by ti-amie CENTRE COURT - 1:30PM
1. Novak Djokovic v Thanasi Kokkinakis
2. Caroline Garcia v Emma Raducanu
3. Andy Murray v John Isner
NO.1 COURT - 1:00PM
1. Jule Niemeier v Anett Kontaveit
2. Cameron Norrie v Jaume Munar
3. Maria Sakkari v Viktoriya Tomova
NO.2 COURT - 11:00AM
1. Casper Ruud v Ugo Humbert
2. Angelique Kerber v Magda Linette
3. Tallon Griekspoor v Carlos Alcaraz
4. Qiang Wang v Heather Watson
NO.3 COURT - 11:00AM
1. Ryan Peniston v Steve Johnson
2. Yanina Wickmayer v Jelena Ostapenko
3. Jannik Sinner v Mikael Ymer
4. Katarzyna Kawa v Ons Jabeur
COURT 12 - 11:00AM
1. Anhelina Kalinina v Lesia Tsurenko
2. Tommy Paul v Adrian Mannarino
3. Panna Udvardy v Elise Mertens
4. Tim Van Rijthoven v Reilly Opelka
COURT 18 - 11:00AM
1. Frances Tiafoe v Maximilian Marterer
2. Tatjana Maria v Sorana Cirstea
3. Maja Chwalinska v Alison Riske-Amritraj
4. Rajeev Ram / Joe Salisbury v Daniel Altmaier / Carlos Taberner
COURT 4 - 11:00AM
1. Elixane Lechemia / Nuria Parrizas Diaz v Barbora Krejcikova / Katerina Siniakova
2. Benoit Paire / Albert Ramos-Vinolas v Nikola Mektic / Mate Pavic
3. Wesley Koolhof / Neal Skupski v Facundo Bagnis / Diego Schwartzman
4. Rosalie Van Der Hoek / Alison Van Uytvanck v Maryna Zanevska / Kimberley Zimmermann
COURT 5 - 11:00AM
1. Pedro Martinez / John-Patrick Smith v Andrey Golubev / Denys Molchanov
2. Aleksandr Nedovyesov / Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi v James Duckworth / Marcos Giron
Not Before: 2:30pm
3. Tamara Korpatsch / Harmony Tan v Nadiia Kichenok / Raluca Olaru
4. Marta Kostyuk / Tereza Martincova v Madison Brengle / Lauren Davis
COURT 6 - 11:00AM
1. Kaia Kanepi / Renata Voracova v Alicia Barnett / Olivia Nicholls
2. Viktorija Golubic / Camila Osorio v Sonay Kartal / Nell Miller
3. Joao Sousa / Jordan Thompson v Matwe Middelkoop / Luke Saville
4. Maxime Cressy / Feliciano Lopez v Lukasz Kubot / Szymon Walkow
COURT 7 - 11:00AM
1. Hans Hach Verdugo / Philipp Oswald v Roman Jebavy / Hunter Reese
2. Yifan Xu / Zhaoxuan Yang v Lucia Bronzetti / Julia Lohoff
3. Shuko Aoyama / Hao-Ching Chan v Xiyu Wang / Qinwen Zheng
4. Nicolas Mahut / Edouard Roger-Vasselin v Francisco Cerundolo / Tomas Martin Etcheverry
COURT 8 - 11:00AM
1. Santiago Gonzalez / Andres Molteni v Julian Cash / Henry Patten
Not Before: 1:00pm
2. Jasmine Paolini / Martina Trevisan v Naiktha Bains / Maia Lumsden
3. Clara Burel / Chloe Paquet v Xinyun Han / Lin Zhu
4. Mackenzie McDonald / Botic Van De Zandschulp v John Peers / Filip Polasek
COURT 9 - 11:00AM
1. Daria Saville / Ajla Tomljanovic v Viktoria Kuzmova / Arantxa Rus
2. Irina Bara / Ekaterine Gorgodze v Danielle Collins / Desirae Krawczyk
3. Denis Kudla / Jack Sock v Marcelo Arevalo / Jean-Julien Rojer
4. Lloyd Glasspool / Harri Heliovaara v Hugo Gaston / Lorenzo Musetti
COURT 10 - 11:00AM
1. Sadio Doumbia / Fabien Reboul v Kevin Krawietz / Andreas Mies
Not Before: 1:00pm
2. Liam Broady / Jay Clarke v Rafael Matos / David Vega Hernandez
3. Alastair Gray / Ryan Peniston v Joran Vliegen / Jackson Withrow
COURT 11 - 11:00AM
