ATP M1000 WTA 1000 BNP Paribas Open 3/8 - 3/19 2023

[mmmm8]

something has been wrong with Kasatkina for a while now.. wonder what, and, more important, hope she gets over it soon.. the game needs her variety and creativity..

Could it be her cruelly homophobic home country hates homosexuals and invaded a neighboring country preventing her a safe return and that is weighing on her?

Of course, this forum is not representative of other locations, but while we totally accepted her decision, who knows what the feelings are back home. If she loves her country and now finds herself unable to even go back, it might be a terrible position to be in. And very hard to play under those circumstances.

She is unlikely to be afraid to go back (to visit, she lives in Barcelona) because of her coming out, but that same interview contained very strong antiwar positions from her and the interviewer both (also Rublev to a lesser extent). She is probably not in danger of legal persecution, but she would possibly be declared a "foreign agent" as many public figures expressing an antiwar position have been. That carries not only a reputational risk but financial restrictions.

The psychological impact is probably more than all that, though.

[ti-amie]

Junior Boys Singles Draw

USA Kaylan Bigun [1]/Bye
USA Matthew Forbes vs CAN StephanePierre-Jo Kamendje
USA Jordan Reznik vs USA Matisse Farzam
Bye/USA Rohan Belday [16]

USA Tristan Stringer [12]/Bye
CAN Danny Yassine vs USA Rudy Quan
USA Jack Kennedy vs USA Tygen Goldammer
Bye/USA Adhithya Ganesan [7]

CAN Keegan Rice [4]/Bye
USA Stefan Regalia vs USA Krish Arora
USA Dylan Charlap vs USA Paris Pouatcha
Bye/USA Nikita Filin [15]

USA Cooper Woestendick [11]/Bye
USA Parashar Bhardwaj vs USA Calvin Baierl
USA Hanu Patel vs CAN Connor Church
Bye/USA Meecah Bigun [6]

CAN Duncan Chan [8]/Bye
USA Abhishek Thorat vs USA Nathaniel Suh
USA Noah Johnston vs USA Miguel Tobon
Bye/USA Maxwell Exsted [10]

USA Cyrus Mahjoob [13]/Bye
USA Kase Schinnerer vs CAN Kuang Qing Xu
USA Joseph Oyebog JR vs USA Brody Nejedly
Bye/USA Alexander Razeghi [3]

GBR Oliver Bonding [5]/Bye
USA Francesco Cordova vs USA Nathan Blokhin
USA Jagger Leach vs CAN Adam Faragcao
Bye/USA Stiles Brockett [9]

USA Aayush P Bhat [14]/Bye
USA Nikola Parichkov vs USA Mitchell Lee
CAN Denny Bao vs USA Keaton Hance
Bye/USA Roy Horovitz [2]

[ti-amie]

Junior Girls Singles Draw

USA Iva Jovic[1]/Bye
USA Annika Penickova vs CAN Nadia Lagaev
USA Brooke Lynn Schafer vs USA Julieta Pareja
Bye/USA Victoria Osuigwe [16]

USA Alanis Hamilton [9]/Bye
USA Tianmei Wang vs USA Kristina Penickova
USA Jessica Bernales vs CAN Teah Chavez
Bye/USA Ashton Bowers [6]

USA Clervie Ngounoue [3]/Bye
USA Kate Fakih vs CAN Raphaelle Leroux
USA Maya Dutta vs USA Mika Ikemori
Bye/USA Tyra Caterina Grant [15]

USA Maya Joint [12]/Bye
USA Martina Marica vs USA Ava Bruno
USA Maren Urata vs USA Rachel Lee
Bye/USA Anya Murthy [8]

USA Theadora Rabman [7]/Bye
USA Stephanie Yakoff vs CAN Mariya Dobreva
USA Shannon Lam vs USA Alyssa Ahn
Bye/USA Qavia Lopez [10]

CAN Ellie Daniels [13]/Bye
USA Ahmani Guichard vs USA Allie Bittner
NOR Emily Sartz-Lunde vs USA Sahana Sanjeev
Bye/USA Tatum Evans [4]

USA Ariana Anazagasty-Pursoo [5]/Bye
USA Aspen Schuman vs USA Valerie Glozman
USA Kayla Chung vs USA Susanna Maltby
Bye/USA Ava Krug [11]

USA Piper Charney [14]/Bye
USA Isabella Chhiv vs USA Thea Frodin
CAN Eliana Kook vs USA Meera Jesudason
Bye/USA Kaitlin Quevedo [2]

[Deuce]

^ You're also the one who blatantly called Isner a 'racist', which is a huge accusation (and one that Isner's good friend James Blake, who knows him far better than you do, would surely object to).

