The New and Improved Tennis Thread

De Minaur closed out his match with two bagels after dropping a TB.

 

If Ruud keeps playing at this level he will win the title

 

let’s go Coco

 

i Nizz ’d him

 

she looks awful so far :(

 

Serena so chill

stop asking her about a comeback

 

I like Coco a lot and she’s got enough talent to win this match and go on a run to the final, but she probably needs a coaching change and definitely needs a different mental approach.

 

I live bet coco when she was down in 2nd

 

God dammit at cocos serves

 

This is tough from Coco

 

That was fucking terrible

 

Yeah I really hope the insinuations/rumors aren't true.

 

I didn’t see what any of the rumors were but I do remember last year when people were calling for his head for the way he spoke to her. She ultimately stood up for him and squashed it.

 

Foe feeding off nighttime Ashe is awesome

 

I just played tennis for the first time in 20 years and I got the itch to play this winter. Any tips on how to self-rate yourself? There's a league a few blocks from my house indoors that I want to sign up for but I don't know how to rate myself

 

I golf once a week now, it seems only natural I replace it in the winter with the other rich whitebread sport right?

 

Did you play in high school?

 

Bit of a to-do to do the actual self rate form https://www.usta.com/en/home/play/adult-tennis/programs/pacificnw/Self-Rating-Details.html

Or just look at this chart https://www.usta.com/content/dam/usta/pdfs/10013_experience_player_ntrp_guidelines.pdf

 

yeah but that was 20 years ago. from what I've seen on youtube I can hang at 3.0 today just on athleticism and old muscle memory but I can't tell if 3.5 or 4.0 would be the better fit

my serve is non-existent, I haven't served in 20 years. But everything else came back really quickly so I figure in a three-month league I'll eventually get my serve back too

this is really helpful and confirms my range

 

Start at 3.5 and go from there. You'll probably move up to 4.0 pretty quickly.

 

Popyrin really should be 2 sets to 1 up here. How he lost the 2nd set is anyone’s guess.

 

kind of what I'm thinking. I'm in great shape from playing other sports so I feel like 3.0 might just be bullying some players getting into the sport. 4.0 will outskill me while I catch back up

Hopefully we're right. A three-month session with the wrong rating would suck

 

Since you've played before, you'll be bored out of your mind at 3.0. I've seen solid 3.5 players (played in a tri level league that was 3.5, 4.0, and 4.5). Not so much at 3.0. Those are usually folks new to the game.

 

cool. are you in Chicago?

 

Nah, in LA.

 

Apparel companies not providing alternative kits for these same sponsor player matches annoys me to no end.

 

They should absolutely have a “home and away” model by now.

 

This Adidas look especially. Just flip the black and the purple, and there you go.

 

Great win for Draper. SF seems eminently possible.

 

Was at The Meadow Club yesterday, I am being told by tennis people this is a big deal