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kittykat

kittykat

I mean I don't like Djokovic but I don't mind the whole jacket thing, he earned it.  You tie for most majors of all time, that deserves a little celebration.  It was a huge deal when Sampras broke Emerson's record and I was rooting hard for Serena to do the same to Court.  There was definitely Federer fatigue in the mid 2000s especially when Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt were predicted as the next greats to dominate  and Federer squished em. There's always a little fatigue when one person dominates and why we welcome a disruptor like when Nadal came on the scene in 2005.

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NUguy514
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It's official: the three-judge panel has unanimously denied Djoker's appeal and is deporting his ass back to Serbia. Now, let's play some tennis!

galaxygirl76
galaxygirl76

Oh no. It's my old enemy, the consequences of my actions.    Hope they can focus on tennis now because the players who do play be the rules deserve that. 

Jillibean
Jillibean

I don't understand much about immigration law, but is the fact that he lied on his declaration not enough reason to kick him out? I mean, he's basically admitted that the information provided was fals

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roseha

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I watched a little Tennis Channel plus but I find it difficult to concentrate sometimes when there's no commentary, even when Alcaraz played Dimitrov there was none which surprised me.

This time of year tends to be wacko with odd tournament results sometimes, which is one reason why I'm not on the Holger Rune bandwagon - he's also been playing badly though apparently he's injured - but I just don't believe that winning the Paris Indoors last year was a prediction of greatness.  Look at some of the other winners - Jack Sock, Karen Kachenov?

Not to pile on but I've just read that Rune has added Boris Becker to his team - I was never a fan frankly but has it occurred to the Rune camp that Becker is not allowed in the UK as a condition of his release from prison for fraud?  Not very helpful for Wimbledon.

I hope the young players coming up will develop some fun rivalries but I feel we may be in a lull time at the moment.  Maybe it's part of the time of year issue though.

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shok

shok

Good for Jannik Sinner. He beat Djerk twice in one day, first in singles and then in doubles, to knock Serbia out of the Davis Cup. I'm not impressed with how the Davis Cup is run now but apparently Djerk wanted to win it very badly so yay for Jannik!! Italy will play Australia for the championship.

Djerk played (and beat) Cam Norrie a couple of days ago and apparently threw a hissy fit in the post match on court interview when the Great Britain fans pounded on their drums furiously to drown out what Djerk was saying and he was very unhappy about it. Awww. Poor attention seeking dweeb.

Turns out, before that match the doping officials came looking for Djerk to do an unannounced test - both blood and urine - and he got into a big fooferah with them - much yelling and stomping of feet - and said he needed an hour and a half to prepare for the match. So the doping officials wouldn't let him out of their sight from the time of their notification to him that they wanted to do the test until after the match when he finally provided the samples. Hah!! Good for them. I don't trust Djerk for a minute with all his weird and secretive preparations and processes before matches so I'm glad to hear WADA is doing some testing.

 

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Notabug

Notabug

4 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

That's insane. If it's a recurrence, shouldn't she gave had her ovaries removed the first time? She's not using them anymore. I'm just baffled as to why this didn't happen.

Sending healing vibes her way. 

Chris' ovaries were removed at her first surgery.  The recurrence is apparently in her abdomen, probably on the peritoneum.  That is often the first place that ovarian cancer spreads.  I was hoping since she was initially diagnosed as Stage 1 (all the cancer inside the ovary and nowhere else) that she might do better than most, but this is not a good sign.  Her sister Jeanne died of ovarian cancer a few years ago.

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Salacious Kitty

Salacious Kitty

14 minutes ago, Notabug said:

Chris' ovaries were removed at her first surgery.  The recurrence is apparently in her abdomen, probably on the peritoneum.  That is often the first place that ovarian cancer spreads.  I was hoping since she was initially diagnosed as Stage 1 (all the cancer inside the ovary and nowhere else) that she might do better than most, but this is not a good sign.  Her sister Jeanne died of ovarian cancer a few years ago.

Thanks for filling in the gaps. The word "recurrence" is what threw me, implying it was in the same place. It was the specific way I read it, I guess. 

I hope she beats it. 

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NUguy514

NUguy514

1 hour ago, Carey said:

I can take it or leave it in terms of Tennis in Australia.  It sounds good (on paper) when you're posting about it off of a computer somewhere in America.  If that was my go to place (and I survived it), I probably would promote it more but would not recommended living there permanently to anyone else

I'm a very proud American, but Australia is an amazing country.  It's stunningly beautiful and safe (despite my above post), there is great food (other than Mexican and, in my experience, pizza), and most Aussies are cool.  I was only there for four months, but if I didn't have family and friends and a community here, I would have stayed.

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shok

shok

Too bad for Rafa and Mery - they've tried so hard to protect baby Rafa from the paparazzi and other picture takers but they've been caught out in Australia. With Junior walking now it's that much harder to keep him in a corner. Anyway, he's cute as a button and looks like he's going to be a go-getter like his mama and papa.  😍

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p.s. That's Mery's mother in a couple of those pictures. So nice that she's able to travel to Australia to help out with a toddler.

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blackwing

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I can't stand Danielle Collins, but I'm also tired of Iga Swiatek constantly winning, so I was really rooting for Collins to take her out.  Up 4-1 in the 3rd and then lost five straight games.  Sad.

Lots of big names are out on the women's side already.  Rybakina, Pegula,  Vondrousova, Jabeur, Sakkari, Wozniacki, Kerber, Raducanu, Osaka.  The last four I guess weren't unexpected since they all came back from long breaks, but still.  Looks like we are marching towards the inevitable Swiatek / Sabalenka.  I'm not a fan of Sabalenka either.  At this point I'm rooting for Gauff, Qinwen Zheng, or Azarenka.

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blackwing

blackwing

11 minutes ago, Medicine Crow said:

Which "abuser" are we talking about?

Zverev.  Accused of physically abusing two women.  The first ex-girlfriend didn't want to press charges.  The second one is the mother of his child.  Charges have been filed and he is going on trial in May.

The worst final for me out of the quarterfinals would have been Djokovic/Zverev, so I'm glad neither are in.  Wish it could have been Sinner/Alcaraz, but oh well.

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Carey

Carey

I haven't been paying attention to the Australian Open either for the same reasons mentioned by peachmangosteen in addition to the fact that the biggest NFL games are happening now.  However, I probably would've still heard news on how Joke did.  Wasn't sure he even made it to the semis, but I also know that his A game was absent.

Needless to say, no sleep lost here

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roseha

roseha

I just watched the replay of the Mixed Doubles final, congratulations to that creative genius Hsieh-Su Wei on her 7th major title.  For anyone who hasn't seen it and has ESPN plus, i recommend the replay.  She is something else to watch.   Hope she will be able to take the women's doubles as well.

By the way I recognized Paul McNamee her coach and former Aussie doubles champ in her box.   Yes I'm old.

Hoping for two good singles finals.  As far as the women go I'm not a Sabalenka fan so will be rooting for Zheng.

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