1. Fabrice Martin / Hugo Nys v Maximo Gonzalez / Nathaniel Lammons
2. Ariel Behar / Gonzalo Escobar v Arthur Fery / Felix Gill
3. Monica Niculescu / Elena-Gabriela Ruse v Kirsten Flipkens / Sara Sorribes Tormo
4. Anett Kontaveit / Shelby Rogers v Vivian Heisen / Samantha Murray Sharan
COURT 14 - 11:00AM
1. David Goffin v Sebastian Baez
2. Alexander Bublik v Dusan Lajovic
3. Diane Parry v Mai Hontama
4. Lucie Hradecka / Sania Mirza v Magdalena Frech / Beatriz Haddad Maia
COURT 15 - 11:00AM
1. Alejandro Tabilo v Miomir Kecmanovic
2. Marie Bouzkova v Ann Li
3. Elisabetta Cocciaretto v Irina-Camelia Begu
4. Jamie Murray / Bruno Soares v Benjamin Bonzi / Arthur Rinderknech
COURT 16 - 11:00AM
1. Jodie Burrage / Eden Silva v Arianne Hartono / Demi Schuurs
2. Oscar Otte v Christian Harrison
3. Nikoloz Basilashvili v Quentin Halys
4. Sarah Beth Grey / Yuriko Miyazaki v Asia Muhammad / Ena Shibahara
COURT 17 - 11:00AM
1. Shuai Zhang v Marta Kostyuk
2. Jiri Vesely v Alejandro Davidovich Fokina
3. Dalma Galfi v Kaja Juvan
4. Aljaz Bedene / Soonwoo Kwon v Thanasi Kokkinakis / Nick Kyrgios
The Committee, while adhering as closely as possible to the order of play given, is unable to guarantee that it will be maintained in its entirety.
This may result in matches being moved from one court to another. GERRY ARMSTRONG - REFEREE
by mmmm8 Peniston is playing Johnson tomorrow. Hope it's a hard and sweaty affair and may the biggest man finish as the wiener.
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Deuce mmmm8 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:49 am
Peniston is playing Johnson tomorrow. Hope it's a hard and sweaty affair and may the biggest man finish as the wiener.
May he who has the best strokes win.
Maybe one of them will go deep in the tournament - but that'll be hard.
If one of them does win the tournament, though, he'll automatically become a member...
by Deuce I think this is where Emma’s tournament ends...
Murray vs. Isner should be somewhat interesting, given where both of them are in their careers presently...
Kontaveit might have some difficulty with Niemeier, but should get through it...
Linette could be trouble for Kerber...
by ponchi101 Kontaveit just got her entire game cleaned by Niemeier. 4 & 0. One has to wonder what happened there.
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JazzNU ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:13 pm
Kontaveit just got her entire game cleaned by Niemeier. 4 & 0. One has to wonder what happened there.
Jule is one I've been keeping my eye on to rise in the rankings, so I wasn't that surprised by this. But, I don't think Anett is all that dialed in at the moment, she's not injured to my knowledge, but has played a very light schedule through the Spring.
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meganfernandez JazzNU wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:46 pm
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:13 pm
Kontaveit just got her entire game cleaned by Niemeier. 4 & 0. One has to wonder what happened there.
