The Tennis Thread

[Soapsuds]

The American women are 0-7 I believe.....all have lost.  Ryan Harrison escapes with a win but looks like John Isner will lose first round again. He looks like he'd rather be watching NFL Football.

[Soapsuds]

Why did John Isner make the trip to Australia? He lost first round in a warm up tournament and now lost first round in the Australian Open. LOLOL

[DramatistDreamer]

CoCo has the flu?  Why the hell is she playing?  She probably infected a dozen people on the way to the match!

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[Soapsuds]

Ewwwwww.....I knew CoCo was trashy but come on!

 

ESPN just reported it. Of course Jack Sock did the same thing two years ago when he lost in the first round.

Edited January 15, 2018 by Soapsuds

[Faulkner]

Nishioka just took out Kohlschreiber in a five-setter with a ton of momentum swings apparently. I really like him, and it sucked that he tore his ACL when he was on the verge of really breaking through. Good start to his return, though.

 

Wow, how childish of Coco. I see she's back to her old, entitled ways.

Edited January 15, 2018 by Faulkner

[SnCCorinthos4ever]

Shock horror, but to the surprise of no-one Sam Choker is out.

She had a code volition against her cuz she went off about not having any banana’s, or so it was reported.

[DramatistDreamer]

She also yelled an audible obscenity.  Despite the fact that I don't like Babos, I don't find this to be at all funny.

 

 

I'm glad for Nishioka, by the way.

[Soapsuds]

And Jack Sock is gone again...LOLOLOLOL.  He is just horrible. I can't believe he is still in the top 10 with that loss. They were reporting that he had the flu again too....Lawd.....LOL

 

John Isner gone too..LOL....again Justin Gimbelstob was there as his coach

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  I thought he was no longer his coach because he was spending too much time away from his family? Does Justin have a thing for John? I had to LOL at Justin's facial expressions during the match...LMAO

 

The Americans as a whole went 2-9 yesterday.

[SnCCorinthos4ever]

Saw the day 3 schedule before leaving today, saw that Nadal would be playing Rod Laver, so I upgraded our tickets.

[SnCCorinthos4ever]

If you want a really good laugh, you need to watch the interview with Federer,after his win.

 

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Edited January 16, 2018 by SnCCorinthos4ever

[Soapsuds]

More tennis players admitting to having the flu. Why are they playing????  Geez......

[DramatistDreamer]

I think I was the only one who was  not surprised by Luksika Kumkhum's straight sets victory over Belinda Bencic. 

In fact, I was expecting it.  Bencic put everything she had into beating Venus, then had little left. 

Kumkhum, on the other hand saw that she wasn't going to face Venus and took one look and Bencic and likely said (in her mind) "I can take this match".

[Fevuh]

Just catching up - I didn't see the first couple of rounds.....what the Hel* happened to the U.S. women?  It's like as soon as some of the newbies take a step forward they follow it up with 3 steps backwards...

[DramatistDreamer]

 

I can't even speak for most of them.  The only realistic prospects that the U.S. women had were Venus, Madison, CoCo and maybe Sloane, with Shelby and Alison only with a good draw having an outside chance at the second week.  So far Madison is really the only one left, I believe.

 

I'm going to exclude Venus, who is 37 and has Sjogren's which is a wildly unpredictable disease. I also wonder if the madness of her previous season has made it a challenge for her to reset herself for this season.

 

The last time Sloane won a match (anywhere), Serena's daughter was still practically in utero.  She also lost the doubles match with Genie Bouchard but they were unlikely to beat Makarova and Vesnina anyway.

 

CoCo went CoCo (see the video posted above).

 

Alison Riske had an actual chance against Kirsten Flipkens. Unfortnately, Riske pulled a Christina McHale, who is usually on the brink of winning before managing to lose.

McHale was a non-factor in her own match, but frankly, I no longer look for great results from her anyway.

[Soapsuds]

Grigor escapes! I thought he was going to lose this morning. He did not play well.

 

CoCo is trash. Coco still played doubles yesterday after saying she had the flu.