Talk About Tennis 2.0

mick1303 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:13 pm

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:29 pm

JTContinental wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:54 pm

Several quite random results today

Kostyuk might still be tired from last week, and remember, the elevation at Madrid probably means this surface isn't like any other.

Madrid's altitude is shown as 650 m (average). Highest is 840. While Gstaad for instance is at 1080. Guadalajara is 1566. So while it is noticeable, it is far from unique.

Guadalajara has had its share of strange results too . Pegula won her first, and for a while only, 1000 level title there, now Sakkari's only 1000 level title.

Rune was still a 2:1 favorite at the start of the third set against Griekspoor.

Now he's down a break. Being mildly petulant.

He had something I hadn't seen before. He went to slam his racquet, and stopped. Went to back of court and yelled in direction of his box, gesticulating wildly, and then slammed it meekly.

Can't stand people who slam their rackets ..how can you be so disrespectful of the tools of your trade?
Meanwhile Andreeva continues to roll .great win over Vondrousova..just seems to fly across the clay.

Mon, 29 April, 2024 (Day 8)

Lunes, 29 de abril

Manolo Santana Stadium
Comienza a las 11:00

LAT • Jelena Ostapenko VS TUN • Ons Jabeur
Seguido por
POL • Iga Swiatek VS ESP • Sara Sorribes Tormo
No antes de las 16:00
ESP • Rafael Nadal VS ARG • Pedro Cachin
No antes de las 20:00
ITA • Jannik Sinner VS Pavel Kotov
Seguido por
USA • Danielle Collins VS BLR • Aryna Sabalenka

Arantxa Sanchez Stadium
Comienza a las 11:00

KAZ • Alexander Bublik VS USA • Ben Shelton
Seguido por
Daniil Medvedev VS USA • Sebastian Korda
No antes de las 16:00
USA • Coco Gauff VS USA • Madison Keys
Seguido por
CZE • Sara Bejlek VS KAZ • Elena Rybakina
Seguido por
ITA • Flavio Cobolli VS Karen Khachanov

Stadium 3
Comienza a las 11:00

BRA • Beatriz Haddad Maia VS GRE • Maria Sakkari
No antes de las 13:00
CZE • Jiri Lehecka VS BRA • Thiago Monteiro
Seguido por
Mirra Andreeva VS ITA • Jasmine Paolini
Seguido por
GBR • Cameron Norrie VS NOR • Casper Ruud
Seguido por
KAZ • Yulia Putintseva VS Daria Kasatkina

Court 4
Comienza a las 15:00

TPE • Su-Wei Hsieh/BEL • Elise Mertens VS GBR • Heather Watson/CHN • Yifan Xu
No antes de las 17:00
CZE • Jakub Mensik VS CAN • Felix Auger-Aliassime

Court 5
Comienza a las 14:00

CHN • Xinyu Wang/CHN • Saisai Zheng VS NED • Demi Schuurs/BRA • Luisa Stefani
Seguido por
Mirra Andreeva/Vera Zvonareva VS CZE • Barbora Krejcikova/GER • Laura Siegemund

I might start posting the OoP's from the tournament site. There are less hoops to jump through.

15 match winning streak for Danielle Collins

JTContinental wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:14 pm 15 match winning streak for Danielle Collins

She's forgotten how to lose - can she keep this going through to a good run at Roland Garros?

Paolini's win here makes me think the court is playing fast ..not like a conventional clay court.

Tommy Paul, Leylah, TT all lost...maybe because volleyers don't do well here unless they have big serves ...testing the hypothesis

The WTA website is being odd with the dates for the schedule of play. It's got the wrong date on the OOP for tomorrow.

https://www.wtatennis.com/tournament/10 ... er-of-play

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:52 am Tommy Paul, Leylah, TT all lost...maybe because volleyers don't do well here unless they have big serves ...testing the hypothesis

Of those 3 players only Leylah Fernandez has ever had a significant result at a significant clay court tournament. If they'd made a run at this event it would have been unusual.

ashkor87 wrote:Tommy Paul, Leylah, TT all lost...maybe because volleyers don't do well here unless they have big serves ...testing the hypothesis

You think of Tommy as a volleyer? I think of him as a classic base liner. Maybe even a bit of a counterpuncher.


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Comfortable coming in does not make a volley in the classic sense