French Open 2019 - Thread IV

Thiem has lost it completely. Playing so bad.

And Nadal up 3-0 in the third. Thiem really needed to stay with him in the 3rd. I'm not watching, just following the score online. Is Thiem gassed?

If Thiem is going to tank the 3rd set, he really needs to at least make Rafa expend more energy so that Thiem will at least have a shot in winning the 4th and 5th.

R2 he might be. He's trying to pull the trigger quickly and making lots of errors.

Gigi Salmon on Radio Roland Garros has just shattered my eardrum. Otherwise I love their commentary. Courtney Nguyen and Nick McCarvel are a hoot.

I think Thiem can win the French open......when Rafa retires.

Rafa's the man!

Have we ever needed a fourth thread for the French Open before?

Will this go to five sets or will it be four?

oh nice, Rafa's mommy is there! Now he doesn't have to call her 3 times a night.

R9, if Rafa wins this 3rd set and takes an early lead in the 4th, it's over.

Nadal wlil dominate Dominic.

I want Dominic to dominate me.

Hoe many more will Nadal win not including today? 3? 4?

Jesus, I smell another Rafa win. What the hell happened to Thiem in the 3rd being down 5-1 in about 15 mins?

#1 i turn down the sound WHENEVER i her mcenroe and his coattail carillo "ahem" commentating! a player who should have been banned from the sport for his actions who thinks his OPINION is all knowing and not opinion but FACT and a woman who if she wasn't buddy buddy with a great player that mcenroe was, would be lucky to be teaching tennis at some snobby upstate new york tennis club but now she's a "tennis expert/historian" broadcaster... OH YEAH, and the man whose in the commentary booth for NBC, also has no idea what he is talking about stating that novak was going for the same thing that laver did in 62 and 69? uh, no, novak was hoping to hold all 4 majors at the same time, NOT in a grand slam calendar year!.. go back NBC guy to your last minute notes will you otherwise shut up!

#2 here we go again: nadal in trouble decides he JUST HAS TO go to the bathroom after that 2nd set, taking how long 5 to 10 minutes? and coming back on court all refreshed including taking the time to run water thru his hair and combing it! is that how it works? ultimate mr. gamesmanship!

#3 has nadal ever been checked for e.p.o.? i refuse to believe a man who is 33 years old (ancient in tennis terms) with ALL THOSE INJURIES (allegedly) over the years, the grinding way he plays is able to outslug and outlast guys 5, 10, 15 years younger then him on the most grueling enduring surface that being clay!...I CALL B.S.

#4 ya think maybe thiem just might want to return serve differently seeing that he gets what 1 point out of every 14 or so returning serve! light bulb time! it ain't working your returning game!..

I want to dominate Dominic.

yes, I was wondering if Nadal was on PEDs.

Thiem just had a tough 5 setter. Souped up Nadal had easy matches. Still rooting for Thiem.

So far, my prediction is holding true.

HOW is it fair, that for no fault of his own because of the rain and wind, that thiem has to play the semis finishing it off and the very next day play the finals? it's not nadal's fault of course, but it's also not thiem's either! regardless of the fans, it should have been played tomorrow monday and of course all tickets valid...

and while we are at it, HOW RIDICULOUS IS IT that THEE french open (as well as other clay tournaments) DO NOT HAVE HAWKEYE? it's a grand slam tournament! it's the 21st century! and gosh knows the powers that be can afford it! and yet, we are still hoping on the 100% accuracy of linespeople for a mark, the right mark! really? REALLY?

How does Thiem have such a big ass with those skinny legs?

R22 he asked Kim Kardashian where to go? Jk

#22 i wouldn't say his legs are "skinny" i would say athletic looking.. all i know is when can we get a old school return to super short shorts from the 70's! then we could see some major legs skin and see whose really got the great legs!...

gone

broken at the start of 4th set

R22 I think it's anything but sexy. Also how are you guys calling Mladenovic ugly and not Thiem? Have you seen him in the face? Far from pretty

Has anyone started a petition for the only thing that matters i.e. getting Borna to do the ESPN body issue?

#27.... thiem has a boyish face and pretty eyes and mladenovic when made up is quite attractive even bordering on stunning, kind of like petra when she is all glammed up..

I actually find Mladenovic quite pretty, certainly prettier than Thiem. Too many unforced errors from Thiem unfortunately. Please Lord make Tsitsipas win Wimbledon, or Zverev or even Kyrgios.

Please god make Kyrgios quit tennis altogether

Thiem may be OK looking if he pins his ears back.

I'm watching on NBC and I don't understand the point system in tennis, but my God, Nadal has some beautiful legs.

R29 I mean, I think Borna is just straight up the most handsome guy on the tour. Possibly the hottest tennis player the ATP has seen. Ruud, Berrettini, Fucsovics, Pouille are pretty cute. I just can't seem to find anything attractive about Thiem. Maybe that's just me.

Wasn't it Moya's ex=girlfriend (also a tennis player) who said she broke up with him because all he liked to do is play video games and masturbate all day long?

Thiem is delicious. I’ll happily comfort him after his loss.

I've gotten to the point where I even like Dominic's ears. And he doesn't have skinny legs by any stretch.

Compare and contrast Domi's and Rafa's asses please.

He really is beautiful, R34! And I do love how he seems very comfortable with himself and he has a great sense of humour!

Nadal running away with it in the 4th. My nightmare is coming true. It looks inevitable that Nadal will win his 12th French Open. Please tennis gods, be merciful and make this his last.

I hate Nadal and always have, but hats off to the guy. He's one of the fiercest fighters on the court I've ever seen. He shows up and gets the job done.

R35 he was also cheating in him other than masturbate and playing computer games.

I was going to say that Thiem is doing the tennis equivalent of presenting hole right now, but that was a good comeback from 0-40.

i would add krachanov and andujar as the best looking guys on the tour, along with a few others if i think of it....isn't there that new dark haired guy caren whose been playing well whose good looking too?

r20, credit where credit is due, yes you did. I wasn't sure if he had the spurt in it to pull it off, but as I said on the other thread, he was burning way too much energy, even over cheering every point he won and over dramatizing every point he lost.

r21, having hawkeye, we've already seen, would've cost Thiem. Two of his "winning" serves were out in the first two sets.

He's down a break. If he pulls this out, props to him, but Rafa smells blood.

What is all that jewelry on Thiem's left hand? Too many gifts from Rolex?

I "love" how Rolex has anointed Thiem the next big thing "for years to come" as if he's the chosen successor to Federer.

Thiem has almost no thighs and zero calf definition. He has little boy legs under that huge ass

[quote]I would add krachanov and andujar as the best looking guys on the tour...isn't there that new dark haired guy caren whose been playing well whose good looking too

Karen = Khachanov

His arms as well, r46. They're not as bad as Berdych's gumby legs, but he needs to work them.

Two breaks down. He's spent.

I wonder what the party with the GF will be like. She has a slam trophy, not him.

Next year Thiem, always next year. Jk Nadal will win it till he's 40.

Nadal has a beautiful body, too bad he is messed up mentally with the OCD and he has to call his mommy 3 times a night, to remind her about something.

R39 if you're talking about Coric I absolutely agree. He also seems very friendly and open with his fans online, even his gay fans. R43 I'm not the biggest fan of his face but he surely has a great body. I would also say Verdasco, Berdych and a rather unknown french guy, Jonathan Eysseric.

Men's tennis is DEAD at least on clay until someone can beat Nadal

how fucking boring. Thiem already had the experience of reaching the RG final last year and he didn't seem to learn anything

damn, he's crying.

So over the top. You've won 12 of these. Its impressive but chill out.

12 French Opens. Wow. Glad I stayed home to watch this match.

R53 at least he took a set?

nooooo!

I beat white boy. Again.

R58 ART

wait I turned it off.

Nadal is fucking crying?

I don't think he's crying. He's sweating buckets. And the stupid camera cut away with him leaving the court shirtless.

Nadal want's ever to know that his butt > then Thiem's butt.

Kiki's teeth are disgusting. Her face is so hard and she's a bitch.

Nadal was emotional for a few seconds. He definitely shed some happy tears, he had his shirt covering his face. face was red when shirt removed from face.

Now he's back after going to locker room to change his top.

Ok, Xicsa was there with her wife.

Nadal often annoys me, but that ass.

Time to change the topic again, haha. Does anyone sense the Borna-Novak chemistry or is it just my wishful thinking? Here are some examples I found

I'm happy for Rafa, he's a very nice guy. Not asshole like many top players of the past.

how anyone can say men's tennis is in a great state now is beyond comprehension. You have 30-somethings dominating the slams. NO ONE can break through. I'm sure Djokovic will magically find his way again at Wimbledon or Federer will be up for another win (since he surprised in Miami).

I mean ATP slams are beyond boring at this point. It's not going to look good if no one new can win a slam until the big 3 are retired.

and I don't want them to be injured or retired. I want the younger guys to start beating them. This is pathetic

Thiem is just not there mentally. no confidence. gives up too easily.

Rafa knows French?

This was the Best Ass final I've ever seen in my life. It's really a shame that it didn't rain today in order to give Theim a day off. He's easy to get behind!

on to the grass. All the main draws are out. Surprisingly there are more ATP top 20 names playing than WTA this first week

It's more than just a physical game. You have to be tough mentally, in all sports! You have to believe! None of the young players have it. Just look at that wack job from Aus.

[quote] Nadal want's ever to know that his butt > then Thiem's butt.

How did he do that?

Lucky Johnny Mac saw Nadal naked in the locker room during US Open last year!

[quote] nooooo!

Rain right?

Nadal wins!!!!!

Nadal: How can anyone so hot be so unsexy? Is it me? It's like all the parts are there but together it doesn't work. Maybe it's just the OCD and the knowledge of what it would take to get this guy off. If he has 30 things he has to do before hitting a serve there must be 500 things he has to do to have sex.

R67, that's nifty.

Mary Carillo just said on NBC that he personally thanks the tournament employees and balls kids after his press conference. He’s beloved at Roland Garros. What a great guy! Love him or hate him but Rafa is a class act!

Rafa is unhateable!

R71 he speaks a weird (bad) mix of French and spanish. Just like he does in Italian

What do you mean, R80?

R67 perhaps the fact that I despise Djokovic and find him phony as hell is clouding my judgement, but no, I don't see that happening in a million years.

Damn, that runner up silverware is just so ugly.

r75, don't be so literal.

DL used to drool over his ass and then Thiem came along and it was who... So by beating Thiem today he's letting you know his ass is the best.

Dat Ass is the champion Ass

Yes, Nadal is one of the nicest guy in sports, he is also extremely nice to fans. His parents must be proud.

Yes, I often thought so R79! I think he probably jerks himself off more than fucking.

No worries, R86, haha! I love both, so maybe that is clouding mine ;)

Totally agree about Andujar. Pobrecito

The jinx did not work on Nadal just on Djokovic.

