2024 Tennis

[the1andonly3003]

Set just started and it sounds vacant. Everyone must be at Ultra

 

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so Jack Sock is now a pickleball player

 

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Djokovic getting a new coach
Novak Djokovic splits with coach Goran Ivanisevic as he tries to find an edge once more - The Athletic
His team basically reconstructed since the end of last season

 

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Alcaraz about to bounce out of Miami in straight sets to Dimitrov

 

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Nadal to play in the 4th round in Madrid soon

 

[jezza1918]

Nadal to play in the 4th round in Madrid soon

So torn between wanting him to win and wanting him to lose so he can save his body for any kind of run in a few weeks in Paris...

 

[jezza1918]

The Madrid women’s final was all sorts of awesome. Third set breaker and Swiatek comes out on top 9-7 after saving three MPs

 

[ifmanis5]

It was an accident but still a bit odd to see him go down like that.
View: https://twitter.com/josemorgado/status/1789011463270547671

Oh my god Djokovic got hit by a bottle while leaving the court in Rome.
View: https://twitter.com/TheTennisLetter/status/1789026109717442661

The tournament released a video showing that Novak Djokovic was hit on the head by accident. The bottle slipped from a fan’s backpack.

 

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Novak Djokovic Stuck by Water Bottle in Rome | Tennis Channel Live (youtube.com)

Are we sure this isn't Nadal or Alcaraz's Tonya Harding moment?

We need some Seinfeld level analysis of the rotation of that Stanley tumbler. Is this the Keith Hernendez-Kramer/Newman controversy?

edit: In the second angle, that guy wasn't showing much remorse

 

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Djokovic wears bike helmet to sign autographs after water bottle incident (telegraph.co.uk)
Does Novak know that he didn't need two hats?

 

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Out goes Novak Novak Djokovic loses to Alejandro Tabilo in Rome after water bottle incident - The Athletic

 

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US Open men's finals on ABC this year going up against NFL late window
US Open men’s singles final to be shown on ABC for first time - The Athletic (nytimes.com)

Hope we get Alcaraz-Novak. If it's Sinner, then the mass audience won't be introduced to him

 

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Radacanu out of the French Emma Raducanu withdraws from French Open qualifying (telegraph.co.uk)

In her assessment of that match on April 24 – which remains the last time we saw Raducanu in action – Keothavong said “We talk a lot about head, heart and legs, and if your head and your heart aren’t in it, your legs don’t stand a chance. It was really disappointing to see. She said she was tired, but do you talk yourself into more tiredness?”

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In an interview this weekend, Raducanu made waves by saying that female tennis players are often more skilful than male ones, before going on to describe the pay gap between the sexes as “huge” and unfair.

She also said that “Life starts after tennis. I am actually looking forward to the next chapter, which is funny to say at this age, but there are so many things I want to do in this life and I just don’t have enough time.”

I remember someone in here opined that she would be a single major winner and bust out. A few years since her US Open win, it seems that way.