06-09-2021, 03:32 PM
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#2041
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Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
You guys are English-biased but Winbledon is the bigger mess. They couldn't even hold the tournament last year. Not sure how they will cope this year. Always rain and scheduling problems. And who wants to watch big servers on grass (and I'm a fan of big servers). They start the men's semifinals at freaking 1pm. And then because of that they put in a stupid 5th set tiebreaker that Federer loses in the final.
French Open is tradition, they've changed nothing.
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Just speaking for myself, but I would have rather seen a Laver Cup in Boston last year rather than a hastily thrown together French Open that kiboshed the team competition. Also, if I'm a paying customer for a night session, I'm pretty peeved that I can't see the completion of a match that likely could have and should have been started a couple of hours earlier.
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06-09-2021, 03:40 PM
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#2042
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Franchise Player
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I think I have a better drop shot than Berretini, it's painful to watch.
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06-09-2021, 03:42 PM
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#2043
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Originally Posted by Nadal Fan
I think I have a better drop shot than Berretini, it's painful to watch.
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He's not having a good time with it tonight, but I've seen him pull off some beauties in the past. I think you make a good point that he uses it too much however especially with the power he possesses.
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06-09-2021, 03:43 PM
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#2044
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Wimbledon does have the best marketing, but it's a terrible tournament that's not run well either. The lowest quality tennis and 2 weeks of rain and courts that look chewed up.
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06-09-2021, 03:44 PM
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#2045
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlySports
Wimbledon does have the best marketing, but it's a terrible tournament that's not run well either. The lowest quality tennis and 2 weeks of rain and courts that look chewed up.
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No one agrees lol. But you do you.
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06-09-2021, 03:46 PM
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#2046
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dash_pinched
Just speaking for myself, but I would have rather seen a Laver Cup in Boston last year rather than a hastily thrown together French Open that kiboshed the team competition. Also, if I'm a paying customer for a night session, I'm pretty peeved that I can't see the completion of a match that likely could have and should have been started a couple of hours earlier.
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It's because of COVID. Nothing the organizers can do about because television insists on having a night match.
Wimbledon has a curfew because it's too noisy for the neighborhood! Not just no fans, play would have to stop.
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06-09-2021, 03:47 PM
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#2047
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
No one agrees lol. But you do you.
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It was you! You complained about Isner-Anderson
Isner-Anderson didn't start until 1pm. Stupid.
Then Nadal-Djokovic couldn't play past 11pm, More Stupid.
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06-09-2021, 03:54 PM
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#2048
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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I would complain about Isner-Anderson if they were playing on a gold plated court and I got to keep the court and sell it for $20 million after lol. I agree the noise rule is stupid, especially with the roof now, but Wimbledon is a rich community and NIMBY always wins.
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06-09-2021, 03:55 PM
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#2049
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's because of COVID. Nothing the organizers can do about because television insists on having a night match.
Wimbledon has a curfew because it's too noisy for the neighborhood! Not just no fans, play would have to stop.
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It was a 8 PM Paris start for this match, right? Are you telling me that if the French Open said we're going to start this match at 6 PM that television balks and says, "No, we need to start this match at 8PM".
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06-09-2021, 03:58 PM
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#2050
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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At any rate, we have another Rafa - Djoker match to watch which is a very good thing.
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06-09-2021, 04:04 PM
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#2051
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by dash_pinched
At any rate, we have another Rafa - Djoker match to watch which is a very good thing.
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not if it's anything like last year's FO final. it's late in Paris, but Djoker better be staying up and studying those analytics hard if he doesn't want to get embarassed again.
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06-09-2021, 04:07 PM
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#2052
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dash_pinched
It was a 8 PM Paris start for this match, right? Are you telling me that if the French Open said we're going to start this match at 6 PM that television balks and says, "No, we need to start this match at 8PM".
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That was stupid. All week they had started the last match at 9pm and sold no tickets But tonight the curfew was extended from 9pm to 11pm, so they got greedy.
Edit: It's Amazon!
https://www.sporttechie.com/amazon-n...ght-sessions/#
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06-09-2021, 04:13 PM
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#2053
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Damn you Bezos!!
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06-09-2021, 04:57 PM
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#2054
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This will be the 58th meeting between the two, currently Novak leads 29-28. Hopefully Nadal can tie the H2H here, he's had success against Djokovic on clay recently. I expect this match to be closer than the finals last year.
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06-09-2021, 05:49 PM
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#2055
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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06-09-2021, 07:11 PM
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#2056
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06-10-2021, 07:55 AM
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#2057
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Felix takes the opening set 6-3 over Lloyd Harris - Tennis on the green stuff, oh how I have missed thee.
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06-10-2021, 08:05 AM
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#2058
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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I thought Pavlyuchenkova was going to blow that set. Serving for the set at 5-3. Then 5-5. Then 15-40 in the 11th game. But turned it around to win 7-5.
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06-10-2021, 08:31 AM
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#2059
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Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Nice hold by Felix saving four break points and is now one game away at 3-5 in set 2 (Harris about to serve).
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06-10-2021, 08:41 AM
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#2060
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Felix still has his demons trying to close out matches - 5-4 40-15 and plays four bad points to get broken.
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