My favourite Grand Slam is here!! I love it because of the night matches. Hopefully we'll see a lot of 5 setters that end around 12am.

Sloane Stephens, who last played in August 2015, has withdrawn from the ASB Classic in New Zealand where she was defending champion. I am told that she is still on the list for the tournament in Sydney.

 

Wonder what this means? 

Ana Ivanovic has an announcement which she is scheduled to make tomorrow at 6pm UK time on Facebook live.

Edited December 27, 20168 yr by DramatistDreamer

8 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

This is for you, @Soapsuds

 

 

Meanwhile on Instagram pic.twitter.com/KYUfK5fUXn

— José Morgado (@josemorgado) December 27, 2016

love me some DT!!

5 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Sloane Stephens, who last played in August 2015, has withdrawn from the ASB Classic in New Zealand where she was defending champion. I am told that she is still on the list for the tournament in Sydney.

 

Wonder what this means? 

Ana Ivanovic has an announcement which she is scheduled to make tomorrow at 6pm UK time on Facebook live.

Sloane must be in one of her funks. She must not be in the mood to play tennis. She is just wasting away her career.

 

Ana is either retiring or is pregnant.

Edited December 28, 20168 yr by Soapsuds

This article for FoxSports Australia, which describes what they essentially describe as luring Stan to play a tournament that he normally doesn't play by using Vekic as bait (via wildcard offer) was referred to by New York Times tennis writer Ben Rothenberg as "...remarkly greasy....even for tennis". 

 

Stan Wawrinka’s partner to play Brisbane International after unusual wildcard swap

 

 

Ana has officially retired!  Wow!!!!!

I can't pretend to be surprised though. On the day of her wedding, one fan had captioned a photo of her and her husband waving with "Saying goodbye to our careers". You could tell her heart wasn't really in it, the last few months.

 

Born in Belgrade. Crowned in Paris. Loved the world over. Your new life begins here @AnaIvanovic. pic.twitter.com/SiWGfdYKLC

— adidas tennis (@adidastennis) December 28, 2016

Edited December 28, 20168 yr by DramatistDreamer

Ana's career minus the surprising French Open title was pretty shitty.  Success came too early for her and she never did fix that awful serve of hers. She had so much talent minus that serve. Its too bad she didn't give 100% to fix that serve.

Serena Williams is engaged to Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian.

 

Serena Williams Reveals Surprise Engagement to to Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian – on Reddit!

Edited December 29, 20168 yr by DramatistDreamer

He's cute!

And poor!  

^^

 

Well, she's not, so I'm sure she can support him. 

After all that maneuvering to get Donna Vekic a wildcard, she loses in the first round to Asia Muhammad, who emerged from guess where?  The Qualifying rounds, as Donna probably should've done.

Glad to see tennis once again!  The matches last night were rather boring. I was glad that Kyle Edmund won. And was so pleased to see Dimitrov beat Stevie Johnson....LOL. 

 

Btw ...Johnson is engaged....I didn't even know he was dating someone...LOL

Oh dear lawd Jared Donaldson has hired Mardy Fish and Jan Michael Gambill as his coaches. What happened to Taylor Dent?

On 1/2/2017 at 11:18 AM, DramatistDreamer said:

After all that maneuvering to get Donna Vekic a wildcard, she loses in the first round to Asia Muhammad, who emerged from guess where?  The Qualifying rounds, as Donna probably should've done.

 

Lol...yep!

Alexander Zverev beat Roger Federer last night.