Julie is one I've been keeping my eye on to rise in the rankings, so I wasn't that surprised by this. But, I don't think Anett is all that dialed in at the moment, she's not injured to my knowledge, but has played a very light schedule through the Spring.
Anett mentioned that she was struggling with lingering Covid stuff as recently as last month. If she can't train or completee like usual, it's going to hurt her confidence. Good eye on Jule. Her section of the draw is really soft, too - Bencic and Haddad Maia out.
by JazzNU Sebastian Grosjean and Paul-Henri Mathieu in the coaching box for Humbert along with I assume his main coaches. Maybe grass court consultants? Grosjean was fantastic on grass.
by ponchi101 Anybody knows what happened to Christian Harrison? Retired down 1-3 in the first. Please, not another fall.
by ponchi101 Ruud out, to nobody's surprise. At least not mine.
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meganfernandez ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:23 pm
Anybody knows what happened to Christian Harrison? Retired down 1-3 in the first. Please, not another fall.
No help here... but I just now figured out that Christian Harrison and Catherine Harrison (both in their main draws) are two different people.
Don't lie, you're hoping for a slip-and-fall to advance your theory.
by jazzyg Ostapenko had 45 winners to Wickmayer's 6 today.
by Suliso Muguruza destroyed by Minnen. Not particularly surprised about the outcome, only about the scoreline (6-4, 6-0)
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ponchi101 meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:36 pm
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:23 pm
Anybody knows what happened to Christian Harrison? Retired down 1-3 in the first. Please, not another fall.
No help here... but I just now figured out that Christian Harrison and Catherine Harrison (both in their main draws) are two different people.
Don't lie, you're hoping for a slip-and-fall to advance your theory.
Seriously, I don't like it. My idea started from the three big players that have been out of competition for long, after grass-court injuries. Roger, Serena and Delpo. And I do like grass court tennis, a lot, but this slowing down of the courts is the one thing that I don't like. And, if on top of playing a slower kind of tennis, the new surface mix (100% rye grass) leads to more injuries, I feel it is a losing proposition for everybody.
I found out that Harrison were actually TWO players, one each draw, because my YCWJ scoresheet told me. Then I looked up C. Harrison, and found two. So I had to rename them both. Pretty confusing.
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ponchi101 Suliso wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:01 pm
Muguruza destroyed by Minnen. Not particularly surprised about the outcome, only about the scoreline (6-4, 6-0)
Same score as Kontaveit. I have to start wondering if Mugu is really done, not for the year, but as a career.
by jazzyg Saw a great interview with Catherine Harrison on one of the DirecTV channels yesterday.
She was an alternate into qualifying and did not even know she would get in. Earlier this year she wss the top alternate who did not get into qualifying at the Aussie Open. She almost had to quit tennis during the COVID year when tournaments shut down, and that was the only year her ranking would have been high enough for direct entry into qualifying for slams.
She attended UCLA for four years and graduated. Winning her first round was a career-changing moment because of the money, and it came after she let a 5-2 second-set lead with a match point dissolve into a 6-5 deficit in the last round of qualifying. She said finishing off that match in a tiebreak was the most pressure she ever felt.
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meganfernandez jazzyg wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:08 pm
Saw a great interview with Catherine Harrison on one of the DirecTV channels yesterday.
She was an alternate into qualifying and did not even know she would get in. Earlier this year she wss the top alternate who did not get into qualifying at the Aussie Open. She almost had to quit tennis during the COVID year when tournaments shut down, and that was the only year her ranking would have been high enough for direct entry into qualifying for slams.
She attended UCLA for four years and graduated. Winning her first round was a career-changing moment because of the money, and it came after she let a 5-2 second-set lead with a match point dissolve into a 6-5 deficit in the last round of qualifying. She said finishing off that match in a tiebreak was the most pressure she ever felt.
Wow, what a story. I feel like there are so many stories like this in tennis and we don't hear them. Only so many reporters getting so many leads.
