Davis cup team needs help...Genie to get a haircut, wear a ballcap and save the day?
speaking of ongoing Geniemania, miscellaneous tennis article roundup:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25857304
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After an Australian Open in which the 19-year-old Canadian unexpectedly reached the semi-final, there is as much debate about her career off the court as on it.
Her appearance and composure, not to forget tennis talent, have seen her touted as the next Maria Sharapova, the world's highest-paid female athlete, and four times Grand Slam winner.
The teenager's agent, Sam Duvall, says the player known as "Genie" has the personality, game and looks to surpass the Russian's commercial success.
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better than Maria? another lofty order, but we can always hope.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...n-open-gambler
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A gambler in Australia won $196,000 by correctly predicting that Stanislas Wawrinka and Li Na would win the singles titles at the Australian Open.
The person laid a $435 bet on the pair to become the men’s and women’s champions at the first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year, Nicholas Tzaferis, a spokesman for Australia’s biggest bookmaker TAB Corp., said in an e-mail today.
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honestly I can't believe the odds were 451-1 for a Stan/Li championship. I would have happily sacrificed 50 bucks or more on those odds myself.
http://regressing.deadspin.com/which...maj-1507503924
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Obviously, sports are always about winning and losing, and within individual sports, victories are much less external than they are in, say, a Super Bowl victory. But it's still idiotic to only credit a player for winning it all, with any other result not counting whatsoever in the final tally. Reflexively coming back to titles and only titles ignores incredible feats like Federer's insane 23 consecutive Grand Slam semifinals, rendering them some arcane stat to bring up during a match and forget, unremembered in the way that team sports remember their impressive runners up fondly, like the Bills' four straight Super Bowl appearances or the Atlanta Braves' 14 consecutive division titles.
So rather than only counting championships won, here's a look at each player's performance in majors based on the ATP points accumulated in each tournament.
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wasn't sure if I wanted to put this one up since it's Federer-slanted and is more ammo that I'm clouded by bias, but what I take out of it is that you can really cherry pick stats and spin them however you like to support your position, even in something as murky and unresolvable as the endless GOAT debate.