Talk About Tennis 2.0

JTContinental wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:08 pm The retirement was the serious part

For Rubin, he noted that his height was not ideal for tennis, but that the shorter courts neutralize that disadvantage of being short. I've never played pickleball, plus I'm 6'2", so I can't vouch.

#humblebrag

I've always considered squash and racquetball to be kamikaze sports - and crazy.
Lock yourself in a room with another person swinging a weapon wildly? No, thanks.
Not to mention the many video clips of players smashing through the glass doors and walls...

Padel is, of course, a similar idea, but probably slightly less dangerous, because you're more separated from your opponents. Still, I have absolutely no desire to try it. I don't like the idea of walls surrounding a court. Nor do I like the idea of balls - and people - bouncing off the walls.
I prefer to run free, without such restrictions.

I never liked the Jensen brothers... I found them too loud and obnoxious - like they went to the Agassi school of "PLEASE LOOK AT ME!!!"

I just saw this short video, though. I had no idea that this happened until I just watched the video.
It's worth watching - especially for people who don't know that this near tragedy occurred...

Thank you for that Deuce.

Just to be sure.
AED's DO NOT re-start a heart. AED's are used for something called fibrillation. That is when your heart is still beating BUT it does so arrhythmically, so it cannot pump blood properly because the ventricles and auricles are out of sync. The AED sends a simply electric pulse that puts everything back in phase. They are very easy to use, very safe, and have a huge success rate, if used early in any kind of fibrillating event.
The American Red Cross (and almost all Red Crosses or Red Crescent organizations in the world) offer one day courses for anybody. Highly recommended to learn to use.
If your heart has stopped, you need a much more complicated machine, which are the ones you see in dramatizations on TV. You need those shock delivery systems. An AED is NOT designed to do that.

Great video.

Should this go in Random, or is there a doping thread?

There is no doping topic. Here is fine.
I would side with her in the KNOWINGLY not taking the PED. But let's give it some time. As she says, let the truth come out. I wish the best for her.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 2:46 pm There is no doping topic. Here is fine.
I would side with her in the KNOWINGLY not taking the PED. But let's give it some time. As she says, let the truth come out. I wish the best for her.

Benefit of the doubt from me, too. However, I don't think ignorance is a defense in doping, right? Except in the court of public opinion.

Is it really that impossible to be an elite athlete without taking some kind of supplement? How many times have these trusted coaches/trainers/physiotherapists/specialists given their athletes tainted supplements leading to suspensions? Now, I don't know if this is the case for Simona, but these kinds of doping cases are often tied to a supplement given to the athlete by someone in their camp.

Owendonovan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:04 pm Is it really that impossible to be an elite athlete without taking some kind of supplement? How many times have these trusted coaches/trainers/physiotherapists/specialists given their athletes tainted supplements leading to suspensions? Now, I don't know if this is the case for Simona, but these kinds of doping cases are often tied to a supplement given to the athlete by someone in their camp.

It can't be that hard to reach the top without an illegal supplement because most top players manage to do it. The vast majority of players are not busted for doping/illegal supplements.

The substance in question is a medication used to treat anemia for kidney dialysis patients, so I'm going to go on record as being a bit suspicious

Yikes! I knew it was a bad sign when I saw Tennis among the topics on the ESPN ticker when it wasn't earlier this morning so it couldn't be about say Coco qualifying for the WTA Finals.

I'm probably easier to persuade that she did this more than others will be because it has crossed my mind in the past how appreciably better she got years after she was on tour. But I was never actively suspicious of her and there are people I find far more suspicious with much more suspect trajectories so I never focused much on it with her.

If she's telling the truth, I hope she's able to get it down to a reasonable ban where she doesn't miss more than several months.

And even if she's guilty, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I do not like this guilty til proven innocent system where even those that are proven in the right in these cases suffer harsh consequences as a result of the initial findings. I wish there were at least more urgent timetables to handle these matters so players wouldn't miss so much time when they are able to reduce their bans.

JTContinental wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 6:03 pm The substance in question is a medication used to treat anemia for kidney dialysis patients, so I'm going to go on record as being a bit suspicious

Dayana Yastremska defense incoming?