Also, drama! How ironic would it be if Wimbledon allowed late substitutions and Serena could step in and play with Korpatsch?
by ponchi101 Monica Puig just made an excellent point about Raducanu's points to defend. I guess we forgot this: not only she is defending 2000 points at the USO, she is defending more because she earned points from the qualifying. Talk about a pressure position.
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Cuckoo4Coco meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:13 pm
jazzyg wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:08 pm
Saw a great interview with Catherine Harrison on one of the DirecTV channels yesterday.
She was an alternate into qualifying and did not even know she would get in. Earlier this year she wss the top alternate who did not get into qualifying at the Aussie Open. She almost had to quit tennis during the COVID year when tournaments shut down, and that was the only year her ranking would have been high enough for direct entry into qualifying for slams.
She attended UCLA for four years and graduated. Winning her first round was a career-changing moment because of the money, and it came after she let a 5-2 second-set lead with a match point dissolve into a 6-5 deficit in the last round of qualifying. She said finishing off that match in a tiebreak was the most pressure she ever felt.
Wow, what a story. I feel like there are so many stories like this in tennis and we don't hear them. Only so many reporters getting so many leads.
Also, drama! How ironic would it be if Wimbledon allowed late substitutions and Serena could step in and play with Korpatsch?
It doesn't seem fair. I know that Tan played a tough long match the day before and she is saying she has a thigh injury but I know that thigh injury is not going to keep her out of her singles match tomorrow.
Her doubles partner is now done without even playing a single doubles match at all. Don't seem at all fair to her.
by ponchi101 More about Mugu. The second set was, of course, 6-0. But it lasted 19 minutes. There has got to be something wrong with her, and she is not telling.
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meganfernandez Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:19 pm
Also, drama! How ironic would it be if Wimbledon allowed late substitutions and Serena could step in and play with Korpatsch?
It doesn't seem fair. I know that Tan played a tough long match the day before and she is saying she has a thigh injury but I know that thigh injury is not going to keep her out of her singles match tomorrow.
Her doubles partner is now done without even playing a single doubles match at all. Don't seem at all fair to her.
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It's unfortunate for sure. They know this is the risk. Korpatsch has to ask herself if she would do the same thing in the situation. I wish tournaments could let a player find another partner if theirs pulls out before they play their R1 match. Maybe Tan should give Korpatsch $5,000 of her R2 prize money for the inconvenience. Well, we can safely say these two won't partner together anymore!
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Cuckoo4Coco meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:23 pm
Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:19 pm
Also, drama! How ironic would it be if Wimbledon allowed late substitutions and Serena could step in and play with Korpatsch?
It doesn't seem fair. I know that Tan played a tough long match the day before and she is saying she has a thigh injury but I know that thigh injury is not going to keep her out of her singles match tomorrow.
Her doubles partner is now done without even playing a single doubles match at all. Don't seem at all fair to her.
It's unfortunate for sure. They know this is the risk. Korpatsch has to ask herself if she would do the same thing in the situation. I wish tournaments could let a player find another partner if theirs pulls out before they play their R1 match. Maybe Tan should give Korpatsch $5,000 of her R2 prize money for the inconvenience. Well, we can safely say these two won't partner together anymore!
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That would be nice if Tan would do that. It would lend some Harmony to the whole situation.
I am heading out to the courts to practice now.
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JazzNU Suliso wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:01 pm
Muguruza destroyed by Minnen. Not particularly surprised about the outcome, only about the scoreline (6-4, 6-0)
Don't think the outcome would've been different this time around, but the score would've been had they kept playing yesterday. There have been several held over matches that didn't have the same energy they did as the first day now.
Long past time to add lights to these courts and let them finish out most of these end of day matches the day that they begin.
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meganfernandez ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:21 pm
More about Mugu. The second set was, of course, 6-0. But it lasted 19 minutes. There has got to be something wrong with her, and she is not telling.
Physically, maybe - long Covid, something else, who knows. You don't think it's just lack of motivation? I never hear good explanations, either. Maybe the Spanish press has some, but I never hear them.
