2024 ATP/WTA thread

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We’re back, kids.

United Cup is underway, Boulter v. Tomljanovic later tonight will not suck.

https://www.wtatennis.com/tournament/2084/united-cup/2023/order-of-play

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Boulter just beat JPeg in 3 long ones.

 

Hot Camila up in the decider against Stearns from Brisbane.

https://www.flashscore.com/draw/ABL0mf23/lroJtQ2g/#/lroJtQ2g/draw

Naomi is back in that one. 

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Pegula got her revenge against Boulter in mixed doubs.

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Has a winnable match next, then would likely get Coco. 

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Emma & Svitolina have split breakers in Auckland.

Amanda got destroyed earlier, 0 & 1 in 51 minutes by Bouzkova. 

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8 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Emma & Svitolina have split breakers in Auckland.

Amanda got destroyed earlier, 0 & 1 in 51 minutes by Bouzkova. 

Amanda has been on the Serena diet since her dad passed. Can’t blame her for handling trauma in that manner, but her tennis career is probably done 

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On 1/1/2024 at 7:56 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

 

Has a winnable match next, then would likely get Coco. 

FUCK McCartney Kessler and the horse she road in on!!!

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Auckland final, Coco v. Svitolina at 10. 

Brisbane final, Aryna v. Rybakina at 10:30. 

Good job, WTA. 

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Svitolina takes the first set over Gauff. Coco's serve is a disaster so far

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Tiger Queen eats a bagel, fucking ouch. 

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Playing 3 in Auckland. 

Iga v. Angie in the United Cup final in 30. 

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Tall blonde whooped Aryna. 

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Coco defends her title. 

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3 & 0 for Poland. 

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Stearns v. Gracheva from Hobart now. 

https://www.flashscore.com/draw/Wb32TbBs/6e9WkbGm/

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Peyton lost in a long 3, Dani v. Mertens next. 

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Dani got worked.

Hot Badosa back for first time since Wimbledon, this match is not hard on the eyes. 

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Great look, ladies. 

 

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Australian Open Qualies going on right now:

Signed UT recruit Maya Joint last summer changed to representing Australia. Got a wildcard and beat top 200 Natalija Stevanovic today. Here is a link to the match. Hopefully she still comes to Texas and does not skip college.

https://ausopen.com/video-player#!?videoId=6344582515112

Lulu Sun plays later. Lulu reached the main draw last week in New Zealand and is now back to her career high ranking (189).

Miguel Angel Reyes Varela (class of '09) was recently elected to the player's council.

Lloyd Glasspool won at ATP doubles title in Brisbane last week.

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And our girls posed for a pic. 

 

JPeg struggled past Pera in 3 in Adelaide. 

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We’ll get an AO thread later, but just check out the last names Iga will potentially have to go through.

 

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Is Olga danilovic's qualifier in 10 minutes going to be broadcast anywhere?

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23 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

Is Olga danilovic's qualifier in 10 minutes going to be broadcast anywhere?

All qualifying is on WatchESPN, you just need to know which court she's playing on. I'm watching Lulu

 

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In all my years of tennis posts, that wins the award for most random request. 

Looks like it's pushed back to at least midnight, holler of you're still up then, I'll find a stream. 

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Ha, never mind, chaos handled it. 

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Lulu is through to the finals of qualifying along with Maya Joint. Joint plays the #1 seed in quallies next, so thats a rough draw for her

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Olga pulled a WTA-special to lose.

6-4, 1-6, 1-6 

That ain’t good. 

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Good effort by Joint, but she fell in 3 sets in the final round of qualifying to a top 100 player. Sun will try to qualify next

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Lulu qualified! She will join Peyton Stearns in the main draw of the AO

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I somehow missed the news that both Bencic and Kvitova withdrew from the Australian open due to pregnancy. 

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And Genie played her maiden pickleball tourney in Palm Springs this week. Not quite the same. 

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JPeg withdrew from the Adelaide semis with a tummy ache, Jelena will face DasKa in the final.

Emma Navarro is in her maiden final in Hobart, gets Mertens. Never knew this about Emma.

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Navarro is the daughter of billionaire businessman Ben Navarro 

She can trade notes with JPeg. 

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Emma gets massive help from a net cord to break in the decider to 6-5, serving for the hardware now. 

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And she’s in the books as a champ, good stuff. 

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T-minus 7 hours, kids. 

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Quite the assistant coach. 

 

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This is pretty crazy. 

Has never won a Slam. 

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*men’s Slam, has one mixed.

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On 1/23/2024 at 10:01 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

This is pretty crazy. 

Has never won a Slam. 

This post didn’t age well.

He won a men’s doubles slam before becoming #1.

There in lies the shmewww!

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Dallas Open at SMU kicks off tomorrow with a Genie v. Caro exhibition.

https://www.dallasopen.com/

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Pretty sick women's draw for a 28-player 500 in Abu Dhabi. 

https://www.flashscore.com/draw/jFIDyvG4/QgmblTrj/#/4pn2mmbd/draw

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On 2/3/2024 at 3:06 PM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

My sister is in town (Dallas) and said that “there is some tennis thing at SMU and people in her hotel are part of it… or something.”

I looked up the tour and saw that the boys are back in town. 

Lots of good Americans in the tournament this year. Basically Fritz & Korda are the top American guys not here, but about 4 to 6 are guys I’d buy a ticket to see. 

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Naomi Osaka was up 5-4 and at 30-30 on Danielle Collins’ serve to take the first set 6-4.

How did the match go from:

Osaka 5 [30]

Collins 4 [30]
 

Would you believe…

Osaka 5 0

Collins 7 6

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Dirk in person watching Tommy Paul tonight. 

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Elena v. Dani when you kids wake up. 

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@Bullneck, this is the current thread. 

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1 hour ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

 

@Bullneck, this is the current thread. 

OK, old man yells at cloud.  Happy, Pappy?

 

 

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Doha is back to a 1000 this year, pretty good draw minus Aryna.

https://www.flashscore.com/draw/KY69TzHq/tIXcOBPn/#/hhy2NVvg/draw

Emma v. Kalinina & Peyton v. Mertens at 3a.