Year Round The Tennis Thread

[Atobe the king]

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Smart move on his part since i think he's playing the whole golden swing.

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Wow Federer plays some horrible tennis in rotterdam

 

[FrostyMouse]

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Atobe, I don't search for streams online of insignificant tournaments, honestly, so, I don't know.

 

[Atobe the king]

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Huh? Rotterdam is a 500 event. And i haven't watched tennis streamed in years i watched the match on tv. I watch all tennis available to me not just slams or masters.

 

[FrostyMouse]

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So? You want me to watch an event with only one top level player in it? Not going to happen. I want to see a titanic final and that's not going to happen with Federer vs no one.

 

[Atobe the king]

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I see, difference of opinion then i suppose. I just want a place to discuss tennis lol If you've been to a dedicated tennis forum they're pretty terrible.

 

[goldb]

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Serena Williams won Qatar Open to reclaim no.1 spot. Awesome. I hope she can keep it for a while and stay away from injuries.

 

[Atobe the king]

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Yeah that's pretty cool. Staying injury free in her case is so hard...not getting any younger. Had 2 huge scares in the AO

 

[Hakuteiken]

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Serena Williams won Qatar Open to reclaim no.1 spot. Awesome. I hope she can keep it for a while and stay away from injuries.

And interestingly, she became the oldest woman to do so.
I was surprised to see the great Steffi Graf not holding that record, but it only lasted until I remembered she retired relatively young, around 30 or so.

 

[goldb]

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Though not a Masters, has anyone been following the Dubai championship? It's quite far gone now. Djoko defeated Del Potro in one of the semis and could potentially face Federer in the final, if Fed beats Berdych( currently 1 set all).

 

[Atobe the king]

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Maaaan Federer screwed up. On the other hand..my god Nadal. Demolished Ferrer, it's like he wanted to make sure Ferrer knew who the REAL spanish number 1 is.

 

[FrostyMouse]

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Maaaan Federer screwed up. On the other hand..my god Nadal. Demolished Ferrer, it's like he wanted to make sure Ferrer knew who the REAL spanish number 1 is.

Nadal massacring Ferrer is a very good sign.

Djokovic beat Berdych pretty convincingly, even if 7-5 6-3 isn't a blowout.

 

[Atobe the king]

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Djoker owns Berdych pretty much...he routines him these days like Fed did before 2010 . I think Berdych has one win over him maybe. Nadal will be at Indian Wells so things should be interesting.

 

[FrostyMouse]

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Yeah, Djoker doesn't really lose to Berdych, although Berdych gave Djoker his toughest match in the AO in a way.

 

[Atobe the king]

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Naaah that had to be Wawrinka lol..12-10 in the 5th i think?

 

[FrostyMouse]

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Naaah that had to be Wawrinka lol..12-10 in the 5th i think?

Oh, right. I'd forgotten about the Wawrinka match and I actually watched the entire match live.

 

[goldb]

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Almost forgot that BNP Paribas Open(Indian Wells Masters) started this week( 06/03 - 17/03), with all the top 4 participating. Looking forward to seeing Nadal in action, particularly. Roger Federer is the defending champion but Djokovic is on the back of his win at Dubai over Berdych and is most favourite to triumph. How do we see this panning out?

We also have the women's going on here; Azarenka is defending her title.

 

[FrostyMouse]

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I'm going to say Djokovic wins Indian Wells.

In terms of the women's, I don't know. Serena does win if she's fully healthy, but that's not always the case.

 

[goldb]

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Yeah similar to how Fed was when he reigned, I increasingly find it hard to bet against Djoko in many tournaments. Biggest casualty of the players so far is Baghdatis losing in the first round.

 

[Atobe the king]

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Serena and Venus don't go to Indian Wells they've been boycotting for a while now over a racism incident iirc. Federer has a shot, playing well. But my money is on Djoker. I'm paying more attention to Ernests Gulbis, who seems to be taking tennis seriously again. I'd say biggest Casualty is Tipsaravic losing 6-2,6-0 to Ernests gulbis considering he's number 9 in the world haha.

 

[goldb]

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Gulbis was a player I was looking at a few years ago, when he advanced to latter stages of tournaments and put up good performances against top seeds. He had a lot of potential, then he dipped....I don't recall why or if it was injury related.

Oh the William sisters boycott; wow that was so long ago that I'd forgotten about it. I found an outdated article here if you anyone wants to read.