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JazzNU ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:15 pm
Monica Puig just made an excellent point about Raducanu's points to defend. I guess we forgot this: not only she is defending 2000 points at the USO, she is defending more because she earned points from the qualifying. Talk about a pressure position.
Listening to Brits call Emma's match is interesting. Today's team is much, much better and more reasonable than her first match at least, but interesting nonetheless.
by JazzNU Caroline Garcia played a great match. It's really nice to see her return to form, truly seems to be about finally dumping the weight from all that baggage she was carrying around. Hopefully Camila Giorgi is the next in line getting rid of hers.
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ponchi101 meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:32 pm
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:21 pm
More about Mugu. The second set was, of course, 6-0. But it lasted 19 minutes. There has got to be something wrong with her, and she is not telling.
Physically, maybe - long Covid, something else, who knows. You don't think it's just lack of motivation? I never hear good explanations, either. Maybe the Spanish press has some, but I never hear them.
I don't think it is lack of motivation because the handshake at the net showed a face that was really upset about the result. And I know she has traditionally gone into a bit of a funk after her big wins (Guadalajara last year) but this is not a little, this has been a lot.
I hope there is an explanation, not that she has forgotten how to play this game.
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meganfernandez ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:52 pm
meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:32 pm
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:21 pm
More about Mugu. The second set was, of course, 6-0. But it lasted 19 minutes. There has got to be something wrong with her, and she is not telling.
Physically, maybe - long Covid, something else, who knows. You don't think it's just lack of motivation? I never hear good explanations, either. Maybe the Spanish press has some, but I never hear them.
I don't think it is lack of motivation because the handshake at the net showed a face that was really upset about the result. And I know she has traditionally gone into a bit of a funk after her big wins (Guadalajara last year) but this is not a little, this has been a lot.
I hope there is an explanation, not that she has forgotten how to play this game.
I'm afraid we'll never know. Mystifying. But sounds like she's in the perfect career low from which to win another surprise major.
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Cuckoo4Coco Hey Tommy Paul won!!!!!!
On a sad note though Emma lost.
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ti-amie Suliso wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 3:01 pm
Muguruza destroyed by Minnen. Not particularly surprised about the outcome, only about the scoreline (6-4, 6-0)
I think she needs a break to sort out whatever is going on in her life.
by ti-amie Carlitos just won the second set TB vs Griekspoor 7-6(0) to go up two sets to love.
by ponchi101 Yes. About Mugu crying on court: that says it is not a lack of motivation. Nobody that is not motivated cries on court.
But, it can be that she simply has lost her strokes. It has happened in the past. (Not her, other players).
by JazzNU I find Korpatsch's approach to be very tacky. Don't see good reasoning for putting Harmony on blast like that publicly and she's the one who is looking petty and unprofessional. I'd beg to differ on her claim that she doesn't hate her partner. You don't do this to someone you like, especially the morning after the biggest moment in her career.
by Suliso What's the story there?
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Cuckoo4Coco JazzNU wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:07 pm
I find Korpatsch's approach to be very tacky. Don't see good reasoning for putting Harmony on blast like that publicly and she's the one who is looking petty and unprofessional. I'd beg to differ on her claim that she doesn't hate her partner. You don't do this to someone you like, especially the morning after the biggest moment in her career.
I agree with you that she should have left this out of the whole public scene and just talked it over how she felt with Harmony. I don't think she hates her doubles partner at all. I think she just wanted to play a match.
by JTContinental Davidovich Fokina got a point penalty for ball abuse on match point in a 5th set tiebreak. What a way to go out after all that work
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JazzNU JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:17 pm
Davidovich Fokina got a point penalty for ball abuse on match point in a 5th set tiebreak. What a way to go out after all that work
Carlos Ramos strikes again. Ridiculous.
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Cuckoo4Coco JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:17 pm
Davidovich Fokina got a point penalty for ball abuse on match point in a 5th set tiebreak. What a way to go out after all that work
Not the brightest tennis ball in the can.
