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Serena vs Maria. Monday.

10 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

Nah, SugarPimp was really basic today.  KP just never found her serve or game.  Oh well...

 

Monfils is a clown and I don't enjoy watching him play!

Such a waste. I remember that USO match in which he had Fed on the ropes and just didn’t take it seriously enough to go for the win, which he had in hand.

7 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

Karolina was horrible!  Quite embarrassing and made SugarPimp's job look super easy. 

So it wasn’t just Maria playing out of her mind. 

I saw Kontaveit beat Kvitova in two tiebreaks. Now she’s a dark horse.

Monfils had FOUR match points against Goffin just now and just Monfils’d them away.

I heard that the Fognini-Edmund match was bizarre. Lots of momentum shifts and MTOs, but Fognini came out the winner.

Was Karolina really that bad against Sharapova? That scoreline 😯

Seems like the Serena/Maria match is looking almost certain (still awaiting the Serena/Goerges match), and many are scared that this will be Maria’s best chance at a victory over Serena, who is struggling with movement, in 14 years. We do know Serena always brings it 500% against Maria, form be damned, but I would hate to see the doper gloating smugly over finally beating Serena in almost 20 tries.

Mugu is really rolling this tournament. Giorgi put up a fight, but Sloane came through.

Ain’t it something that of all the “top” ATP players, Kei Nishikori is the only one who had a straightforward victory today? He *stays* playing five setters, even when he doesn’t need to (letting inferior players into matches due to lapses in focus).

Yeah, what I love about NYC now is that even amongst the tension, there’s real authentic levity like Luann’s snark and the ladies drunkenly dry-humping each other. It’s not forced like the raunchy antics over at ATL. I do think Carole is very slyly and methodically undermining Bethenny in a way that no other HW has successfully done. She’s not as obviously thirsty (Jill, Ramona) or just dumb (Kelly).

She gutted through that win. Her footwork was better, and I think she’d probably get past Goerges, but the opponents in her section only get tougher, and someone is sure to capitalize on Serena’s compromised movement better than Ash did. Pliskova will likely defeat Maria, and Karolina has proven pretty strong on clay. And then there’s Muguruza, who seems to be putting together one of her occasional runs. 

Happy to see Petkovic back gaining some confidence. And look at Stosur flying under the radar a bit.

Serena is really at war with her own body right now. The movement isn’t there yet. The fight and desire are, though. 

A couple episodes ago, everyone was coming for Sonja. Now Bethenny is in the firing line. 

^I could have written that myself. TC’s French Open coverage is DREADFUL. Seeing the Americans slaughtered early is doubly pleasurable because TC actually starts broadcasting other more interesting matches. But Isner and Stevie Johnson are still around.

And hell no to buying TC Plus.

I’m hearing that The Talk was pre-taped for this week, which is why Sara hasn’t addressed the Roseanne situation on the show.

Robin Christopher 

Sarah Buxton 

Sean Kanan

Jessica Tuck

Rebecca Staab

Réal Andrews

Lisa LoCicero

Burke Moses

Richard Steinmetz

Christopher Cass

Thom Christopher 

Malachy McCourt

Lee Godart

Channing Dungey is getting a lot of praise, but I bet she is STRESSED at having to make major changes to the fall schedule without any series that would really pop for advertisers. I don’t envy her one bit at the moment.

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

I knew this Twitter page would have the pic, LMAO. At first I thought it was F-Lo.

 

 

Wow, between Fognini, Bolelli, Berrettini, Fabbiano, Sonego, this guy... the Italians are quite a contingent.

The Walking Dead is the only thing AMC has these days. They are going to wring every drop out of that franchise.

It’s a shame because I thought the show was often very good. And I think the cast had a genuine fondness for Roseanne. But as Maya Angelou said, when people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

I figured that ABC didn’t have any other options here. The blowback would have been too strong.

Could they kill off Roseanne with a drug overdose and call it “Roseanne’s Family”?

How quickly things have shifted for ABC. They were heading out of this season with such confidence due to Roseanne’s success, and they may have to cancel this show before end of day.

3 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

From what I saw of the match, I thought Serena looked pretty good out there today.

She looked much better! Her movement isn’t completely back, especially when protecting her second serve, but the ability to shift to another gear when necessary seems close to her previous level. Good match to work her way into the tournament.