Is Rafa's gf wearing the black and white dress? I notice this lady is also wearing a Richard mille watch.

Rafa's sister and her wife are wearing matching diamonds, their outfits are as coordinated as always. Awesome speeches by both players.

R34 I nominate Joao Sousa and Denis Kudla.

Popsicle is pretty cute but it would appear that he’s kinda “deplorable”...

Nadal's French is terrible for someone who's won RG TWELVE TIMES. Especially as he speaks Catalan which is basically a mix of Spanish and French. I don't think he's very intelligent. Even Serena speaks better French than he does and she's a complete dunce.

You're right, but he gets credit for trying. No,not so smart, he's as basic as they come which makes him easy to relate to.

R95 Serena is not a dunce at all. Oracene made sure Serena and Venus got a good education when they were growing up.

Dominic seems like a sweet guy.

We might as well keep posting here and not make a new thread for the regular season until this is full

You don't need to converse with him, just use his body!

The big names sells tickets. Nobody is going to pay big bucks to see nobodies. That's why they make sure the favorites go through...

$$$$

r81 / r82 it totally backs up with the ATP insider said a couple of threads ago. Rafa apparently is the nicest of the top 3 and one of the nicest on tour.

Thank god this boring tournament is over.

R101, who else did the poster say is nice?

New ATP Top 10

1.Nole

2. Rafa

3. Roger

4. Domi

5. Sasha

6. Titsy

7. Kei

8 Kevin

9. Karen

10 Fabio

First time top 10 debuts for Karen and Fabio . Note that Fabio is almost 32 years old

r97 Yes, I'm sure they are both very educated.

Prediction: Tsitsipas will be ranked higher than Zverev after Wimbledon.

r97, I remember years ago during a rain delay, they asked all the players "Who was Roland Garros?" and Venus was the only one who knew that he was a war hero. Capriati thinking of Napoleon responded, "Short little dead dude".

R94 who's Popsicle?

Roger with 20 majors. Rafa with 18. Serena with 23. Pretty amazing stuff from all three of them.

Saw a pic on twitter that Rafa took a pic with all the ball boys when he first won the French Open, now these boys are old dudes.

[quote] Capriati thinking of Napoleon responded, "Short little dead dude".

She was probably thinking of an ex-boyfriend she beat to death.

Rafa's first French Open win.

Eurosport France got called out for posting a 'disrespectful' gif on its Twitter

It's disrespectful because Thiem's cartoon ass is far too small to be his real ass.

I didn't watch the final, and I'm glad given the outcome. For those who watched it, what happened in the 3rd and 4th sets? Given the score, I'd say it was probably a combination of Nadal playing well and Thiem making too many errors. TIA for some info from anyone who actually watched the match.

R115 pretty much. Nadal took it to another level and Thiem was pressing to no avail. He made several games close. He also seemed very tired, not surprised since he's played 4 days straight.

But Thiem’s ass was still perky.

About asking if the final could be delayed because of semi-final play the day before: these guys are professional athletes making beaucoup bucks for playing a game; suck it up or change 'careers'.

Is Thiem’s ass all that huge though? Is it as big as Rafa’s now? At Rafa’s peak, his ass was even larger.

Maybe I'm a bit blind but I thought Carlos Moya with the beard looked a lot like a bearded Bradley Cooper.

Moya is so blandly handsome for a Spaniard

yeah the schedule and draw worked out perfectly for Nadal

no excuse for Thiem though. He should be at his physical peak and he's been showing his best form this year. Mentally he's not ready for a slam. I think it's time to look at #NextGen. Thiem will probably win RG at some point when Nadal is like 37

And so we move on......that almost sounds like a special interest DVD: Rafa And The Balls Boys.

au revoir

R90: Andujar just won today against Molleker on a challengers 1000

And no, calatan is not a mix of spanish and french, i understand catalan without a problem but i don't understand a word of french

R113: Thjey will never do that with Federer instead of Thiem and the truth is Rafa owned Federer on clay way more than Thiem

Meanwhile in Poland 37 yr old Tommy Robredo won the Poznan Challenger

R112: That was his most difficult final, he was very nervous and Puerta won the first set

Toh-mee

Rafa’s bulge is underrated. I’m sure Nike is pleased with the wiggle at one end and the flopping at the other. Damn 🍆 & 🍑

If Nadal overtook Gramps in most GS wins(very probable), will he be considered the GOAT?

#131, don't think so since the vast portion of his total is on 1 surface.. as it is right now? 12 out of 18 are at the french, that leaves a ratio of only 6 more between the other 3.. ALSO he nadal has had more bad losses and early exits at the other grand slams as well....

i think the one that everyone needs to worry about that being roger and rafa is novak.. he's younger, healthier, has more even of a grand slam totals then rafa and stands at 15...

R107 That's hilarious.

Poor Kevin Anderson is about to take a BIG tumble out of the top 10 (potentially Isner too) after Wimbledon. Which would leave an opportunity for a top 10 debut for someone like a Medvedev, or beauties Coric and Basilashvili.

[quote]it's not nadal's fault of course, but it's also not thiem's either!

It was Djokovic's fault. Rafa and Roger played through the "hurricane" and got their match done like a couple of professionals. Djokovic and Thiem get out there in the same conditions, Djoko starts grousing about the "hurricane" and demanding that the tournament official come out and all his other blather and then play is stopped. Djoko is just so distasteful. Would have worked in everybody's best interests to just have risen to the occasion and played through like a professional and take what comes, just like Roger and Rafa did.

So so so glad Thiem booted Djokovic out of the tournament.

how long before rafa is "cough cough" hurt again and can't play or because of said "injury" loses early at the grass warm-up tournaments or at wimbledon and doesn't play the summer hard court season! would have MORE respect for him if he just admitted he didn't play these tournaments ON PURPOSE because he wouldn't do well as opposed to i'm ALWAYS INJURED! (and yet, when i come back from "injury" i play like nothing happened and immediately start winning again without a ounce of rustiness or lack of aerobic conditioning!)..

And in a bizarre twist of fate, R134, play went on at the other RG courts, miraculously unscathed by the calamitous hurricane.

R132: I'm not that sure.

First i'm not sure Nadal reach 20 GS. He is a threat at any GS if he reach the final stages but in Wimbledon he is very vulnerable on the first rounds if he face someone with a big serve or a good grass court player. On the US Open he will face way more opposition on the early rounds which means reaching the final rounds with more hours of play. He can win those extra GS but it's not a sure shot.

Of course there's Roland Garros but sooner or later his body will put a stop to his career and every year will be more difficult.

Novak is younger, but above all is healthier, but he is 5 GS behind Federer because he started to win GS later (not the first one but he spent three years between the first and the second), and five GS are a lot of GS (you can be a legend just winning 5 GS). Right now he is the big favourite to win everything but thing could change overnight. There are young players who will be a real threat soon, and i doubt next year will be all about big 3.

Nadal and Djokovic proved to be reliable players so they could do it, but Federer could win Wimbledon and in that case things will be even more difficult

Why is James Blake an announcer? He’s never won a major.

[quote] Why is James Blake an announcer? He’s never won a major.

Because he's good unlike Gimelstob.

Let's not forget that Djokovic was also a Gimelstob backer.

Catalan has a massive French influence. I'm a French speaker and can notice the similarities. I'm not suggesting the two languages are mutually intelligible but (written) Catalan is more intelligible to a French speaker than normal Spanish.

#139 why is chanda rubin a announcer?

TENNIS IS EXTREMELY "CONNECTIONS", "WHO YOU KNOW" AND "NEPOTISM" perhaps more then any other professional sport! tennis channel hired that young amitraj guy who is probably the son or grandson of vijay or another of the 1970s playing amitraj brothers and his "job" is to get paid to travel around the world, attending tennis events and interviewing players on their lives and off court activities! NOW THAT IS A CAREER TO HAVE! AND YET? his qualifications, resume, experience is/are???..

Novak also burns kittens alive and drinks blood from babies!!!!

Vamos, perras!

R142 Apparently he is the son of Vijay!

I loved watching Vijay play, one of my favorite players from the era when I first fell in love with tennis. Such a graceful player. I still get a kick seeing him in Octopussy.

R131, that's an interesting question. If Nadal overtakes Federer, but it's by winning three more French Opens, then his total is far too stacked at one tournament and one particular surface. If he overtakes Federer by winning another Wimbledon, US Open, or Aussie Open in addition to the French, then probably most would consider him GOAT. However, Federer also has more impressive runs to later rounds of Grand Slams. He's got the most consecutive semis, most consecutive QFs, etc. Federer also has more consecutive weeks at #1. If it's 21-20 Nadal but because he wins three more French Opens, the debate will rage on.

Prakash is so hot. Amazing body

Nadal overtakes Djokovic and attains the #1 ranking in the race to London.

Jnteresting turnouts for the grass warm-up events this week: Stuttgart has the top three Canadians FAA and Raonic returning from injury along with countryman Shapo, then Monfils, the Flopos brothers, Medvedev, Basil, Karen, Struff, Pouille, and Kyrgios while Hertogenbosch has Tsitsipas, Borna, Tiafoe, de Minaur, Gasquet, Sousa, Goffin, Garin, Humbert, Haase and PHH.

's Hertogenbosch also has a WTA tournament with local favorite (but not grass court specialist!) Kiki Bertens and American teen starlet Anisimova + Belgian lezzie lovebirds Alison van Uytvanck & Greet Minnen

The women's doubles final was great. Loved the men's final when Kiki yelled out "time" to Nadal. Nadal knows how to play the game and skirt the rules to suit him. Yes, a nice guy but can be a shit. So what he is close to his mother. I think he has more serious issues than that, especially with his OCD.

Its doubles match.

R134 are you a loon? Scheduling Roger on the 1st Sunday and Roger/Rafa played their qf's on Tuesday and missed the weather. They were both given advantageous scheduling but it was mostly Roger. He asked to play the 1st Sunday. He'll get the same cushy deal at Wimbledon and the US Open. Novak had every right to ask for the match to be postponed. The officials AGREED, so did Thiem.

Thiem's breakdown was mental and emotional, not physical. The only physical problem was that he poured so much energy in trying to blast Rafa in the court in the first two sets he was spent, but he was still firing hard shots in the third and fourth without the control. Others said he had no choice but he's slightly more than 7 years younger than Nadal. He plays three sets of tennis days in a row all the time. He played two and a half sets on Saturday, again much of his own undoing as bungled the fifth set and let Djokovic back in it.

