The Official Tennis Thread - Part II

[Guest]

lmao i saw the above tweet, and also ran here. wtf is going on? tt is saying rebel has outed muchova, when they are the ones suggesting it’s her?!

They are saying she basically out her for anyone who follows tennis closely cause it's very easy to connect the dots for those who were around then to see their sudden friendship. I am more stuck in the age difference.

[Sporttt]

Does that mean they had sex?

[Guest]

it means they are just pals who are gals.

[Guest]

anyone watching?

[Guest]

anyone watching?

Yes. Really hope Collins wins. Before the match I would have thought that‘s never going to happen, but now that she‘s won the first set

[Guest]

yeah. can see it happening. entertaining match though. hope it goes to three.

[Guest]

Is it just me or does anyone else see the dominant bi-vibes from Collins?

I can imagine her with a female

[Guest]

Is it just me or does anyone else see the dominant bi-vibes from Collins?

I can imagine her with a female

I definitely see it.

[Guest]

[Guest]

Ok, first i thought that they are probably just friends. But I had a look at her ’friends’ instagram and they seem to be veeeery close, went on several trips together etc. Has Amanda been in Kasatkina‘s vlog? Because her rumoured gf follows both Kasatkina and Natasha. She also follows a few gay women‘s footballers (Bronze, Putellas, Oberdorf), that might not really mean anything, just something I noticed

[Guest]

Ok, first i thought that they are probably just friends. But I had a look at her ’friends’ instagram and they seem to be veeeery close, went on several trips together etc. Has Amanda been in Kasatkina‘s vlog? Because her rumoured gf follows both Kasatkina and Natasha. She also follows a few gay women‘s footballers (Bronze, Putellas, Oberdorf), that might not really mean anything, just something I noticed

DA That girl is following a lot of gay women,not just the one you posted, Famous and not famous ones.
I guess the poster here who was obsessed with Anisimova will be happy

[Guest]

tennis fashun stays consistent.

[Guest]

Ok, first i thought that they are probably just friends. But I had a look at her ’friends’ instagram and they seem to be veeeery close, went on several trips together etc. Has Amanda been in Kasatkina‘s vlog? Because her rumoured gf follows both Kasatkina and Natasha. She also follows a few gay women‘s footballers (Bronze, Putellas, Oberdorf), that might not really mean anything, just something I noticed

Who's the friend? Can't see any replies from her on AA post..

[Guest]

Is it just me or does anyone else see the dominant bi-vibes from Collins?

I can imagine her with a female

I definitely see it.

Oh I would love that. Her and for example Iga kinda look like a great fit

[Guest]

Ok, first i thought that they are probably just friends. But I had a look at her ’friends’ instagram and they seem to be veeeery close, went on several trips together etc. Has Amanda been in Kasatkina‘s vlog? Because her rumoured gf follows both Kasatkina and Natasha. She also follows a few gay women‘s footballers (Bronze, Putellas, Oberdorf), that might not really mean anything, just something I noticed

DA That girl is following a lot of gay women,not just the one you posted, Famous and not famous ones.
I guess the poster here who was obsessed with Anisimova will be happy

This is her tik tok. She gay

[Guest]

this transported me back to mid 2010s.

[Guest]

Official now:

[Guest]

I'm not ecstatic by the news, but I'd say one thing - WTA gets unusually big amount of shit thrown their way to be inclusive, prioritize morals and ethics over profit, but at the same time make money, have perfect organization, find locations for tournaments ready to offer a lot of money, but at the same time be financially sound. Meanwhile when ATP takes a horrendous moral decision over a horrendous moral decision it's lightly acknowledged as "oh typical ATP" and that's about it.

Fact is countries like Russia, China and now Saudi Arabia are ready to pay the big money and invest in organizing events. Probably for the sake of sportswashing, but I don't see other countries with supposedly better morals fighting to put favourable bids on the table. Instead what we see is continuous low balling of women's tournaments with half the prize money as men, shit court placements for any female player bar Swiatek and Sabalenka and then blaming the players for somehow not generating enough interest. Of course they won't generate the same interest as men because a female player will never get the media/tournament push as someone like Sinner and Alcaraz unless they're all the boxes varying from amazing attractiveness to being from the right countries. Therefore this decision isn't that surprising.

