Running Tennis Thread 2022

No dude you’re an anti-vaxxer.

 

Just saw this on the WTA site. Wow. Sure didn't see that coming.​

 

Just read about this in the NYT newsletter. A true stunner.

 

She'll be back -- again. It's in her DNA to compete at something. Nothing can replace that, even children.

 

Serena wants the record and she made Barty an offer she couldn’t refuse to step aide. I expect a few more ‘retirements’ and ‘injuries’. No one in the top 10 should walk near an open Window.

 

Barty retired a few years ago to become a cricket player. Then came back to tennis.

Maybe she just needs a break. But 25, probably set for life with money, she can take some time away, find if there's anything else she likes to do, and come back again in a couple years and still dominate.

People are realizing the options they have.

 

Seems Osaka has some stuff figured out. She's advanced to the final in Miami, one if the biggest non-major tournaments of the year. She'll play Swiatek, who will move up to No. 1 now that Barty is retired, for the title.

 

Don't know if anyone noticed, but Djokovic played his first match since February a couple days ago -- and lost. Got beat by Alejandro
Davidovich Fokina 6-3 6-7 6-1 in the second round (Djoker had a first-round bye) in Monte Carlo.

Djoker is now 2-2 in 2022 -- he lost in straight sets to Jiri Vesely in the quarterfinals of his only other tournament (Dubai).

Of the top six players in the men's world rankings, only one -- Nadal -- has won a tournament (though No. 5 Tsitsipas will play Fokina in the Monte Carlo final). No. 2 Medvedev hasn't done much since choking the Australian Open away to Rafa. Meanwhile, Nos. 7-11 -- Ruud, Rublev, Auger-Aliassime, Norrie and Alcaraz -- have combined for seven tournament titles.