The Tennis Thread 2013

[CedarMeter]

Thought he was in trouble and I was thinking it was going to go to 5 but then he waxed him in the tie break. Good win he needs to play better though if he wants to go further. That serve of his is just devastating.

[GirlySports]

The Scottish commentators were pretty funny. Just watching that serve and laughing.

[GirlySports]

Robredo and Levine are underway

[HitterD]

It may just be me, but it looks like milos has put on some serious mass since the us open. Could explain his late 2012 and early 2013 struggles, as he gets used to a bigger frame.

He looks great out there when he's able to hit consistent rally shots, and the serve is deadly as ever.

A little disappointed to see him still trying to always come around on the backhand though. Needs work. Even an average backhand would put him into the top 10 easily imo.

[fundmark19]

Wow no love for Levine can't get on tv in his new country

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by fundmark19

Wow no love for Levine can't get on tv in his new country

He's playing on a non-tv court

[GirlySports]

Levine wins the first set in a tiebreak

[GirlySports]

Levine drops 2nd set tiebreak

This may go deep into the night.

[GirlySports]

anyone still awake?

Levine takes the 3rd set 6-4 AND breaks serve to start the 4th!

[Mango]

Just woke up to see Levine won - awesome! Nice to knock out the fifth seed. Gilles Simon is next.

[GirlySports]

The first round is over. A few seeds fell but overall the 3rd round projections for the men are still in tact.

Women
Victoria Azarenka (BLR) [1] vs. Urszula Radwanska (POL) [31](Jaime Hampton[USA])
Varvara Lepchenko (USA) [21] vs. Roberta Vinci (ITA) [16]
Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [10] vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) [24](Lesia Tsurenko[UKR])
Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) [26] vs. Sara Errani (ITA) [7](Carla Suarez Navarro [ESP])

Serena Williams (USA) [3] vs. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) [28](Annika Beck[GER])
Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) [20] vs. Maria Kirilenko (RUS) [14]
Nadia Petrova (RUS) [12](Kimiko Date-Krumm[JPN]) vs. Lucie Safarova (CZE) [17]
Sloane Stephens (USA) [29] vs. Petra Kvitova (CZE) [8]

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Na Li (CHN) [6] vs. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) [27]
Julia Goerges (GER) [18] vs. Samantha Stosur (AUS) [9]
Ana Ivanovic (SRB) [13] vs. Jelena Jankovic (SRB) [22]
Mona Barthel (GER) [32](Ksenia Pervak[KAZ]) vs. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [4]

Angelique Kerber (GER) [5] vs. Tamira Paszek (AUT) [30]
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) [19] vs. Marion Bartoli (FRA) [11]
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) [15] vs. Klara Zakopalova (CZE) [23]
Venus Williams (USA) [25] vs. Maria Sharapova (RUS) [2]



Men
(1) DJOKOVIC, Novak [SRB] vs (31) STEPANEK, Radek [CZE]
(20) QUERREY, Sam [USA] vs. (15) WAWRINKA, Stanislas [SUI]
(11) MONACO, Juan [ARG](Andrey Kuznetsov[RUS]) vs. (22) VERDASCO, Fernando [ESP]
(26) MELZER, Jurgen [AUT] vs. (5) BERDYCH, Tomas [CZE]

(4) FERRER, David [ESP] vs. (28) BAGHDATIS, Marcos [CYP]
(23) YOUZHNY, Mikhail [RUS] vs. (16) NISHIKORI, Kei [JPN]
(10) ALMAGRO, Nicolas [ESP] vs. (24) JANOWICZ, Jerzy [POL]
(32) BENNETEAU, Julien [FRA] vs. (8) TIPSAREVIC, Janko [SRB]

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(6) DEL POTRO, Juan Martin [ARG] vs. (30) GRANOLLERS, Marcel [ESP]
(21) SEPPI, Andreas [ITA] vs. (12) CILIC, Marin [CRO]
(14) SIMON, Gilles vs. (18) DOLGOPOLOV, Alexandr [UKR](Gael Monfils[FRA])
(25) MAYER, Florian vs. (3) MURRAY, Andy [GBR]

(7) TSONGA, Jo-Wilfried [FRA] vs. (29) BELLUCCI, Thomaz [BRA](Blaz Kavcic[SLO])
(19) HAAS, Tommy [GER](Jarkko Nieminen[FIN]) vs. (9) GASQUET, Richard [FRA]
(13) RAONIC, Milos [CAN] vs. (17) KOHLSCHREIBER, Phillipp [GER]
(27) KLIZAN, Martin [SVK](Daniel Brands[GER]) vs. (2) FEDERER, Roger [SUI]

[GirlySports]

Janowicz is down 2 sets to nothing. He should have won the 1st set tiebreak but got screwed by the umpire. There are no challenges on one of the outer courts and he's totally lost his way. He was screaming like a heavy metal singer.

He's still the stronger player so he could recover but he's bashing the ball everywhere. One forehead went to the wall on the fly.

[GirlySports]

Janowicz comes all the way back and wins!

Almagro vs Janowicz on Thursday night (calgary time) will be an angry match!

[polak]

Woo Jerzy!

[Inglewood Jack]

crazy how different the American mens' future is compared to the women. Their top player at this tourney is #22 Sam Querrey for crying out loud.

on the WTA side the most dominant woman ever is still going strong and looks like she inspired a whole swack of up and comers. if Sloane Stephens becomes the next Serena, except without the rotten attitude when losing, I'd be pretty happy.

maybe that's why the American men suck so bad...the only one they've had to look up to in the past decade is...one slam Roddick?

[atb]

Yikes Stosur just dropped 4 straight games after being up 5-2 in 3rd set. On verge of going out.

[atb]

And she's out on a double fault, just brutal.

[GirlySports]

wow, I went to bed when it was 5-2! Amazing how someone can not have any confidence while up 5-2 and serving. That's just mentally weird. I can't see how playing in Australia is different than playing anywhere else.

[fundmark19]

Bad news guys. Milos is on non-tv court tonight. For any of you crazies Levine is playing Simon in the last match of the night which will be televised

[polak]

All of the first 3 rounds are on non-tv courts at the Australian Open in my eyes :P

I don't know how guys do it. I'll stay up if say Milos was playing deep in the tourney but it's so hard on a weekday lol.