2017 Tennis Thread

[Art Shirk]

I remember that. You had the feeling he just threw everything he had at Federer and couldn't beat him.

That's when people really start getting serious about retirement. I cant recall the tourney, but I still recall the presser with Ernie Els years back when he lost to Woods and he was asked what he could have done to beat the guy and he just had a glassy-eyed look and said "nothing." That's the moment he knew he'd likely not win another major when Tiger was in the field.

Good for DY for fighting, but losing to a guy 8 years older in a marathon 5 setter in the first round of a major has to sting. Just another straw that will eventually lead DY to fade into obscurity.

[BmillsSkier]

Mladenovic is a handsome woman.

[PlayItLeo]

Brown v Monfils was video game tennis.

[garyfromterrace]

Brown v Monfils was video game tennis.

Didn't see the match. What does this mean? Like pong, that awesome game from 1973?

[Marshall Tucker]

^ saw the back-to-back between the legs highlight. Love Monfils. 9ft tall rastafarian frenchman. D young, south fulton TC...

[PlayItLeo]

Didn't see the match. What does this mean? Like pong, that awesome game from 1973?

Both players hitting absurd shots that pretty much nobody except for the two of them would even attempt. Tactically crazy, but fun as shit to watch.

[digitaldeath]

Yonex racquet for sale or trade

https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...d.php?t=311989

[wyeaster]

needs butter and melmac to sell

[BmillsSkier]

Toss in a few frozen horse filets and you might have something.

[Sluff]

Nadal. Very impressive performance this year at the French. Really no competition. Clay is his surface.

[BmillsSkier]

Rafa!!!

What year is this? Fed wins the Aussie and Nadal wins the French?

[wyeaster]

pretty amazing stats:

No other man or woman has won 10 championships at the same major in the Open era, which began in 1968.
Call it a Perfect 10.
Nadal, 31, was overwhelmingly good from start to finish against Wawrinka -- and over the past two weeks en route to La Decima, Spanish for tenth. Not only did Nadal win every set he played in the tournament, he dropped a total of only 35 games, the second fewest by any man on the way to any title at a Grand Slam tournament in the Open era with all matches being best-of-five.
Along with improving to 10-0 in finals at Roland Garros, Nadal increased his career haul to 15 Grand Slam trophies, breaking a tie with Pete Sampras for second place in the history of men's tennis, behind only rival Roger Federer's 18.



It marked a stirring return to the top for Nadal at his preferred event and on his preferred surface: Over his career, he is 79-2 at the French Open and 102-2 in all best-of-five-set matches on clay.

[BmillsSkier]

That's insane.

[PlayItLeo]

His forehand is better than it ever was. It's absolutely nuts.

[BmillsSkier]

On this day in history:

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=16466682

Anyone remember this death march?

[wyeaster]

jesus just saw mattek sands' knee injury

[wyeaster]

For a moment, no one thought she was seriously hurt – until she started screaming. “Help me. Help me, please,” she started pleading. After screaming the F-word, Bethanie continued to shout as her opponent, looking panicked, waved for the medical professionals to run over.


“Have you given me any f*cking painkillers,” Bethanie was reportedly heard saying as the medical professionals helped her, per The Sun. “These painkillers are not working….Please knock me out. Please knock me out.” Bethanie even begged the paramedics to cover up her injury, as she didn’t “want to see it.”

attek-Sands was playing Romania's Sorana Cirstea on outside Court 17 when she appeared to slip as she approached the net at the beginning of the third set then collapsed awkwardly to the grass.

After a moment's silence she suddenly screamed out in pain, then shouted "help me," clutching her right leg.

Cirstea approached her then looked shocked as Mattek-Sands continued to cry out in pain as everybody around the court initially seemed stunned.

Medical personnel then attended and she was treated by doctors on the court for more than 20 minutes on court, and given oxygen and an injection.

Still clearly in pain she continued to scream out. "It hurts, hurts so much."

The 32-year-old has won three grand slam doubles titles with Czech Lucie Safarova, who was crying courtside during the incident, and if she had won at Wimbledon would have held all four at the same time.

[wyeaster]

A dark mood fell over Wimbledon on Thursday night after Bethanie Mattek-Sands suffered a sickening knee injury that sparked complaints about the state of the courts at the All England Club and the speed with which the American was treated. Tournament organisers swiftly defended the condition of the courts and denied that Mattek-Sands had not been treated quickly enough.