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JTContinental JazzNU wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:19 pm
JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:17 pm
Davidovich Fokina got a point penalty for ball abuse on match point in a 5th set tiebreak. What a way to go out after all that work
Carlos Ramos strikes again. Ridiculous.
He does love to insert himself in matches. To be fair ADF gave that ball a good whack into the stands
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nelslus JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:17 pm
Davidovich Fokina got a point penalty for ball abuse on match point in a 5th set tiebreak. What a way to go out after all that work
AND I believe this call came from one of Serena's favorite umpires, Carlos Ramos.
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ponchi101 So Ramos enforced a rule on match point? And he is the bad guy?
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JazzNU Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:13 pm
JazzNU wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:07 pm
I find Korpatsch's approach to be very tacky. Don't see good reasoning for putting Harmony on blast like that publicly and she's the one who is looking petty and unprofessional. I'd beg to differ on her claim that she doesn't hate her partner. You don't do this to someone you like, especially the morning after the biggest moment in her career.
I agree with you that she should have left this out of the whole public scene and just talked it over how she felt with Harmony. I don't think she hates her doubles partner at all. I think she just wanted to play a match.
I definitely think she wanted to play a match. But in the moment she posted? I feel like she had to have hated her. She was attempting to garner sympathy I assume, but also to set social media to go attack mode on her. I can't imagine doing that to someone you don't hate. I think the later statement was an attempt to walk it back because she probably doesn't actively hate her, but the damage had been done.
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nelslus LOL, I apparently chimed in late with this discussion.
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Cuckoo4Coco JazzNU wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:26 pm
Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:13 pm
JazzNU wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:07 pm
I find Korpatsch's approach to be very tacky. Don't see good reasoning for putting Harmony on blast like that publicly and she's the one who is looking petty and unprofessional. I'd beg to differ on her claim that she doesn't hate her partner. You don't do this to someone you like, especially the morning after the biggest moment in her career.
I agree with you that she should have left this out of the whole public scene and just talked it over how she felt with Harmony. I don't think she hates her doubles partner at all. I think she just wanted to play a match.
I definitely think she wanted to play a match. But in the moment she posted? I feel like she had to have hated her. She was attempting to garner sympathy I assume, but also to set social media to go attack mode on her. I can't imagine doing that to someone you don't hate. I think the later statement was an attempt to walk it back because she probably doesn't actively hate her, but the damage had been done.
I guess in the heat of the moment she was pissed that she lost the chance to play a match she wanted to and did something I think she ended up regretting in writing out her feelings on social media. I don't know if that actually means she hated her doubles partner. I think at that moment she was pissed at the decision her partner made in withdrawing from the match but not really hating her.
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meganfernandez
See, we know what we're doing!
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meganfernandez ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:26 pm
So Ramos enforced a rule on match point? And he is the bad guy?
Yeah that rule is probably black and white. The umpire owes it to the opponent to enforce it. He has to. Not his fault ADF broke a rule.
by ti-amie Tan deprived Korpatsch of what for her was probably a big pay day. If Tan was going to withdraw she could've done it so Korpatsch had time to find a new partner. Withdrawing via text one hour before the match was set to start was tacky. I'd be pissed off too.
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Cuckoo4Coco meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:39 pm
See, we know what we're doing!
I think you were right when you said the men's side is a bit easier than the ladies side. I lost with Serena yesterday but if I would have won I would have picked Mertens today and she is struggling badly. It also looks like a ton of members picked Mertens.
by Suliso It seems like that right now, but I bet <10 players will last to QF's in either draw.
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meganfernandez Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:45 pm
meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:39 pm
See, we know what we're doing!
I think you were right when you said the men's side is a bit easier than the ladies side. I lost with Serena yesterday but if I would have won I would have picked Mertens today and she is struggling badly. It also looks like
a ton of members picked Mertens.
