2015 Tennis Thread

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Originally Posted by Mango

Milos Raonic won't be available for Canada's Davis Cup team that's facing Belgium in 10 days:

Get that foot healthy Milos, heck it will be a nice break for Vasek not having to play 10 sets of tennis in one day

[Rjcsjc62]

Originally Posted by bomber317

+1400 for Pospisil to beat Murray
+170 for Pospisil to win 1 set (+ 2 1/2) - At least I think it is sets. Could be games...

Yes, that must be for sets.

I got the following for Pinnaclesports:

Pospisil Moneyline (match) +1495
Pospisil +2.5 sets +188
Pospisil +7.5 games +120

[Senator Clay Davis]

Vasek is up first tomorrow on Centre as you might expect with Murray. So 6:15 MST or so for the start.

Vika wins the first set against Serena. I think it's pretty obvious she's the #2 player in the world even if the ranking says otherwise. ESPN in panic mode as they may go from 3 Americans and a possible all-American final to none by days end.

[GirlySports]

for those keeping track Bouchard will be ranked 26 on Monday. She's not scheduled to play again until Washington Aug 3rd. She has around 1700 points now and has two more events to defend until the end of the year. 4th Round US Open (265 points) and a final at Wuhan (550 points) in late September. If she continues this way until the end of the year, she could fall under 1000 points which is currently 50th in the world.

[carom]

Sorry I'm late on this, I blame photobucket

Spoiler!

http://s736.photobucket.com/user/dex...rfxdn.mp4.html

[Senator Clay Davis]

First set to Murray but Vasek looked good for the most part. Just needs to keep the pressure on and take advantage of the likely Murray mental dip to come.

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On serve here in set 2 - Vasek playing very well, tough making any headway on the Murray serve though.

[Senator Clay Davis]

116 straight service games before Federer is finally broken. And it could be a crippling break as he blows serving for the set and gives Simon life.....which is promptly choked out with an immediate break back by Roger.

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Who builds a roof and doesn't use it? The Brits, that's who.

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Looks like the roof is closing now so hopefully no more rain delays...

[Senator Clay Davis]

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to think they didn't want to close the roof because Andy is not a great indoor player. But the weather is poor so no choice now. Bigger issue is how they structured the scheduling by having the two semi final matchups on opposite courts. Wawrinka/Gasquet could get screwed badly by not getting to play at all while Djokovic/Cilic are virtually guaranteed to finish today.

[Inglewood Jack]

the match without a roof is going to finish waaaay before the one with a roof. Roger is trying to do his Swiss bro a favor by giving up the court as quickly as possible.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Wow horse#### time violation call on Vasek at 30-30, 5-5. Why help Andy win? To get humiliated by Federer? I guess they want the matchup if nothing else.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Really great effort from Vasek, kept fighting and fighting in that third set as he was clearly running out of gas but Murray wins 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. A lot of great stuff to build on here, just stay healthy and I think he will find his way into the top 15.

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I think I heard Brad Gilbert say that this run at Wimbledon should see Vasek's ranking rise into the top 30 which likely will result in him being seeded at the US Open.

[The Big Chill]

Is it common for a player to be ranked so high in singles and doubles? Would it be realistic for Vasek to continue on with doubles if he rises in the singles rankings?

[Senator Clay Davis]

I think he could probably stay around the top 15-20 for both if he wants to. That said I imagine since both he and Jack Sock will wanna grow their singles games more with the good years they've both had, they might cut back on playing doubles.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Huge break for Novak as Stan surprisingly loses to Gasquet 11-9 in the 5th. Novak should easily make the final now as he owns Gasquet. Looking like we'll be getting a rematch of last year not that that's a bad thing at all.

[Inglewood Jack]

a finals rematch would be great, but I still see some unpredictability coming from that Fed/Murray semi...flakiness from the Roger side due to oldness, and flakiness from the Andy side due to being Andy.

Aside from being #1 Fedfan, my interest in him getting through is at least to see a battle of contrasts. Djoker vs Andy is always just so dull because they play basically the same, but with Djoker doing everything slightly better. then again, maybe Gasquet plays the ultimate match and we all get to laugh as he makes a ludicrous appearance at Centre Court Sunday.

[GirlySports]

Gasquet is extremely talented but a headcase, maybe he's finally matured? His backhand is just as good as Wawrinka's