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Day 2!  Hopefully Sloane and Vika shows it was wrong to put them on Hisense. Bring on the medical timeouts!  Edit: I am underwhelmed. fancyclown fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jan 20, 2015 |
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Sloane is terrible. Poor Heather Watson.  She had a good tournament win last week, including beating Stephens, and maybe the pressure people were starting to dump on her got to her.
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Jan 20, 2015 02:37
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Sodium Chloride posted:Sloane is terrible. Sloane is a dumpster fire. I don't like Vika -- she's off-putting and lacks self-awareness, but she deserved the win.
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Jan 20, 2015 02:52
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Stephens is pretty awful; I'm not a huge Azarenka fan but, at top form, she's a pretty legit player. Also, Bouchard's section of the draw opens up again 
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Jan 20, 2015 02:55
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Love watching Nishikori playing against big servers. Almagro has a dozen aces on him and yet Kei is 2 sets up after winning a 7-1 tiebreak
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Jan 20, 2015 02:56
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What the hell is wrong with Woza? Not putting any distance between herself and Taylor Townsend.
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Jan 20, 2015 04:18
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Whirlwind Jones posted:Nobody cares about the first rounds. I care about the first rounds.  I just can't watch much at the Aussie because of the time difference and work hours. But coincidentally I do have next week off so hopefully I'll be able to watch at least the late part of evening sessions starting Saturday. I hate following it through just scorelines.
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Jan 20, 2015 06:11
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Josh Lyman posted:Top 8 Women's Betting Favorites (Ladbrokes) Pretty funny that they have to play each other in the second round now. Wonder if this is one of those times where the organizational committee might have been well served not to just rely on the WTA rankings and actually give Azarenka a seed of some kind.
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Jan 20, 2015 07:54
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I love Aga, and the new coaching arrangement seems to be bearing fruit already. Pro: Her serve seems stronger. Con: She is not currently repping The Cheesecake Factory
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I'm just curious from the Tennis veterans in here -- has anyone else have such consistently high Aces per Game & Avg First Serve Speed(in KM/h  ). His serve is magical, anytime I watch him do it, I'm in awe. Does he have a good chance to win a Grand Slam at some point, assuming the big 4 are all retired/on their last legs. It seems to me the next big 4 would be Stan the man, Milos, and... (Tsonga? Murray?; has a few more years than Rafa/Feds/Novak I'd imagine).
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Hirez posted:I'm just curious from the Tennis veterans in here -- has anyone else have such consistently high Aces per Game & Avg First Serve Speed(in KM/h Some pretty looking tennis to start the day with Goerges, Puig, and Witthoeft all on court. edit: Witthoeft beat Christina McHale in 49 minutes 6-3 6-0. She plays like Bouchard without the ugly strokes. Looks as good on court as Bouchard too. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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Hirez posted:I'm just curious from the Tennis veterans in here -- has anyone else have such consistently high Aces per Game & Avg First Serve Speed(in KM/h Ivo Karlovic and John Isner both have serves that are at least as powerful as Milos' (if not better). However they're more deficient in other areas than he is. Milos' problem is still his lack of an alternative when his opponent is returning well. His own return game is pretty lacklustre (he seldom gets many break opportunities) and his movement around the court isn't great either. It really shows when he plays a guy like Nishikori, or any of the big 3. As for who the next wave of men's tennis players is, it's pretty hard to tell at this point. Nishikori, Raonic and Dimitrov are all pretty good but I don't see any being able to dominate like the current big 3 have. Beyond that you have some younger guys like Nick Kyrgios, Dominic Thiem and Borna Coric who are promising but it's a bit early to tell right now.
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I love this tournament but man the times suck now that I have a job. I hope Federer wins but then again I want Dimitrov to do well and both those things can't happen.
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Well Sharapova is down a break in the third set to rank 150 Alexandra Panova
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Well Sharapova is down a break in the third set to rank 150 Alexandra Panova Yeah just tuned in to that match.  She will def try to slow things down now Edit: slow between points, rushing through points
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Uh, well it looks like Maria is heading home soon.
