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12-12-2014 , 01:13 AM

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12-12-2014 , 01:38 AM

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That will never get old nor will Gulbis. I know he wouldn't be the type to do it but he's a personality you'd love to see in the booth one day.

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12-12-2014 , 07:12 AM

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Chrizza

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For some reason I'm totally in the dark about Gimelstob, why is he the worst?

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12-12-2014 , 12:14 PM

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Go vote genie in oot group f thread

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12-12-2014 , 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Chrizza

For some reason I'm totally in the dark about Gimelstob, why is he the worst?

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Gimelstob’s steady stream of gobbledygook about players, technique, and strategy execution can be so totally incomprehensible his contemporaries sit by in silence.

Let’s take his initial Davis Cup belief that, at first, the Swiss didn’t have enough fire power to dislodge the French. Pair that with the notion that, “They [French] just don’t have a big enough weapon to disrupt the Swiss team.” His assessment crossed the net a couple more times, leaving fans fatigued, unsure who did or did not have the fire power while many rolled their eyes — what the heck, does he know he’s repeating himself?

His preposterous presentation of player techniques must to go the way of his sexist comments from 2008 about Anna Kournikova.

http://thetennisisland.com/2014/12/0...-commentators/

That article doesn't even go far enough imo. Just listen to Gimelstob commentate a match, he says the dumbest **** just because he thinks he's being original and provocative. It's like the way his brain works is "ok, I need to make some kind of profound declaration every 5 minutes, regardless if there's any truth to what I say, or is the opposite of what I just said 5 minutes ago."

He's also incredibly jingoist and only wants to talk about Americans. He can't get through a match between two serbians without mentioning what a great forehand Sam Querrey has. It's like the british eurosport commies who talk about Robson and Watson for 20 solid minutes in the middle of a radwanska-kvitova match.

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12-17-2014 , 01:34 AM

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Live stream of the AO wildcard playoff, in case you're starved for live late night tennis in the off season: http://www.tennis.com.au/

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12-17-2014 , 01:43 AM

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Nice! Simply thinking about the AO gives me such a ridiculous chub!

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12-17-2014 , 06:57 PM

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women's QFs on the above mentioned stream in a few minutes, featuring Rogowska

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12-18-2014 , 12:52 AM

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It is clear that while prize money levels need to rise, particularly for lower ranked players, the numbers of those competing on the Pro Circuit are unsustainably high. In 2013 there were almost 14,000 male and female players competing, of whom over 6,000 failed to earn any prize money.

The average cost, not including coaching, of competing last year was $38,800 for male players and $40,180 for female players. The distribution and levels of prize money in the professional game meant that the break even point on the combined singles and doubles earnings list (i.e. the point where average costs met actual earnings) was 336 for men and 253 for women in 2013.

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At the next ITF Board meeting in March, we will be putting forward, for approval, a series of proposed measures that we believe will help address these issues.

These proposed measures will include:
1. PROPOSED PRIZE MONEY INCREASES 2016 ONWARDS

Men’s Pro Circuit: Initial two levels rise to 15K+H* and 25K +H*.
Women’s Pro Circuit: Levels rise to $15k+H*, $25k+H*, $60k/$60k+H, $90k/$90k+H and $125k/$125k+H.
*Hospitality to take the form of a per diem for all players, capped at a maximum cost to the organiser of $10,000.
TF and Grand Slam Development funds to be used to support increases in key developing nations

http://www.batennisworld.com/good-news-from-the-itf/

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12-18-2014 , 06:50 AM

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Shocker: Monfils and Tsonga have returned from the IPTL with injuries.

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12-26-2014 , 06:46 PM

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I just noticed that chrizza got banned on MTF 3 weeks ago lol. What happened dude?

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12-26-2014 , 07:06 PM

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last pics of the year

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12-27-2014 , 07:08 AM

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Chrizza

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I just noticed that chrizza got banned on MTF 3 weeks ago lol. What happened dude?

Nothing special, it was a bit lame. I called something '******ed', which they filed under ableism as a discriminatory remark a couple of weeks earlier, without informing anyone. After I got banned they put up an announcement within hours, lol.

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12-27-2014 , 12:54 PM

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With all the craziness that goes on in there, ******ed got you banned? Lolol

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12-27-2014 , 01:10 PM

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With all the craziness that goes on in there, ******ed got you banned? Lolol

I called Federer a ''mother****ing liar'' somewhere around the Davis Cup final and didn't even get an infraction after my post got deleted, so they are running a pretty random regime there

And you can still say Fedtard, Nadaltard, etc., highly confusing.

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12-27-2014 , 09:09 PM

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the wta 2014 season, in 21 minutes:

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01-01-2015 , 06:16 AM

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Yooooo anybody got links for Abu-dhabi?

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01-01-2015 , 04:05 PM

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Anyone know any backstory on Gael Monfils' weird playing card forearm tattoo?

http://www.tattoo-tatouages.com/wp-c...es-as-cinq.jpg

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01-01-2015 , 05:29 PM

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I'm curious myself so I tweeted him in bad translation French thinking it might be better way to get a response. I feel like he may have said it before, but he was once a Pokerstars athlete pro or whatever so I'm sure he likes cards some.

BTW Krunic made the 2015 thread so we can let this thing get buried now.