That's what we call a "bandwagon" in an SP. I wanted to avoid the Mertens bandwagon. I almost picked her, too. I like to take some calculated risks in SPs, kind of like how I play tennis.
some of them are just bad decisions, like today picking Kalinina when I knew nothing about her, just that she was seeded and her opponent (who I know is a veteran) isn't.
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Cuckoo4Coco meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:54 pm
Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:45 pm
meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:39 pm
See, we know what we're doing!
I think you were right when you said the men's side is a bit easier than the ladies side. I lost with Serena yesterday but if I would have won I would have picked Mertens today and she is struggling badly. It also looks like
a ton of members picked Mertens.
That's what we call a "bandwagon" in an SP. I wanted to avoid the Mertens bandwagon. I almost picked her, too. I like to take some calculated risks in SPs, kind of like how I play tennis.
some of them are just bad decisions, like today picking Kalinina when I knew nothing about her, just that she was seeded and her opponent (who I know is a veteran) isn't.
I think my pick for Day 4 on the men's side is going to be one that will not be bandwagoned. A player I know pretty much nothing about in Van De Zandsculp.
by ti-amie Mertens is another player who seems to have suddenly lost her mojo.
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JazzNU ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:26 pm
So Ramos enforced a rule on match point? And he is the bad guy?
Yes. There is such a thing as discretion, which every chair employs on various occasions in the course of the match. Calling a penalty on match point should be reserved for the most egregious of egregious acts and this was nowhere close to that, it was something that would've been ignored had it not been called. It was truly nothing.
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ti-amie JazzNU wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:01 pm
ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:26 pm
So Ramos enforced a rule on match point? And he is the bad guy?
Yes. There is such a thing as discretion, which every chair employs on various occasions in the course of the match. Calling a penalty on match point should be reserved for the most egregious of egregious acts and this was nowhere close to that, it was something that would've been ignored had it not been called. It was truly nothing.
It's Carlos Ramos. It's how he rolls.
by ponchi101 No. The rule does not say "it is up to the discretion of the Chair Umpire to decide when to enforce this or any other rule".
Because if that is the case, then all rules are discretionary. And therefore, they are not rules.
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meganfernandez Cuckoo4Coco wrote:meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:54 pm
Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:45 pm
I think you were right when you said the men's side is a bit easier than the ladies side. I lost with Serena yesterday but if I would have won I would have picked Mertens today and she is struggling badly. It also looks like
a ton of members picked Mertens.
That's what we call a "bandwagon" in an SP. I wanted to avoid the Mertens bandwagon. I almost picked her, too. I like to take some calculated risks in SPs, kind of like how I play tennis.
some of them are just bad decisions, like today picking Kalinina when I knew nothing about her, just that she was seeded and her opponent (who I know is a veteran) isn't.
I think my pick for Day 4 on the men's side is going to be one that will not be bandwagoned. A player I know pretty much nothing about in Van De Zandsculp.
Well, you are talking to a big Botic fan.
not bad because he is in Nadal’s section so you want to use him before R4. But I’m concerned about his opponent, a very big server. I’d like Botic’s chance in the next round better, against McDonald or Gasquet.
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Cuckoo4Coco meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:10 pm
Cuckoo4Coco wrote:meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:54 pm
That's what we call a "bandwagon" in an SP. I wanted to avoid the Mertens bandwagon. I almost picked her, too. I like to take some calculated risks in SPs, kind of like how I play tennis.
some of them are just bad decisions, like today picking Kalinina when I knew nothing about her, just that she was seeded and her opponent (who I know is a veteran) isn't.
I think my pick for Day 4 on the men's side is going to be one that will not be bandwagoned. A player I know pretty much nothing about in Van De Zandsculp.
Well, you are talking to a big Botic fan.
not bad because he is in Nadal’s section so you want to use him before R4. But I’m concerned about his opponent, a very big server. I’d like Botox’s chance in the next round better, against McDonald or Gasquet.
