The Tennis Thread 2013

[HitterD]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

A quick peak toward next week. Vasek has received an SE for Cincinnati. He gets Gilles Simon First Round. Milos gets Jack Sock. Nadal and Federer are in the same quarter.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2013/422/mds.pdf

Interesting... raonic already lost to sock this year so hopefully he can build on the rogers cup and put a string on good nasters level touraments together. Can you recall what surface raonic lost to sock on?

[moon]

He lost to him on hard court.

[Matty81]

CBC has stepped up the coverage outside of the match today imo, have made it feel more like a big event with a great intro and lots of interviews and discussion before the matches started.

Womens SF on right now, kind of watching in the background... Li is losing to some Romanian I've never seen before with the worst case of mouth herpes ever.

[GirlySports]

I thought she was pretty but I was watching from afar

[Matty81]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

I thought she was pretty but I was watching from afar

Haha, she is definately not bad looking otherwise, playing great this week too.

Milos and Vashy both look a little nervous at times here to me, but both serving bombs.

Such a weird dynamic with Vasek having dominated Milos when they were coming up through juniors and then Milos being the big dog for the last couple years.

[GirlySports]

Well well. Off to a 3rd set!

[Matty81]

Just playing out perfectly, both guys have a set and can hold their head up no matter what. Vasek spanked Milos in set 2. He he been the better player so far imo. All down to one set now though, should be fun.

[Mango]

As Staples says, "that was easy".

[Inglewood Jack]

I think they just showed ma fleury on the scoreboard...that should inspire a nice clutch performance from these guys.

[Mango]

This is just awesome stuff to watch. Great atmosphere in Montreal!

[Matty81]

Cheesy cliche but really too bad somebody had to lose. Really happy for Milos but sad for Vasek. Big step frward for both players anyway. Vasek got a crappy draw for Cincinnati but hope he can keep the momentum going. One more good tourney and he be top 25 and have a way easier road next year.

[Mango]

Amazing. Both guys should be really proud. Congrats to Raonic on his top 10 ranking. Very cool.

[Matty81]

Raonic to #8
Pospisil to #37

Vasek is one good tournament away from being a seed at 250s and getting easy 1st round matchups.

[FlamesFanStrandedInEDM]

I think Raonic is #10

[GirlySports]

yeah I have Raonic at #10 and Pospisil at #40.
If Raonic wins tomorrow, he'll pass Stan 'the man' Wawrinka into 9th.

[Matty81]

Ah, friedman and the panel said 8 and 37 for some reason.

[GirlySports]

Cirstea got smoked of course but her runners-up speech was really amazing!

[bigtmac19]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Cirstea got smoked of course but her runners-up speech was really amazing!

That was a great speech. Serena was very gracious.

[bigtmac19]

Love the Federer Lindt commercial!

[GirlySports]

Sheesh. 241 km/h. Milos serving big early