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For those wondering if Medvedev would put up any fight against Nadal... he didn't.

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    It was the 182nd-ranked Antonia Lottner. Also holy shit, Tara Moore recovered from a 0-6 0-5 match-point deficit to beat Jessica Ponchet: https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/47871628

  • and fed's through to the quarters.  took the 3rd set in a tiebreaker at 3.

  • Pocket Rocket is hanging ‘em up. Helluva career for what she had to work with.     

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Maria beats Riske in a 2nd set breaker, gets Barty next. 

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Venus & Keys win on the same day, is that still allowed? Serena supposed to take the court tonight, we shall see. 

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Yep. Couldn’t get enough sponsors, they’d been losing $ for awhile. 

There was a Dallas Open played for 2 years earlier this decade the week before the USO too. You can imagine how fun an outdoor hard event in mid-August around here would be, so it failed quickly. 

It's so tough to field good players for events that are a week before a slam. The top players are using that week to train/prepare for the slam, while the players outside the top 100 are playing the slams qualifying tournament. 

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The Dallas Open had temporary metal bleachers, those had to be like 130-140 degrees. 

1 minute ago, spystud13 said:

The Dallas Open had temporary metal bleachers, those had to be like 130-140 degrees. 

I was actually playing tennis in Dallas last weekend for my league so this truth hits close to home

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Sofia breaks from 15-40 to get back on serve at 4-all in the 3rd against hot Julia on TC. 

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Them girls were sweaty, Sofia wins the breaker. 

 

Side note, Asics has the best summer hardcourt kit of this season. 

Super-entertaining match earlier in the day... Dimitrov nearly pulled off the comeback

 

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Tsitsipas is in trouble against the German... going to a second-set tiebreak

 

Keys and Venus have had poor years but somehow they'll both play eachother in the Cinci QFs. Sloane could only muster 3 games today.

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I’m as anti-Sloane as anyone, but today was blisteringly bad. She didn’t even fucking compete. 

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She’s so fucking good, doesn’t even give a fuck when she wins. 

Keys takes the title in straights over Kuzy. Surprising tournament win for her just a week removed from losing to junior tennis player Baptiste

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Well, this fucking sucks. 

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Amanda Anisimova has withdrawn from the US Open after her father and longtime coach, Konstantin Anisimov, was found dead on Monday, her agent confirmed to ESPN.

Amanda Anisimova, the 2017 US Open junior champion and the No. 24-ranked player in the world, is a rising American tennis star and the youngest player in the WTA top 100. She is 17. Her parents moved to the United States from Russia in 1998 with their oldest daughter, Maria.

After making headlines by defeating defending French Open champ Simona Halep in the French Open quarterfinals at Roland Garros in June, launching her into the top 25, Anisimova withdrew from tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati earlier this month due to a back injury.

The Anisimova family has yet to comment on Konstantin Anisimov's death.

 

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Pretty hard to feel bad for the hotel here seeing as how you can find her brother in about 3 fucking seconds with all her online presence. 

On ‎8‎/‎20‎/‎2019 at 1:33 AM, spystud13 said:

Well, this fucking sucks. 

Sheesh, that's terrible.

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Serena/Maria in R1, that is fucking funny. Tennis gods are having some fun today. 

Tennis gods are prejudice against the stunning and brave mother. They know she likes to work her way into a tournament by playing 3 scrubs in the early rounds and now she has been stripped of that opportunity. Sexism and Racism! /s

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Incoming Baylor Freshmen Jenson Brooksby just qualified for the main draw at the US Open

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Incoming Baylor Freshmen Jenson Brooksby just qualified for the main draw at the US Open

Yeah last year he got a wild card in the main draw for winning Kalamazoo. He took the hard route this time by winning 3 rounds of USO qualifying 

Damn. Imagine handing out a breadstick, only to get two bagels in return.

 

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^ Go ahead & start the USO thread if you’re gonna be online for a few. 

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Interesting. 

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Seven years after retiring from tennis a second time, Kim Clijsters is attempting another comeback at age 36.

The former No. 1 and four-time major champion, who already is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, announced Thursday she is planning to return to the pro tour in 2020, although she is not ready to say when, where or how often she will compete.

"My goal right now ... is to be able to get fit enough, and ready tennis-wise, to compete at the highest level," Clijsters said. "That to me would be my challenge, as of right now. And if you get to that stage, then you push yourself, and then it might be like, 'Hmm, let's see if I can get, I don't know, to the second week of a Grand Slam.' I'll constantly push myself, I think, if I feel that I'm getting better and improving.

"But it's very hard for me to think about right now and very unrealistic at this stage to think, 'I want to try and get to a quarterfinal of a Grand Slam.' I don't think like that, because I'm in the moment and I know how much work I still have ahead."

Clijsters turned pro in 1997, won the US Open for the first time in 2005 and walked away from tennis in 2007 at just 23, shortly before getting married to basketball player Brian Lynch.

After about two years away while having a daughter, Clijsters returned and won the 2009 US Open, making her the first mother to collect a Grand Slam singles title since Evonne Goolagong at Wimbledon in 1980.

With a baseline game built on terrific court coverage, the Belgian won another championship at Flushing Meadows in 2010 then added an Australian Open title the following season and moved back atop the rankings.

Clijsters, who now has three children, left the tour again in 2012 and has been working as a television broadcaster.

"I do think the level and the power that a lot of the women bring is higher than maybe in the past, and it's higher at a consistent level," she said. "If I want to be able to compete with these girls, I'm going to have to be the fittest that I ever have been and to be able to move like I did in the past."

She said the earliest stages of her comeback bid have been filmed by a documentary crew for the past six months, although she decided for sure to give this a real try only in recent weeks.

WTA rules allow her, as a past Grand Slam champion, to receive unlimited wild-card invitations to tournaments and, as someone who is older than 30, to opt out of mandatory appearances at certain events.

"I know that I'm not going to play -- not even close to -- a full season," Clijsters said, adding that her intention is to be ready for January.

Clijsters said having her kids in school allowed her to get back on a practice court during the day.

"I'm 36 years old. I know in four years I'm not going to be able to do this," she said. "I've always followed my instincts. I was very young when I retired to have my first daughter and came back. To do it now, I think, to me, is a challenge. And I love the challenge. I'm not afraid of it."

 

It would be nice to have her back. Finally we'll have back on tour a woman on tour who knows how to win a slam post motherhood 

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Giorgi smoking Sloane 5-0 on TC from Osaka, Japan. 

Federer and Zverev gutted out a big win over Sock/Shapovalov in doubles. 3-1 Laver Cup lead for Team Europe after Day 1.

 

Another year, another terrific Federer-Kyrgios match.

 

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Osaka wins Osaka over Pavs. 

Kenin beats Stosur to win Guangzhou. 

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24 DFs & Ostapenko still sends Karolina home from Beijing. 

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Make that 25.

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