With Roland Garros just around the corner, get ready for our Survivors' Pool,You Can't Win Jack and Predictions contests.
For our SP players, remember: just the LAST NAME of the player, unless two players with the same last name play on the same day.
ti-amie wrote: ↑Thu Dec 09, 2021 2:16 am
People are saying that what this company did to F1 should be a warning to Tennis. I could only find an article from three years ago about it.
CVC ownership of F1 should serve as a warning to Premiership Rugby
Giles Richards
Very disturbing, but not at all surprising.
To the corporate world, sports is but a pawn to use and milk as much money out of as possible, then run away with the loot. On smaller scales, it's called 'looting'.
This is the direction the world is going in, tragically. Pure and absolute selfishness and greed. Corporations owning everything under huge umbrellas. Independent business is dying a quick death. Baseball, football, hockey stadiums/arenas are no longer named for tradition, but instead are named very impersonally for the highest bidding corporation.
I wonder how long it will be before corporations begin bidding to name people's children.
Don't laugh - that's the direction we're headed in...
The actual calendar link appears to be dead on this specific page though, so use the one on the tournament page.
I got a 404 error when I clicked on the link to the actual calendar.
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
Click on the 2021-2022 Calendar on the top right. But it's a PDF download, not a website link. I'll see if I can get a screenshot or an image of it in the tournament page in the meantime and that can serve as a reference in the meantime (assuming I can do it).
ETA: A bit more of a hassle than I was thinking, but will post a photo in the tournament thread.
I'm surprised Ons wasn't invited in the first place.
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
I hope this doesn't interfere with what Mick is doing. If it does PM me and I'll delete it.
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
I would not think so. He is doing historical sets, this is just 2021.
About Ons NOT being already invited to Mubadala. Very odd, indeed. She is, after all, nothing more than the most successful player, man or woman, in from Africa or a Muslim country ever. Should have been automatic.
Regarding Thiem pulling out of Mudabala... and exhibitions count for protected rankings. Sounds like if he played the exo, his protected ranking wouldn't kick in at all, because he wouldn't have been out for 12 months. But he would have known that back when he committed to the even.
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Didn't Thiem pull out of Davis Cup too? Seems like he just committed to things at the end of the season hoping he'd be able to return by then and it didn't work out that he was ready to go as soon as initial projections.
And it's definitely not about a 12 month timeline, more likely 6 months for PR. Thiem was injured at a grass court tournament this season.
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
MJ2004 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 5:24 pm
Sorry I can’t post it here, but in case you can find/access it, FT has a great 13 minute overview video today on the business of tennis, titled:
FT Scoreboard: Tennis: the players struggling to break even
Example given: player staying in a brothel because it was cheap.
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