[Guest]

I'm not ecstatic by the news, but I'd say one thing - WTA gets unusually big amount of shit thrown their way to be inclusive, prioritize morals and ethics over profit, but at the same time make money, have perfect organization, find locations for tournaments ready to offer a lot of money, but at the same time be financially sound. Meanwhile when ATP takes a horrendous moral decision over a horrendous moral decision it's lightly acknowledged as "oh typical ATP" and that's about it.

Fact is countries like Russia, China and now Saudi Arabia are ready to pay the big money and invest in organizing events. Probably for the sake of sportswashing, but I don't see other countries with supposedly better morals fighting to put favourable bids on the table. Instead what we see is continuous low balling of women's tournaments with half the prize money as men, shit court placements for any female player bar Swiatek and Sabalenka and then blaming the players for somehow not generating enough interest. Of course they won't generate the same interest as men because a female player will never get the media/tournament push as someone like Sinner and Alcaraz unless they're all the boxes varying from amazing attractiveness to being from the right countries. Therefore this decision isn't that surprising.

They brought that a bit onto themselves by pulling out of the tournaments in China and making it about human rights, only to go back once Covid restrictions dropped. But yeah, I agree that it‘s useless to hold the WTA accountable for that but when there is an exho in Saudi Arabia with ATP players in the middle of the season it’s just a „oh welp“. Same for next gen finals last year.

Ons is unsurprisingly very pro Saudi:

Only needs to start winning some matches soon to qualify. She‘s currently ranked 84 in the race.

[Олина Желязкова]

If I remember correctly Sabalenka and Pegula also spoke favourably about the finals being played there a few months ago when it was initially speculated. Kasatkina is the only who's outright denounced it and Swiatek had a statement that while not totally opposed to it acknowledged that there are legitimate concerns about it. I definitely think majority of the players support it considering the money is astronomical by all accounts - more than ATP finals prize money and obviously considerably more than the previous deal.

[Guest]

If I remember correctly Sabalenka and Pegula also spoke favourably about the finals being played there a few months ago when it was initially speculated. Kasatkina is the only who's outright denounced it and Swiatek had a statement that while not totally opposed to it acknowledged that there are legitimate concerns about it. I definitely think majority of the players support it considering the money is astronomical by all accounts - more than ATP finals prize money and obviously considerably more than the previous deal.

Yeah, Sabalenka played an exhibition with Ons and was very happy about it.
I don‘t expect anyone who qualifies to pull out. And honestly I can‘t blame any of them. If you‘ve worked since your childhood to be a professional tennis player you don‘t turn down a tournament like that.
Even Demi Schuurs, who’s openly gay, said that she would play because otherwise someone else would just take over her spot and that‘s it. And doubles players need the money even more.

And it‘s probably just the beginning of Saudi Arabia in tennis anyways. The tours have to decide what they do about that merger-2billion-offer soon.

[Guest]

I kinda miss old days with Mugu being gay speculation drama was 24/7 topic

[Guest]

I kinda miss old days with Mugu being gay speculation drama was 24/7 topic

Where is she now?

[Guest]

I kinda miss old days with Mugu being gay speculation drama was 24/7 topic

Where is she now?

„Taking a break from tennis“ but let‘s face it, she‘s retired

[Guest]

I kinda miss old days with Mugu being gay speculation drama was 24/7 topic

Where is she now?

„Taking a break from tennis“ but let‘s face it, she‘s retired

Meet up with that Tom Ford model guy was the worst thing that happened to her… for Real.

[Vvvv]

Muguruza is a weird case, like I get it, she fell in love and she realized there are more exciting things in life than tennis, but one thing is to start taking it easy in your career and another is to altogether give up on something you were doing your whole life. Even Osaka who outright said she hates tennis returned relatively quickly to the court after pregnancy and seems revitalized and hungry for success.

Imo without trying to pretend I know Muguruza personally I believe she will regret taking this drastic decision. My bet is in a couple of years she tries to return, but fails to get any results because the game has passed her by and she wasted the prime years of her sports career having a premature midlife crisis.

[Guest]

This was probably my favourite episode of their vlog:

[Guest]

This was probably my favourite episode of their vlog:

Brady is amazing!

[Guest]

This was probably my favourite episode of their vlog:

Brady is amazing!

