2020 ATP/WTA thread

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USO draws are out early since there are no qualies, I’ll start a thread later. 

Men

Women

[perfectchaos007 6,780]

If the seeds hold then Serena will have a shot at redemption against Sakkari in the 4th round.

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Sheesh. 

 

Damn good week for Vika though. 

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Let's ride. 

 

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Genie said fuck this 125K bullshit in Prague. R1 loss to Zarazua, 0-6, 6-7(5). 

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Guess this is how you diss a racket tap. 

 

 

And Genie is in the semis of that tourney, gets Badosa next. 

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Genie is in the Istanbul final at 9 am on TC. 

 

And here’s the Rome draw, Vika is still in & gets Venus R1. 

https://www.internazionalibnlditalia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MDS-wta-2020.pdf

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Genie lost in a third set breaker. 

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Clara Burke is actually Clara Burel. 

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[gsoda3 3,363]

Wow genie given a roland garros WC

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She got lucky because there is usually at least one each reciprocated to someone from the other three Slams’ countries. Not the case with ‘Rona. 

Edited September 14, 2020 by shadow_operative2.0
Genie & Tsvetana are the only non-Frenchies this time.

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Rafa breadsticks PCB in the first. Rough turnaround from a Slam semi on hard. 

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9 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Rafa breadsticks PCB in the first. Rough turnaround from a Slam semi on hard. 

how are you watching this, tennis channel?

 

edit:  just found it

Edited September 16, 2020 by gsoda3

[gsoda3 3,363]

nadal wins.  1 and 1.  an hour 13.  

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Vika beat Venus in straights, Yastremska over Anisimova in 3, Danka Kovinic has fucking murdered hot Julia & Bencic in the first two rounds. 

[Napoleon 8,854]

Watched some extended highlights between Sloane & Mugaru-th-a and Sloane can play some amazing points and then play kind of like crap. She is not locked in and her face looks like she's just going through the motions and occasionally gets a little annoyed and feels like winning some points and then goes back to going through the motions. It must be a weird time for her.

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Garbine/Gauff playing 3 on TC. 

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Another one bites the dust. 

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The 2020 VTB Kremlin Cup in Moscow has been canceled due to issues relating to COVID-19.

Cancellation of the ATP 250 event, scheduled to run from Oct. 19-25, and the WTA Premier event, from Oct. 26 to Nov. 1, follows a recent increase in the COVID-19 infection rate in Moscow. 

As mandated by the Moscow City Administration, the event will no longer be permitted to go ahead in 2020. 

 

Edited September 17, 2020 by shadow_operative2.0

[perfectchaos007 6,780]

Vika double bagel’d Kenin. 😬 

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Yep, just came to post. 

 

 

14th time to a Slam champ. 

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I can honestly say I've never once heard of Mima Jausovec. 

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TC is bummin’ cause they get the French. 

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Naomi Osaka will not play in the French Open, she announced Thursday night.

Osaka said a sore hamstring will keep her from adequately preparing for the clay court tournament, which begins Sept. 27 in Paris.

She is coming off a win this past weekend at the US Open but had been noncommittal about the French afterward.

 

[satyanash 15,660]

Fed Cup has been renamed the Billie Jean King Cup

 

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17 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Garbine/Gauff playing 3 on TC. 

A replay was just on and Garbine was committing all kinds of unforced errors at the end of the 2nd and start of the 3rd.

Then, up 2-0, Coco completely lost her serve. She served 7 faults in a row, but managed to get her eighth in and won the point to go 15-40. Won the next, then lost and started to spiral. After those 3 double faults in a row, she lost 6 of the next 7 games (including the one with 3 double faults in a row).

Completely confidence evaporation.
 

 

7 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Vika double bagel’d Kenin. 😬 

I like Kenin, but I doubt that she ever gets back to a Grand Slam final. She'll probably have a few Slam Semis again in her career, but I just can't imagine her beating two of the top players in a row in a big tournament. Everything went perfectly for her in Melbourne.

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I posted this on the tennis site... 

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Damn, Marketa ate a breadstick.

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And of course she promptly returns the favor. Which means the third is likely headed for a breaker.

 

Final... 

 

1-6, 6-1, 7-6(5) for Vondrousova

Women. 