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I always go with my first gut feeling.
Mertens has evened up the match at 1 set a piece and play is suspended until tomorrow.
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JazzNU ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:42 pm
Tan deprived Korpatsch of what for her was probably a big pay day. If Tan was going to withdraw she could've done it so Korpatsch had time to find a new partner. Withdrawing via text one hour before the match was set to start was tacky. I'd be pissed off too.
She can be pissed off. I'd be pissed off. But going public with it and trying to get the internet to go after a player is another thing entirely and she's not young enough to claim she didn't know what she was doing. It worked, people have turned on Tan, but it also backfired on her spectacularly.
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JazzNU ponchi101 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:08 pm
No. The rule does not say "it is up to the discretion of the Chair Umpire to decide when to enforce this or any other rule".
Because if that is the case, then all rules are discretionary. And therefore, they are not rules.
Oh please. What match have you watched where discretion hasn't been employed by the chair? It's 30 seconds for a serve and they get to set when the clock starts, sometimes it's quick, sometimes much longer. Clock goes over, no warning issued. I hear F-bombs all the time in matches, including every day this week. Was a warning or penalty issued? Not one.
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meganfernandez Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:12 pm
meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:10 pm
Cuckoo4Coco wrote:
I think my pick for Day 4 on the men's side is going to be one that will not be bandwagoned. A player I know pretty much nothing about in Van De Zandsculp.
Well, you are talking to a big Botic fan.
not bad because he is in Nadal’s section so you want to use him before R4. But I’m concerned about his opponent, a very big server. I’d like Botox’s chance in the next round better, against McDonald or Gasquet.
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I always go with my first gut feeling.
Mertens has evened up the match at 1 set a piece and play is suspended until tomorrow.
I might be wrong about Ruusuvuori's serve anyway. I assumed he has a big serve because he's tall, but he's not on the ATP leaderboard in % of serves unreturned. Could be a very solid pick.
by ponchi101 Oh, yes, please. And when they do not enforce the rules, I believe it is not good. Rafa and Novak should have their time violations enforced, in the first set and in the 5th set TB. F-bombs should be enforced, regardless of score or moment in the match. So, by that logic, let's go back to the 70's when ALL rules were discretionary by the chair umpire. Let's see how long before the players ask for rules in writing again.
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nelslus Cuckoo4Coco wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:12 pmMertens has evened up the match at 1 set a piece and play is suspended until tomorrow.
Mertens (boringly) saved two match points, BTW.
by JTContinental Isner has 90 aces over 2 matches
by meganfernandez One thing I Iike about Isner - this speech he's giving after beating Murray. "I'm not a better tennis player than Andy Murray. I maybe just played a little better today...." Thanked the crowd for being respectful. Said Murray is a huge inspiration around the locker room and everyone's so lucky he's still playing.
Interviewer: How did you stay strong after losing the third set?
Isner: I served.
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mmmm8 Suliso wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 7:47 pm
It seems like that right now, but I bet <10 players will last to QF's in either draw.
I bet it'll be around 8
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mmmm8 meganfernandez wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:27 pm
One thing Iike about Isner - this speech he's giving after beating Murray. "I'm not a better tennis player than Andy Murray. I maybe just played a little better today...." thanked the crowd for being respectful.
Interviewer: How did you stay strong after losing the third set?
Isner: I served.
He is personable and quite likeable until you learn about his political leanings and stuff he stands for, and, at his age and exposure to the world, you can no longer blame it on culture/upbringing.
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nelslus *My take on Korpatsch- she has every right to be furious. But, I also agree that folks need to stop using social media for grievances. There are FAR too many evil, creepy, negative and scary people out there- stating the obvious, most definitely concerning women and people of color.
*As much as this shames me
- I have to go Team Ponchi here. Discretion is where I will always think that Carlos shafted Serena big-time. IMO, not here. Rules are rules, even when, horribly, it happens on a match point down.
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The Queen is also super awesome just because she has been around for like forever.