I rest my case about judgmentalism.

How do you know James Blake's inner thoughts and feelings? Having a black friend doesn't make someone not a racist.

Yes... so let's just assume that people are racist, then, without any supporting evidence.
Let's all accuse others of racism and of other disgusting elements on a whim just because we feel like it and because it makes us feel better. Sure. What a wonderful world that would be, huh?

I think it's pretty safe to say that if John Isner had a racism problem, James Blake would not be one of his close friends - Blake would have called him on it a long time ago.
In addition, Isner has always been one of the most liked and respected players on the tour according to his peers.
The fact that we're even discussing whether Isner is a racist is incredibly unfair to him.
And I'm not saying this because I like Isner - I'm entirely indifferent toward him. I do absolutely loathe unjust accusations of anyone, though.

The demonizing and extreme accusations which are flippantly made today toward anyone one disagrees with (mostly by the 'politically correct' faction) make me sick. They like to claim that they are 'saving society', but what they're truly doing is destroying society with their endless demonizing and accusations - all while preaching 'tolerance', of course!
What utter hypocrisy.
Sigh.

If you're attempting to be a moral beacon, methinks your contempt and disapproval would be better aimed at the person who blatantly and publicly (as this is a public forum) accused Isner of being a racist.

[Deuce]

Gauff is having a really tough time with Rebecca Peterson right now. Peterson has been playing well of late.
Gauff was totally lost in the 2nd set, which she lost 1-6, after winning the 1st rather convincingly 6-3.
4-4 in the 3rd now...

Sakkari - Pliskova are starting the 3rd set...

Medvedev - Zverev are at 4-4 in the 2nd set.
Zverev won the 1st in a tiebreak.

[Deuce]

Gauff got a late break in the 3rd to win it...

Sakkari served for the match at 5-2, but couldn't get it done - she had to break in the next game to win it - Pliskova double faulted on match point.
Sakkari had 29 break points - and converted on 7 of them.

Medvedev won the 2nd in another tiebreak, and they are into the 3rd now.
Medvedev hurt his ankle in the 2nd set... then whined about the timing of the ball change(!) at the beginning of the 3rd...

[JazzNU]

Great win and well played for Sakkari. Not a great win for Coco, but a win is a win. She's going to need to button that up big time to compete well in the next round. I hope she's on the practice court right now working on her forehand.

[ponchi101]

They showed a bit of Coco'a match. Count me alone in the "her forehand is not thaaaaat bad" camp. But she was hitting a heavy ball.
Still, if you get pushed by Peterson deep into the 3rd, yes, an extra practice session can come handy.

[JazzNU]

They showed a bit of Coco'a match. Count me alone in the "her forehand is not thaaaaat bad" camp. But she was hitting a heavy ball.
Still, if you get pushed by Peterson deep into the 3rd, yes, an extra practice session can come handy.

What you may have missed is that she was in that position because her forehand went truly awry today, just a ton of errors off that side. It was majorly off, she just couldn't control it today.

[Deuce]

Krejcikova and Sabalenka are into a 3rd set.
I think Krejcikova may be the player who uses her intelligence the most to figure out the best way to beat an opponent. She goes into a match with a plan, and she can adjust along the way if her initial plan isn't working. That's how she won the 2nd set today.
She's down a break in the 3rd now, though...

[ponchi101]

They are showing a rerun of a match between Rublev and Norrie.
I say rerun because I am sure I have seen this Rublev match before. Like 10 times. 11. Always.

[Owendonovan]

Zverev lost 7-5 in the 3rd.

[JTContinental]

It’s been a few years since they played, but Peterson kicked Coco’s butt 1 & 2 in their only other meeting.

[Deuce]

Muchova was just about to put a solid, comprehensive straight set win in the books over Vondrousova - she was serving at 5-3 in the 2nd... had a match point... and she lost the plot again, as she did in the 2nd set yesterday vs. Trevisan.
She had another match point on Vondrousova’s serve at 6-5.
Vondrousova just won the 2nd set in a tiebreak.
Muchova seems to be getting nervous and questioning herself at certain points in these matches. It’s disappointing - because up to 5-3 in the 2nd, it looked like vintage Muchova was back, with her very nice all court game.

To my eye, Kvitova simply outsmarted Pegula in the 1st set, winning it 6-2.

Trying to keep one eye on each match.
A few sprinklings of rain on the courts...

[martini4me]

That's some heavy cloud rolling in. A good bit of rain is forecast for this evening and overnight.

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