Case in point: He broke Nadal to take the 2nd set playing massive shots. He was broken in the first game of the third set on his own serve (at or near love, I think). You can't explain that breakdown on exhaustion. He even had a short break as Nadal took an off court break. His energy and confidence should not have dropped that badly in a matter of minutes. He just played one bad shot after another as Rafa made clear he was not going away and then got broken again. He gave up that set. He didn't play terribly in the fourth, it was one break, but he knew it was slipping away and lost focus after over celebrating and fist pumping every point he won in the 1st and 2nd and screaming and whining about every point he missed. You can't spend that much emotion over 2 hours of the first two sets and keep it up. It was an immature match.

Thiem will be 26 in a couple of months. He needs to work on pacing himself, not wasting emotion cheering, screaming, and moaning on court, and focusing on preparing himself for a five-set final, moving on after every point taking one at a time.

I actually think Thiem's best chances to win a slam are at the US Open. Slower hard court (not unlike Indian Wells) and he was playing so well there last year. It's where a few of the non big 3 slams have been won (Cilic/Nishikori, Delpo, Wawrinka).

Nobody is beating Nadal on Chatrier in Best of 5 unless he's REALLY out of form. Maybe if they peak out of their minds, Djokovic or Wawrinka could do it.

[quote]Nobody is beating Nadal on Chatrier in Best of 5 unless he's REALLY out of form. Maybe if they peak out of their minds, Djokovic or Wawrinka could do it.

Agree. At he moment, these are the only two players on clay who have a peak level equal to Rafa's. Peak Stan is as good as anyone in the game, he just can't sustain it for long. And the Fed match-up is bad for him, like Rafa is for Fed.

at THE moment

Is Dominic a homo?

Ask Kiki, R157.

Ask Rico, r157

R157=Whoopi Goldberg, still salty

[Novak also burns kittens alive and drinks blood from babies!!!!]

The most pathetic part is that Fauxvac doesn't even like baby blood. He just does it to get Satanists to like him.

Thiem is so pretty. Though I think he's starting to resemble 00's porn star Barrett Long.

Nadal kept picking at the crotch of his shorts when he was sitting down. It was front and center on camera. How charming.

Nadal is so weird it's difficult for me watch him except during points. I feel voyeuristic, like staring at someone with a deformity. I notice that the cameramen try to avoid filming the whole routine. With all that OCD madness and the hair plugs and the bearded girl friend and uber private family, the injuries followed by miraculous wins, I find it odd that many of you consider him real and down to earth. Yet Djokovic, who by all evidence is leading an authentic life in public, warts and all, is considered fake.

I'm glad you said something about Nadal's hair. It's so obviously bad plugs.

wonder what rafa's underwear looks like after a match? is it skidded?

R149 Minnen improved a lot this year. Right now she is defeating Barthel 75 20. I think she could reach top 100 this year, something that seemed impossible not so long ago.

In the Nadal/Federer goat discussion, Roger's fans seem to avoid the very clear h2h when they made the comparission.

In my opinion the three have weak points. Roger has the best numbers but he has negative h2h with his main rivals (against Rafa is pretty clear). And all of them have multiple GS, but Rafa has only one Australian open while Roger and Nole have only one Roland Garros.

Nole if he wants to have a chance needs to win Wimbledon and the US Open, in my opinion next year there'll be more players fighting for GS

^ ITA. Titsy and FAA, for starters.

I have my doubts with Felix. He had a fast rise, his clay season was decent but nothing remarkable, and his GS experience is near to zero. And of course there's the thing with instagram (generally it's never a good sign when you start to post pics of your girlfriend so early in the relationship). He didn't play on grass as a pro, and his junior results weren't that great (compared with his results on other surfaces), so i don't expectd that much of his grass season.

It would be interesting to watch if he is able to repeat the good results on hard courts. Anyway, he is very young and has a lot of time to get there

"Serbia's Djokovic has become a constant nuisance to both men's chances of further glory and has amassed 15 grand slam titles of his own."

How dare he, right? So idiotic.

Dani V. has found a new man! He will collaborate with Wawrinka for the grass season

That’s a surprise. I guess Stan wants his grass court experience with Misery. I thought for sure Dani would swoop down on Coric. 😋

I noticed Nadal really picking his crotch before they announced him. It was very awkward. Boy needs some compression shorts. I think he is hung quite average.

Not sure H2Hs are much use differentiating them. Nadal can beat Federer at RG in the semis, but if at Wimbledon Nadal crashes out in the first week, Fed can't even the score.

R172 it was very very awkward. He was just tugging away at it.

Are we moving on to the grass season in this thread or creating a new thread instead?

R173: If my memory doesn't fail, Nadal and Federer played three times at Wimbledon with a 2-1 in Federer's favour, so it's not a sure shot that he would defeat Rafa if they play at Wimbledon, and even less given that courts are way slower on the second week

The fact that Nole has positive h2h against both brings a lot of questions about who is the goat.

It's clear that it's not as easy discussion as some fans think. Right now the GS titles make all the difference but if they end with the same things change a lot (and probably Nole is the one who will end with better numbers even if people like Kyrgios refuse to accept that)

I hope Wawrinka wins Wimbledon so that he’d have a career grand slam, a major feat in the era of Federe-Nadal-Djokovic. Not very likely though. :-(

Do we want to know why Thiem lost to Nadal? THIS is why. Is he a child? A bit dramatic? I say he’s not mature enough to be a Slam champion, based on this:

HIEM: ”NADAL STEPPED ON ME”

“He stepped on me,” said Thiem. “I’ve come from heaven [beating No.1 seed Novak Djokovic in the semi-final] to hell. You have to beat seven good players at this tournament, and one or two legends. That's a unique and also brutal thing.

“Beating Novak was one of my biggest victories in my career. I beat one of the biggest legends of our game. Not even 24 hours later, I have to step on court against another amazing legend of our game, against the best clay-court player of all time. I was feeling so happy, with such a good win, and now of course I lost.

"I failed to make my biggest dream in my tennis life come true.”

Sorry for the bad cut. It should be THIEM: "NADAL STEPPED ON ME". Probably with a boo-hoo missing as well.

Is this where we talk about Mercedes Cup? Krybaby could face Khachanov 2nd round. I hope no one in the crowd moves or says anything to upset him. Can a player take a Medical Time Out for a psychiatric condition? 3 minutes for evaluation and 3 minutes for treatment?

'DoKi' with their trophies

He doesn't look "stepped on" to me. She, however...

[quote]Novak had every right to ask for the match to be postponed. The officials AGREED, so did Thiem.

The difference is that the real professionals (Federer and Nadal) did not ask for their match to be postponed despite the conditions being essentially the same.

Djoko was losing and created a shitfest that ran for 24 hours, and then had the nerve to continue complaining through those 24 hours about something he himself created.

And no, the rain didn't start until 4 hours after Djoko through his weight around to have the Friday match suspended.

Thiem isn't wrong.

You have absolutely no idea what Fedal asked for. Why couldn't they have started at 10am in order to ensure the second match could finish. (Because Roger and Rafa didn't want to), perhaps?

Conditions were predicted to start poorly and get worse. Rain arrived, just as was predicted 24 hours before on multiple weather websites. It was a predicable event that the rain would arrive when it did. You say -Conditions, essentially the same, No- Raining and Not Raining. Play was interrupted earlier, See the umbrellas in the picture when play stopped? You and your histrionics created the shit show. OMG Everyone was ready to go and Novak left the stadium and the match had to be cancelled.

Also, R184, play went on without interruption on the other courts until the actual rain came. Somehow the storm must have hit Philippe-Chatrier a good four hours before the other RG courts.

Cheater Nadal takes a Medical Time Out for cramps!

Diva Nadal has hissy fit and DEMANDS umpire be fired.

Anyone can have a hissy fit. But, he admitted in the on court interview with Mac that he had a hand cramp. He stopped play and got treatment, then got treated again on a changeover. This is not allowed. I'm sure Theim or any other player would have liked a hand or shoulder massage on a change over. Imagine if Novak stopped serving to get a hand massage. You'd want an asterisk in the record book. Somehow this gets completely ignored.

So I think it's a safe bet that both the Djokovic contingent and the Nadal (as opposed to Nadal's ass) fans are in the minority here. FO is over for everyone other than those who want to rehash old news and rake the embers of old coals. Can we move on to where we are now, i.e. the grass court season? Are we going to use what remains of this thread to cover the Wimbledon warm-ups?

Nadal picking at his crotch coz he has STD? is it itching? Gee...maybe he has herpes!

Yes, as long as people make reality based arguments. Zverev and Kyrgios in action this week.

And Tsitsipas and Khachanov.

And a good bunch of next gen.

Humbert didn't get better on grass even he tried, he lost against Haase 57 76 76. I really like his game but his results outside indoor hard courts are very dissapointing

Winner’s prize money at s’-Hertogenbosch this week:

ATP - €109,590

WTA - €34,677

Difference in pay for what are effectively the same tier of tournament is still enormous (ATP 250 & WTA International level). Aren't they both playing Best of 3 sets as well? Bizarre.

"That she won Roland Garros, it motivates me even more as I see that our levels are quite close."

- Kristina 'delusional' Mladenovic on Ash Barty.

Even the RG crowd don't like Mladonna. I've never seen anyone come across as so hateful. Babos looked like a saint in comparison.

I had never watched Barthel play until today, and she has more acne scars than Stan. Even her auto-fill Google search terms include “Barthel tennis face” and “Barthel tennis skin condition”.

Babos is cute, shame she is straight. Kiki looks high maintenance.

Sharapova is planning to make a comeback in Mallorca next week

[quote] Sharapova is planning to make a comeback in Mallorca next week

Comeback from what? Her heart condition treatment?

Babos.

ATP: If you could play any legendary player, who would you pick?

Zverev: Myself.

[quote] Zverev: Myself.

He wants to play a Flopos?

Do A. and M. Zverev have the same father and mother?

Figures that Flopos is good friends with homophobe Putin lover Safin.

Wimbledon update:

OUT: McDonald

IN: Istomin

Next: Loremzi

Istomic playing Wimbledon?

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I agree with Becker. It's not that the big 3 aren't great, it's that nobody else is showing up mentally. I hope Tsitsi can finally do it since he seems the closest 'mentally' (though his game truly doesn't match up well against Rafa's).

Venus takes a WC into Birmingham next week. This will only be the 4th non-Wimbledon grass tournament she has ever played in her career (she played Eastbourne '97, '98, and 2011), which is crazy for someone who has won Wimbledon 5 times. Looks like grandma is gonna start gunning for that Olympics slot. Best of luck!

Has CoCo VW stopped touring the White House long enough to rejoin the tour? Certainly she doesn't want to mess, er miss Wimby.

I can't stand Fed, but if you compare all the tournaments he and Rafa have entered Fed comes out way ahead because Rafa has a lot of bad losses. It's also what destroys the Navratilova was better than Evert myth - compare all the tournaments they played together from 75 on (when Martina 1st beat Chris at DC) and Chris comes out ahead significantly. Martina would lose to underwhelmers like Turnbull, Shriver, Newberry, Stove during the early years of her career. Evert always got to the final even if it was to get drummed by Martina. Would Chrissie's career look better had she lost more semis to the Mandlikova's and Sukova's of the world?

