05-23-2017, 10:04 AM
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#821
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Genie has a torn ligament in her ankle and won't be playing at the Nuremberg Cup and her French Open participation looks doubtful as well.
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05-23-2017, 10:40 AM
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#822
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Uranus
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Don't look now but with the challenger win this week, Pospisil has vaulted 24 spots all that way up to #82.
Congrats to him for working his way back to the main tour for what should be the rest of the year now.
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05-23-2017, 12:02 PM
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#823
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Don't look now but with the challenger win this week, Pospisil has vaulted 24 spots all that way up to #82.
Congrats to him for working his way back to the main tour for what should be the rest of the year now.
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Looks like the coaching change to Mark Woodforde is really paying dividends. I still contend that Vasek can be a consistent top 50 player and the win in Busan should really give him confidence moving forward.
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05-24-2017, 09:34 AM
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#824
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Milos was victorious over Denis Istomin in Lyon earlier today - Straight sets victory (6-4, 6-3)
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05-24-2017, 09:52 AM
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#825
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Both Diez and Polansky are out in Round 2.
Only Abanda left, she goes tomorrow.
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05-24-2017, 12:44 PM
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#826
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Uranus
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dash_pinched
Looks like the coaching change to Mark Woodforde is really paying dividends. I still contend that Vasek can be a consistent top 50 player and the win in Busan should really give him confidence moving forward.
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He hasn't really shown the ability to beat players in the top 50 with any regularity for several years now so I would temper expectations. I'm hopeful with the hard-court/grass season coming he can move further up the ladder provided he plays a number of 250 tournaments.
There is no reason he can't sit somewhere in the 40-80 range based on talent alone, but I find it challenging to pinpoint where he's at since he hasn't been playing many elite tour players most of the year.
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05-25-2017, 08:46 AM
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#827
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Milos into the semi-finals in Lyon with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Gastao Elias (Elias knocked off Delpo in his previous match). He will face the winner of Tomas Berdych and Gilles Simon in his semi-final match.
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05-25-2017, 08:54 AM
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#828
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Abanda into the final round of qualifying tomorrow
She will play [18] Su Jeong Jang of South Korea
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05-26-2017, 05:53 AM
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#830
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Draw is out for the French Open. Milos gets the horrible fortune of getting into Rafa's quarter so obviously tough to see him getting further than that. But Milos section looks very doable so a QF would be a solid result. Bottom half of the draw is brutal with Milos, Rafa, Novak, Thiem all in there. Andy with on paper an easy draw, but obviously nothing is easy with him right now.
Obviously with Genie's injury there are no expectations, I'll be surprised if she even plays and would probably be in her best interest to not risk further injury. Also Monf and Dustin Brown in the first round. Great match to have a ticket to obviously, should be fun.
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05-26-2017, 09:09 AM
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#831
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Francoise Abanda has qualified for the French Open Main draw with a 63 62 win over Jang of Korea.
The qualifier spots in the draw are not bad at all. Only #14 Vesnina is a seeded opponent. We'll see in a few hours who she gets.
Bouchard's draw is not bad, Ozaki, Svestova, Keys is not bad for an unseeded player.
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05-26-2017, 12:48 PM
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#832
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Milos dropped two straight tie-breakers to Berdych in the Lyon semi-final, oh well, next up Roland Garros.
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05-26-2017, 03:08 PM
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#833
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Abanda has been placed in the draw. She plays French Wildcard Tessah Andrianjafitrimo. Say that 3 times!
Good opportunity as this girl is ranked 100 places below her.
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05-27-2017, 10:12 AM
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#834
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlySports
Bouchard's draw is not bad, Ozaki, Svestova, Keys is not bad for an unseeded player.
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Genie says she's going to try to play (she says the ankle is improving day-by-day).
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05-27-2017, 02:02 PM
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#835
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: 110
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I'm in Paris and have tickets for the first two days. The Bullring (court 1) tomorrow then the Annex courts for Monday. The court 1 matches are a little disappointing tomorrow but we do get to see Cibulkova in the final match on the court. It is blisteringly hot in Paris right now. Unusual for Roland Garros as it's normally cloudy and threatening rain. It was over 30 today and is supposed to be the same tomorrow and only a slight cooler Monday. Could be tough on the players if they get into a long first round match.
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05-28-2017, 07:53 AM
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#836
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Au revoir Kerber via a 6-2 6-2 loss to Makarova
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05-28-2017, 09:13 AM
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#837
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: DeWinton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dash_pinched
Au revoir Kerber via a 6-2 6-2 loss to Makarova
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Wow. That was quick.
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05-28-2017, 09:54 AM
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#838
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#1 Goaltender
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Wta = nhl
atp = nba
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05-28-2017, 01:35 PM
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#839
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: 110
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The morning was reasonable but the afternoon was wicked hot. The court side thermometer read 36 and the stands weren't much cooler, if any. Crazy hot. Court 1 witnessed two epic men's battles which bumped the main attraction of the day.
Spanish García-Lopez and Muller from Luxemberg got Court 1 off to a plodding start with their extremely long 3.5 hr 4 set tilt which the Spaniard won going 7-6 6-7 2 and 2. The first set was 90+ minutes with Lopez getting a hammy taped early on then what looked like a potentially bad ankle injury which he managed to walk off after the trainer looked at him. We also had two welcome but very short rain delays in that first set.
French hopeful Halys couldn't keep a strong first set up and ended up losing to Argentine Trungellitti.
The 150 people or so who lasted through those two sets saw 6th seed Cibulkova moved to Lenglen and then got a win by local Oceane Dodin over Italian Giorgi.
After 5 hours of the marathon first match, standing in line for food, the water fountain, some outer court action, and part of the 5 setter we were tired, hot, a bit burnt, and definitely puddles we decided to tap out and have strength for tomorrow.
Tomorrow in somewhat of a surprise, in the outer court cheap seats of court 2 we have three good matches: Our own 6th seed Raonic starts it off against Belgian Darcis, then 18 seed Bertens and the trifecta is complete with Gulbis vs 7th seed Cilic. On a day where Nadal and Djokovic takeover the Stadiums and The French occupy Court 1, everyone else gets pushed to the Annexes and those of us with cheap seats rejoice. We've been to RG twice before and the Annexes (outer courts) aren't always so full of top seeds but tomorrow looks to be a good day. In between we might get a shot at seeing Abanda on court 17.
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05-29-2017, 06:01 AM
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#840
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Milos very efficient today in dispatching Steve Darcis in straight sets 63 64 62 in 92 minutes.
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