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I don't know how to post a pic - but he plays soccer for a team in Russia. Browse his name and if someone could post the delicious picture of him coming out of the Ocean - you will be forever worshipped by me. LOL. Martin Hromkovic

I agree re: Roger. He's still advancing deep into draws and is still competitive. I was talking with a friend who follows even more closely than I do and he thought the same thing - I think Tsitsipas, Thiem, Zverev are likely the heirs. Medvedev is like watchiing paint dry for me. Kyrgios I think is going to be the player that never reaches potential...I don't know what it is with him...I don't care for him but he has more potential but is such a hothead. When you get into a fight with the chair umpire over wanting a white towel that you shoulda brought yourself is.....alottttttt.

Ugh. Pre-emptions and Tennis channel is running re-runs. The women's year end finals were terrible...people retiring various times. And I just don't think Ash Barty is all that. Meanwhile how have I missed the hotness that is Belinda Bencic's boyfriend? He is tasty.

The Sacramento/San Francisco/northern California CBS I heard cut Guiding Light in the 90's. I remember them doing a location shoot at one point where one of the couples traveled there on a short storyline to try and gain an audience...I think it was already too far gone there and it didn't work.

I'm Northern Virginia. He is so stupid. LOLLLLLL. I'm actually hoping for the blue wave in this election - I think it's going to happen. While I'm in Northern VA I see signs for Democratic candidates in my neighbors' yards unlike I've ever seen. I'm usually the only one with signs in my yard...a ton of people have them in my hood this election. I think we're going to see major turnover from R to D at the local level this year. VOTE TOMORROW!

This is a little silly but I'm watching a match on the Tennis Channel and the ball people are using butterfly nets to retrieve if it's still bouncing. Cute and somewhat brilliant. Oh wait...it looks like they're tennis racquets strung like butterfly nets. Very cute... Updated, it's the Vienna tournament. Not seen this butterfly net retrieving thing before...

Mindhunters - it's morbid but good and a friend of mine was on a few episodes.

Yesterday I was listening to Roberta Flack singing "Hold on to Love" - I was trying to remember - did they ever have her on the show, or did they ever use her vocal version during the opening credits? I only see the regular version - and I remember I think them using Hamp's sax version once or twice?

It's bad. There's some bad bad bad hombres out there. It's bad, just bad bad bad. And I'll tell you 7 times. Can I tell you again? I'll tell you 7 more times. He's a damned NUT. When have you EVER heard a President use such Name-Calling if they're INNOCENT. "He's a LOWLIFE". Honey, find a mirror and you'll see what a lowlife is. He has Dementia, just like his Dad did. Well, whatever - I know he'll never go back to New York and have a life, and neither will any of them. The NY social circles are so distanced from him, and Florida's little community isn't in love with him either. He better buy an island. And the best thing - he destroyed the lives of his own children.

There's no bottom. We all keep saying it. Every time you think he can't go lower, he manages to figure out how to go lower. It's so unbelievable, and all of my friends are saying the same thing. He'll get re-elected. Unless people wake up and show up at the polls and get rid of his punk ass. I don't like Bernie Sanders but I'd even vote for him. I don't even care who gets nominated, I'm just waiting to see who I need to throw my money behind.

I would love to see her do it - I always thought she was very underrated and was so close on several occasions. She was one of my favorite players.

A friend of mine said his shoulder was iffy? I mean, if that's the case (is it?) - I save my body. He doesn't need the money. I quit playing volleyball after 4 knee surgeries (1 ACL replacement, and 3 other cart trims) - and I sure didn't make any money at it. I quit because my ortho said - take up putt putt golf or biking or something or you won't be walking at 40. Was it because of injury or why are people angry?

Oh my Gosh I had not heard this - I even have Tennis Channel on alot and haven't heard this.

Who is Sean Spicer? LOL. That's the level they get on Dancing now. This is a celebrity? That people want to see on a stupid dancing competition? Ok. Got it. I haven't tuned in for years but an overweight, white, angry conservative man that couldn't take the heat isn't going to make me scramble to tune in either. I'm sure he's really a nice guy though. No, really, he's really a nice person. (cough, cough). I bet he even knows a gay person and has a black friend. (cough). No thanks.

Now I'm going to have to look her up...this will be disappointing hahahahahaha.

I completely have the hots for Khachanov. Don't know what it is...but man, fire that toaster up and plug in it. To me.

Good grief - both Keys and Stephens are now losing to people they should not be losing to. For both it's like their careers are going downhill fast. It's painful to watch. And Kyrgios is just a joke now. He was yelling at the chair umpire last night for a white towel. hahahahaha. Why is it up to the chair umpire to get you a towel? Aren't players responsible for bringing their own equipment? Bring your own damned towel if you don't like the tournament towel. Seriously? And you could hear all the f-bombs and it took the chair awhile to give him a violation. If Serena acted like that..............and they just let him get away with it. That and his constantly quick serving between points, and it's like he tries to see how fast he can go to get a reaction from the other player. So childish.