Shopbottom collapse is complete

^ pull UP, bitch!

[quote] Shopbottom collapse is complete

What happened to him now?

He lost in the first round of Stuttgart to Struff 5-7, 4-6 while his countrymen got through: FAA easily over twit spoiled old brat Gulbis 7-5, 6-3 and Raonic squeaking past Popyrin 6-7, 6-4, 7-6.

Becker is looking quite unwell.

Thanks, R216.

Krybaby krashes out to Berrettini, 6-3 6-4

^ tee hee!

Here is Shopbottom’s Instagram post in reaction to his lost:

[quote] denis.shapovalov We keep fighting #CantBringUsDown #Journey 📸: @mercedescup

[quote] Raonic squeaking past Popyrin 6-7, 6-4, 7-6.

Are you sure he didn’t squeal by?

I really like Popyrin, shame he couldn't close it out against miss piggy.

In Den Bosch:

- Big Booty Tiafoe def. Sousa in straights.

- Elf Goffin destroys Davinovich Fokina 6-0 6-2.

- Home favourite Robin Haase JUST scrapes by Ugo Humbert 5-7 7-6 7-6.

- Jarry defeats Sinner in straights. He will face #1 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the second round.

- Cuties Jordan Thompson and Christian Garin are through, as well as teen dad Taylor Fritz.

WTA:

- Home favourite and #1 seed Bertens (looking skinny after vomiting her RG away) kills former dubs partner Johanna Larsson in straights.

- Flipkens def. Krunic in a rematch of last year's final. Krunic drops out of the top 100 as she was defending champ.

- World #10 Sabalenka out to Aussie WC World #213 Destanee Aiava in 3 sets. Lots of choking.

- Belgian lesbians Greet Minnen and Allyson Van Uytvanck are both through. GAY RIGHTS.

- Allison Riske, Polona Hercog, and Lesia Tsurenko (who def. the lesser Pliskova clone) are also through. 44 year old Kveta Peschke was #1 doubles seed with Nicole Melichar and they got beaten in round one.

[quote] Home favourite and #1 seed Bertens (looking skinny after vomiting her RG away)

Tehe.

At beginning i thought Sinner was just hype from doing well in a couple of tournaments, but he is really doing well. He is 17, and on the verge of top 200.

Very bad lost for Davidovich, one thing is to lose against Goffin (which was expected) and other doing so incredibly bad

[quote]Krunic drops out of the top 100 as she was defending champ

Two other players who dropped out of the top 100 are Ekaterina Makarova (#108) and Sam Stosur (#109)

Feliciano showed some crack in Stuttgart

Good cracker!

[quote] Two other players who dropped out of the top 100 are Ekaterina Makarova (#108) and Sam Stosur (#109)

Serves them right. The Lord’s punishment may not always be swift, but it is certain.

Did Osaka drop Bajin because his girlfriend is a 19-yr-old WTA player? Only Voundrousova and Yastremska are 19 in the top 100.

When she first dropped him there were rumours he was going to coach Olga Danilovic (who is also Serbian) and I believe he was pictured at a practise or two. She's actually only 18 (as of January so 17 last year), and has now gone out of the top 100. But that's the only teen on the tour I think had any sort of connection with Sacha.

Isn't he gay anyway?

McEnroe about the Trungelliti affair

Fed has a losing H2H against his two biggest rivals - no twisting of facts is going to change that.

I find McEnroe sort of weird.

(Loser) Nick Kyrgios was being Nick Kyrgios on Tuesday at the MercedesCup in Stuttgart.

The enigmatic Aussie, serving at 1-2, 40/15 against Italy's Matteo Berrettini, snuck in an underarm serve and charged the net. Berrettini retrieved the surprise opening and threw up a lob, which Kyrgios gingerly tracked down, giving himself an opportunity for another one of his favourite shots: a tweener.

Is this where we talk about Mercedes Cup?

Babos hot. Kiki seems like you would leave the room not to have a conversation with her. Dabrowski hot,

Thiem

KK.

Stan

Stan team

Thiem team

Domicakes team

I couldn’t care less about Karen Hemsworth.

F. Lopez

Gosh, they managed to make Feliciano look unattractive.

Team KK. Yes, I would.

Nottingham JUST started playing opening round matches and it's 1pm local time on a Wednesday. There is more rain forecasted throughout the week.... this is starting to look like one of those rare tournaments that not only has to move indoors (where a Challenger tournament is already playing), but may be cancelled altogether.

[quote] There is more rain forecasted throughout the week.

Noooooooooooooooooo! Not rain!

Okay it actually is being played indoors on these ghetto ass courts.

You can tell all the grass court specialists like Vekic and Rybarikova are PISSED. They could have gone to Den Bosch etc. like Allison Riske and Flipkens.

Vekic actually seems like she's tanking against Jakupovic because she doesn't wanna do this all week lol.

Didn't someone on the last thread say Kiki Bertens reminded them of a KLM stewardess / flight attendant? She's actually on the cover of their in-flight magazine lol...

I was watching Coric profile on a known tennis webpage to watch his results, and omg they have a pic of him from years ago (not unusual, Rudolf Molleker pic must be from when he had 14) and he really improved his look from his teenage years, a lot.

Everybody looks like a doofus in their teen years. It's allowed.

Kiki Bertens = strong blonde Dutch woman/KLM Flight Attendant

Spys, Rub and tugs, graft, just another Tuesday.

^Sorry, wrong thread

Nottingham is turning into a joke. This is why all tournaments need some undercover courts that are not crap. Roofs make a difference.

I had to laugh at Eurosport's coverage of Nottingham. They've got one camera covering three indoor courts. I admire the effort but they should have just cancelled the tournament.

I am watching Nottingham right now, and it is a cluster fuck. Hard courts, inside a centre that looks like a practice court at best. And, players who look like they would rather be somewhere else. I give it to the organisers for working to create something at least for the tournament.

Ghetto tourneys are the new Masters 1000s.

R255 It looks like a council leisure centre. The commentator on Eurosport apologised for the state of it all but said they thought it better to give us some live tennis rather than playing repeats.

Id say the players are not happy, but at least they are playing. I feel sorry for people who bought tickets etc, and travelled in etc. But, I give it up to the organisers who are at least trying. Yes, it looks like a cluster fuck, but its a trying cluster fuck.

I'd be a bit pissed off if I'd entered Nottingham to prepare for Wimbledon and ended up playing on indoor hard courts.

Ha. The bloke on Eurosport just said it looks like a local leisure centre.

I think it is the local leisure centre. And, wtf Dart.

They are the Nottingham Trent University courts

I hope one of the players at Nottingham wins Wimbledon.

This is another reason we don't need *ALL* the grass tournaments to be in the UK (especially a problem on wta). Even the big ITF events are there like Surbiton and Ilkley. Yes the grass slam is in London but it's not like every single clay warm up is in France. Is it just to give these scrubby UK players more WCs? It's not like any of them perform at Wimbledon anyway....

In the 3 years of Mallorca operating there has never been a rain delay. Perfect conditions, great location, and good crowds. Den Bosch has had problems in the distant past, but they're not exactly a tropical country and there's been only one SHORT rain delay this week, mostly sunny weather, and they have dealt with the delays a lot better. I don't know why Eurosport doesn't just buy the rights and show that instead of the Nottingham dinky little high school auditorium court.

[quote] instead of the Nottingham dinky little high school auditorium court.

We’re a university god damn it!

The worst part is when a point gets interrupted because one of the balls from the court next to them flies into their court. Or the fact that you can hear grunts and shrieks and scores just as loudly from all the courts because there isn't proper microphoning set up. No hawkeye has been rough on them too. And I can literally count only 4 people watching from some fold-out chairs.

Apparently there's a balcony behind the camera where people are watching from but this is such a huge fuck-up. I've seen more professional set-ups down my local park than this mess.

And Tsitsipas did exactly the same that on Roland Garros at libema open. He dominated the whole third set, had several break points, but when he served to stay in the match he was unable to connect a single first seve an lost the match at the first break point

It's a fiasco in Nottingham and a big issue for the players hoping to get some grass court matches before Wimbledon but to cut the organizers a little slack, what else are they going to do? They can't stop the rain, nobody is going to pay for a roof over grass courts at an international level WTA event, and the players are already there, most of whom need the money and the ranking points. R264 has a good long-term solution but there also needs to be venues in Europe that will step up to the plate. The question is whether there are any who are willing to invest in the facilities to support a single International level WTA event. My guess is it would be a hard sell even if it were upgraded to a premiere event. Would Halle do it either before or after the men's tourney?

It'd of course be nice to have a roof on the courts, but these small tournaments don't have anywhere near the budget to even dream of it. I think even of the Masters 1000 tournaments, only Madrid and Shanghai have it (and Paris which is indoors...).

Who is in charge here?

R269 To be fair to Nottingham this kind of continued bad weather is pretty rare here. I'm trying to think of a comparison where a tournament has had to switch to such a different surface in order to continue.

It's not a big enough venue or tournament to be able to justify a roof, but I can imagine being very annoyed if I signed up to a grass tournament and ended up playing on hard indoors.

well, there are tournaments that never finished.

1998 Birmingham never finished the semifinals.

Why not, R273?

Bad weather?

Ennui

FAA over G. Simon 7-5 6-4

Hmmm maybe Stan got in Titsy's head. Anyway, he need to get a killer instinct on break points.

Dustin Brown playing brilliant tennis and embarrassing the #1 seed Flopos Zverev at home (for both) in Stuttgart is BEAUTIFUL. I hope he can do some damage this year on grass. Will he be ranked high enough for Wimbledon? Nadal might want to get another round of hair plugs before Dustin comes to snatch his wig for a 3rd time.

[quote]Dustin comes to snatch his wig for a 3rd time

LOL! Miss Dustin shows up on grass but is MIA the rest of the year.

Good wins today for grass court specialists - Dustin Brown and Denis Kudla.

Glad to see Nottingham got through a lot of matches today.

Is he a Flopos?

Nottingham should get a few matches through today. I would assume all 4 quarter final matches in the doubles and a good chunk of the singles. Hopefully the finals are back outside.

Hercog tattoos in den Bosch.

I always know when Stuttgart is on the telly...those tweeting birds!!

Thiqq Christian Garin is serving for the match against Porna

Porna pulls it out in TB

Hmmm seems like Christian is another choker and a loser. He served twice for the match at 5-2 and 5-4 Could not do it on the grass. Not to mention he was against Porna who himself is struggling with confidence Garin is so uncomfortable at the net.

Not to mention throughout the match he was accusing the umpire of making wrong calls even when Hawkeye show all the calls were right. Why the hell he did not use the Hawkeye and was whining later?

