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Author Topic: Tennis  (Read 106090 times)

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Re: Tennis
« Reply #1400 on: January 28, 2023, 05:06:58 PM »
31 winners 9 aces for Rybakina.

51 winners 17 aces for Sabalenka.

Well played from both. Well earned for Sabalenka who has been a top 10 player for the past 3 years prior to this one. And, she has been a top 15 player the 2 years prior to that.



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Re: Tennis
« Reply #1401 on: January 28, 2023, 09:54:05 PM »
Joker is on a mission to prove that no vaccine doesn’t mean he isn’t top 5 ever (he is).

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Re: Tennis
« Reply #1402 on: January 29, 2023, 03:50:58 AM »
Tsitsipas has to win this 2nd set to have any chance.  He's fighting but he's not getting free points on his serve. 

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« Reply #1403 on: January 29, 2023, 04:35:01 AM »
Disastrous close to the 2nd set for Tsitsipas.  Had a set point and then plenty of chances in the tiebreaker.  Djoker nor really playing close to his top level but Tsitsy did not take advantage. 

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Re: Tennis
« Reply #1404 on: January 29, 2023, 07:29:18 AM »
Barbora Krejcikova snd Katerina Siniakova have now won 24 straight Women's doubles matches at majors.

Together since 2018, 7 slam titles. WTA World Tour Title. Olympic Gold. Fed Cup Title.

 



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Re: Tennis
« Reply #1405 on: January 29, 2023, 07:51:41 AM »
Joker is on a mission to prove that no vaccine doesn’t mean he isn’t top 5 ever (he is).

Does someone believe he's not top 5 ever?

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Re: Tennis
« Reply #1406 on: January 29, 2023, 08:08:40 AM »
Does someone believe he's not top 5 ever?

Djokovic is one of the best Men’s singles players of the past 15 or so years, yes.

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« Reply #1407 on: January 29, 2023, 01:59:55 PM »
Djokovic would be lucky to be in the all-time top 100. Neither he, Nadal nor Federer could have handled Don Budge.

I mean, Budge had to compete in black & white. I'd like to see any of those alleged Big 3 try that!
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« Reply #1408 on: January 29, 2023, 02:16:25 PM »
Djokovic would be lucky to be in the all-time top 100. Neither he, Nadal nor Federer could have handled Don Budge.

I mean, Budge had to compete in black & white. I'd like to see any of those alleged Big 3 try that!

The assumption you are incorrectly making is that it would be 2023 Djokovic vs 1936 Budge. 1936 Djokovic wouldn’t be the same as 2023 Djokovic. There’s nothing wrong with Djokovic’ accomplishments in his era. It isn’t a slight to say he’s one of the best players of his era.

Feel free to start a new thread comparing sports eras. The head to head record will forever be 0-0-0 no matter how hard you try and no matter how many advantages are given to the current modern day player and team.


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Re: Tennis
« Reply #1409 on: January 29, 2023, 02:18:00 PM »
Attaboy.
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« Reply #1410 on: February 05, 2023, 10:54:30 AM »
22 year old native Atlanta Georgian, Alycia Parks, has won her first WTA singles title in impressive fashion. 7-6,7-5 over world number 5 Carolina Garcia, in Lyon, France. 15 aces, 28 winners. Lots of power, poise, placement, touch. Big time. Parks moves into the world top 50 with the title.


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« Reply #1411 on: February 14, 2023, 09:43:11 PM »
After a few impressive wins to qualify, Croatian lefty,Matija Pecotic, ranked 784th in the world, gets his 1st ever ATP tour win at age 33 in Delray Beach. 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 over former world top 10 Jack Sock. Wow.

Former 3 time Ivy League Player of the Year at Princeton.

Pecotic had “minor” stomach surgery in 2016 just before the Australian Open. But he ended up getting a staph infection, and he was bedridden for 8 months. And his tennis path was sidelined.

After years of playing all four slam qualifiers, his tennis career taking a set back, and he went to graduate school at Harvard. He became a volunteer assistant coach there playing six days a week while getting his MBA.

After completing his MBA he gave himself one year to try to make it on the ATP tour. Then came COVID-19 and it shut down his plans again.

Despite working as Director of Capital Markets for Wexford Real Estate Investors, he has still trained regularly before and after work daily, and he also put in regular gym time.

Pecotic was an alternate for the qualifying draw tourney at Delray Beach this week, just to get into the main draw tourney. He did not get in the qualifying tourney. The next day, someone had to pull out of the qualifying tourney and he received the call to play. He then defeats Stefan Kozlov and Tennys Sandgren just to make it into the main draw tourney.

33 years old, World number 784, ATP main draw match winner for the first time.

https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1625668827320025089?s=46&t=zuY862TzO0zSGiz5OfakrQ



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« Reply #1412 on: February 21, 2023, 03:21:42 PM »
After winning the Delray Beach singles title, Taylor Fritz is the first American male in the ATP Top 5 since…………Andy Roddick in 2009.

1995 Americans in the ATP Top 50:

Agassi
Sampras
Chang
Martin
Courier
Wheaton
Krickstein
Washington
Adams
Palmer
Reneberg

(Sebi Korda’s dad was top 40)


2023 Americans in the ATP Top 50:

Fritz
Tiafoe
Paul
Korda
Isner
Cressy
Wolfe
Shelton
Brooksby
Nakashima
McDonald

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« Reply #1413 on: March 06, 2023, 08:18:31 AM »
By some reports Djokovic was denied USA entry to play at Indian Wells.  I'm honestly a huge Rafa fan, I don't want Djoker to surpass him, but it's impossible to deny his greatnes and that he likely will be the GOAT.  I think the guy has paid the price for his vax decision.  In light of where we are now, not to mention the fact that he plays tennis, this looks pretty absurd frankly. 
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« Reply #1414 on: March 06, 2023, 08:32:53 AM »
Kind of ridiculous since the vax requirement is ending in May.
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« Reply #1415 on: March 06, 2023, 08:36:27 AM »
By some reports Djokovic was denied USA entry to play at Indian Wells.  I'm honestly a huge Rafa fan, I don't want Djoker to surpass him, but it's impossible to deny his greatnes and that he likely will be the GOAT.  I think the guy has paid the price for his vax decision.  In light of where we are now, not to mention the fact that he plays tennis, this looks pretty absurd frankly.

