Origin from or Residing in Florida

Terry Pegula - owner of NFL team

https://italianmagazine.net/famous-italians-from-florida.php

Jessica Pegula is totally Italien according to this indusputable high quality source.

Other sources also call Terry Pegula an Italian-American.

I see the they are behind the times in Acapulco. Just saw a kid in the crowd doing the Floss dance in 2024

Shades of yesterday this

Fils got very upset with the Santiago court

https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/1b4joqz/arthur_fils_argues_with_the_supervisor_during_his/

then later chose to apologise

https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/1b4w1p5/fils_apologizes_for_his_behavior_towards_the/

.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/1b423ss/here_is_what_rublev_mostly_yelled_at_the_linesman/

Someone's transscription of what Rublev possibly shouted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMK3irnKDhc

Roger Federer took on Little Pineapple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lTAMJ6yYzw

Andre Agassi and Karol Kucera Frustrating Serving Comedy

Can't believe Germany's national treasure would later breed with that guy.

https://www.instagram.com/mackiemacster/p/C36qy5gg9Fa/

Mackenzie McDonald had, or still has, ligma.

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

Zverev calls umpire a f*cking moron

is it gonna be a Cruel Summer for Jessica Pegula's singles career?

Mar 3, 2024 -- 3:39AM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Somewhere in between I would say. But she has always been over rated I feel.

she's just really consistent and relies on the opponent making errors. Jess doesn't have any big weapons and a consistent opponent with weapons can really expose her

Funny head to head between Kayla Day and Alycia Parks. They have played each other three times in the past and each time it was at the same tournament - Bonita Springs. Shame that that streak will be broken today.

Do you guys have audio on the IW streams?

Working fine here bestie

Hoping Hseih pulls off a shock win, she has a career of them !

Weird. I generally have audio 365 on other streams, but not for IW.

Hibino led 4-0 in this set and has barely won a point since.

Kamilla is playing super bad at the moment. Moonballig long etc

Would be classic WTA if she now broke back to stay in the set though.

Mar 3, 2024 -- 7:27PM, edy wrote:

Hibino led 4-0 in this set and has barely won a point since.

Yeah. Been a peculiar breakdown of her game

Physio for Su-Wei Hsieh I think

Hsieh to serve for the match.

how is IW qualies? I skipped the first batch of matches, because even I have limitations.

ah you are all here. Phorum was stuck for me.

Nothing spectacular so far apart from Hsieh looking for the upset.

Mar 3, 2024 -- 8:27PM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

how is IW qualies? I skipped the first batch of matches, because even I have limitations.

I quite like these. Some strange odds often.

Kamilla was backed 1.1x on serve in the final set during SWH phsyio

GSM Hseih !

1.08            £104.20
1.09            £296.91
1.1    £1.30        £785.52
1.11            £2,682.18
1.12            £400.25
1.13            £4,848.81
1.14    £0.29        £5,072.32
1.15            £2,201.13
1.16            £2,449.16
1.17            £881.98
1.18            £5,299.02
1.19            £2,532.37
1.2            £1,720.36
1.21            £60.00
1.22    £0.45        £795.29
1.23            £8.11
1.24            £5,334.04
1.25    £30.96        £12,370.53
1.26            £3,026.71
1.27            £4,877.99
1.28            £3,013.06
1.29    £0.06        £12,351.85
1.3            £12,035.77
1.31            £11,249.45

Seasoned doubles veteran and winner of big titles, Ena Shibahara, led 6-2, 4-0 in her final against young phenom Iva Jovic. Now it's 6-2,4-6.

And I don't think Jovic had even had a break point up to that point.

Alcaraz is not even competitive against old Rafa indoors.

I was so proud of the phorum for ignoring this muggery.

It's Rafa's return. Deserves a mention. And it's a less muggery match than when Federer and Nadal played each other on that half clay, half grass court a bunch of years back, which also got mentions on the forum.

Assume it was pre arranged to go the distance

There were more than four people on the phorum btw.
I am just kidding btw. Talk about what want to talk about :)
It does please me that liquidity for this is poor though.

Mar 3, 2024 -- 9:50PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Assume it was pre arranged to go the distance

For sure. No "how many sets?" markets here.

Sasnovich is having one of her all too common off days here where she can't get the ball into court.

Sasnovich must have tried more than 10 drop shots today, not a single of which made it into the court.

Shibahara comes through in the end after having had trailed by a break in the final set.

Pera drops the 1st

1.02    £206.90        £133.47
1.03    £177.36        £4,523.97
1.04            £9,959.26
1.05            £1,943.62
1.06    £0.19        £3,212.26
1.07    £0.11        £2,157.13
1.08    £0.11        £2,094.31
1.09            £3,843.06
1.1            £4,223.58

This is your 15 minute warning before KT !

Should have known McNeil was the next big thing after she beat Bruu-Syversen in the UTR.

Party in Santiago as Baez fails to serve it out.

Mar 3, 2024 -- 11:45PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

This is your 15 minute warning before KT !

Did you kidnap these two?

No more party in Santiago as Tabilo failed to win his own service game as well.

nice of San Diego to delay the final so Alex could be there on time.
"Instead, de Minaur revealed he was skipping the celebration in order to catch an early flight to San Diego in order to watch his girlfriend Katie Boulter play for her second career WTA title."
https://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/alex-de-minaur-snubs-party-after-acapulco-win-in-great-boyfriend-move/news-story/aa4d4bc0bcab6e498c5e1f0834560415
,

Couldn't they have given us the singles final first (at the scheduled time) and moved doubles later?

Doubles final has all the US Americans that the locals want to see.

Parrizas Diaz just can't win a break point here. She has had so many in basically every return game.

1 of 9 so far.

1 of 10.

1 of 11

Hey SaMeBe, you haven't added my 1.5 points for Carlos winning his third slam today.

Pera (~1.02/1.03) prematch favourite is one point away from losing.

saved

Pera converts her first match point.

Mar 4, 2024 -- 1:17AM, edy wrote:

Hey SaMeBe, you haven't added my 1.5 points for Carlos winning his third slam today.

very good!

Parrizas Diaz tried to lose a 5-1 tiebreak lead after she had already missed out on all those chances in the regular set, but somehow comes through

She did actually lose the 5-1 lead and it became 5-5, but then won a very nervy point from both players to make it 6-5 and then converted on her first set point.

Alex spotted.

Did Alex do the ice bath etc last night if he had a flight this morning? Is he gonna get injured now?

flight at 6 am

Kostyuk desperately needs a therapy boyfriend like Boulter.

is she not married?

I have some interesting Katie Boulter trivia. Do you wanna know?

Sure

Japan!

Mar 4, 2024 -- 2:45AM, SamuelMertensBertens wrote:

is she not married?

Yes, but she's still distressed. Needs a therapy and support boyfriend on top.

In that tournament in Japan where Laura Robson played push-up girl, she then went on to play Katie in the final which was Katie's biggest final to date. And yes she loved to play in Japan in May even back then

Thinks she needs her beloved Ukraine to be not occupied anymore for that.

What a week for Katie and Alex!

Mar 3, 2024 -- 11:45PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

This is your 15 minute warning before KT !

KT Boulta!