Outside clay and slow hard he will be irrelevant

Looking forward to Dustin Brown to again show up and take out FAA

Struff upset Lucas. Struff has the game . Good to see finally he is able to close out the matches

Dustin Brown is a Shikandi

and a certified loser

Nonetheless a very close and enjoyable match with some spectacular shots from both players. Both Felix and big bulge Brown are very likable players so that it's sad to see either of them lose. Felix is showing himself to be a contender on all surfaces and seems to have gotten past the choker stage. Well done.

He’s no Flopos!

Might be heading for a Raonic / FAA semi-final ...

The porcine Milos Raonic.

Raonic is kinda sexy looking but also weirdly asexual.

[quote]The porcine Milos Raonic

The Raonic family looks on as Milos commences play.

Goffin totally deserved to lose

Felix continues to defeat players who are ranking lower than him, now it's time to start challenging players with higher rankings like he did in he hard court season

He hard.

So hard.

R301 I'm pretty sure you are smart enough to know that a t is missing there

Domi showed tits in swimsuit and of course, Sasha liked it

Doubles specialist, Rober Linderstat :What a body!

Miss Dustin served for it too... sigh. Couldn't even take advantage of shaky FAA nerves. However I didn't realise he was in his mid 30s until the commentators said so. He still did the lord's work taking out Flopos!!

Milos makes my dick so soft.

Rybakina and Flipkens played a great match. The former won but it was just a point here or there really. At this point it looks like Bertens will take the title at home (possibly in both singles and doubles, she's in both SF).

Its doubles match

What a weird thing to say, r291. How do you reckon that?

There is nothing even remotely appealing about Raonic.

[quote]There is nothing even remotely appealing about Raonic.

Except that his career ranking has been as high as no. 3, he has 8 ATP World Tour Titles, he's rich AF and lives in Monaco, he jets around the world on the ATP tennis circuit, he has a gorgeous girlfriend and is in a stable relationship, all by age 28.

And you r307? How has your pithy little existence played out while you have been on this earth?

And Felix, absolutely adorable, could leapfrog Raonic soon with only three places (Raonic # 18, Felix #21) to become top Canadian in the ATP rankings.

JMG is really into Dan Levy from Schitt's creek on Instagram.

FAA has great legs and they're only going to get better.

Felix is the youngest player on reach the semifinals on three different surfaces since Lleyton Hewitt in 1999.

He is doing great, the only negative thing about him is that annoying ehhhs that he made everytime he hits the ball, but almost all young promising players do some kind of grunts so i will get used to it (and of course is not remotely in the level of Azarenka's banshee screams, and i love Vika anyway)

Why is TC showing this dreadful women's match when Berrettini and Struff are playing in Stuttgart? For the love of God, WHY?

Lovely Matteo into final! 🎊🎉🥰

And Matteo is a perfect example to all tennis fans who think you need to be incredibly precocious or you don't have any future in tennis. Matteo only reached top 100 a couple of weeks before 22, one year and a half later he is getting closer to the top 20

I'm very upset that Porna is wearing those damn baggy shorts!

WTF is wrong with Raonic?! Bitch should just start playing the wheelchair tourneys. Always injured, always!

Felix has the opportunity to win his first grass title before Sascha or STefanos.

But i woulnd't be surprised if Berrettini wins

Fun match, I can’t wait.

And Tomic lost against Davidovich Fokina (who recovered very well from his awful match against Goffin), it seems Tomic is unable to win even on grass right now

Can't wait for Wimbledon whites...

Too busy counting his millions, R320

Why Porna wearing baggy shorts?

They're the same Nike nightmare shorts that were rolled out for Roland Garros. I wonder what the clothing contracts with the players require. Nike's been responsible for some of the worst creations over last couple of decades.

R322: Is he really that rich? I know he was supposed to be the next big thing long time ago, but he was barely top 20 and i doubt he has that many sponsors given his bad reputation

I liked the Brown/FAA match as well! Brown did have a nice bulge; FAA didn’t have anything. I did see before the beginning of a point FAA pulling on his crotch though so maybe he’s not a eunuch. Just a general question. It seems I’ve seen male players touching/pulling at their cocks before some big points. I wonder if this touching/pulling is some subconscious dominance play? Or perhaps in some players even conscious? I recall Roddick doing this a lot. Of course whatever Nadal does is N/A

r326 honestly, have never broken a sweat before in your life? Let's do a little anatomy lesson, shall we? You see, guys have junk between their legs, and it gets sweaty and out of place with continued physical exertion. I know, alarming right? But you go ahead and be ridiculous and imagine that these guys derive on-court mystical powers from adjusting their junk.

I get mystical powers by watching players adjust their junk on court.

R322, Tomic's alleged wealth is a long-running joke. I believe that in the past he has claimed that his father is wealthy and that he just doesn't care about tennis because he has so much money. The part about him not caring about tennis is true, the rest of it is just fantasy.

Can we just fast forward to the summer hardcourt season? Grass court tennis is a complete bore and Wimbledon is the worst of the slams. At least they have two roofs now, but they're 20-30 years too fucking late!

Wozniacki is getting married (for real this time)!

R331, Serena was a bridesmaid. Kerber was also there.

I think this is the last year ESPN is doing the Body Issue and although I’ve jacked it numerous times to Wawrinka I was hoping Thiem would do the issue for more j/o material

Who is doing this year ?

Den Bosch: Bertens is GOATing against Alison Riske in the final. She won the first set 6-0 and is 1-0 up in the second, but fell and got a serious groin injury (currently off court). (A) what a terrible terrible run of luck for her after what happened at Roland Garros, and (B) how embarrassing for Riske if she finally wins her 2nd title via walkover despite not winning a single game in 7.

Nottingham SF: Garcia finally defeats Brady 3-6 6-3 6-3 after several rain delays and overnight interruptions. She will face Vekic in the final. Sacha Bajin and tennis journalists arguing on twitter as well, supposedly he was being a diva at the French Open too with the car service people.

Mallorca: Controversy arises as despite being a German-run tournament (with mostly German WCs), the German defending champion Tatjana Maria was not given a WC so won't be able to defend her title. She didn't enter the qualifying as she was in the Nottingham SF. Sharapova and Stosur are amongst WC recipients.

Here's a photo of La Borz at her wedding. I wish David Lee a lifetime of luck, having to deal with her every day.

Nice dress.

Baijin was pissed at the Nottingham organisers and said they'd made really bad decisions. While I can understand people are unhappy, when they've had nearly a week of constant rain, I can't really see what else they could have done. There are hundreds of houses flooded in Lincolnshire, we're not talking a couple of inches of rain here.

Team Felix or Team Matteo?

Den Bosch ATP final is a bit of a surprise: Borna Coric chokes to ageing baldy Adrian Mannarino (who has admittedly playing well all week). He won in a 3rd set tiebreaker. Young pornstached Aussie Jordan Thompson wins over #8 seed Richard Gasquet.

Mannarino or Thompson? Harder to predict than FAA vs Berettini in Stuttgart.

Birmingham draw is out and is stacked, even with withdrawals from Kvitova, Keys, etc. You have the top 3 players in the world (Osaka, Barty, Pliskova), big hitters like Sabalenka, Konta, Yastremska, Goerges, and Vekic. Great athletes in Sakkari, Martic and Svitolina, tricky grass courters like Hsieh and Strycova, and 5-time Wimbledon champ Venus lurking in the draw.

Mannarino was totally losing against Goffin, but the elf decided to choke several times

It seems Kiki injury was not important because she is still playing, now the second set is way tighter than the first

And i don't find that easy to predict FAA against Berretini, both are playing well and both have similar rankings

Strycova was supposed to retire last year, and was saying so at Fed cup, but is still playing? Anyone know why? Kiki Bertens having a tough time closing it out. Up to 5 match points lost and into a tie break.

I think Strycova only retired from Fed Cup, not tennis.

Yes, Strycova retired from Fed Cup, not the tour as a whole. I guess she realised she probably wasn't making Olympic singles anyway and has given enough for her country. Also she is VERY old for someone who plays the way she does. The other veterans aren't quite as 'physical' or have bigger groundies to help them out (Serena, Venus, Kuznetsova, Stosur), or in Hsieh's case don't really expend much energy or physicality in play.

Whereas Barbora is often diving for balls, scrapping all around the court, flying towards the net... a young counterpunchers game. She will have a chance to claim the #1 doubles ranking for the first time, as she doesn't defend much at Wimbledon. I think she and Vondrousova will play together at the Olympics (she and Hsieh play together on the main tour).

Bertens was playing so well after coming back from the injury (she was hitting all those amazing passing shots) but Riske has been taking so many RISKES (i'm sorry) and coming to the net on every point. Winning most of them as well... feels like watching Navratilova play in 1984.

Kiki lost her match, she really has no luck

Kiki's been a bitch tonight

Riske was amazing in sets 2 and 3 after such a terrible start (lost the first 7 games in a row).

This loss has got to hurt for Bertens playing at home, she hit more winners, more aces, and overall in the match won more games and even more points than Riske. She seemed physically okay after her fall and the rain delay but I think it scrambled her mentally.

Before today Riske was 1-6 in tour finals, and Kiki had won an incredible 9 out of 11. When she went up 6-0 4-1 and had a whopping FIVE match points, I don't think anybody would have expected Riske's comeback lol.

Team Felix even though he's down a break in the first set. Berrettini needs to shave and drop the cap and chains.

We might have a repeat of the Nottingham fiasco this week - severe thunderstorms are predicted across the South East and the Midlands from Tuesday onward.

Riske seems to have stolen Dopapova's annoying scream

Berrettini won the first set

OJ Aliassime

The Stuttgart runner up trophy is a BMW logo. lol

Berettini won the match

Tough loss for OJ. He got screwed up a set point in that tie break. Berettini is way cuter so I'm happy with the result.

Riske defeats Bertens in the end. 0-6 7-6 7-5

Mannarino up 7-6 5-2

He has never won a ATP tournament yet. Lost 6 finals so far.

Let's see if he chockes now

Happy for Matteo, good week for OJ

FAA won the second set and got robbed by a bad line call. Berrettini looks like a Mafia thug wannabe.

There's some controversy about how expensive the tickets are for Queen's Club next week.

Mannarino wins

First titled for baldy!

Is Mannarino gay?

Thompson is quite fuckable.

Thompson looks like half-rabbit.

Matteo, however ....

A rabbit with a bubble booty!

Ali Riske is a nice girl. Her grunt is funny and sometimes it looks like she's swinging a frying pan rather than a tennis racket.

I don't understand the controversy regarding the Queen's tickets. It's a once a year event in an expensive area of London - do they expect it to be free?

They also might want to have a look at how much Wimbledon or o2 tickets cost. There were people moaning that it costs £10 for a day's ground pass so £40 for a family of four. You'll be lucky to be able to get cinema tickets in London at that price.

