Talk About Tennis 2.0

And we spoke that Paul should be considered a tough out during the clay swing. So far, not that tough. Not that easy either (he made this final) but he needs to crank it up in Rome.

José Morgado
@josemorgado@sportsbots.xyz
Portuguese Tennis Federation announces that the WTA Tour will return to Portugal for the first time since 2014.

Details on city, calendar, category, surface, etc, to be known on Wednesday.

On one hand, some lower ranked players are being bumped out of these challengers because of the expansion of the Madrid/Rome draws.
On the other, some lower ranked players were able to play Madrid/Rome.
I gather this has to be analyzed later on by the ATP.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 11:01 pm On one hand, some lower ranked players are being bumped out of these challengers because of the expansion of the Madrid/Rome draws.
On the other, some lower ranked players were able to play Madrid/Rome.
I gather this has to be analyzed later on by the ATP.

I certainly hope so. For me, they need to add in additional 125k/150k tournaments during these weeks and I'd be in favor of allowing a single 250 both weeks as well instead of that. I don't see how that would pull attention away from these big tournaments anymore than the 125/150s are. These moves have to be messing with the finances of the lower ranked players,

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The WTA announced Friday the 2023 fall calendar outlining the tournaments that will take place following the US Open through to the WTA Finals.

Highlights and updates for this period in the 2023 WTA calendar include:

WTA 1000 tournaments taking place in Guadalajara and Beijing
WTA 500 events in San Diego, Tokyo and Zhengzhou across September and October
WTA 250 tournaments being held in Osaka, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Nanchang and Monastir
Continual expansion of WTA 125 events taking place through mid-December across several continents
Click here to the see the full 2023 WTA calendar

https://wtafiles.wtatennis.com/pdf/cale ... r-2023.pdf

Back to the empty stadiums.

https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3526975/ ... l-calendar

Christopher Clarey
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A new date and not an ideal date the week after the #USOpen for the San Diego event but it still gets a great field even if Swiatek won't be back with her new surfboard to defend her title

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:48 pm Christopher Clarey
@christophclarey@sportsbots.xyz
A new date and not an ideal date the week after the #USOpen for the San Diego event but it still gets a great field even if Swiatek won't be back with her new surfboard to defend her title

And probably a wild card for Venus!

....AND, suddenly, we find out that there's is a legit women's tournament in Chicago this week!! These freakin' tournaments just come in with zero notice. We've signed up with assorted tennis tournament e-mail groups....And, you know, this IS Chicago. LOL, so pathetic..

The folks there are super sweet- and I love how that facility works to help youth of color play tennis.

We probably won't be able to go until Friday afternoon and Saturday. I may try to sneak in another day or two. But, the weather is supposed to get super-hot starting tomorrow (and lighten up, starting Friday. Although, the weather " patterns" here change all of the time.) And, I still get PTSD from their Porta-Potty-Only options.

PS: Apologies in advance if I didn't choose the correct thread to post in. There are too many damned options in here!! Tennis Random Random, Tennis Player Random Random....

nelslus wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:42 pm PS: Apologies in advance if I didn't choose the correct thread to post in. There are too many damned options in here!! Tennis Random Random, Tennis Player Random Random....

Uhm... you posted about a tennis tournament in the TOURNAMENTS' topic. I think you got it right
Have fun when you go

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:00 pm

nelslus wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:42 pm PS: Apologies in advance if I didn't choose the correct thread to post in. There are too many damned options in here!! Tennis Random Random, Tennis Player Random Random....

Uhm... you posted about a tennis tournament in the TOURNAMENTS' topic. I think you got it right
Have fun when you go

What- there's no Tennis Tournaments Random Random?

Of course there is.

It's back on Tat 1.0

https://www.tennis.com/news/articles/at ... injured-pl

A good move by the ATP to support players...