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5 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Funny thing is she basically has this coach because his last pupil (Max Purcell) got popped for doping. 

😬

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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.

Posted
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 ️.

Posted
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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Posted
19 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Damn, then went woodshed in the 2nd. 

 

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It was really high quality for a set and then Carlitos went beast mode.  RG is going to be fun this year!

Posted
2 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Collins beat Kenin in Strasbourg 6-1, 1-6, 6-2. Women

These scores always make me chuckle.

🤭 

👆 [iPhone suggested emoji for “chuckle”. I most likely won’t be using that emoji much/ever in the future, at least not on Surly.]

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On the Tennis Channel right now we have a replay of today’s match in Strasbourg between Ashlyn Krueger and McCartney Kessler and I am realizing that this is finally confirmation that these two women are not, in fact, the same person. 

They both have minimal personalities attached to their tall blonde, long-legged slim bodies. 

🤷‍♂️😴

Posted

I just watched the Italian Open Men’s Final and boy did Sinner choke at times and boy did Álcaraz do some shit that left you asking- “How did you save that? Are you fucking kidding me?!?!”

Also, Sinner’s Italian is totally fine at this point. (I think that he went to the national tennis center at 14 years of age, so he’s had time to perfect it with peers & coaches. 

But if I understand some of his Italian, he thanked the crowd for coming and supporting him and then I think that he mentioned that his brother went to the Formula 1 race in Italy instead of coming to watch him in the final.

They cut to his parents (Hanspeter & Siglinde Sinner) and the dad smiles in amusement and the mom chuckled at the mention of a sibling choosing the race over his brother. 

Álcaraz will be the overwhelming favorite in Paris when final odds come out. 

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And here you go. 

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2025 MEN'S FRENCH OPEN ODDS

  • Carlos Alcaraz +120
  • Jannik Sinner +250
  • Novak Djokovic +700
  • Alexander Zverev +750
  • Casper Ruud +1200
  • Stefanos Tsitsipas +1600
  • Jack Draper +1600
  • Holger Rune +2000
  • Andrey Rublev +3300
  • Joao Fonseca +3300
  • Daniil Medvedev +3300
  • Lorenzo Musetti +3300
  • Arthur Fils +4000
  • Francisco Cerundolo +4000
  • Alex De Minaur +5000
  • Jakub Mensik +5000 
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And the chicks. 

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2025 WOMEN'S FRENCH OPEN ODDS 

  • Iga Swiatek +175
  • Aryna Sabalenka +225
  • Mirra Andreeva +500
  • Coco Gauff +650
  • Qinwen Zheng +2000
  • Elina Svitolina +2200
  • Elena Rybakina +2200
  • Jelena Ostapenko +2500
  • Karolina Muchova +2500
  • Paula Badosa +2500
  • Madison Keys +3300
  • Jasmine Paolini +3300
  • Daria Kasatkina +4000
  • Bianca Vanessa Andreescu +4000
  • Diana Shnaider +5000
  • Emma Navarro +5000
  • Naomi Osaka +5000
  • Jessica Pegula +5000
  • Amanda Anisimova +5000
  • Ons Jabeur +5000
  • Danielle Collins +5000 
Posted
6 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Iga has played like trash all year including on the clay. I will be shocked if she makes a deep run at the French let alone win it.

Yeah that is silly considering her form. 

Posted
7 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

If this goes well enough for her, I bet she retires from tennis to do commentary full time 

Sloane did a week on T2 (Tennis Channel’s 2nd channel) either the first week of the Italian Open or the week before that. She did the round table bit where they watch games live and comment on the match, the players, stories of difficulty playing in conditions like that, favorite memories from that tournament…

More of a conversation between tennis fans/former players while watching a match than actual play-by-play and color commentary.

They also bring in a guest (via video) each hour to interview them (frequently while a match is still showing via split screen.

There is an aspect of The Today Show / Good Morning America / The View to the daytime programming of T2 and it can serve as a boot camp for helping former players to become more comfortable contributing live, in front of the camera.

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