Edited September 18, 2020 by shadow_operative2.0

[Napoleon 8,854]

Simona Halep was working her ass off (juicing?) during the lockdown. She looks like she could be a stunt double for the battle at the start of “Wonder Woman”

 

Italian Open: Simona Halep extends her perfect record in tennis' restart to 7-0

Edited September 18, 2020 by Napoleon

[Napoleon 8,854]

Putintseva just quits after getting broken to go down 2-0 in the second set. 

She of full labios y culo and an amazing drop shot had supposedly “been receiving treatment in the previous rounds”. (She had already taken  a medical timeout in the first set.)

i think that she (Puti) is my favorite player to watch these day, but she’s out. Halep looked really good. She (Simona) will probably be the betting favorite in Paris. 

Halep could play Azarenka in the next round. 

Edited September 19, 2020 by Napoleon

[Napoleon 8,854]

My boy, Dominik Koepfer is taking Novak to a 3rd. 

Vamos Green Wave Kraut!!

PS- In no surprise, Vika has a stronger will than Garbine. 

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Garbiñe won in 3. 

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1 hour ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Garbiñe won in 3. 

Yes she did. It was a Jekyll & Hyde match. 

Svitlolina has the neck chains, but her head isn’t in this. Maybe Gael went on to the next tour stop and she’s lost her rudder. 

[perfectchaos007 6,780]

Nadal v. Schwartzman is on. Late night in Italy with no fans so you can literally hear crickets!

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Pliskova/Mertens went very WTA... 

6-3, 3-6, 6-0 for KP 

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2 & 5 for Diego over some Rafa guy. 

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4 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

2 & 5 for Diego over some Rafa guy. 

Vamos Argentina!!

🇦🇷 🇦🇷 !!

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Simona v. Karolina for the Rome title at 7:30 am Central. 

[satyanash 15,660]

oof.

 

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[perfectchaos007 6,780]

Novaxx did it! No one has more masters 1000 titles than him now 

[Napoleon 8,854]

Watching a replay of Sloane Stephens vs ???? Hibino and I don’t know if Sloane is hungover or donated blood right before the match, but she won’t even move for a ball that looks to be headed to 10 feet away from her. 

She just had 10th & 11th double faults to get broken for the 9th time in 11 service games. 

My guess is that her sponsors are requiring her to enter this tournaments, but she hasn’t even moved for the two returns in this latest game.

Because she’s American, the announcers aren’t criticizing her too much, but she is basically throwing the match. She should be investigated for possible betting connections. 

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Barbara Haas was serving up 6-0, 5-0, 40-30 in French qualies today, this was the match final... 

6-0, 5-7, 7-5

19 fucking extra games after that point, ouch. 

https://www.flashscore.com/match/rs5jtElS/#point-by-point;2

[Napoleon 8,854]

There is Russian (who plays for Kazakhstan 🇰🇿), Alexander Bublik, who just spanked the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime. 

The announcers kept talking about how Bublik is usually an unexplainable erratic player, but was super focused and didn’t do stupid shit for no reason whatsoever and was able to handle Felix in about 75 minutes. 

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According to the DirecTV guide, FSSW will be showing FO coverage from 4-8 every morning. Not sure if it will just be a simulcast of TC, but would be cool if they show their own shit. 

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[perfectchaos007 6,780]

Kristie Ahn draws Serena Williams in the first round 2 slams in a row now.

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Men’s draw

Women’s

 

We’ll get a thread up later. 

[Napoleon 8,854]

Sabalenka vs Svitolina

I was pulling for Svitolina, though I do appreciate a lot about Sabalenka.

Sabalenka is so much more powerful, but she is also mentally fragile.

Svitolina is patient, picks her spots to use power, and has a horrendous second serve.

I watched some of the match, but will leave it at that.

[Hefeweizen 5,468]

I’m looking forward to RG.  I’m a big fan of Nadal and Thiem should make a deep run.  Who else on the men’s side do you see going deep?  PCB? Any of the scheiss argies?  Djoker is not favored even though he is the top seed.

[Napoleon 8,854]

The singles final of the Strasbourg Open was supposed to start at 11am local time (4am CDT), but it still hasn't started due to a rain delay. The doubles final was supposed to follow that.

This is the current forecast at 4:37am CDT (11:37am in France).

I doubt that they get the singles final in today and there's almost no way that the doubles final happens. In Hamburg, there is a roof for their center court so the men can play without a problem, but no such contraption for the women in Strasbourg.