Talk About Tennis 2.0

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 6:33 am Meanwhile, Tennis.com informs us that Musetti beat shapovalov..poor Sonego, can't even get credit...I suppose all Italians are the same to some journalists...

This clearly belongs here.

https://www.tennis.com/news/videos/matc ... -finals-sf

skatingfan wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 7:51 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 6:33 am Meanwhile, Tennis.com informs us that Musetti beat shapovalov..poor Sonego, can't even get credit...I suppose all Italians are the same to some journalists...

This clearly belongs here.

https://www.tennis.com/news/videos/matc ... -finals-sf

Spoiling the fun by repeating my reply to the original post in the Davis Cup thread:

It's a mistake, but when I have freelanced for Tennis.com producing the website, I have published several mistakes. And I think I'm pretty good! One's attention is divided into about 100 different shards. It's sloppy, but having been there, I understand how it happens. It's shockingly easy to make what looks like a really stupid mistake. Probably the pressure of getting stuff up fast and not having two sets of eyes on things.

Having edited for 25 years, I know it's possible to stare at an error for an hour and not see it, no matter how good you are. Confirmation bias, tired brains, etc.

I don't think I have ever used the wrong player's name, but I bet I will eventually. It can be updated. Not the end of the world.

Sorry, Megan - but when a well known entity like Tennis.com makes such an obvious error... and STILL has not corrected it, the criticism is both legitimate and valid.

This is very different than one of us posting a similar error here in this forum. I imagine that a company as significant as Tennis.com is not a one person show - they have more than just one writer employed at a given time. They are well established in the field, and there is no excuse to allow such an error still being present 12 hours (and more) after it was first (widely) noticed.

Tennis.com has taken on the responsibility of properly and accurately informing its readers. It has been favourably compensated for doing such over the years. When they fail in such a glaring fashion as this, and neglect to correct the error that many others have noted, there is no legitimate excuse.

I couldn't grab it fast enough but People magazine had a picture of Serena up for Venus's AO withdrawal.

One could say it is progress if they took it down fast enough... sigh.

This didn't age well...

Why didn't it age well? He is risky, I would agree with that. The sports biggest draw could be challenged, but he does draw people (maybe Rafa is a larger draw).
What's your take? He had to withdraw from the Aussie, so the risk was there. What do you say?

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 7:51 pm Why didn't it age well? He is risky, I would agree with that. The sports biggest draw could be challenged, but he does draw people (maybe Rafa is a larger draw).
What's your take? He had to withdraw from the Aussie, so the risk was there. What do you say?

I don't see a byline on this which means this press release was just published as news. The US tennis establishment is firmly behind pushing Kyrgios as The One to save tennis and this is in line with that point of view.

Kyrgios record over 11 years is one major final and two quarter finals.

He is not, nor does he want to be, the face of tennis in my opinion. If this was posted to bring new fans to the sport I hope they stick around and see some of the really new faces of tennis.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 8:02 pm

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 7:51 pm Why didn't it age well? He is risky, I would agree with that. The sports biggest draw could be challenged, but he does draw people (maybe Rafa is a larger draw).
What's your take? He had to withdraw from the Aussie, so the risk was there. What do you say?

I don't see a byline on this which means this press release was just published as news. The US tennis establishment is firmly behind pushing Kyrgios as The One to save tennis and this is in line with that point of view.

Kyrgios record over 11 years is one major final and two quarter finals.

He is not, nor does he want to be, the face of tennis in my opinion. If this was posted to bring new fans to the sport I hope they stick around and see some of the really new faces of tennis.

Ok. I agree. I have also said it. If the ATP wants him to be the face of tennis, there are other palatable faces now that are more reliable. And come with less controversy.

Tennis.com informs us in a headline that Swiatek dropped just two matches in the tournament! How does one stay in the tournament dropping two MATCHES?

Uhm.... if you are in the WTA finals (or the ATP finals), you can still be in.
But yes, that is very sloppy. Better stay here at TAT2.0.
(How come we don't have a gazillion members? )

You would expect the editors at Tennis.com to know the difference between a game and a match!

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 4:14 pm Uhm.... if you are in the WTA finals (or the ATP finals), you can still be in.
But yes, that is very sloppy. Better stay here at TAT2.0.
(How come we don't have a gazillion members? )

Quality is always preferable over quantity.
I hope we remain this way.

Ed Salmon
@fogmount@mas.to
Reminder to commentator Elliot Richardson: “Párrizas” is not an Italian name and does not rhyme with “pizzas”.

https://mas.to/@fogmount/109955809650011626

Ah... it is not an italian name, indeed. But it does rhyme with pizzas