The Tennis Thread 2013

[Drake]

Federer is a class act.

Tennis star Roger Federer has long been considered one of the good guys in sports. A recent Twitter post by a young fan, however, takes Federer's sainthood to a whole new level.

The fan's name is Beatriz Tinoco. She's 17 years old, from Rockville, Md., and survived a battle with cancer in 2011 and 2012. Earlier this summer, she got an opportunity to meet Federer at Wimbledon through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. But Federer didn't just perform a perfunctory handshake and sign a few things. He went way, way above and beyond the call of duty, as Beatriz detailed on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.

The whole story of how I got to meet Roger Federer and how it was: Well, I had cancer in 2011/2012, and there's this foundation called the Make A Wish Foundation. They grant wishes to kids, teens and yound adults who have life-threatening diseases. I made my wish in 2012, and my wish was to meet Roger Federer. I waited for more than a year, and I didn't really know if they were gonna be able to grant me this wish (you have second and third options) since Roger has such a busy schedule and it was taking such a long time. In June I was told that ESPN was doing a piece on high school tennis and they were gonna film a bit of my school tennis team. So I went there and we had practice and in the end they told us we had a culminating activity that would kinda test our knowledge of tennis. They gave us an iPad to watch something, and it was the Wimbledon 2012 match point (that already got me like really excited) but then after Roger falls to the ground they cut the video and Roger shows up in a kind of home made video or something, and he says "Hi Beatriz, I heard you're a big fan of mine, so I'm inviting you with your family to come watch me play at Wimbledon. Go pack your bags, have a safe trip, and I'll see you there!" (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I freaked out so so so badly. I couldn't believe it haha. All I could think was "OMG ROGER FEDERER KNOWS MY NAME!" Haha.

http://mashable.com/2013/08/01/roger...medium=twitter

[GirlySports]

I would so freak out!

[GirlySports]

Polansky on fire!
Yesterday he beat Lacko, this morning he beat Wimbledon quarterfinalist Lukasz Kubot and has qualified for the main draw in Montreal.

This makes 6 Canadians out of 56 in the main draw!

[Julio]

Add to this Vasek Pospisil winning the Challenger in Vancouver, with might boost his ranking into the 60's, and it's been a pretty good week for Canadian men's tennis. Let's hope this week is even better!

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Julio

Add to this Vasek Pospisil winning the Challenger in Vancouver, with might boost his ranking into the 60's, and it's been a pretty good week for Canadian men's tennis. Let's hope this week is even better!

Yup! His ranking goes up to 71. He plays Isner on Tuesday in Montreal.

Polansky has drawn world #11 Kei Nishikori and will be the night match tomorrow.
8:00 ET pm on Center Court and Sportsnet!

[GirlySports]

Another cool story is that of Carol Zhao (one you may have seen in the countless Tennis Canada academy commercials). She was a wildcard entry into qualification and she's qualified for the main draw in Toronto! She's ranked 700!

http://www.tsn.ca/tennis/story/?id=429155

Not sure she will go the pro path though, she's got a scholarship to Stanford this fall.

[GirlySports]

Vasek Pospisil ‏@VasekPospisil
After two years of rigorous searching, I finally found a pair of jeans that are a proper fit. What the hell does @ivokarlovic do?

ivo karlovic ‏@ivokarlovic
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[GirlySports]

Levine has won!

Polansky's up a set and a break!

[Inglewood Jack]

Whoops, guess the first night can't be too good for Canada, otherwise they'd suspect some hometown match fixing. Well good effort both guys, at least.

[GirlySports]

Peliwo advances!

Pospisil and Dancevic on court now

[GirlySports]

Dancevic came back and won!
Pospisil deep in the 3rd set against Isner now!

[GirlySports]

woooooooooooooooo! I fell off my seat!!!

[Matty81]

Wow Pospisil! Down 4-1 to Isner in the deciding set, comes back and wins the match. I think he's got the game to be a top 30 player, his return game against Isner was very good and his serve is pretty decent as well, always has seemed a bit mentally fragile but if today is an indication, look out.

If Raonic wins, 5 Canadians into the 2nd round

[GirlySports]

Pospisil def. Isner 5-7, 7-6, 7-6

Isner was up 4-2 in the tiebreak and Vasek won 5 straight points!

[fundmark19]

wow! Pospisil really wants to be the other singles player at Davis Cup

[GirlySports]

With Isner losing and with him making the semifinals last year, he will drop down to at least #22.

This ensures that on Monday morning for the first time EVER there will be no American man in the top 20.

[Mango]

Great match for Pospisil! He's really made some strides this season.

[GirlySports]

Milos survives!

5 Canadians in the last 32

[Mango]

That was a close one, but good to see him forge ahead. Chardy isn't a slouch by any means.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Mango

That was a close one, but good to see him forge ahead. Chardy isn't a slouch by any means.

Haven't had the experience of celebrating a Milos win in a while. Forgot what I'm supposed to do next?