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Jan 21, 2015 04:45
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Sharapova's play in the third set is disappointing. Last year she played many three set matches and practically every time even if she lost she gave it her all. She looks uncharacteristically listless. e: the future of the men's game is grim as hell. People will be clinging on to Federer, Nadal, Djoko and Murray for years. Sodium Chloride fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jan 21, 2015 |
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colonel_korn posted:Ivo Karlovic and John Isner both have serves that are at least as powerful as Milos' (if not better). However they're more deficient in other areas than he is. 
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Turn this around now Masha!
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Sharapova still alive, 5-5 in the third after saving a couple match points...
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Wow, a scare for Sharapova there. After the first half of that set I didn't think she could come back
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Sodium Chloride posted:Sharapova's play in the third set is disappointing. Last year she played many three set matches and practically every time even if she lost she gave it her all. She looks uncharacteristically listless. Kyrikkos is going to be one of the names to keep an eye on. Kids a natural, like Djoko was. The fact that he hit the top 20 already is saying a lot. The womens bracket though....is bleak. there is not a single name i care about playing. But i got into tennis in the 90's heyday of Sampras and Aggassi, Graf and Hingis and Seles...I used to be able to hatewatch the Williams sisters (my grandmother was an old racist, and if nothing else imagining what she would be saying about them was a hilarious thing. Especially when they were dominating about 5 years back) Sharapova and Serena are still playing but only because ATP is super lax about PEDs and if it wasnt for modern medicine would have stopped playing from injuries a long time ago (then again,they might not have torn themselves up so badly either...) and its showing in both their play.
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Jan 21, 2015 05:24
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The Williams sisters had the smarts not to grind their joints into dust playing tons of rinky dink 500-level tournaments and their focus on big tournaments and majors has allowed them to play into their mid 30s where most WTA players break down before then. Sharapova is only 27. Don't get me wrong though, I'm sure they're using all kinds of PEDs.
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Seems Federer has a blister or something. Thats kind of a lovely thing to have on your hand as a tennis player.
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This Kyrgios - Karlovic match is the epitome of big servers who can barely do anything else. Karlovic whiffed an overhead, and then Kyrgios walked away which let Karlovic hit it on the bounce into open court
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Jan 21, 2015 07:52
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Nadal into a fifth with a qualifier lol. Tomic is always great theatre even when he gets his choke on. When he is on though, he's good. I still think he'll rise as he matures. It's his dumb kid mentality that holds him back. He'll win a slam at some point.
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MacDougall posted:Nadal into a fifth with a qualifier lol.
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Delpo underwent minor wrist surgery yesterday  http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/12201774/juan-martin-del-potro-surgery-left-wrist-again I hope he returns to form soon, I was so hyped to watch him play this open. I love watching this big man hit laser forehands, move twice as fast as Raonic, and not fall over every other step like Dimitrov
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Waynebo posted:Delpo underwent minor wrist surgery yesterday Today's schedule looks pretty boring. Becker/Hewitt could be interesting and it'll be interesting if Giorgi can stay hot enough to take down Smitkova, but the only decent match is Azarenka/Wozniacki on Margaret Court Arena to start the night session at 3 a.m. Eastern.
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Jerzy/Monfils could be cool. But yeah aside from that nothing else really jumps out at me. Well I'm personally pulling for the two Canadians too, obviously. Pospisil is first up on Court 13, his bracket has opened up a little bit with the two most immediate seeds (Dolgopolov and Fognini) both getting knocked out. Would be cool if he can make the R16.
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This post-match interviewer is such a creepy old man. Last night he asks Bouchard for a twirl and today he says of Cibulkova, "You're a real fit tennis player. Just have a look at your body."
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I don't think my monitor is capable of displaying the color of Azarenka's dress, all these fluorescent outfits are terrible And Woz continues to have terrible challenge management skills, she got burned by that in the WTA Finals CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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pat is loving him some raonic this morning can't stop talking about how much he's improved and said he will go up a couple ranks this year
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Genie vs Garcia starts now! This could be a good one.
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haha this game between Garcia and Bouchard just won't end. Deuce #9  e: no one can hold serve colonel_korn fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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fancyclown posted:Genie vs Garcia starts now! This could be a good one. The first set was, but Garcia seems to be crashing and burning now
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colonel_korn posted:Roger is down a set and an early break to Seppi
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