Mattek-Sands, 32, could be heard crying and screaming out for help before she was attended to and taken to hospital after her right knee gave way early in the third set of her second-round match against Romania’s Sorana Cirstea on Court 17. Elsewhere there was concern on one of the outside show courts in the match between Kristina Mladenovic, the 12th seed, and Alison Riske.

Mladenovic gave an angry press conference after she lost in three sets to the unseeded American, revealing that both players had unsuccessfully asked the umpire to stop play because they felt the court’s surface was unsafe. She said she will have a scan on a knee injury after slipping over and that there was no more grass and even a hole in the ground on court 18.

Tomic dumped by sponsor Head after fine for Wimbledon behaviour

“It’s quite unique with your opponent, after two games, you both agree on stopping playing in a slam,” Mladenovic said. “You ask the referee to tell you what’s the rule if both players don’t want to keep on playing. And the answer is that they just can’t do anything, unfortunately, and you have to keep on playing. I’m not sure how the other courts are, if they’re damaged that much as Court 18.

“The colour of the court, the fact that there’s no more grass, the fact the baseline where we are running, it’s very slippery. There’s no grass. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not even clay. It’s not flat. If you look at the screen, it is everywhere where we are supposed to run. There was a huge hole on the sides where the referee came to actually take pictures of it. It was not even flat. I realised that because at the warm-up I kind of twisted my ankle.”

The problems are being blamed on the dry weather. “I’m not an expert at all on grass courts,” Mladenovic said. “I guess the climate doesn’t help, the fact that it’s too nice, too hot, to sunny, makes everything very dry. That’s what we got as an answer from the officials.” Mladenovic added that the ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska, who beat the US’s Christina McHale, told her that playing on No2 Court was “horrible” and there has been lots of grumbling in the women’s locker room.

Wimbledon denied suggestions from Cirstea that the emergency services were slow to respond to Mattek-Sands’s injury. “The first response to Court 17 was within one minute, by a qualified ambulance technician,” a club statement said. “The player was kept on court while pain relief was given. The player was then transferred directly to an ambulance and taken under emergency conditions to a hospital.”

Cirstea had said: “There are sports where you see something’s happening, and you see the help straight away. Like football, boxing, all the others, it’s straight away. Here, it took a while. So of course you wonder what would happen if it was a heart issue or something. I think she was too long on the ground.”

Mattek-Sands’s screams left many spectators visibly shaken, with the crowd dispersing after it became clear the match was over. Her doubles partner, Lucie Safarova, came on court and was clearly upset before leaving to play a singles match which she lost to Shelby Rogers.

The gangway between courts 16 and 17 was cleared by police and Mattek-Sands, on a stretcher, was wheeled down to an ambulance by Gate Four at 5.10pm. The ambulance left the grounds at 5.25pm.

“It was heartbreaking to see her that way,” Cirstea said. “I’ve hit the ball towards her direction, and then I did not really see what happened. I saw she was on the floor. Then, yeah, she started screaming. I went over. I saw her knee out. “I turned around and told them to bring a stretcher or something. Because I think everyone froze. She went into shock. For a long time it was me, her husband and my physio. My physio jumped and he was there. You get through the days, it’s less grass and more sand or whatever. Then it also was very dry today because it was quite hot. I also had two quite tough balls where I almost fell over.”

Tournament organisers said that court 18 had been inspected by the grand slam supervisor and assistant referee and that they “in their experienced view judged it playable as per normal”.

[wyeaster]

can't comment on the conditions but it took fucking forever for someone to help her. i feel badly for her opponent to have to deal with it at all.

[garyfromterrace]

Milos looked less than in perfect form today in his win. He'll have to pick it up to make another final.

[Sluff]

Nadal and Muller in a 5th set classic. 10 games to 9 now.

[Sluff]

Mueller wins it 15-13 in the fifth set. What a match. Thank you webcast.

[garyfromterrace]

Good for Querry I like the kid and dislike Murray. He's a whiner. GO MILOS!!!

[The Tortoise]

Dkjokovic retires due to injury. Federer is two sets up. If he gets by Raonic is the door open for Fed?

[BmillsSkier]

Wow, Querry!

That really sucks about Novak. I was liking what I saw out of him, and I love seeing Andre in the stands.

Fed's tournament. It's turn back the clock year in tennis.