The Official Tennis Thread

[yoyoyo1]

lol @ the poll

"will he complete the upset"

yes 1%
no 99%

drunkovic making an appearance, tennis is a funny old game


and now he instantly breaks

 

[mr x]

Fed

 

[Yapdatfool]

He may get double bagaled by nole tomorrow

 

[mr x]

Joker vs Murray exhibition match

 

[Yapdatfool]

Backerer

French should 5-0 the swiss now in DC

Gotta be the worse ATP finals ever, all the lopsided sets, now this

 

[nomoreneveragain]

He may get double bagaled by nole tomorrow

He avoided that shyt

 

[Grams]

17 years old



'ave a bagel why don't ya

http://www.wtatennis.com/news/article/4299543/title/bencic-wta-newcomer-of-the-year

WOLLERAU, Switzerland - After some phenomenal results in the juniors over the last few years,Belinda Bencic began 2014 with one goal - to make a name for herself in the big leagues. Barely in the Top 200 when the year started, it seemed like a longshot, but oh what a year it was for the Swiss.

It didn't take long for the top players to take notice of her - after a hard-fought first round win overKimiko Date-Krumm, Bencic took on Li Na in the second round of the Australian Open, dropping the first set at love in just 22 minutes but asserting herself in a big way in the 58-minute second set, coming within two points of taking the set in a tie-break but eventually falling to Li in straights, 6-0, 7-6(5).

"She played exactly like Martina Hingis," Li, who would go all the way to the title, said of Bencic.

"She was using a lot of my power to move me around and make me run a lot out there on the court."

That was just the beginning. As a No.140-ranked qualifier, Bencic would storm into the semifinals of the Premier-level clay court event in Charleston in April, breaking the Top 100 afterwards - the first player born in 1997 or later ever to break that elite. A run to the third round of Wimbledon showed she was an all-surface threat, and then the biggest breakthrough of them all, reaching her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the US Open, the youngest player to do that since Hingis won the title in 1997.

Even more impressive about the 17-year-old's run in Flushing was that she recorded her first two Top 10 wins along the way against Angelique Kerber and Jelena Jankovic - and both in straight sets.

A few weeks later, she reached her first WTA final halfway across the world in Tianjin, China.

Having finished 2013 at No.212 in the world, Bencic finished 2014 all the way up at No.33.

And she's now been voted the WTA's Newcomer Of The Year, joining some very legendary names -Tracy Austin, Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario, Jennifer Capriati, Hingis, the Williams sisters, Kim Clijsters,Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki, to name a few - among the list of recipients of that award.

"It's a great honor and privilege to have been voted the WTA's Newcomer Of The Year for 2014," Bencic said of the news. "It has been a challenging and rewarding year for me and I hope to be able to build on my success from 2014 in the future. I have been watching top WTA players all my life and to have been able to be on the same court as some of the world's greatest players is a dream come true.

"I hope to make as much progress in 2015 as I did this year. Thank you for voting for me!"

The WTA Awards are voted for by a combination of media and fans. Bencic came out on top in both categories - she got 56 of 58 media votes and 46% of fan votes (Zarina Diyas was next with 23%).

 

[malbaker86]

17 years old



'ave a bagel why don't ya

http://www.wtatennis.com/news/article/4299543/title/bencic-wta-newcomer-of-the-year

Switzerland at it AGAIN

 

[yoyoyo1]

Federer hasn't practiced since he played on Saturday and he has to play at least 2 5 set matches

breh is gonna be the source of all disappointments late in the season

 

[yoyoyo1]

Stanislas beats Tsonga, Monfils basically trying to save the French right now against Fed

and if he doesn't win, it's 0-2.. but he'll push Fed into fatigue/injury? Who knows

 

[yoyoyo1]

we got beef already, fed annoyed with the crowd + monfils serving pace, anti-fed crowd (FOR ONCE???!!!!!) getting to him

gael ALLEZING after every point to rub it in

french crowd randomly interrupting everything after fed got pissed and the french team cheering them on

potential classic in progress

this atmosphere tho

 

[malbaker86]

we got beef already, fed annoyed with the crowd + monfils serving pace, anti-fed crowd (FOR ONCE???!!!!!) getting to him

gael ALLEZING after every point to rub it in

french crowd randomly interrupting everything after fed got pissed and the french team cheering them on

potential classic in progress

this atmosphere tho

that dayum French crowd is SOMETHING else

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

andy murray is garbage p*ssy just like his coach..so happy to see him fail

i put the match on at the tennis center and told everyone there fed was gonna double bagel him before the match started..they thought i was

after the first one i said "anyone have mauresmo's #? we can put orders in for the deli." the downgrade from lendl to mauresmo is as steep as the regression in his game and im thoroughly enjoying it....on a side note...lendl lives fairly close to where i work and im trying to get him in there for a celebrity lesson program or a random match. id pull the chang on him first serve and then he'd probably never lose a point again and knock me out

 

[Liu Kang]

we got beef already, fed annoyed with the crowd + monfils serving pace, anti-fed crowd (FOR ONCE???!!!!!) getting to him

gael ALLEZING after every point to rub it in

french crowd randomly interrupting everything after fed got pissed and the french team cheering them on

potential classic in progress

this atmosphere tho

that dayum French crowd is SOMETHING else

It's a Davis Cup final on home soil brehs. Ain't no way Fed getting support this time.

Tsonga was disappointing but Stan was playing great so no surprise here though I don't really think Tsonga on clay was the best choice IMO. Gasquet and Monfils are better on that surface but Tsonga was mostly chosen because he's the most consistent of the whole camp and the most rock-solid mental-wise.

And Fed is not playing 100%. He should have skipped Friday and played Sunday or tomorrow above all after that Wawrinka win... Chiudinelli against Monfils today was the optimal choice IMO and that would have granted Federer 1 (if he'd play the doubles) or 2 more days (if he'd only played Sunday) of rest with the Swiss aiming at 1 win on Friday and 2 on Sunday for a 3/2 W.

 

[yoyoyo1]

they're playing at a MLB playoffs pace

both teams saved 2 bp and 2nd set still up for grabs at 6-5


you can see benny keeping gasquet focused, what a leader