The Tennis Thread 2014

[GirlySports]

Serena lost yesterday.

[oilyfan]

Originally Posted by killer_carlson

whoa!

Haven't watched much of the tourney. How is Serena looking? Does Genie have a shot?

Serena is out, Ivanovic beat her. Genie plays her next, it will be a tough one.

[killer_carlson]

WHAT???? Serena lost?

No way!

This is fricken awesome.

This is the first time since I cancelled my sports package with Telus (so no TSN, Sportsnet, Score, NHL Network etc) that I actually miss it.

Damn. I'll have to watch online.

[oilyfan]

Hard to watch Australian open online. I cancelled the best of HD on Shaw and then two days later realized I need TSN2 for Aus Open, had to call back and add the Sports package.

[Fire]

When does Genie play next?

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Fire

When does Genie play next?

Tuesday in Austrailia. We don't know when yet.

Jankovic is out. Beaten by Halep.
Azarenka just beat Stephens.

There are 9 women left.

Bouchard
Ivanovic
Li
Pennetta
Cibulkova
Halep
Azarenka

The final women's 4th round match goes at 4am
Radwanska vs Muguruza and I think Radwanska has her hands full.

[Resolute 14]

Azarenka pretty much has a free path to the finals. Bouchard probably has the hardest path. If she can get past Ivanovic, she most likely gets Li.

Regardless, looks like Genie is going to rocket up the WTA charts. I think she's already got the points to move up about 10 spots. One more win will put her inside the top 20.

[GirlySports]

Schedule is out. Ivanovic/Bouchard is the 2nd day match on Rod Laver Arena.

So estimated 7pm tomorrow night Calgary time.

[Inglewood Jack]

Mustard putting up a surprising amount of resistance against Ketchup on Rod Laver. of course, we all know how it will eventually turn out so not worth sacrificing sleep time over. gotta be fresh tomorrow for battle of the beauties.

[GirlySports]

yup. Mustard lost the 2nd set. I'm going to bed.

[sergei_makarov]

Great effort here by Nishikori against Nadal!

[sergei_makarov]

Wow tough for Nishikori... completely choked there with a bunch of unforced errors.

[GirlySports]

Quarterfinals starting soon as there are 8 men and 8 women left

Tuesday
11am (5pm MT)

[4]Na Li (CHN) vs [28]Flavio Pennetta (ITA)

[14]Ana Ivanovic (SRB) vs [30]Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)

[3]David Ferrer (ESP) vs [7]Tomas Berdych (CZE)

[2]Novak Djokovic (SRB) vs [8]Stan Wawrinka (SUI)

Wednesday
11am (5pm MT)

[11]Simona Halep (ROU) vs [20]Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)

[5]Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) vs [2]Victoria Azarenka (BLR)

[1]Rafael Nadal (ESP) vs [22]Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)

[4]Andy Murray (GBR) vs [6]Roger Federer (SUI)


While the women fell apart 7 of the 8 men's seeds made it (Dimitrov taking Milos' Del Potro's spot)
That's a pretty good lineup starting NOW!

[GirlySports]

Li Na just won in just over an hour.

BOUCHARD IS NEXT!

[Antithesis]

Man, it almost looked as if Li Na was toying with her opponent. Just completely destroyed her as far as I can tell (though I am far from a tennis expert).

Looking forward to watching Genie!

[Senator Clay Davis]

Thanks ESPN...

[Fire]

Why are we watching these idiots yapping?

[GirlySports]

Ivanovic just broke while these people are yakking

[Senator Clay Davis]

Jesus that took long enough.

[GirlySports]

didn't think they would yak that long so TSN got fed up and switched to Channel 7 Australia.