Agree! Brady ftw One of best episodes so far, and great result by Dasha. Collins is beast right now, I hope she changes her plans about ending career.

[Guest]

Does anyone watch the Billie Jean King Cup?
I feel like this is one of the most boring weeks in the season. No interest in it at all, not even the good matchups

[Guest]

I stopped watching teams event since they made this new format

[Guest]

I stopped watching teams event since they made this new format

Same. Lame format. Uninspiring. I'm done with BJK herself too for non-tennis reasons.

[Guest]

If Nadal literally comes back and wins the FO, I hope people will have the balls to call it out for what it is

[Guest]

Emma Raducanu

[Guest]

Emma Raducanu

Nice wins from Emma, hopefully it's gonna boost her confidence playing on tour.

[Guest]

Rudness as its best
new wta tournament, so bots are mumbling about iga's hard draw AS ALWAYS when she had easy one in Indian Wells, they hated you about mentioning it because she is so goat to beat wozniacki/kostyuk/sakkari...lately noskova and kalinskaya are proof of hard draw because iga lost to them. Pathetic, they dont even know that they won with her on fast courts.

[Guest]

If Nadal literally comes back and wins the FO, I hope people will have the balls to call it out for what it is

I have no doubt that rat will come back looking fitter than ever, sweep the FO and everyone will trot out the usual "remarkable, impossible" BS.

[Guest]

If Nadal literally comes back and wins the FO, I hope people will have the balls to call it out for what it is

I have no doubt that rat will come back looking fitter than ever, sweep the FO and everyone will trot out the usual "remarkable, impossible" BS.

Really? I think his time is over and he will flop the next tournaments he enters (and actually plays) and will retire after the Olympics.

[Guest]

If Nadal literally comes back and wins the FO, I hope people will have the balls to call it out for what it is

I have no doubt that rat will come back looking fitter than ever, sweep the FO and everyone will trot out the usual "remarkable, impossible" BS.

Really? I think his time is over and he will flop the next tournaments he enters (and actually plays) and will retire after the Olympics.

After his performance at RG 2022, when he claimed he was near retirement and every match could be his last, whilst looking fitter than ever, hard to trust a word he says.

Wouldn't be surprised to see him pull his usual shite.

[Guest]

If Nadal literally comes back and wins the FO, I hope people will have the balls to call it out for what it is

I have no doubt that rat will come back looking fitter than ever, sweep the FO and everyone will trot out the usual "remarkable, impossible" BS.

Really? I think his time is over and he will flop the next tournaments he enters (and actually plays) and will retire after the Olympics.

After his performance at RG 2022, when he claimed he was near retirement and every match could be his last, whilst looking fitter than ever, hard to trust a word he says.

Wouldn't be surprised to see him pull his usual shite.

DA, You are right he looks fitter than ever.

[Guest]

Rudness as its best
new wta tournament, so bots are mumbling about iga's hard draw AS ALWAYS when she had easy one in Indian Wells, they hated you about mentioning it because she is so goat to beat wozniacki/kostyuk/sakkari...lately noskova and kalinskaya are proof of hard draw because iga lost to them. Pathetic, they dont even know that they won with her on fast courts.

The draw was tought for Iga in IW, it turned out to be easy for her, but her fans didn't mind in the end.
Sabalenka has Vekic and Samsonova after all. She never won with Vekic. Ostepenko will lose to Kerber again and she will be one with iga in QF, I think. Rybakina may end sooner,too.

[Guest]

If Nadal literally comes back and wins the FO, I hope people will have the balls to call it out for what it is

I have no doubt that rat will come back looking fitter than ever, sweep the FO and everyone will trot out the usual "remarkable, impossible" BS.

Really? I think his time is over and he will flop the next tournaments he enters (and actually plays) and will retire after the Olympics.

After his performance at RG 2022, when he claimed he was near retirement and every match could be his last, whilst looking fitter than ever, hard to trust a word he says.

Wouldn't be surprised to see him pull his usual shite.

DA, You are right he looks fitter than ever.

If he wins the FO, even Lance Armstrong will be pointing the finger.

[Guest]

If Nadal wins the FO, it either means:
1. It is the weakest field in tennis history, WTA or ATP.
2. He has been pretending like 2022.