Goodness. Citi Open must be clutching pearls. No one of note is left in the women's draw. I would say Madison Keys but she always loses. And no one is showing up to see a match for whoever beat coco. Barely heard of her. sorry, but true. Good tuneup for the Open. They're all going to suck. LOL.

Horrible match. Just awful. The girl she lost to is basically - not very good. Put the ball in play. Between Madison and Sloane I don't even know what to do. Coco is on next - I'm hoping that she plays well. DC has turned out for her - I want her to win. Storms are in the area too - I hope they get this match off. Crazy - she plays Center Court at Wimbledon and is on grandstand at this tournament to open.

I should have said leadups to the US Open. I was just looking at prize money and I have to say - I'm a Citicard holder and I'm going to contact someone at citi. I know there is unequal pay in everything but this is ridiculous. I wanted to know what the pay is for each round. The Men get like $350,000 to win. I know the women's tournament was a different tier for many years here in DC. Well it's now an International event but the winner only gets $50,000 or $47,000 or so. What the hell? Cut that men's money a bit and give a little more to the women. Even the Men's Doubles winners get more than the single women's winner! I need to tell my DC tennis playing friends - I wonder if they even know? I know there is always a difference unfortunately but this is crazy. I knew there would be a disparity but I had NO idea how much.

Maybe someone knows - I really don't - but they play at night in DC. I don't know if other tournaments leading up to the Open do. But when I say it's hot - it's HOT in the main court/stadium. It's brutal. Do other tournaments play at night? When I went, I had a box of seats but I went in the champagne tent. Whatever they call it.

I'm in Northern VA and the Citi Open is this week in DC. I've gone in some years but it's usually brutally hot. I wish I could get time to go this week - it's a nice little tournament and the players walk around the grounds or come watch matches standing right beside you for the outer courts. They have a nice lineup this year for both men's and women's...and Coco G. made it through qualifiers yesterday.

I'm DC. It's pathetic. The entire family has no conscience. When you attack Veterans, Gold Star Families, and then try to have a big 4th of July Celebration...and tell people to "Buy American" and he knows how to "Deal with Chinahhh". And he got most of his building materials from China and Ivanka had all of that God-awful clothing line MADE IN CHINA. People know. I hope she can deal (not really - I hope the whole family suffers) with her Dad - but none of them can go back to New York. They're a laughing-stock. Ivanka and hubby were Democrats until they could hitch their wagon to Daddy Orange. Ivanka thinks she's going to be President. This entire administration is a reality show and media-fest, and White Supremacist rally. Ineptitude. When you trot out Kelly Ann Conway as one of your first speakers, what on EARTH would you think. SHE is VACANT. Can't think on her feet - welcome to the podium, Beavis. I work for a multi-national corporation, and everyone knows we are a joke at this point. It's sad. And what does he do? Goes after someone who tells the damned truth. It's Republican/Conservative normal. They need conflict to beat the Bibles and Wave the Flags and start the "Support the Troops" campaign. And "You can't change Presidents in time of War" garbage they always spew. It's coming.

It wasn’t Chris - it was Mary Jo. What Serena does need to end is the crazy yelling and dramatic stumbling around. She does it when she’s rolling over people and she does it when she’s losing badly. She acts. It’s bad. Just play tennis. The yelling and the stupid stumbling around look ridiculous.

She just needs to play more tournaments. Even being great on grass she didn't play a warm up tournament and that's not unusual for her but when you get older, things change. She's trying to play herself into mental shape during the tournament. It's an amazing accomplishment to make a GS final but I think it hits her in the moment. One thing that has always driven me crazy about her and I've never heard anyone say it because she generally moves well when she's in top form, returns well, etc. But she doesn't bend her knees - she bends at the waist and stands there basically, bent slightly at the waist on returns. And there were several times even during this match where she left Halep an opening, and she just stood up and stood there, even just instead of making a guess to one side or the other, she just gave up on points. But the lack of bending her knees on returns, getting down low, and even on alot of her groundstrokes, not alot of knee bend. And I've never heard anyone say it. With lack of match play, if her serve lets her down like it did today, anyone can be a danger. Her serve was basically on all tournament. I think Mary Jo said it best - Serena is still the best player on tour regardless of her ranking - but she doesn't have a Plan B. I noticed Simona said in her interview - her team and her had a plan and Tom Rinaldi said, "what was it?" And she said we're not going to tell you. I thought that was funny.