That ground pass ticket for 10 pounds is ifs for last final 2 days when there is no play in gound courts. Not even doubles

At the start of the week, Matteo Berrettini, who had one career main draw win on grass before this week, wasn’t very happy to start the grass season.

Berrettini got Basilashvili in Halle R1, Auger Aliassime will face Dimitrov in London.

Matteo Berrettini will rise to #22 tomorrow, will be a top 24 seed at Wimbledon.

Auger Aliassime stays at #21 and should be a top 24 seed at SW19 as well.

Both will probably avoid top 8 seeds at Wimbledon in the 3rd round

Both very close to a top 20 debut, that can happen next week.

In very polite German accented English "You're going to show her who's the boss now." Torbin Beltz to Donna Vekic.

Vekic seems like a petulant little cunt following in the footsteps of Sharapova.

Does anyone know why she left Stan? We know she is a slut and has got a very sordid past. Is she fucking any new ATP player?

Stan's the huge slut.

[quote]Mallorca: Controversy arises as despite being a German-run tournament (with mostly German WCs), the German defending champion Tatjana Maria was not given a WC so won't be able to defend her title

Nadal's uncle Toni is the tournament director, right?

Donna Vekic (a known choker in finals) also said "Finals are not for me. I'm going to lose again." to her coach after she lost the second set. Such a terrible attitude to have.

R375 Yes. Even other Germans like Petkovic got wildcards. Seems strange not to give one to the defending champ.

They probably forgot who Maria is. And that she won last year. They are possibly trying to forget this accurrance.

Great final in Nottingham, and a rare one for WTA (in that the #1 seed def. the #2 seed).

Garcia beats Vekic 2-6, 7-6, 7-6. The Frenchwoman had a rare week without her father to have on-court-coaching sessions with... I hope she realises how much better she plays without him (see: Fed Cup). She even won both her SF and F today.

Donna V - who earlier said "finals are not for me - i'm going to lose again" was absolutely beside herself. Annabel Croft was so nice to her when she was struggling to keep it together, and Garcia gave a beautiful speech to her too.

Better link with video. I know it was an emotional week, especially with the indoor hard / outdoor grass changes, but I have to wonder if Vekic has a strong enough mentality to really make a dent in the top 10. She's still young but she's missing that 'killer instinct' you need to get to the next step of the game.

At least the final was actually played on grass and with no interruptions. Garcia will face Azarenka in Mallorca opening round, and Vekic will face Barty in Birmingham. Tough break for both.

R375: Even with a big german population, mallorca is still in Spain so they got some wc to spanish players.

The fact that Paula Badosa (big diva attitude even she never was top 100, and known for retire again and again and again) receive a wc to the main draw but not Sara Sorribes or Aliona Bolsova says a lot about being sponsored by IMG and being marketable.

In the wta being pretty seems to be more important than it should be

[quote] In the wta being pretty seems to be more important than it should be

“Pretty” is a rare commodity in the WTA.

I don't think it's that rare right now.

Handsome was rare on atp too but not anymore either

Thyroid disorders seem to be on the rise too. Kvitova, Delpo and Anderson all look like they have them with their height and bulging eyes.

Top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas has won Rosmalen Wooden Spoon.

That really is crazy that Mallorca did not give the defending champ a WC. I can't think of a time when the defending champ needed one and was denied at other tournaments.

Sharapova makes her return in Mallorca and could face Kerber in rd2

I wonder how far M. Zverev's ranking will fall next week after he doesn't come close to defending his Eastbourne title. He just lost in Halle qualifying today to Seppi quite easily

And DL new fave Corentin Moutet is a new top 100 player

R385 The only time it has happened before is to Tsvetana Pironkova, in Sydney some years ago. Tatjana Malek/Maria must be PISSED. That's a lot of points coming off.

I understand that Sharapova is a big star but giving a convicted doper a WC instead of the defending champ with local appeal is a bad look.

And the one to Petkovic doesn't even make sense because Tatjana Maria is ranked about 20 places higher than her and just misses out on the cut anyway.

Tio Toni even gave Sabine Lisicki a qualifying WC, even though she's on a 10 match losing streak and is currently ranked #291. Yet nothing for the player who won this event last year?

Robbye Poole, friend of Isner, former hitting partner of Serena and former coach of Bouchard, arrested in Florida on a hit-and-run, also dealing with domestic violence and stalking charges.

R388 He should have been arrested a long time ago for that stupid spelling of his name.

Great T-shirt!

Lovely Matteo

He sure is pretty..his body needs a bit of work though.

Svitolina out

Medvedev beats Verdasco.

Svitolina exboyfriend is also out. Does anyone know who she is currently dating? I saw a picture of her with Tiafooe just a day after her breakup with Gael. Perhaps she was taunting Gael with that photo op

Svitolina team or Monfils team?

They barely break up, it's a bit too soon to another boyfriend (or girlfriend).

Lately the wta/atp seems like an episode of Melrose Place, everybody is dating everybody

WTA/ATP: its doubles match!

Hello. Is this where we talk about Fever-Tree Championship?

What's up with PHH and Mahut? Ever since they have broken their doubles partnership, they are giving very good result in their singles. PHH defeated Gael while Nico defeated Tiafoe

R399, Yes

I could have sworn Mahut has announced his retirement multiple times. But good for him (and PHH even though i'm not convinced by his 'girlfriend') to split up and rediscover some form. Mahut has always been dangerous on grass.

Svitolina has been injured and still recovering. She lost to Gasparyan who is good on grass and has a great one-handed backhand. I think this year is going to be a write-off for her. Other results from Birmingham include Hsieh taking out Sabalenka in a third set tiebreaker, and Strycova taking out Watson (why are they still wasting WCs on her?).

For some reason also in Birmingham Venus is playing doubles with UK scrub Harriet Dart? You'd think she wouldn't want to test her body like that at this stage.

In Mallorca:

Prince Harry (AVU) def. Siniakova. Gay rights!

Tomljanovic def. Puig(!)

Bencic def. Peterson.

[italic]The WTA is excited to announce our new tournament! New York Junior Tennis & Learning will host the NYJTL Bronx Open, a WTA International level women’s professional tournament offering $250,000 in prize money at the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning in the Bronx from August 16-24, 2019 . The NYJTL Bronx Open will be the only WTA tournament during the week prior to the US Open and will feature a 48-singles qualifying and 30-player main draw plus a 16-team doubles draw.[/italic]

Will be interesting to see which players actually turn up, the Bronx is obviously quite close to Flushing Meadows so I think it's a good option for those who haven't got enough matchplay before the US Open.

Is it really the last ever year for that ESPN body issue? Do we have any ideas which tennis players are in? Where can I make a request for Borna and Tiafoe?

R404, Raonic and Kevin Anderson.

Bacon and breadstick

Tehe, R406.

'breadstick' Anderson returns on tour after almost three months with a win over Cameron Norrie at the Queen's Club.

Both Mladonna and A. Flopos had a bad fall on court after they slipped, Kiki was crying and Sascha was bleeding

It seems Kevin Anderson talked about homosexuality on sport in a recent interview.

He said that it's needed that someone makes the first step and that could help others, and what players should do is create a good enviroment to make easier for a player to come out if he wants to.

He talked about activism in animal conservation and about the prize money for players outside the top 100

Here's the article R409

Thanks, R410.

With so many lesbians, why are men also needed to acknowledge their unnatural and ungodly aberrations before the public and god?

KA is a cool dude.

R396 Neither!

it's Granny V's birthday! She turned 39

Why is she still playing? Sponsor deals?

Garcia (Nottingham champ) for Azarenka in R1 of Mallorca -- another terrible draw. Can't even get a chance to work her way into a 250K tournament. Probably the worst opponent she get out of the entire draw. And R2 is Riske, who just won Hertogenbosch. Is somebody rigging this shit?

R416 Venus and Serena want to both stick around for the Tokyo Olympics.

Thanks R418. Roger has said that too, I think.

I was sad to see Venus/Dart go out in the Birmingham doubles first round. Thought that could have been an interesting pairing, though I'm so intrigued by how it ever came about. I'm surprised Venus had ever even heard of Dart, let alone want to play doubles with her.

My God Venus and Serena have had enough Olympics. Venus won the Gold in 2000! Enough! She won't be ranked high enough next June for selection anyway.

Will they have armed security guards everywhere at the new WTA Bronx event like they did back in the '90s and early '00s when it was a low-level ITF event?

Is this Bronx event named after Andy Roddick’s anorexic slut of a wife? What are the concession stands at the event?

We're serving Tic-Tac, air, and water.

the boys are lucky Dustin Brown isn't playing this week to fuck up the draws again. I LOVE watching him when he's in good form. He's like a much less consistent version of Kyrgios. No one knows what he's going to do on any given point. I'm not sure he does either but he's got a ton of power, variety and speed. Unfortunately he can make the easiest of mistakes but still...I hope he can qualify into Wimbledon.

[quote] He's like a much less consistent version of Kyrgios.

He must be exceedingly inconsistent.

I have a fever for queens!

I like Anderson as a player and person.

Norrie is cute and has an interesting background. He was born in South Africa to Scottish and Welsh parents. He moved to New Zealand and represented it in tennis. According to Wikipedia “Norrie studied sociology on a scholarship at Texas Christian University (TCU) and joined the Horned Frogs university team, where he became the top-ranked male college tennis player in the US”.

Anderson seems nice. His game just isn't that interesting. He hits with enough pace and power and consistency to beat most players but comes up short again the big 3 usually. He doesn't hit quite big enough to hit them off the court but he's also not consistent enough and often they'll get him to make errors. He moves well for his height but obviously that limits him from being super fast

Anderson team.

Who do we think is going to go deep in Wimbledon this year other than the Big 3?

Raonic? Anderson? Isner? Some other servebots?

Brown's in the Halle doubles draw this week though. He's in the last stadium match court tomorrow night after the Federer v. Millman match.

I think FAA could be a threat to reach the QF at Wimbledon if he avoids the big 3. I mean he had a great week in Stuttgart. He might be tired this week but we'll see

Tsonga will be a dangerous floater and could get hot

Cilic has been bad this year but he does well on grass

Spears and Dart played against each other in doubles in Birmingham. Willi, which from a certain point of view is a synonym for cock, also played in the quartet with the phallic Spears and Dart.

Dart let Venus down a little in that match. Her serve got broken 3 times (Venus was not broken at all). But she was good in the tiebreakers. I still think it's the weirdest pairing I can think of, they looked hilarious together on the court in a 'david and goliath' kind of way. Dart got hit really hard by Spears' smash (on the wrist).

