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Carlitos beat Draper

6-4 , 6-4

I was expecting more out of Draper in a best of 3, especially with how erratic Carlitos has been playing. I think that Draper will have a much more difficult time in Paris playing best of 5 matches because he is such a large guy (though Stan does have a French Open title).

Coco beat Mirra in straight sets. 6-4 , 7-6

Tomorrow’s Girls’ Semifinals…

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Still wait waiting for Sabalenka to play the chinawoman* who won the Olympic Gold Medal 🥇 before Coco’s opponent is known.

 

*May not be the proper nomenclature, Dude.

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8 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Breaks to 5-3. 


So from this point, Peyton lost 10 of 11 games to someone barely over 5’ tall (real height, not official bullshit)? That girl (P.S.) knows how to choke mid match.

 

 

5 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

PS I’m not sure why Anisimova, who is currently ranked in the top 20, is playing a challenger event this week. The tournament organizers aren’t complaining though. 


Amanda Anisimova is working her tits off!

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Holy shit just saw replay of a good part of the Sinner/Ruud match. Sinner was playing about as well as someone could. Absolutely crushing the ball. Looked like he was playing a kid.  Tommy Paul up next. Good luck. 

Posted
4 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

No wonder he has been playing so well


Two non native Italian speakers trying to joke with each other in Italian.

I always laugh at native German speaking Jannick Sinner, from Tyrol (which should be part of Austria 🇦🇹), being called “Italian”…

…but he is as Italian as Ricardo Pepi is American.

 

PS- Sinner is better at tennis 🎾 than Pepi ever will be at soccer ️.

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5 hours ago, Napoleon said:


Two non native Italian speakers trying to joke with each other in Italian.

I always laugh at native German speaking Jannick Sinner, from Tyrol (which should be part of Austria 🇦🇹), being called “Italian”…

…but he is as Italian as Ricardo Pepi is American.

 

PS- Sinner is better at tennis 🎾 than Pepi ever will be at soccer ️.

Does sinner not speak fluent Italian?

Posted
9 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

Does sinner not speak fluent Italian?

Yes, he does now, but he grew up in the German speaking part of Italy and his parents are German speakers.

His Italian was supposedly fairly rough until he went to train at the national tennis center, where everything was in Italian. 

If you listen to him speak English, you will notice that he does not sound like an Italian speaking English. Nothing about his accent or body language would indicate that he has ever even been to Italy before this tournament.

If I were speaking English with Sinner somewhere in Italy (outside of Tyrol) in front of Italians who didn’t follow tennis, I would be mistaken for being the  Italian in our conversation at least 9 times out of 10 (due in no small part to my time in Argentina) over Sinner.

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Speaking of Italians at the Italian Open…

Paolini 🇮🇹 plays Gauff 🇺🇸 in the final today at 10am CDT.

Paolini 🇮🇹 & Errani 🇮🇹 beat Schneider 🇷🇺 & Andreeva 🇷🇺 in the semis to play in the final tomorrow.

Sinner 🇮🇹 is in the final tomorrow vs Álvaraz 🇪🇸.

The local fans will have lots to cheer for.

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1) The fact that The Tennis Channel 🎾 has a sound feed that is about a full second ahead of the video feed is really annoying!

2) Don’t call me racist because I’m pulling for Paolini 🇮🇹. I just can’t quite that little Italian bundle of joy.

She’s my little caramel macchiato.

Full Disclosure: Paolini is also of (relatively recent) African descent, but not to the same degree as her American opponent.

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