DramatistDreamer

Obama bowed the least, IJS.

Trump's not that special. Apparently the Saudis give these chains out to every president.

LOL.

I could've stood Nolé winning, what I cannot stand is a match that lacks competitive fire (unless it's a Venus win, in which case, I don't give a sh*t, I'm not gonna lie). But one sided clay court matches are excruciating to watch, for me.

The only problem with Madrid is that because of the altitude, it really doesn't play like RG. So far as I've read, Monte Carlo seems to play the most like RG with Rome approximating a similar feel, although I wonder whether the rain storm last night and the tournament deciding against covering the courts could have had an effect on the clay. Maybe Thiem needs rest more than anything right now, he does tend to play a pretty packed schedule, at times.

What the hell happened???!!! I haven't really watched to see the quality of Zverev's volleys but someone on Twitter just said he doesn't have one. If that's the case, I hope he gets one by tomorrow or it could end up being a pretty one-sided final. Rome had been shaping up to be a very high-quality tournament until Venus loses, then that horrible rain storm and it goes to hell. This is why I can't get too invested in the clay season and there are too many damn clay tournaments at that!

And Trump curtsied to the Saudis afterward, for good measure.

Yep, I'm seeing that Svitolina was up 4-1 before Garbiñe retired. I saw this coming last night!

Muguruza knew Svitolina was going to run her as* all over the court, that's why she didn't bother! I knew Svitolina would win either by walkover or retirement but I new Muguruza wouldn't make that final. EDT. They're claiming it's her neck but her thigh was strapped yesterday. Uh-hm, okay girl!

LOL. What I came to post! Zverev is going to be Top 10 so he won't have to be bothered with the NextGEN Finals in Milan which is quickly become a joke with proposed "changes" to the format. Is TC going to try to crow about Isner today?

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From what I'm reading on social media, looks like Cornell West is being dragged for what he said during his appearance on Bill Maher.

Muguruza ditched the press after her match. Her people pushed back her press conference from 10 pm Local time to 11pm and then she never showed up. Many who waited for Garbiñe were pissed since it was so late, many tennis journos were soaked from the storm (it rained cats and dogs) and many hadn't eaten since they had waited around for her. Seriously, I wonder whether Muguruza might have further injured herself during the match and wanted to avoid any possible questions about it, perhaps additional treatment? It's going to be interesting to see how that strapped thigh is doing come tomorrow. I bet Svitolina is going to try to run Muguruza ragged tomorrow. @ChitHappens I saw that too! It's a darn shame when one of your most illustrious players can't find her own sport on the damn TV! That guide was created by a fan. He was on cloud 9 because Serena favorited his tweet to her!

Steve Simon is too busy caping for Maria to be bothered with securing proper streaming and television deals.

In this day and age, it makes no sense to have a sport without a separate and independently operated streaming service. If HBOGo lets you subscribe without a cable subscription, what the hell is BeIN's problem?!

It sure puts my anti-virus and anti-malware software to work, LOL!

So Trump calls Comey a "Nut Job"??? Really?! Pot calling kettle black here. So now the Israelis will probably use Trump's poor judgement and big mouth as leverage against him. For years the Middle East peace process was stalled and got no traction. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump managed to move things BACKWARD.

I watched Venus' match on a dodgy AF Italian stream where the commentators talked so damn much they practically gave me a headache! Aww, DelPo's backhand has slowly been improving, maybe he's having a bad day today? I don't want him to retire. I don't know what the solution is to Novak because I'm not watching but I'm sure knowing Nadal is out of the tournament has put a bounce in Novak's step, he's totally going to go all out for the rest of this tournament.

I'm not watching and from what you've just described, I don't believe I will. I've already had enough disappointment today.

If only Venus had held serve after she broke Muguruza in the 3rd set! Venus didn't take full advantage of Muguruza's somewhat limited sense of movement, which Garbiñe was good at masking this time by making the match a hitting match. Still, considering clay is probably Muguruza's best surface and Venus had only had one match on green clay before this week, QFs isn't that bad. Although Muguruza really did little this year, she likes to really bring her best when she faces a big-time opponent. For instance, look at her results against Serena in the French Open final last year! Oh well, I'm glad Vee beat Konta yesterday because I was so sick of her losing to her!

I thought Isner played Zverev next, no? Gotta check the Order of Play.