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Feels Villeneuve posted:The WTA is very bad. It should be disbanded IMO has this happened yet
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I have seen a couple of the players trying to knock the clay out of their sneaks, why? Do they know where they're playing or is there an actual reason for this? (Is there an actual reason for this even on clay?)
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Rhymes With Clue posted:(Is there an actual reason for this even on clay?) I think this is just to make sure they don't lose any traction from clay getting stuck in the sole. I'm kind of enjoying this Anderson/Carreno Busta match despite the somewhat subdued atmosphere, particularly now that Anderson's playing well. He was kind of uneven in the first set. Anderson's game is probably better suited to troubling Rafa but neither of them is likely to take more than 10 games to be honest. Hopefully Del Potro wins. Sway Grunt fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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Okay and now he just outhit nadal almost purely with backhands
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Sep 9, 2017 01:31
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Nice moth killing from the ball guy (he looks too old to be called a kid). Del Po crushing the poo poo out of everything. e: now it's Nadal doing the crushing. Sodium Chloride fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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Nadal has gotten his poo poo together this set. This should be a hell of a match.
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Strong Nadal set, and strong HD moth killing. I can't believe people cheered that, so heartless
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Nadal is absolute fire right now. Delpo is shook
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Del Po is getting annihilated now.
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Delpo looks like he's running on fumes
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yeah seems like Delpo hit the wall right when Nadal started going nuts
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Nadal now playing like he played in the French.
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He is a dope fraud and must die.
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Looking forward to Nadal hopefully wrapping up #16. Shame its not #17 then he'd only be one behind Fed but the AusOpen is what it is. Rooting for Sloane tomorrow as I've always liked her game. Going to be weird when all the old dominant players on both Tours finally hit a wall/retire. Especially after the ridiculous year Venus has had despite her advanced age. Given the other Men's Semi tonight its obvious both Tours will be chaotic for awhile but its rather enjoyable.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:He is a dope fraud and must die.
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fwiw in high school i worked at a country club with some tennis pros that i think maybe might have like briefly cracked the ATP rankings, so clearly very good players but not like top tier. they all said nadal was a doper, and in a pretty matter of fact way. this would have been like ~2006ish
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It's nice to see two younger players in the final, particularly two that have been talked about as potential slam winners over the past few years. Feels like tennis, at least women's tennis, is inching forward a little bit tonight. I hope it's a good one.
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C'mon Keys, no one wants to see Sloane Stephens win something.
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Sodium Chloride posted:C'mon Keys, no one wants to see Sloane Stephens win something. They're billing it as Offense vs. Defense but to me that sounds like code for Offense vs. Boring gently caress off Pam, the coaches are trying to watch the match what is wrong with you Cornflakes fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Sep 9, 2017 |
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I think offense can be boring too to be honest. Ostapenko bored the crap out of me in the RG final cause her game was so one-note and monotonous. Aggression needs to be measured, otherwise it risks veering into reckless ball-bashing. Sloane may be defensive-minded but I find her game - the movement and strokes - very aesthetic and enjoyable to watch.
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If Sloane wins, every mainstream publication is gonna be calling her Serena 2.0. Which is ridiculous if for no other reason than having opposite playing styles.
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Stevens is unstoppable right now.
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Keys' unforced errors are unstoppable. She woke up on the wrong side of bed today.
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Glare Seethe posted:I think offense can be boring too to be honest. Ostapenko bored the crap out of me in the RG final cause her game was so one-note and monotonous. Aggression needs to be measured, otherwise it risks veering into reckless ball-bashing. Yeah, I loved watching Ostapenko because I felt like the few incredible winners was worth the monotony and frustration. So to each their own I guess, but Sloane played some great points in this match I will agree Sodium Chloride posted:Black Wozniacki is doing what Wozniacki hasn't been able to do Gotta find a new nickname
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Bageled in a final, what a collapse
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First slam for Under Armour. Can't wait for the ads with Sloane and Jordan Spieth j/k UA would never piss off their golf market with a black woman
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Josh Lyman posted:First slam for Under Armour. First from a woman. Andy Murray won a slam in UA 2016.
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"It's impossible" I don't know Sloane, did you watch the loving Super Bowl? 28-3 in the 4th quarter???????????
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Sodium Chloride posted:First from a woman. Andy Murray won a slam in UA 2016.
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It's remarkable how the US Open consistently finds the worst on-court interviewers. And he said he'd never seen the players sit down with each other after the match - it happened literally two years ago dude. Sloane. She played great the whole tournament. I do wish the women played best-of-five, if not the whole tournament then at least in the semis and final - it wouldn't mess up the schedule for those rounds anyway. Maybe Keys would've swung more freely in the third and made it competitive, and then who knows; sneak the third in a tight tiebreak, start turning it around? There's a different dynamic and feel to best-of-five that is more suitable for a final match. It's a shame we're deprived of it all the time on the women's side.
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The worst was that horrible interlude where they talked to Billie Jean King and Emma Stone about the battle of the sexes movie during the effing match
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Thankfully on my Eurosport stream we were spared that particular atrocity. It reminds me though that last year they (not sure who exactly - ESPN?) experimented with mid-match player interviewers. I remember Coco did one. Did they scrap that this year? It was awful.
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