Has anybody been keeping up with Sacha "bisexual" Bajin? He's releasing a coaching book (in Japanese for some reason) about his partnership with Osaka. There are excerpts and interviews on the WTA website, and they sound VERY stalkerish. He keeps repeating that he hopes they will work together again and is open to a reunion. Are we sure they didn't have a relationship of some sort? Osaka obviously got word about it but didn't participate in the article because she posted some cryptic 'leave me be' type messages on her second instagram account. Here is just one quote from Bajin:

"I miss her quiet personality, her shy smile that comes through, her sarcasm. I miss driving from my home in Palm Beach Gardens to the Chris Evert Academy in Boca Raton in Florida, where we trained. More than anything, I'm going to miss talking to her. I really care about Naomi and think she's a super sweet girl."

His current pupil, Kristina '25 languages' Mladonna, will have plenty of time to translate the book from Japanese into English as she just lost in the first round of Birmingham to Rodina (who has only won 3 matches all year and is a 30 year old mother).

R435, I don't know. However, there are rumors [specailly on DL] That Sasha only decided to coach Kiki because he wanted to be close to Domi's ass

R435 He's got a book to sell and a career to protect. He's hardly going to say "That Osaka is a STONE COLD BITCH!!".

Though I do agree it sounds like they had a very close relationship. Where do the Baijin bisexual rumours come from? I've only seen it on tennis forum which makes me think it was wishful thinking.

A Tennis Channel commentator today pronounced “Wimbledon” as “Wimbleton”. I think it was Steve Weissman.

I think Weissman - he is a cutie but reminds me of Billy Bush - once called a rally a 'volley'.

Ons Jabeur vomited a whole bunch of times in her match today and still won lol. Here she is almost vomiting on her opponent at the handshake...

No play in fever Tree tournament due to rain. People with ticket three times costly than Halle can watch the rain from the stand[no umbrella will be provided by fever tree organizers]

[quote] No play in fever Tree tournament due to rain.

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

R433: It's very difficult to predict how well FAA could do because he never played a complete match on a GS main draw.

R437: Nobody knows who he is outside tennis world so the rumours (true or false) will be on tennis forums for sure

Tsonga and Paire play a little football in the middle of their tennis match

Maria upset a much higher ranked player

Like I said, Azarenka screwed again. She has to fix that serve (-6 diff. today, Garcia was +7) because it puts too much stress on the rest her game and it starts to break down. Also, she was an abysmal 29% on 2nd serve returns in the 3rd set after being 86% and 60% in the 1st and 2nd sets, respectively. That's not going to win you any matches. She's been doing a great job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory this year.

Oooh Deliciano Lopez is accused of match-fixing at Wimbledon!

Fabio's thighs.

Which is a little absurd giving that he had to retire on the singles match and he was obviously not that great (after a very good grass court season). Everybody who watched that match knew he was not feeling well, the only weird thing of the match is that they won the first set

I'm surprised Sharapova went to Mallorca instead of Birmingham where she had a lot of early success

Maria did the wise thing by not playing the Nature Valley Classic. Those people are weak and incompetent not to mention greedy too. The arrangement at Mallorca is much better.

Just like Fever tree, Little valley also suffered due to bad rain.

Er... Birmingham wouldn't pay her appearance fee and Mallorca would.

Birmingham probably wouldn’t give her a WC, lol. They already gave one to Venus and the rest to their home players. The UK grass tournaments are the only hope for the LTA to develop their scrubby players. You know they’re shitting bricks thinking of how they’re going to keep afloat and promote the sport when Murray (the Scot) and Konta (the Hungarian Australian) retire.

The press have already turned on Katie Boulter and nobody really likes Edmund or Norrie (who are both more South African than British). It’s a big priority for them. I’m 100% sure they paid Venus a big bonus to play doubles with Harriet Dart, to boost her profile and confidence. Venus had never met that girl lol, her only other doubles partners have been Serena, Wozniacki (once) and Madison Keys (once).

On the other hand the small Mallorca tournament could have used a bigger star and horny old Tio Toni was willing to pay Sharapova the $$$ to boost interest.

There is no other reason than that they didn't want her. Meldonia has won Birmingham (twice?) and went on to win Wimbledon that year, it’s also worth significantly more prize money and ranking points (she’s currently in the low 80s I think) and a stronger draw, if it is indeed matchplay she wants. Too bad they didn't rig the draw for her like St Petersburg did, because she now plays Angie Kerber in the next round.

Tomorrow we have the first WTA-level match between the two Pliskova robots.

I find funny that they didn't play a single match in Queens but tomorrow they start at the same time. Call me crazy, but given the delay maybe it was a good idea to start a little sooner

Heavy rain/thunderstorms is forecast for the entire southern half of the UK tonight and into tomorrow.

We've had severe weather warnings put out.

Ohhhhh Noooooooooooo! RAIN AGAIN?

and this is another reason why there should be a 4th week of grass. The rainy season in the UK really threatens to ruin the season every year

Are all the Brit journos who love to pile on tournaments (Rome, the French, the US) they consider mismanaged going to offer any criticism of Queen's Club - for its ticket prices and refusal to tell everyone there'd be no tennis until late in the day?

Is this where we talk about Nature Valley Classic?

[quote] Oooh Deliciano Lopez is accused of match-fixing at Wimbledon!

Its doubles match?

[quote] Oooh Deliciano Lopez is accused of match-fixing at Wimbledon!

Its doubles match!

Upcoming eye candy matches today, weather permitting: FAA v. Dmitrov at Fever Tree, Coric v. Sousa at Halle...

Also Clarke v, Pouille today in London but alas, the rain is back and play has been suspended for at least another hour.

some of the Wimbledon wild cards have been announced, of course useless scrub Heather Watson received one again

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Not the rain.

exited for the wildcard to Sarah Beth Gray & Eden Silva

Back-to-back defending Washington champion Sascha Zverev is not entered in this year’s Citi Open.

500 points set to go undefended

Wise decision

It won’t be the Citi Flopen this year.

Tornados in London?

Flopos is otherwise pretty played out, but Flopen was quite good, I'll give you that.

PHH pulls it out over dour "there are no gays in the ATP" Stakhovsky 2-6, 7-6, 6-4 in Halle.

[quote]Tomorrow we have the first WTA-level match between the two Pliskova robots

The lesser Pliskobot won!

Birmingham:

Venus def. Sasnovich

Ostapenko def. Konta

Barty def. Vekic

the Pliskova h2h notation is stupid. At least on the official scoreboard app they're both listed as "K. Pliskova" so you can't tell who won which match. You'll have to go on the official WTA site instead. You'd think they'd know to put Ka and Kr

Another knee injury for Delpo, forced to withdraw from Queens after he fell today during his win over Sharhwooooovalov.

The Fever-Tree organizers are idiots, first by delaying notification to ticket holders that play was suspended all day Tuesday, compounded by how they've scheduled Thursday's matches. FAA will be required to squeeze two singles matches and a doubles match into Thursday afternoon and evening.

DelPo and Raonic are really just walking PT clinics.

PHH gams

R471 https://images.app.goo.gl/bZsFsJNkS2EHH9k38

Sorry, I’m a dumbass

Its a fucking farce how the English are handling these tournaments.

Is Deliciano padding his crotch?

Is he wearing a jock?

Depends?

Do you ever inadvertently and unconsciously find yourself on Shapo team and have have to knock some sense into yourself thinking “Shake out of it!”

Shapo has been a flop during the clay and at least beginning of the grass season

r487, she won her first match at the beginning of the grass season so how did she flop already?

Or do you mean the Canadian guy? Yeah he flopped

Kyrgios needs an intervention

R490 I'm available and can offer him a variety of services.

What did Kyrgios do now?

R492 Nothing! Nothing anyone needs to know about.

The usual cunting at the chair over line calls and playing like he’d rather be getting a root canal, R492

Delpo needs surgery on his fractured knee.

I don't see him coming back after this.

’I'm not going to put in 100 per cent if there are guys rigging the game.” You're a nutter. Why are you wearing a hat, it's not even sunny. You look ridiculous.

Crazy is entertaining, but this guy needs medication.

Spent the change of ends watching Simon v Anderson Serves underhand, which hits the net, and then follows it up with a double-fault

Who served underhand, R497?

OJ over Grigor, routine

Krayzios

I know Grigor is very far from the played he used to be but it's a good win for Felix anyway

Kyrgios is supposed to play FAA in a couple of hours. What are the chances he can hold it together?

Haii Ram

first three players into the Queen’s Club quarterfinals:

- the Madrid tournament director

- a 5’7’’ counter-puncher who was 1-8 lifetime on grass prior to this week

- and Gilles Simon

It's so sad. Delpo is a really nice guy, he deserved better

I want a Tsitsipas - FAA next round

R495 Oh, God, that's devastating.

How depressing for Delpo. He should hang it up. I wonder if he’d get into the Hall of Fame? I am guessing he would even with only one GS and never getting to number one.

^ fuck, no!

World #1 Naomi Osucker lost to Putin's daughter earlier in Birmingham. Putin had only won 4 grass matches in her entire career before this one.

Looks like Barty will be #1 at the end of the week, and i'm thinking nobody will be happier than Naomi.

Osaka was crouching in front of the word “Classic” in “Nature Valley Classic” and all one could see is “ASS”.

How about the ‘ASSMANN’ placard in the stadium at Halle? I love it!

what's with 3 counter punchers beating 3 big hitters today on grass? Schwartzman, Simon and Putintseva

Well Osaka is pretty bad on grass and she recognizes that she felt like a novice when she is playing on that surface. Anderson is coming from and injury.

Cilic has less excuses

Tsitsipas serve is totally off today

And surprisingly he wom. He needs to improve a lot if he wants to cause some damage at Wimbledon. He is failing with his serve at the worst moments.

Felix has set points now

Horrible level of tennis the whole day in all four tournaments. .Only in Halle level is somewhat good with Roger/Tsonga is the best match of the day

True, but Tsong losing his serve after giving Roger a lot of trouble3 was very predictable

R317 I bet Tsonga is very honored to have played such a close match against the GOAT! Just being on the same court with him is an honor!

very impressive from FAA to defeat Dimitrov and then Kyrgios in a close 3 setter

Barty/V. Williams match should be very interesting! Wonder if Venus can bring it and upset the apple cart for a bit and keep Osaka at #1.

Unless he improves a lot i think Tsitsipas will lose again against Felix, on clay it would be a different story but Felix seems to be more comfortable on grass than Stefanos

This also speaks well to Felix's stamina for GS matches in that he got through five sets of tennis today quite nicely.

Osaka admits she isn't a grass player but that excuse doesn't really fly... Putin had only ever won 4 matches on the surface in her entire career before today. Naomi also skipped out of her press conference (does this mean she has to pay a fine or is that only at the slams?).

In Mallorca also a good in for Kerber over Drugapova. I guess she still hasn't found a replacement treatment for her family history of diabetes.

Misery and Lopez win their doubles match over the #1 seeds. The UK press are blowing their load.

Hawt dubs team 😋

It’s Judy’s idea, isn’t it??

