The Tennis Thread

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Opelka having a meltdown with the umpire.

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Opleka loses to Millman 

 

Opelka: screaming... The officiating is so bad!

 

TC announcers: you've already got warned...the point is over.

 

Opelka screaming again...the officiating is so bad!

 

Opelika to umpire: what's your last name?

[ChitHappens]

 

[I Am A Swede]

 

Well, he just lost a major final after being two sets up, and his grandmother had died just before the match, so I guess he just didn't feel like smiling.

[Faulkner]

 

[ChitHappens]

 

Of course, you had to know I know nothing about his grandmother, and because he's a little sh!t on the court, I get to rejoice in his misery.  

 

I saw it was removed and was wondering why.  That was crazy, but I guess they didn't want that kid to be the highlight of an otherwise miserable tourney.

[Faulkner]

What’s additionally crazy is that, seeing that level of engagement with the clip, they didn’t think to post it themselves? (Unless I missed it?) They just have a very 20th-century way of marketing themselves.

 

 

Edited June 14, 2021 by Faulkner

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Medvedev is upset in Halle by Struff.

[Faulkner]

That doesn’t look good.

 

 

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Wow..Chardy actually shaved his beard. He looks so much younger without it.

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Zverev muscle shirts are gone. 

 

Wimbledon to have 50% capacity during tournament. The men's and women's final full capacity.

[DramatistDreamer]

[ChitHappens]

The new Odd Couple:

 

 

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French Open ratings:

 

Sunday’s Novak Djokovic-Stefanos Tsitsipas French Open men’s final averaged 1.9 million viewers on NBC, up 19% from last year’s months-delayed October final (Rafael Nadal-Djokovic: 1.58M) and up 6% from the last time the final aired as scheduled in 2019 (Nadal-Dominic Them: 1.79M).

Djokovic’s five-set win ranks as the most-watched French Open men’s final since 2016 (2.00M).

 

 

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The Djokovic-Nadal semifinal on Friday averaged 1.1 million across NBC and NBCSN, the largest audience for a men’s semifinal since 2013.

In other action, the Barbora Krejcikova-Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova women’s final averaged just 954,000 on NBC Saturday morning — up 25% from an all-time low of 763,000 for Iga Świątek-Sofia Kenin last October, but down 8% from Ashleigh Barty-Markéta Vondroušová in ’19.

 

 

Ratings went up. I'm surprised. Maybe viewers were tired of Nadal in the finals. 

[Faulkner]

2016 is the last time there was a non-Nadal final (when Djokovic won his first, over Andy Murray).

When Nadal makes a Roland Garros final, it’s almost a foregone conclusion he’ll be holding the trophy, so there’s less reason for people to watch.

I’m sure that 2013 semifinal was that intense five-setter between Rafa and Novak.

 

Edited June 16, 2021 by Faulkner