The Tennis Thread 2013

[browna]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

I think the Corral would actually be a negative factor for us. It's fine for the qualifying pools, but might be viewed as substandard for the World Group. If we win today, I'd pretty much expect they go to Toronto.

Unless Tennis Canada thinks the altitude might give us a big advantage. Which would be nice. It's been a few years since they've been here.

Just call it the Olympic Corral and maybe that will be enough name cachet for the Davis Cup big wigs.

If they don't need to have the surface in there much earlier (the Flames play Wed), and the Roughnecks could be bumped, the Saddledome is free from Thursday until Tuesday that weekend.

Yeah, Toronto/Montreal is probably the better bet...but I'd likley go if it was in Calgary and I think a lot of casual fans would as well.

[Resolute 14]

Oh, I'd definitely go if it was Calgary. One of our advantages is that I think Tennis Canada would prefer a smaller venue where they can put the crowd right on top of the players. That leaves out facilities like the Saddledome and the ACC, but the Corral, Ricoh, and in this case, Thunderbird, are good venues.

Yeesh... back to back double faults. C'mon Milos!

[GirlySports]

The venue doesn't really matter for World Group standards. The only rules are for the speed of the court. They've played everywhere from an Airport hangar to a beach. It's all up to the hosts.

Belgium just played on some indoor clay that Djokovic called dog ####.

[GirlySports]

woo break!

[CedarMeter]

Broke em!

[Resolute 14]

And a break!

Garcia-Lopez really needs to figure out how to hit a passing winner, or he's in deep trouble.

[CedarMeter]

His unforced errors can get real annoying.

[moon]

Originally Posted by browna

Not a full (small) arena in Vancouver? Sheesh. You figure a walkup crowd at least to see the best Canadian singles player in a long long time in the potential clinching Davis Cup upset could be counted on.

If they win, and since they host the next round, do they have a venue set? Put it in the Corral and it will be rocking.

As a casual tennis fan I can understand why someone with not a lot of interest wouldn't have much desire to go to this event. With country play not really a big part of Tennis overall and Canada being so bad at it for so long I would think most sports fan (let alone Joe Schmoe) would have little interest to start with. Add in the fact that the big countries don't seem to care about the tournament as well and it seems like a nothing sort of deal to most people (I would assume.)

If not for the hardcore Tennis fans on here and my being pissed off at it dominating Sportsnet TV yesterday I likely wouldn't have known it was on.

If you have Nadal or some of the other big name Spanish players here maybe you have something to build off of but selling people that nobody has heard to a competition few have heard of is going to be tough even if Canada looks like they will win this round.

[GirlySports]

woo break to start the 2nd!

It's over. Get ready for the greasy Italians.

[CedarMeter]

Yes! Break again!

[Resolute 14]

Garcia-Lopez is in huge trouble now. He's got no answer for Raonic at all.

[GirlySports]

Meanwhile in Jacksonville, Isner finds himself in a 5th set with no tiebreaker! hmmm could take awhile.

Amazing that the Americans are still battling. Won the first 2 singles matches on Friday against Brazil. Then the Bryan brothers lost yesterday in a huge upset and now this.

If Isner loses, it comes down to Sam Querry, ick.

[CedarMeter]

Is it best of 5 in this match? Does he need to win 3?

[Resolute 14]

Yes, all matches are best of five, unless one nation has already won the tie. If Raonic wins, Dancevic's match will be best of three sets.

[CedarMeter]

The sneaker screeching the Lopez is doing is really annoying.

[GirlySports]

I'd hate to be the small country who draws Spain in the World Group promotional playoffs in September. Could be Australia, Japan, Great Britain....

[GirlySports]

wowwowwow

Bellucci (BRA) def. Isner (USA) 2-6, 6-4, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3
The tie is even 2-2. Remarkable.

The 5th match will be Sam Querrey vs. Thiago Alves. Come on BRAZIL!!!!!!!

[nemanja2306]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Meanwhile in Jacksonville, Isner finds himself in a 5th set with no tiebreaker! hmmm could take awhile.

Amazing that the Americans are still battling. Won the first 2 singles matches on Friday against Brazil. Then the Bryan brothers lost yesterday in a huge upset and now this.

If Isner loses, it comes down to Sam Querry, ick.

Since the winner here gets my Serbia, I'd love to see Brazil win, however US will go through. Still, Nole 2 points + Tipsarevic can beat one of Isner/Querry.

Should Canada go through to the semi, who could they meet? I have no clue who is on which side of the draw.

Would love to see my country vs my other country.

[NBC]

The winner of the Italy - Spain/Canada QF would play the winner of the Serbia QF.

[Resolute 14]

And there's the third set break.

Does Garcia-Lopez try to fight back, or does he just fold the tent?