2023 ATP/WTA thread

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1 hour ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Sofia beat Jelena in straights. Fun match though, both just gripping & ripping. 

“Rocky” anthem playing in the background. 

Kenin is coming for her Aussie title in 2024.

Edited September 20, 2023 by Napoleon

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Kenin is certainly finding her form again. Big QF win over Leylah today 

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Then Kenin lays an egg against Dolehide wtf.

 

Anyways we have Laver Cup this weekend! Team World is up 3-0 over Team Europe currently.

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If Sakkari doesn’t win this for her second title, I mean, that’s fucking curtains on her career. 

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46 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Then Kenin lays an egg against Dolehide wtf.

Anyways we have Laver Cup this weekend! Team World is up 3-0 over Team Europe currently.

Didn’t Dolehide beat someone highly ranked last week? (Or the week before.)

I think that she’s having a moment. 

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Pegula goes down for Kudermetova.

 

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Rough draw for Sofia in Beijing, playing Aryna now. 

https://www.flashscore.com/draw/ObNeP9MU/G8NkZviJ/#/G8NkZviJ/draw

[Napoleon 8708]

Randomly turned on the Tennis Channel at about 8:48am and who is playing a LIVE match?

Álcaraz 🇪🇸 v Sinner 🇮🇹 

It was 4-4 in the 1st set. Now 5-5.

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First set went to a tie breaker. 

Sinner serving at 5-2 in the breaker proceeded to lose both of his service points. 

Álcaraz at 4-5 then loses the next two points on his second serves, including Sinner absolutely teeing off on the second serve into the deuce court cross court into the corner as Álcaraz lunges and flails at the ball flying past him. 

So Sinner takes the first set 7-6 (4) and then comes back and breaks Álcaraz to start the second set. 

Even more that Djokovic, Sinner is Álcaraz’s worst matchup.

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Álcaraz- 6 1

.Sinner.- 7 6

Lots of deuce games in the second set that sometimes had several break point opportunities, but Sinner won all of those games. 

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Jannik Sinner 7 7

D. Medvedev. 6 6

With that, Sinner will move up to #4 in the world behind:

#1 Djokovic 

#2 Álcaraz 

#3 Medvedev 

#4 Sinner (up 3 spots)

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Fairly salty. 

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5-1 with a quickness for Iga over Coco. 

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Iga beat Coco 6-2 , 6-3.

And then Rybakina lost to Samsonova. 😕

Iga gets destroyed by big hitters with flat shots, so I would have liked to have seen Rybakina make the final.

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Sofia ate a breadstick in Seoul to something named Su Jeong Jang. 

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Pegula’s playing a Slovak who has eaten several loaves of bread every day of her life. 

Listed at 5’11”, she has to be over 2 bills.

Guess how to pronounce her name and then click the speaker icon next to her name to hear how she pronounces it. 
https://www.wtatennis.com/players/322277/viktoria-hruncakova

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Jelena lost to a girl ranked #569. 

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And Stearns was bounced by one of the Fruhvirtova teens. Damn

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German-born married lesbian American, Emina Bektas, just lost to Chinese Yuan Yue in the first semifinal in Seoul. 

Half-Korean American #2, Jessica Pegula, is warming up to play a 33 year-old Belgian, Yanina Wickmayer, in front of a mostly empty stadium. 

It is approaching 5:30pm on Saturday afternoon/evening in Seoul and you would never know that this wasn’t the morning of the first day of matches from the look of the number of fans in the stands.

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JPeg handles business in her other home country, wins the Seoul title. 

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Soju Jess wins again!!

❤️🎾

 

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Errani v. Bronzetti today in Tunisia. Ain't gotta tell the fans to shut up. 

 

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On 10/18/2023 at 6:25 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Errani v. Bronzetti today in Tunisia. Ain't gotta tell the fans to shut up. 

Ons Jabeur doesn’t have to question whether she’s the fan favorite.

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Anyone watched Hannah Klugman play? She's a brit. 14 years 8 mos, youngest to qualify for a w100 event.

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Didn't see any of it, but know she lost to hot Oceane last week. 

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3 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

Anyone watched Hannah Klugman play? She's a brit. 14 years 8 mos, youngest to qualify for a w100 event.

Well, Emma Raducanu’s reign as Britain’s future was fun while it lasted.

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WTA Finals underway in Cancun. Not the most inspired court color combo. 

 

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Looks like the same surface they brought into Ft. Worth at the WTA finals last year

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I posted this elsewhere. 

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JPeg trying to be real nice about the court conditions in her TC desk interview. She was like, “They‘re okay, they’re fine. I mean, I’ve played on much worse.” 

This is how bad it was Friday morning. 

 

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Easy bagel from Aryna to Sakkari. Tiger Queen ain't gonna fuck around this week. 

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Next year this WTA finals is either going back to China or will be played in Saudi Arabia

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Marketa was up 5-2 on Iga, lost 11 of the last 12 games. 

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0 & 1 for Coco over Ons, this whole tourney is such a sham. 

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The ladies are fucking murdering this venue, it’s dirty. 

So sad the WTA has delved to this. 

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On 10/31/2023 at 6:20 AM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

The ladies are fucking murdering this venue, it’s dirty. 

So sad the WTA has delved to this. 

Last year in Fort Worth you would have thought that the tournament was being held during the COVID lockdown. 

The arena was a ghost town.

Perhaps selecting the venue 6 to 12 months in advance and then promoting the thing and organizing the thing over those 6 to 12 months might make for a better year end tournament.

Maybe. 🤔

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All the rain pushed both finals to tomorrow. 

Iga beat Aryna, will face JPeg. Iga reclaims year-end #1 with a win, Aryna otherwise. 

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26-minute breadstick from Iga. 

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Jessie just wants to go home. Iga finishes year end #1

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1 & 0 in 59 minutes. 

Rough 24 hours for the Buffalo family. 

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I think that most of us have had enough of Iga. 

 

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Sofia was up 5-2, had two MPs at 5-4 against Golubic in the BJK Cup, now playing 3. 

Edited November 9, 2023 by shadow_operative2.0

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She won a tough decider, that was quite the match for a Thursday afternoon. 

[Napoleon 8708]

Just checked in on Kenin's progress back to the Top 32 (ranked at Majors) and after being outside the Top 200 earlier this years, she's played well.

 

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Kenin ate 2 breadsticks today. Vondrousova steamrolled her

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We ain’t winning this doubles rubber either. 

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Yeah the Czechs were too strong. Renaldi retired as captain after the loss

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Yep, Lindsay takes over. 

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Leylah & an 18-year old with exactly zero WTA main draw matches lead the Canucks to their first-ever title. Genie got to play a couple dead doubles rubbers.