Tennis Talk 2026: Vol 21

pathetic from the pair of them but particularly skatov. break up three times in the second set couldn't hold on to any of those breaks. then serves 6 times in the breaker and only holds twice. deserves to lose now and probably will.

this is hilarious. skatov breaks first in the decider, guess what happened next

and again. gets a break, gets to 5-2 then domingues holds and breaks when skatov serves for the match. absolutely dreadful tennis. worst ive seen in a long while.

had to be another break for skatov to win it. was never going to serve it out. absolute ****show. two dreadful players and a reminder to cherish those at the top of the sport that can actually play the game.

one mug after another in these tinpot tournaments. now merida aguilar cant hold on to a set and a break lead.

gets broken again and into a decider. this has been the day of the choke.

lol. breaks to start the decider and gives it straight back. another mug

so thats merida broken four times in a row including serving for the match. some of these players are absolute jokers

merida breaks again. miracle if he holds onto it

merida gets away with it. now krejcikova is on the rack. set and a break up now back on serve.

and again

one set all. krejcikova another mug who couldnt finish her dinner. set and a break up twice, broken three times in a row to lose the set

nobody covers a mugging with an 'injury' better than babs

all set up now for a classic babs mugging. two breaks up, just needs to hold for 5-1 in the decider. watch it all go wrong.

one break goes back. 4-2 and the collapse is on.

chucking in blowing 15-40 to get the double break back for good measure

absolutely no chance babs holds twice to win this. none.

and she didnt. held and broke for it. a lot of very fortunate chokers today

1.01    £154.04        £329.48
1.02            £5,038.97
1.03            £8,372.97
1.04            £1,530.94
1.05    £142.25        £7,761.95
1.06            £18,525.21
1.07            £24,892.33
1.08            £10,830.99

Tiago Pereira cooked too tobes ! Bueno then hit 1.01 and went back to 6-5 in the TB and looked like we might have a crazy 1.01 TP to 1.01 GB back to 1.01 TP !

Crazy lumps and prices left, managed to clip a lot of them, very slow traders Estoril all week. Get that in these tournaments which is why they're much more lucrative in terms of opportunities than slams.

here comes another one toad. oliynykova. 4-1, 40-15 up with 2 breaks, gives one straight back. 5-2 up with two breaks again, gives one straight back again. mp on return in the next game missed. loses serve again serving for the match. tbf deserves to lose because shes given up over 20 bps in the match and this is against schunk who is dreadful.

serves for the match again at 6-5. youd have to be mental to back her to hold and win.

and of course an easy hold. wta tennis. bat****.

1.02    £3,471.47        £4,793.27
1.03    £2,571.64        £3,014.31
1.04    £3,096.15        £5,632.09
1.05    £1,102.40        £9,833.10
1.06    £845.91        £20,918.22

Bublik, back on serve second set, racket smashed, thrown into the crowd - nice souvenir for someone !

Who would have thought that Badosa would become a cash cow hey tobes ? Banana prices on her recently when a set up, especially the other day, 30 ticks above SP after an early break down in the 2nd !

nobody wants to back her toad on the off chance she gets yet another injury.

1.4 Sherif LAY

Rublev with a horror miss BP down

rublev with a horror performance. not for the first time.

Barbs market ruthlessly punished

1.01    £7,729.55        £1,769.47
1.02    £4,078.33        £6,916.42
1.03    £3,678.35        £41,062.10
1.04    £3,550.35        £10,273.33

Luciano pulled back to 1-1

tobes you would have loved that

LD goes back into 1.08 final set, then odds against, then back to 1.08 in the TB and goes on to lose.

incredible toad just how many players manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

incredible toad just how many players manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

and on to the next one toad. zvadja about to blow a set and 3-0 with two breaks against hewitt jnr

thar she blows. zvadja loses the second set breaker after blowing the double break lead, goes 2-0 in the decider then retires. epic stuff.

so lets get this straight. zvadja retires yesterday but is able to play in the main draw today. thats a dreadful look for the integrity of tennis. tomic pulled a similar trick over at las cabos as well. should not be allowed.

emmerson jones. no words. heading for the collapse log and one of the worst you will ever see.

somehow managed to win but some of the most ridiculous match stats for both players

Demon drifted to 2.0 before the off, bizarre

1.4 Stef early break, LAY !!

what a mug musetti. set and a break lead, multiple bps for set and a double break lead not taken, broken twice in a row from serving for the match and into a third against vukic whos been rotten all season.

and 1.01 on the ropes

Crazy implosing from him but regrouped well this 3rd set, so far !

gonna get away with it toad. kind of doesnt deserve to though.

or perhaps not. broken again serving for it

falls over the line. as muggy as you like that was

Jul 29, 2026 -- 6:59PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

1.4 Stef early break, LAY !!

GSM Demon. Market did a big ooopsie

Janice Tjen vs Anna Kalinskaya an absolute classic

1.02    £330.33        £5.71
1.03    £33.01        £9,635.53
1.04            £483.89
1.05            £126.77
1.06            £6,905.29

Bronzetti

Catherine Mcnally price truly shocking

1.2x Demon backers

Jul 31, 2026 -- 6:43PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Catherine Mcnally price truly shocking

BUSTED !

Jul 31, 2026 -- 8:54PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

1.2x Demon backers

BUSTED !

