Tennis Talk 2025: Vol 33 (Tokyo, Guangzhou, Basel, Vienna)

They have a female interviewer for the Tokyo on court interviews and then a male translator. Weird set-up. Didn't see either on screen so can't tell if the female interviewer is the happy Tokyo lady. She sounded up-beat enough.

I was hoping for some free monies on Nakashima, but Darderi not looking as finnish so I got out. Market still the same as when he started hobbling badly.

Cocciaretto 1.01 to on the ropes to NID !

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Seen more useful runner-up trophies.

Interesting to learn that Sven adviced his players to only try breaking in the last return game before new balls are brought out.

But it's good insight. Sometimes when we see six easy holds in a row, then a break AND an immediate rebreak, it might not be because the player is a choker but indeed because the balls are at the end of their career as professional tennis balls.

Timofeeva switching to Uzbekistan.

Polina does collapses like her sister?

He got served by a lioness defending her cub.

She made a few more good points as well about how the tour is basically flogging players to death with mandatory requirements for masters events and the financial consequences of missing them as well as being banned from a masters event for missing one and reduction in the annual share of profits.

I've said this for years, we often complain about players performance levels, a lot of the time it's pocket talk and we accuse players on tanking, the truth is they're knackered. The current rules are archaic and the ATP needs to focus on quality rather than quantity - but they wont because each tournament is too lucrative for them given what a broadcaster has paid and the sponsors for the event. So top 10/20 players like Rune just need to take the financial hit and focus on being as best prepared as possible for slams, the tour finals and Indian wells the biggest masters. He wont go hungry missing some innocuous masters events like Shanghai or Paris.

Don't know how that former Danish cyclist, who I've never heard of, can even have the gumption to criticise anyone's fitness given he only excelled by his own admission, due to being pumped full of drugs via transfusions for over a decade. Maybe  trying to make himself relevant. But one thing I've learned about Cyclists off of the back of the whole Lance Armstrong this, is just how incredibly arrogant and tone deaf they are, they just have no ability to read the room, their mindset is 'everyone was cheating so I wasn't cheating as it was a level playing field', except the cyclists who werent actually cheating or the the fact you're cheating the sport.

Rune is still a mug though, I don't think he has the mentality to be the best, caves when things get tough.

Stan the Man progresses, boshing a big shortie in 2nd set !

any ideas what bejlek is smoking

The Australians are casually using the grounds of the main tour Brisbane tournament, including the gigantic center court, for an ITF W35/M25 this week.

Medvedev went from having classics with Rafa and Novak to having them with Tien and Moutet, but at least he's still delivering lots of drama and entertainment.

its not hard at all to see why medvedev and zverev have been left behind. far too passive and defensive in contrast to sinner and alcaraz

bps gone. no surprise

No flag battle between Mensik and Fonseca as Mensik has withdrawn.

probably not, but looks like he's on the main tour to stay.