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59 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Murray's technically Scottish, yeah? Englishmen and Scots are natural enemies.

yeah he's scottish.  but it wasn't that as much as how they thought he was immature and a brat. the media really piled on him for several years.  

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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.     

The qualies are complete and the draws are completely filled. Andreescu qualified as predicted and will play young Whitney Osuigwe, the winner of the Tyler Texas tournament from a couple months back!

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Sofia Kenin in the Hobart final tonight at 8 against Schmiedlova. 

Petra/Barty for the Sydney title. 

Kenin didn't lose a set all tournament and only lost 3 games in the final. She's on fire headed into the AO.

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Petra wins, but she eliminated herself from any kind of Melbourne contention. 

Probably as good a place as any to ask...

Anyone have any experience getting into Wimbledon on Day 2 or 3?  I've read up a little on the various ways to get tickets, all the way from dropping $1,000 per person for debenture seats, to standing in line the morning-of, hoping to get at-cost tickets.

Just curious if anyone has any first-hand experience.

 

On 1/17/2019 at 3:11 PM, MirrOlure said:

Probably as good a place as any to ask...

Anyone have any experience getting into Wimbledon on Day 2 or 3?  I've read up a little on the various ways to get tickets, all the way from dropping $1,000 per person for debenture seats, to standing in line the morning-of, hoping to get at-cost tickets.

Just curious if anyone has any first-hand experience.

 

are you asking for this july?  if not, you can try entering the general lottery, the deadline is either nov or dec.  if you're asking for this july your two options are either debenture seats (which can get crazy $) or lining up (which can get crazy boring and usually takes 4 hours or so).  i did the queue, got there 9:30 and got into the grounds around 2.  cost 35 GBP i think?  it was the first week so i got to see a bunch of matches and hang around a bit.  the worst part was trying to figure out how to get back home.  they were doing some public work which shut down the nearest tube station so there was a huge detour and no one knew what was going on.  i tried finding a cab but no luck, i'd taken my time leaving and they were all gone. 

On 1/17/2019 at 3:24 PM, spystud13 said:

@gsoda3 lived in London for awhile, maybe he knows. 

we lived outside of london but spent/spend summers in london itself with relatives.

Thanks@gsoda3

Yes, this July, and London/Wimbledon is just an add-on to a larger trip. And it would be Day 2 or 3. Sounds like the options are (1) open up the vault or (2) invest an entire day.

I think I saw that they hand out wristbands? Assume that means you don’t have to physically wait in line the entire time?

Only one singles match is on Melbourne arena today and it happens to be Tiafoe v. Dmitrov. That means it will be behind the ESPN+ paywall.

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ESPN will show a fair amount of it though since Maria/Barty isn’t super riveting for most American viewers. 

5 hours ago, MirrOlure said:

Thanks@gsoda3

Yes, this July, and London/Wimbledon is just an add-on to a larger trip. And it would be Day 2 or 3. Sounds like the options are (1) open up the vault or (2) invest an entire day.

I think I saw that they hand out wristbands? Assume that means you don’t have to physically wait in line the entire time?

there are two parts to the waiting-  the first part is in a huge open field.  it starts with one line and when that line gets too long (several hundred people in a line i would say) they start another.   there were eventually 5 or 6 of these lines that i saw.  each one a few hundred yards long.  you can picnic in line or sit down in your spot or even play frisbee which was pretty popular.  there were no wristbands handed out in this line. 

 

wristbands were handed out as people came out of the AELTC to keep track of how many were coming out vs going in.  they gave them to people in order of where they lined up.  after a certain # of wristbands were handed out they were permitted to pay and go in to the grounds, and fun fact it's like a quarter mile or more walk to the front gate.  after you get in to the front gate of the grounds it's another not short walk before you get to the stadium courts and pavilions. 

 

basically if you plan on waiting in the queue, bring something to do.  or chat up some strangers (are you single? there is talent....)

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Andreescu smokes Genie 2 & 0 in a $125K Challenger in Newport Beach. 

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Bianca won the tourney, beat Jessica Pegula after getting bageled in the first. 

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Ostapenko over Mladenovic today in Russia; 6-1, 0-6, 6-0. 

 

Women. 

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Some interesting R2 matches, TC will have coverage starting at midnight. 

Petra/Vika
DasKa/Sharapova
Julia/Bepa
Jelena/Pavs

 

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Petra out to Vekic, 4 & 1. Championship points to defend, but really should have just withdrawn before. Already out of Fed Cup next week, then has to defend Doha. 

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Donna v. Bertens for the St. Petersburg title tomorrow morning. 

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Earlier match from Hua Hin was interesting. Tomljanovic was cruising to her first career title serving up 5-2 in the 3rd, 18-year old Yastremska calls one of the more questionable MTOs you’ll ever see. Kid promptly reels off 4 straight games after her miraculous recovery, then steals the title in a breaker. 

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Simona/Karolina underway in Fed Cup on TC, tie is 1:1. 

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Keys was up 3-0 over Barty in our rubber, promptly lost 12 of the next 14. Fucking pathetic. 

Now Collins replaces Kenin against Birrell to stay alive. 

Collins and Keys should have been our singles team to begin with. Not sure why Kenin was put in to begin with. 

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Defending champs & world #1 doubles team the Czechs bounced by Romania. 

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Serena must have threatened to beat his ass. 

 

 

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6'11" Reilly Opelka won his first ATP title today. He's only 21 and for a big man he's developing his game ahead of schedule. Isner was still playing college tennis at Georgia at his age.

In unrelated news, Tsitsipas apparently thought it was a good idea to plaster screenshots of their weird conversations all over Twitter:

 

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Bencic survives 13 DFs & 6 MPs to beat Sabalenka 8-6 in a 3rd set breaker. Fucking crazy WTA match. 

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Make that 9-7 in the breaker.

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Karolina pulled her Serena & blew a 5-1 lead in the 3rd. Simona also lost to Bencic. 

Svitolina/Bencic & Hsieh/Petra in the Dubai semis. 

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How does an event like this pay the players & employees? You can’t see a single fan in the clip. I know there are sponsors, but still. 

 

 

And it’s Petra v. Bencic for the Dubai title. 

Nadal running circles around Zverev in Acapulco. Looks as good as ever

 

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del Po out as defending champ of IW with a knee injury, Maria had a “small procedure” on her bad shoulder, Sloane Sloane’d again today in Acapulco. 

Kyrgios saves 3 match points to upset Nadal at Acapulco!!

 

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5 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

The Mexican fans during the Rafa match were entertaining lol

Kyrgios roasted them post-match; "Boo all you want, won't change the scoreboard" 😂

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