Talk About Tennis 2.0

Genie Bouchard has announced that she will join the pickleball tour full time in 2024

How the mighty have fallen.
If she were 35+, sure, go for it. At her age, what an admission that she can't play anymore. Sorry for her.

ponchi101 wrote:How the mighty have fallen.
If she were 35+, sure, go for it. At her age, what an admission that she can't play anymore. Sorry for her.

Kinda sad.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well,maybe pickleball becomes bigger than tennis and Genie will be a pioneer..who knows!

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 12:51 am Well,maybe pickleball becomes bigger than tennis and Genie will be a pioneer..who knows!

Maybe the protestors should go to pickleball.

JTContinental wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:43 pm Genie Bouchard has announced that she will join the pickleball tour full time in 2024

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:11 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 12:51 am Well,maybe pickleball becomes bigger than tennis and Genie will be a pioneer..who knows!

Maybe the protestors should go to pickleball.

.....Protesting "surrounded" by 50 sad little pickleball audience members might not be as effective.

I wonder how effective this brand of protest is, anyway. Interrupting a tennis match, even if there is 20,000+ people in the stands, is as effective as throwing tomato paste at an invaluable piece of art.

nelslus wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 2:47 pm

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:11 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 12:51 am Well,maybe pickleball becomes bigger than tennis and Genie will be a pioneer..who knows!

Maybe the protestors should go to pickleball.

.....Protesting "surrounded" by 50 sad little pickleball audience members might not be as effective.

You wouldn’t even be able to hear them over the sound of the balls thwacking against the racquet

What have I missed? What are they protesting about?

Suliso wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 7:31 pm What have I missed? What are they protesting about?

The one in the grey shirt glued his bare feet to the pavement, which is what caused the delay.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 4:19 pm WTA has an announcement re Halep..I couldn't make head or tail of it

Simona Halep: Two-time Grand Slam champion handed four-year ban for doping

https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/66789732

And the WTA "statement": https://www.wtatennis.com/news/3680846/ ... mona-halep

I'm not quite sure what to think of this just yet. Four years, that's a potentially/probably career ending (and for many defining) punishment.

This drug is not something that can accidentally be found in your system. I think that they wanted to be fair to her and that is why they went to her blood passport where they found incontrovertible evidence of doping.

I can say I liked Halep and it's sad to have it confirmed that she was doping.

I also don't think Mouratoglou or Cahill knew what was going on as both men have too much to lose to know and then look away.

From the BBC link upthread:

Roxadustat is an anti-anaemia drug which stimulates the production of red blood cells in the body.

This is blue checked although it means nothing on Xitter. This could be a random "fan"

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:03 pm This drug is not something that can accidentally be found in your system. I think that they wanted to be fair to her and that is why they went to her blood passport where they found incontrovertible evidence of doping.

I can say I liked Halep and it's sad to have it confirmed that she was doping.

Indeed and, sadly, agreed. My doubts about what to think of all this were not so much about the actual ruling, but the process for both tennis professionals and other atheletes who, guilty or not, have to deal with an often very lengthy period of uncertainty while further research is carried out and/or reports are written. Understandably and obviously, reaching the right conclusion is essential, but at what cost to the possibly innocent? Loss of earnings? Miss a chance to compete at an olympic games? And, of course, the public remembering the fact that at some point in time you were suspected of cheating, regardless of it possibly having been proven otherwise. Mention the name Rusedski and almost twenty years on one of the first words that comes to my mind is nandrolone. Or what about the case of Peter Bol: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/athletics/ ... 5dsv6.html

No solutions from me at this time, though it'd be great if doping authorities could speed things up. Pun intended.