The New and Improved Tennis Thread

This is unreal

 

LONG way to go for Jannik

 

Nerve monster is eating up Niemeier

 

Niemeier falling apart.

 

“Not like Sinner outplayed him first 2 sets”

what else do you call 7-5, 6-2. McEnroe is such a dildo

 

POINT!!! Maria-Niemaier is awesome

 

Niemeier serving for the match.

Niemeier May not pull it out, but I can certainly see her winning one of the majors in her future.

 

I love the hesitation moves in tennis

this is like watching young Kobe vs old MJ

 

I wonder what her game looks like on a hardcourt. I don’t know much about her, but I assume she’s good to very good on clay at minimum watching her play.

 

Tatjana Maria, mother of two, in the semifinals of Wimbledon. Pretty cool.

 

Stop this shit Sinner

 

Was able to watch all her matches. Certainly can do it all, moves well and has a ton of power.

 

HOLY SHIT

 

Here comes the greatest battling back

 

Nothing says choking in a big moment like being an Italian

 

I mean he’s playing the greatest to ever do it.

 

my point still stands

 

Shitty timing for the kyrgios domestic violence stuff to come out.

 

Seems it’s been in front of court from an incident from December. Unfortunate timing, but if he did something shitty… fuck him

 

Joker is just too good. I think he is the best to ever do it.

 

bold stance

 

Fucking bathroom break remains undefeated

 

Ons drops the first against Bouzkova

 

First time I’ve watched Bouzkova. Love how up beat she is.

 

Plays a lot of doubles and she brings that energy over to her singles.

 

Yeah, it shows and it’s a positive energy too. Love to see that

 

POINT!

 

Norrie!

 

Great match. Goffin played a hell of tournament.

 

Just saw the scores for today - goddamn it, Sinner.

 

And I'm being rough on the kid, I know - he would tried his guts out but wasn't good enough in the end. Just a shame he couldn't finish off from 2 sets up.

Good to see Jabeur win through - surely she makes it to the final over Maria.

 

yeah that and the long nadal breaks should be reigned in...

 

So here is todays example of shitty youth sports parents. My son and other 12 yo are playing 14U team tennis . They could played 12u, but they dominated it last year and it’s stupid green dot balls and our kids are way past green dot. We have a match today against the 2nd place team. Winner qualifies for the state tourney. Their parent/captain has a 9 year old that’s a good player, but not ready to play experienced good 12s. She has appealed to USTA or MSTA and says two of my players are too good to be playing 14U. I’m forced to sit two kids today until we hear back. Her son lost 4-0 4-0 last we played them. Her kid could play 10U or 12U. Of course our kids will be released for state and we will probably win today anyway, but it’s just pathetic that a parent would do that. No wonder US tennis is behind the rest of the world. 12U still plays green dot and they baby these kids due to parents

 

Picking up Patrick M as a coach seems to be paying off. Love watching his videos

 

Old man rant: Gdamn youth tennis is soft these days.

Green dot balls. 4 game sets. None of that shit existed when I was playing youth USTA tourneys back in the day. You played multiple matches a day and best of 3 full sets.

Shitty parents were definitely still a thing though.

 

Halep-Rybakina will be a fun two ends of the spectrum match.

 

Let’s see what Taylor has for Rafa this time around.

 

Its a joke. We have a great youth program and our local HS is 1 or 2 in the state each year. We did 12U tennis last year and it was rough. We didn’t lose a set and I think we lost 2 games the whole season and that included state championships. It was laughable how USTA sets these rules and baby these kids

 

Fritz back on serve.

 

Taylor takes the first rather comfortably?

 

Back on serve from a break down for Fritz, and Rafa may have an injury

 

MTO for Nadal. Abdominal injury doesn’t look good, first serve speed way down.