2019 Running Tennis thread

If David Ferrer is part of your Big Five, then there is no Big Five.

 

Hot Spec Du Jour: Will Smith As Venus & Serena’s Tennis Coach Dad In ‘King Richard’

looks around and backs away slowly

 

Losing to a lower seeded player? I must be sick, too sick to play, too rich to die.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ian-wells-match-early/?utm_term=.7d1d51e823f0

 

I take it you didn't watch the match. Because had you, you would have seen with your own eyes that she suddenly became sick.

 

She was up 3-0 then lost. She looked good in the semi-final and the first 3 games. Maybe she did get sick quickly. Maybe. But her history of sickness/injury when losing to lower seeded/ranked players is omnipresent.
I think she has forfeited the presumption of honesty. She’s top 3 female player of all time. She doesn’t need the bullshit.

 

Can't say I ever have seen this before.

 

love it

 

Apparently he got into it (playfully) with a heckling fan during the match, too. The victory was also so easy for him that he even was executing no-look volleys.

Nick Kyrgios says fan thrown out of Miami Open called him 'a d---'

 

Worked for Chang in '89 French v. Lendl!!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...501070ee669_story.html?utm_term=.365eb13040d0

If she put as much effort into her tennis preparation as she does into her tennis attire, she wouldn’t lose in the round of 32 to an unranked player in straight sets.

 

I'm real curious to see how much she really has left, and whether her opponents are ready to send her into retirement.

The sport and its journalists will make every excuse imaginable. And the minute she leaves the sport, it's going to be very hard for her to maintain the spotlight for her fashion, politics, whatever. So she's gonna hang on until it's abundantly clear she's got no shot.

 

Sorry to say she’s done on one hand but in the other hand happy to see new wonderful talent rising. Lenin was legit, nice serve, good movement and penetrating shots with no fear. Great to see