*Official* Tennis Thread

[Jono]

Roddick in his token "I'm angry because I'm losing so I'll yell at the umpire to vent."

Still love him (giving so much to charity for the flood relief in Brisbane, WAFG), but he can be a massive dick on the court sometimes.

I mean fair enough Roddick is worried about the wet court, and doesn't want to be injured before the Australian Open, but he needs to relax.

 

[Jono]

SoderKING!

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Who cares about the Söderking?

The LGooch through to the main draw in Sydney, baby!

 

[blahblahblah]

Del Potro just wants to find his tennis form again | Tennistalk

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Good hit out for Del Potro. Lopez smashed him last year in his return, so it is a good comeback. Still don't think he'll be relevant til the clay season, though.

 

[_Ed_]

Young NZer Michael Venus put up a hell of a fight against Robredo today. Admittedly Robredo isn't the player he once was, but for a player outside the top 300 to win a set against him is a big effort.

 

[Jono]

He's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

WAFG! Saved match point.

The Sydney pack this year is weak. Hopefully he can make it to the final. Please do it, I need to see this man live!

 

[benchmark00]

Good to see the Looch in form heading into the Open...

 

[Jono]

Am I right in saying the G00ch and L00ch are in the Sydney singles draw?

Edit: Nope, just the G00ch.

G00ch > L00ch

 

[benchmark00]

Nah ****.

The L00ch was in qualifying, I guess that means he lost and isn't in the main draw?

Watched him beat some **** at the Medibank last year. Was epic.

 

[Jono]

Yeah he lost to a decent player actually. Kubot can play ball.

 

[benchmark00]

Just remembered it was Berdych he beat when I was watching ftr.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Young NZer Michael Venus put up a hell of a fight against Robredo today. Admittedly Robredo isn't the player he once was, but for a player outside the top 300 to win a set against him is a big effort.

Great performance, but seemed to fall apart in the third. Not too surprising.

Don't know much about Venus, but I remember he won a Challenger last year beating some good players as a qualifier. If he's not too old, a good prospect.

EDIT: Haha, not quite. Made the final, with his biggest scalp being Jan Minar.

 

[vcs]

He's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

WAFG! Saved match point.

The Sydney pack this year is weak. Hopefully he can make it to the final. Please do it, I need to see this man live!

Either that's a terribly fitting outfit or he's grown very fat in the past year or so.

 

[vcs]

In other news, WTA World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki has lost 6-0, 6-1 to Zvonareva and 6-3, 6-3 to Cibulkova in two lead-up tournaments.

Women's tennis.

 

[_Ed_]

Haha.

Epic match so far between Nalbandian and Fabio Fognini - Nalbandian took the first set 7-6, and the second is on serve at 4-3. Every game in the second set so far has gone to deuce.

EDIT: But after I said that, Nalbandian ended it quite quickly - 6-4 in the second.

 

[Jono]

Nalbandian is a ****head for going to Aukland and not Sydney, I wanted to see him live

Edit: No offence Kiwis

 

[_Ed_]

I got to see both he and David Ferrer today. Both were all class. Ferrer took two and a half hours to win, but that was mostly because of an awesome performance from Kamke. Nalbandian hardly broke a sweat in his match.

But I was a bit disappointed that I didn't get to see Isner. His match was originally scheduled to be the first of the day session, but it got bumped into the evening session for no apparent reason.

 

[Jono]

Del Potro

****ing **** tournament this Sydney 250. How can Australia's biggest city get so few stars?

Gasquet or Gulbis better make the final.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Del Potro

****ing **** tournament this Sydney 250. How can Australia's biggest city get so few stars?

Gasquet or Gulbis better make the final.

****ing Auckland has a better draw. I don't get it.