Seeds holding up well in Mallorca. Strong field for a lower-tier grass event in the mediterranean when most are preparing for Wimbledon. QFs are set:

[1] Kerber vs. [6] Garcia (who is quietly on a 7 match win streak)

[3] Bencic vs. [5] Anisimova

[7] Kenin vs. [4] Mertens

[2] Sevastova vs. Wang Yafan

***

And not so well in Birmingham. QFs:

Putin's daugher vs [8] Julia Goerges

Jelena Oyster-Pancake vs Petra Martic

Barbie Strycova vs Kristyna Pliskbot

Granny Vee vs [2] Ash Barty

Uggh misery cheerleaders will be insufferable now.

These doubles players are bigger Joke than WTA. Can not even beat a player who is returning from a major surgery

I hope Sharapova draws Serena, Venus, Anisimova or Azarenka first round of Wimbledon. Send the cheater home early

Thanks to FAA, Kyrgios will be unseeded at Wimbledon 1st time since his breakthrough QF run there in 2014.

Don’t be a hater R527

ATP QFs are also set:

Halle

[1] Gramps Federer vs [7] Roberto Bautista Agut

[4] Porna Coric vs PHH (................ twunk versus twink)

[3] Khachanov vs Berettini (who like Garcia is also on a 7 match win streak)

[2] Flopos Zverev vs Elf Goffin

***

Queens Club (how apt for this remaining lineup) QFs are also set:

[1] Tsitsipas vs [8] FAA

[WC] Feli Lopez vs [6] Milos Raonic

[4] Medvedev vs Little Diego

[Q] Nico Mahut vs Giles Simon (all French battle... can't believe how well Mahut is playing after coming through qualies... he just beat Stan)

R530, ESL/R527 loves to be a hater.

omg I hope Kyrgios draws Nadal, Federer or Djokovic round 1 of Wimbledon. Spice it up baby and you know he'd put on a show.

but the ATP draw makers would never allow that to happen. They've got to protect the big 3 at all costs

Is Sharapova even confirmed for Wimbledon yet?

[quote] Hawt dubs team 😋

Its doubles match.

R535 I was referring to Deliciano and Misery

Ash Barty and two others have rejected Misery's proposal of playing mixed at Wimbledon. I'm sure they'd give a WC to him and Judy?

Lots of fun and good eye candy matches tomorrow, R531!

Shapo makes me think that he's thrilled to have made it in to the big leagues, but he hasn't quite matured enough to realize that it's now a vocation and he has to earn his keep. He might be a bit star-struck for now, but he'll get it together in his own time.

[quote] He might be a bit star-struck for now

By Putin?

Maybe Misery should play mixed doubles with Maria in Wimbledon

Re Kyrgios, apparently some members of his team approached Philippoussis to see if he'd sit down and talk to him and he was all up for it but said he'd only do it if Kyrgios asked him himself.

Matteo and Karen in a tussle between two sexy swarthy mins

Hey @andy_murray I’m set for men’s doubles in wimby but would love to play mix with you. What do you think?

The only thing that will make up for Nadal winning his 12th French Open will be if he loses by the 3rd Round at Wimbledon.

It's disappointing Osaka has now joined the WTA ranks of win a Slam (or two in her case) then start to fall apart mentally. None of the women can sustain. Barty should be on a high from her French Open win, and she's got a good game for the grass. I'm curious how she will perform at Wimbledon.

R522: He is 19, what he did is pretty normal at his age, what would be difficult is to keep that level round after round on a GS.

The problem with Felix right now is that he makes some absurd mistakes in parts of his matches, that could cost him sets on a GS, and after several rounds things can get way more difficult.

Anyway, he is very consistent and has a good mentality, but we need to watch him on several GS before judge his potential performances. Zverev was really great outside GS for a good while, but that never translated in good results at GS

Tsitsipas and serving for staying on the set are two things that don't mix well.

He is losing his serve almost everytime he is in that situation and it's starting to be worrying

🧝‍♂️ Elf Magic

OJ into semis 👏👏👏

Titsy has the yips on break points

Tsitsipas never won a set against FAA, not in juniors neither as pros, and that being clearly a better player than Felix right now. Once Felix will rise his level (which will happen sooner than later) it would get worse.

Anyway, Stefanos has a bigger problem than Felix being a bad match up, he is failing with his serve everytime he is under pressure. That didn't happen on clay, but it happened on grass in three of his four matches

Not my point, R546--I was simply stating that Felix did well getting through five sets of tennis as a point of comparison since he's never been through a GS match in the big boy league. Whether that translates to GS success, we'll see.

Kudos to him for making quick work of Tsitsipas today.

Why do you call him OJ?

Auger sounds like...

Oh, I guess it does. It just reminds me of OJ Simpson which is not a particularly nice association. Or orange juice, which brings to mind Patty Schnyder...

Felix has said that he likes the acronym FAA. He might have the same objections to OJ, which sounds like something Brad Gilbert would come up with.

Genie B. got bageled by journeywoman Fiona Ferro in Eastbourne's 1st round of qualies

Fuck Beeg, I came up with OJ myself!

R556: Ferro is the kind of brainless ballbasher player that could defeat anyone if she has the day (unfortunately for her that rarely happens)

Vee has put on a few pounds, eh? And she’s not wearing a bra?

😳

Wimbledon update:

OUT: del Potro

IN: Lorenzi

Next: Andreozzi

[quote]Auger sounds like...

Félix Auger-Aliassime is his name. He has said that he likes the acronym FAA.

Yes Auger sounds like 'OJ' if you pronounce it correctly, but by association it's just denigrating to align him in any way with OJ Simpson, which is the first thing that comes to my mind ..... and Orange Juice is just dumb.

I respectfully vote FAA, as it should be.

I agree OJ sounds like something that illiterate fool Gilbert would come up with.

Bikini Eugenie actually lost 12 games in a row after winning the first two. Hidden double bagel. To Fiona Ferro (clay specialist and French WC hoarder). Is it still worth keeping up the charade of being a professional tennis player? At what point does one throw in the towel?

Sasha losing to a clay courter on grass? Not looks good for his Wimby preparation

Semi finals for the week are set.

Halle:

[1] Roger 'Gramps' Federer vs Pierre-Hugues 'Twink' Herbet

Matteo Berettini vs David 'Elf' Goffin

Queens:

[4] Daniil Medvedev vs Giles Simon

[8] Felix Auger Aliassime vs Deliciano Lopez

Mallorca:

[1] Mangelique Kerber vs [3] Bratlinda Bencic

[2] Anastasija Sevastova vs [7] Sofia Kenin

Birmingham:

Petra Martic vs [8] Julia Goerges

[1] Ash Barty vs Barbie Strycova

R565, Ohh that is Easy

Halle

1)Roger

2)Berrettini

Fever Tree

3)Medvedev

4) FAA

Mallorca

5)Kerber

6)Sevastova

Birmingham

7)Julia Goerges

8)Barty

Hottest player on tour aka Coric retired. What happened? Will he be ready for Wimbledon?

R567 What happened is he needs to learn to close out matches earlier than a 3rd set tiebreaker. These chokes are fucking up his match rhythm.

Really though he's been having a rough year, I think because he didn't get a proper off season. Everyone else was resting and then training but he had health issues and a much longer season than others. First he went to London to be ready as an alternate for the ATP finals (training but not actually getting to play). Then he slogged it out to help Croatia win Davis Cup, and then a small injury.

This year he's actually been hanging in there and is finally now getting the results you'd expect from someone with his ranking. If he had been as healthy and prepared as he was last year, he might be making a push and actually winning those matches though and making the next step. Hopefully he's healed up for Wimbledon. I need to see that ass in white shorts.

I bet RBA was also honored to have been on court with Federer and pushed him to 3 sets!!

Kyrgios threw his racket out of the court and when the fans booed him he said suck my dick.

Something is wrong with Kyrgios right now, he was always grumpy and ready to make an espectacle but lately he seems out of control

R565

Halle:

Grandpa

Elf

Med

FAA

Kerber

Sevastova

Martic

Barthy

R564, your nickname game is waning.

A DL dream job, Anti Doping Chaperones at US Open:

Notify the player selected of the need for sample collection • Accompany and observe the player until and after his/her arrival at the Doping Control Station (DCS)

All Chaperones will be provided a US Open uniform and be responsible for the use of their portable radio equipment. Each will be given an “ALL ACCESS” Credential, to include Locker Room access.

Chaperones MUST maintain visual contact with the player from the moment the match is completed until the player arrives in the Anti-Doping Station.

[quote] A DL dream job, Anti Doping Chaperones at US Open:

Can one be both an Anti-Doping Chaperone and a mascot child?

[quote] Dibs on all the swarthy ones

Such as Sara Sorribes Tormo?

Perhaps Kyrios is coming to terms with his sexuality.

R574 I volunteer

Ari Wolfe or whatever his name is at TC pronounces Auger like OJ - which is a terrible pronunciation of the French. ‘OJ Aliassime’. You queens are overthinking it and overdetermining it, but such are the times we live in...

"You queens"? Who the fuck are you?

[quote]Ari Wolfe or whatever his name is at TC pronounces Auger like OJ

Ari Wolfe can barely speak english correctly let alone capture the nuances of proper pronunciation of the French language.

R580, perhaps he was addressing the Queen’s tournament aka Fever Tree.

[quote]Ari Wolfe can barely speak english correctly let alone capture the nuances of proper pronunciation of the French language.

Does he say Lucas 'Poohey' too?

[quote] Does he say Lucas 'Poohey' too?

Like DLers.

R574, And what if they send us to collect samples for WTA? I will be dead by the end of the day after watching nasty, hairy pussies of WTA players all day

Yum.

I thought DL fave Jan Michael Gambill was with TC now?

With Kevin Anderson mentioned a lot, I thought I'd post this from Tennis for Kids. Adorable.

This a pretty catty interview from little Vuk to Andy Murray: "Would you call yourself a crying person?"

Awww, HELL yeah

Hahaha, r589!! “Did your mom tell you to pick that Spanish player as your doubles partner?”

Team Elf or Team Lovely Matteo (LM)?

Vuk is great. His interview with Tsitsipas was hilarious. Tsitsipas was answering the questions like he was in a philosophy exam rather than being interviewed by a small child. You could see even Vuk was shining "Fucking hell, this bloke takes himself too seriously".

The last question was "What's you favourite animal?" which is a pretty silly question to ask a grown man and Tsitsipas sat there thinking for what seemed like an eternity before answering "Hmmm.... well at the moment it's a peacock" (!?).

watch his hilarious interview with Nick Krygois

Nick K with Vulk

Goffin is proving to be a one tough cookie

Damn right!

Barty is one win away from becoming the new WTA Number one!

Berrettini's unprecedented cap racket smash...also he looks one pair of tweezers away from a unibrow.

Elf Magic, bitches! 🧝‍♂️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️