ashley bach
Cricketer Of The Year
Well said SOC
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*Official* Tennis Thread
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ashley bach
Cricketer Of The Year
If only Kyrgios worked harder on his manners he might turn into a gentleman. But then I guess he wouldn't be so much fun.
Son Of Coco
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Kyrgios seems to have realised too late he actually wouldn't mind winning a slam. Almost as soon as he got serious, he got injured.
Turns out he was just preserving his body by not giving a ****.
social
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Stayed in the same hotel as him once and he couldn’t have been nicer
Pat Cash - now there’s a ****
Son Of Coco
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Kyrgios seems like a nice bloke off the court generally. He's certainly one of the more entertaining characters on the Netflix series. There was one particular scene where he was chatting to some of the attendants at Wimbledon, and they were all having a laugh about him suggesting he was thinking of going into music and that one attendant might be his backing singer that made me think he was a pretty decent guy.
Niall
International Coach
De Minaur is a basically a very cheap version of David Ferrer. If he was to win Slam, they should shut down tennis IMO.
Looking at the ladies , seems like its Gauff v Saba , I'd give the edge to the American simply because Saba always finds a way to blow it. Zheng probably the best of the rest but was a mess the other night.
On the men's side looks like we get Sinner v Novak semi final, which could be immense. Alcarez the fav to come through the other side but not sure he is quite at the level needed to win this.
social
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We were at a hotel with masses of kids & he was just relaxing
Selfies, autographs, playing with them - nothing was too much trouble
Years ago, I was a parking valet at a Sydney hotel during a tennis tournament
McEnroe was also very gracious and far nicer than many of the guests I heard badmouthing him
Seems obvious but don’t always believe media spin on celebrities
grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
or he could have been just having a good day when he wasn't assulting one of his girlfriends.
social
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Dude please
Literally a nothing incident and accusations were brought by a pissed off ex
Assault charge against Nick Kyrgios dismissed after he admits shoving ex-girlfriend
The Australian tennis player issues public apology after pleading guilty to pushing ex-girlfriend Chiara Passari in Canberra in 2021
www.theguardian.com
Tomic is a whole different story
social
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
He pleaded guilty to get it over & done with
Judge didn’t record a conviction because it was a low level thing
Read the background - jilted gf pressed charges a year later when he left her for someone else
grecian
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the point here being he doesn't treat women awfully well, see also the vile Vekic thing or cheating on Tomljanović the bloke is a sleazeball, not evil or owt, but just can't understand why people defend a sportsman who just clearly didn't care about the sport or other people in his life because he does a few aw shucks photo opportunities.
kyear2
International Coach
Will never understand how someone with that much talent genuinely seemed not to care.
social
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George Best, John Daly, Henri Leconte, Etc
kyear2
International Coach
Didn't Daly win a couple majors?
Think that's why Dkoker never seemed to "like" him though. He understood that talent that was being wasted.
social
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
He did but that was in between drinking and gambling binges
Not uncommon for him to withdraw from tournaments, get himself disqualified or outright tank
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
To be fair, Best did win a couple of league championships and the European Cup with Man Utd, as well as the Ballon d'Or, before the booze took its toll. It's a matter of record that he was disenchanted with the state of Man Utd in the years after the European Cup win, and that didn't help matters. I have long argued that he would have lasted longer if he'd been English as at least there would have been something to play for at international level.
ashley bach
Cricketer Of The Year
That's a blistering 1st set from Zverev.