Trainer Fritz, layed a lot of that 1.5x

Odds against

Fritz and michelsen in a mug off. no idea who wins but both more than capable of losing. Fritz is like tiafoe. loves a loss from a set up.

tb incoming

Seems likely tobes !

tb it is. michelsen fav for me. has nothing to lose. will think he should have lost already

bye bye Fritz. mb up to mb down losing two serves in a row. absolutely useless. fair enough against a good returner but this is michelsen ffs

Jul 31, 2026 -- 11:00PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

Odds against

GSM Fritz

That was a shambles of a match !

not wrong toad. both were useless in the tb

Elina vs Elina, what a match in store

What do you make of this Jodar tobes ?

5 games in
5 breaks of serve

looks flaky to me toad. far too many sets easily lost.

taxi for joint. getting turned over and heading for a straight sets loss by a nobody as a 1.05 fav.

slow hand clap for joint. one of the worst performances you will ever see from a monstrous fav. that has to be the worst match ever played by a player at odds that short. goes a set and 5-2 down, recovers to take it to a decider, goes a break down, then a break up and serving for the match, gets broken to go to a tbotaj, gets to 6-2 in the breaker, misses 4 mps and then finally falls across the line having had to save a mp. and thats against a player ranked 500+ absolutely embarrassing. deserved to lose.

easy for alex the top 10 win merchant

1.7x Stef backers against Fonseca

1.6 Norrie backers before the set is done against ADM, very interesting

Demon turns the screw to take the 1st set. Norries lame mini roars when he wins a few points is a bit embarrassing, only fires Alex up to play harder

ADM looks gassed here.

Looks shattered ADM. 1.01 could be in trouble here:

1.01    £3,520.20        £26,111.55
1.02    £3,233.34        £23,994.06
1.03    £3,006.69        £24,898.09
1.04    £3,006.69        £114,523.19

Demon below SP when completely gassed going into the breaker, who is in charge of these markets?

Going into the deciding set*

Classic match that was. Congrats Cam Norrie !

glad I had to go out right after ADM missed his mp because it forced me to green, definitely wasn't expecting to see he'd lost

How many times does Samsanove bounce the bloody ball before her second serve, what a pain.

Plucky effort from Jan Choinski !

1.9x Iga a break up in the 1st set (1.7x SP)?

Who is laying these way too inflated Iga odds? Is it a time traveler that knows something we do not?

Aug 13, 2026 -- 11:37PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

1.9x Iga a break up in the 1st set (1.7x SP)?

6-2 6-3 Iga

Iga 9/1 for the US Open, great bet.

Have to wait to see the draw before knowing whether it's value tbh

joint is an absolute joke of a player. broken over and over again, blown lead after lead after lead already and now just broken again from 40-15. absolutely useless. how on earth do you squeak past grubor, beat cirstea in straight sets and then serve up this utter tosh.

shes a mental midget thats for sure. no good at all under pressure.

hopeless. broken yet again by korpatsch ffs. won the first set 6-0, break ahead second set and third set and now has to break to stay in it.

gsm korpatsch. joint definitely worth going against whenever in the lead. that was properly grim

will novak ever play another match where there isnt some sort of physical issue. 1.01 no.

the master seller of goods at work. tirante is a dreadful player and isnt winning this match in a month of sundays. novak a set up and on serve, yet the odds only have him a slight favourite. when will people learn.

time for novak to find something else to do. about to lose to tirante who barely beat that well known hardcourt player choinksi in the last round. absolutely no chance he wins another title never mind a slam so why bother carrying on

jeesus. tirante holds easy to win the match. djokovic losing to him on a clay court ok. on a hard court thats an absolutely horrendous result.

Aug 15, 2026 -- 8:56PM, tobiasr wrote:

the master seller of goods at work. tirante is a dreadful player and isnt winning this match in a month of sundays. novak a set up and on serve, yet the odds only have him a slight favourite. when will people learn.

got this completely wrong. the last two points novak lost to get broken so that tirante could serve for it were an absolute joke. both dropshots with the first one missing the court entirely and the second one dumped into the net. absolutely bailed out and if youre going to do that then why turn up at all. all the talk about how he isnt bothered about these matches, im not having it. what sort of prep is that for the us open, might just as well have not played at all. anyone backing him at the us open, even if carlitos isnt playing, needs their brains examining.

That was a crazy match. I like to think Caramba is still out there as the arbs there were unheralded !

And yeah Choinski should have beaten Tirante last round, JC bottled it very pluckily !

denis can **** right off. steaming stinking piles of **** all season long and then decides to pull his finger out against jodar. absolutely standard for him. loses all the time in tinpot matches then when he feels like putting a bit of effort in gets some results. embarrassing attitude.

mertens can take a hike as well. murdered by parry on a hard court from a set up, another embarrassing performance.

best not to win the first set in cincinatti. you will lose if you do. such a load of claptrap about the conditions. as if denis is more able to cope with heat and humidity than jodar is. total nonsense. one is from canada the other from spain. if anything it should be denis melting out there not jodar.

just maybe there is a god. denis gets bagelled from 5-1 in the deciding set and it couldnt have happened to a nicer guy. a gigantic mug who has completely spunked the talent he has in a sea of awful results and this one can be added to the ledger.

Aug 15, 2026 -- 11:47PM, Angela Rebecchi wrote:

That was a crazy match. I like to think Caramba is still out there as the arbs there were unheralded !

I have not watched a minute of tennis since Wimbledon.