Djokovic was invited to play at Indian Wells. Djokovic chose not to get vaccinated. One cannot enter the United States legally without getting vaccinated. Djokovic has known the public health policy for a long time. I do appreciate that Djojovic withdrew before today’s draw. Previously he did not do this elsewhere which caused a lot of needless draw restructuring. Next player up.

In actual tennis:
 
Marta Kotsyuk won the inaugural Austin, TX Open. Donna Vekic won Mexico.

Daniil Medvedev won Dubai, and Alex de Minaur won Mexico.

Belated congrats to UNC Women, and TCU Men for winning the ITA Indoor National Titles.

Indian Wells is going full 2 weeks, 128 draws, as it’s the 5th biggest tennis tourney on tour.

Let me know if you drive the 2.5 hrs from San Diego to Indian Wells and need recs. Weather has been chilly 60’s. But it will warm up to a much better 80’s soon.
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Re: Tennis
« Reply #1416 on: March 06, 2023, 08:51:53 AM »
Kind of ridiculous since the vax requirement is ending in May.

Would rather the thread be about tennis, but unless I missed something, this isn’t the case. The House passed a bill last month to lift the vaccine mandate to enter the U.S. legally. The administration has said it would not support the bill, and, the Senate has not taken up the bill. The “Emergency” part would be over May 11th according to the administration, but that doesn’t include vaccine requirements. One no longer needs a negative COVID-19 test to enter the U.S. But on still needs to be vaccinated.

Djokovic and every other tennis player has known the public health policy. He had a choice. And he made his choice.

A more controversial topic would be the topic of Russians playing Wimbledon.

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« Reply #1417 on: March 06, 2023, 09:07:20 AM »
You are correct. The assumption is that the vaccination status for entry would be lifted, but they have actually come out and said so.
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« Reply #1418 on: March 06, 2023, 09:42:43 AM »
I don't think anything has changed regarding covid entry requirements into the United States for about a year.  If you got the original two shots and didn't get another booster are you denied entry or not? 

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« Reply #1419 on: March 27, 2023, 09:33:52 PM »
26 year old Chris Eubanks, who started out court hopping the Fulton County Public Parks, to World Top 100 next week. Also happens to be an A+ guy.  And this is what it means. Tremendous:

https://twitter.com/tennistv/status/1640538534208770048?s=46&t=2atBpZNkuoEj4M3QnyubAQ

https://twitter.com/tennistv/status/1640541294706716673?s=46&t=2atBpZNkuoEj4M3QnyubAQ

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« Reply #1420 on: March 28, 2023, 01:08:51 AM »
I just picked up the Asics gel resolution 9s and man are they comfy. Highly recommend for those who are players who are at a competitive level but in their 30s.

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« Reply #1421 on: May 18, 2023, 01:14:14 PM »
Rafael Nadal to miss French Open with hip injury, expects 2024 to be last season

https://apnews.com/article/rafael-nadal-french-open-hip-injury-e679d40ed0bb258a4c4ece0228a6143a

For months, Rafael Nadal waited for his body to heal. Waited to be able to push himself around a court at full speed, with full energy, of the sort that has carried him to a record 14 titles at the French Open and a total of 22 at all Grand Slam tournaments.

He finally acknowledged Thursday it wasn’t going to happen in time for Roland Garros, where play begins in 10 days — and, while he’s not exactly sure when he will be fully recovered from a lingering hip injury, Nadal said he expects to return to action at some point and probably wrap up his career in 2024.
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« Reply #1422 on: May 18, 2023, 01:15:28 PM »
Rafael Nadal to miss French Open with hip injury, expects 2024 to be last season

https://apnews.com/article/rafael-nadal-french-open-hip-injury-e679d40ed0bb258a4c4ece0228a6143a

For months, Rafael Nadal waited for his body to heal. Waited to be able to push himself around a court at full speed, with full energy, of the sort that has carried him to a record 14 titles at the French Open and a total of 22 at all Grand Slam tournaments.

He finally acknowledged Thursday it wasn’t going to happen in time for Roland Garros, where play begins in 10 days — and, while he’s not exactly sure when he will be fully recovered from a lingering hip injury, Nadal said he expects to return to action at some point and probably wrap up his career in 2024.


Terrible news. 

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« Reply #1423 on: May 31, 2023, 06:19:38 PM »
What do people think of Djokovic's Kosovo comments?  I have some trouble following Yugo history but wasn't Serbia responsible for the s-show in the 90's with that scumbag Milosevic?

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« Reply #1424 on: May 31, 2023, 08:19:02 PM »
What do people think of Djokovic's Kosovo comments?  I have some trouble following Yugo history but wasn't Serbia responsible for the s-show in the 90's with that scumbag Milosevic?

Yes they were.

I just read a good article on Kosovo from April National Geographic.  It's 90% ethnic Albanian. 

They're was another article earlier this year (I forgot where) about how a lot of Serbian was criminals were walking around free in Serbia and no interest from the government in exposing them.

 

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