We shall see I guess

[Guest]

anyone willing to admit they overreacted about rafa

[Guest]

For once, I think Nadal's injury is genuine..however, I still expect him to inject all sorts come RG time and for the draw to be rigged for him.

He's hilarious really, called Novak obsessed but one of them was willing to miss slams for his beliefs, the other will do ANYTHING to win. As far as I'm concerned, he is 3rd behind Novak and Roger.

[Vvvv]

All of them are dopers. How are people so delusional that you genuinely believe your favourite of the big three is somehow clean? All of them have had serious injuries, even with implications coming from themselves that it's a career ending injury, then miraculously after a few months off the court they always came back revitalized. And of course it's not just the big three - Alcaraz going from a stick figure to brick shit house in the span of a few months.

I'm sure women's tennis is also far from clean (as we've seen), but at least when someone gets a serious injury you know shit is actually bad and there won't be a miraculous comeback. There have been some early retirements too due to injuries. In men's tennis there is always some inspirational story about a player with some serious chronic injury, disappearing for a few months and suddenly coming back better than he was before.

[Guest]

All of them are dopers. How are people so delusional that you genuinely believe your favourite of the big three is somehow clean? All of them have had serious injuries, even with implications coming from themselves that it's a career ending injury, then miraculously after a few months off the court they always came back revitalized. And of course it's not just the big three - Alcaraz going from a stick figure to brick shit house in the span of a few months.

I'm sure women's tennis is also far from clean (as we've seen), but at least when someone gets a serious injury you know shit is actually bad and there won't be a miraculous comeback. There have been some early retirements too due to injuries. In men's tennis there is always some inspirational story about a player with some serious chronic injury, disappearing for a few months and suddenly coming back better than he was before.

Serena was cought doping during RG in 2015 , but wta protected her.
Djokovic "has" asthma. He doesn't but he is able to take drugs which helps him play. It is know fact that many players 'have' ADHD. Like Swiatek. That's how it works.

[Guest]

All of them are dopers. How are people so delusional that you genuinely believe your favourite of the big three is somehow clean? All of them have had serious injuries, even with implications coming from themselves that it's a career ending injury, then miraculously after a few months off the court they always came back revitalized. And of course it's not just the big three - Alcaraz going from a stick figure to brick shit house in the span of a few months.

I'm sure women's tennis is also far from clean (as we've seen), but at least when someone gets a serious injury you know shit is actually bad and there won't be a miraculous comeback. There have been some early retirements too due to injuries. In men's tennis there is always some inspirational story about a player with some serious chronic injury, disappearing for a few months and suddenly coming back better than he was before.

Serena was cought doping during RG in 2015 , but wta protected her.
Djokovic "has" asthma. He doesn't but he is able to take drugs which helps him play. It is know fact that many players 'have' ADHD. Like Swiatek. That's how it works.

You have a very vivid imagination.

[Guest]

Nadal is the biggest doper in all sports. These "injuries" are so he can get TUEs. I won't be shocked to him looking miraculously recovered by RG.

[Guest]

All of them are dopers. How are people so delusional that you genuinely believe your favourite of the big three is somehow clean? All of them have had serious injuries, even with implications coming from themselves that it's a career ending injury, then miraculously after a few months off the court they always came back revitalized. And of course it's not just the big three - Alcaraz going from a stick figure to brick shit house in the span of a few months.

I'm sure women's tennis is also far from clean (as we've seen), but at least when someone gets a serious injury you know shit is actually bad and there won't be a miraculous comeback. There have been some early retirements too due to injuries. In men's tennis there is always some inspirational story about a player with some serious chronic injury, disappearing for a few months and suddenly coming back better than he was before.

Serena was cought doping during RG in 2015 , but wta protected her.
Djokovic "has" asthma. He doesn't but he is able to take drugs which helps him play. It is know fact that many players 'have' ADHD. Like Swiatek. That's how it works.

You have a very vivid imagination.

https://tennis-infinity.com/atp/what-do ... ats-in-day

I was always struggling with respiratory problem, a kind of mild version of asthma and suffocation during the night for many years since I was seven years old. For some reason, you know, as the time was passing by these allergies were gaining more intensity in terms of the reaction I felt. It was just getting stronger and stronger and the place where I felt that the most was always the tennis court."

https://www.essentiallysports.com/atp-t ... ing-heavy/