The Tennis Thread

[GirlySports]

Raonic falls to Harrison 7-6, 4-6, 6-4. Down two breaks in the 3rd he gave himself too much to do. Although it took Harrison 4 match points to put Milos away. Harrison hits the ball very well, he'll be a good one.

Raonic makes $21,495 and earns 45 ATP points.

He will finish this week ranked 34th in the world and could possibly be a SEED next week in Miami.

[Mango]

I would have loved to see Raonic play Federer, but that's okay. Hopefully, he can rest up and get ready for for Miami. I'm sure he'll come across Federer eventually.

[GirlySports]

Sad that Raonic is out but still some good tennis left and it'll be on tv all week/weekend

16 Men remain


Top Half

[1] Nadal (esp)
Dev Varman (ind)

[23] Montanges (esp)
Karlovic (hrv)

[32] Kohlscheiber (ger)
Del Potro (arg)

[25] Robredo (esp)
[21] Querrey (usa)

Bottom Half

[8] Roddick (usa)
[18] Gasquet (fra)

[16] Troicki (srb)
[3] Djokovic (srb)

[7] Berdych (cze)
[12] Wavrinka (swi)

Harrison (usa)
[2] Federer (swi)

[Mango]

Roddick and Berdych are out. Those are probably the biggest upsets of the day. Del Potro is really looking great. His match against Kohlschreiber is the tournament's thriller so far, going 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (9-7).

Djokovic destroyed his countryman, Troicki, 6-0 6-1.

Karlovic moves on too.

[GirlySports]

Djokovic is on fire, 6-0, 6-1 again? wow
Nadal and Federer had a bit of trouble in the night session but got through.

8 remain

Top Half

[1] Nadal (esp)
Karlovic (hrv)

Del Potro (arg)
[25] Robredo (esp)

Bottom Half

[18] Gasquet (fra)
[3] Djokovic (srb)

[12] Wavrinka (swi)
[2] Federer (swi)

[Mango]

Did anyone catch Roddick's PMS attack last night when Gasquet beat him? He gave the umpire a warning when he was given one for busting his racket. I'm not sure if one should laugh or cry.

[Mango]

Here's some of Roddick's meltdown. Poor racket! But Gasquet's backhand there is pretty surreal.

[GirlySports]

It's Roddick. He's always mad. Umpire didn't help saying that he can control the net sensitivity.. that just made Roddick more mad!

So what's gotten into Dr. Ivo! He's just taken the first set off of Nadal!

Also, as an aside.... shave the beard off and take the hat off of Karlovic and he's a pretty handsome 6'10" giant

[Mango]

In the third set....Karlovic leads 6-5. Nadal serving...

[Mango]

So close. So very close. 23 aces from Karlovic, but Nadal gets by in the tiebreaker. I'm happy to see that Karlovic is making up for his poor play at the Davis Cup. It really seems to have motivated him.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Mango

So close. So very close. 23 aces from Karlovic, but Nadal gets by in the tiebreaker. I'm happy to see that Karlovic is making up for his poor play at the Davis Cup. It really seems to have motivated him.

Yeah so close but Nadal made the big shots at the end.
You've motivated Karlovic by bashing him after Davis Cup

edit: just took a quick look, he moves up from 239th in the world to 150th!

[Mango]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Yeah so close but Nadal made the big shots at the end.
You've motivated Karlovic by bashing him after Davis Cup

edit: just took a quick look, he moves up from 239th in the world to 150th!

He took a lot of heat in Croatia for his play. A lot of media said that he didn't care about winning the matches for his country and instead was more interested in recording the fastest serve. It sounds like he took the criticism to heart.

[GirlySports]

Djokovic and Federer win easily today so the semifinals are set for tomorrow starting at NOON MT.

Nadal vs. Del Potro
Djokovic vs. Federer

Should be good

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EDIT: Just looked at the rankings.. the Djokovic-Federer match will be for the #2 ranking.

[CofR]

Nadal just won his first game of the match, Del Potro up 3-1

[GirlySports]

and then Nadal took control.. won 6-4, 6-4.

The battle for #2 is coming up next.

[CofR]

Federer took it to the third set but Djokivic prevailed and will become the new #2.

[Mango]

Just saw the result. Congrats to Djokovic!

[GirlySports]

We were talking about how Djokovic is the hottest player in the world and should be #1. He'll get his chance to close the gap tomorrow. We've all heard of the hockey game worth 4 points? In tennis, tomorrow's match is an 800-pointer! Should be a great one!

up-to-date

#1 Nadal 12630
#2 Djokovic 8310
#3 Federer 8280

Winner gets 400 more!

[GirlySports]

Nadal and Djokovic are a set apiece. One final set to decide the championship!

[Mango]

Congrats to Djokovic! He's looking great.