Yea that's pretty silly. I must have been feeling it this week because I looked at Razzano out of the corner of my eye, truth. Really wish I could reset from week 1, starting to figure things out just so handcuffed with what I can do.

live rankings:

nadal #11
thiem #30
gulbis #90

thiem defending only 45 points until wimby, he'll be seeded for sure.

dude that was #1 in RR this week had 17k pts. 50 shares of bellucci.

Biggest tourney was a 250 aswell. Hats off to him

Puppet Players

Got to be honest, never really read or kept up to date on anything less than an ATP250.

I always knew it was hard to make money playing tennis but the fact that the world #313 has to restring rackets for people to be able to fund his trip is a sad thing to hear and from the way he's written it, sounds like it's a common thing.

The way he was treated was disgusting, can't believe that the organisers would be some inconsiderate. The point at which he had to push his body will probably mess him up for the next few months.

Hope he got paid quickly and the ITF at least issued some sort of apology to the players in the same situation.

Thanks for the post krunic, is this from Facebook?

It's from http://www.batennisworld.com/, a site that's mostly about argentinian players, they have a lot of off-beat articles about challenger level players.

Thanks

Yeah, I knew it was bad too, but holy **** that's awful.

Robson's comeback from wrist surgery delayed again, this time by a hamstring injury

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/oth...#ixzz3bQGSj0EB

This thread needs a new title.

6 month suspension for WTA #101 Kateryna Kozlova

Edit: Nevermind I read article wrong. I thought it said they took prize money and points away from tournaments before that test. Another one bites the dust.

Raluca Platon

yeah platon is nice, I remember posting those pics like 2-3 years ago. Unfortunately the girl has no talent and probably won't ever get in the top 300.

LNNL pooped out a baby

Gonna be fun when genie refuses to shake vika's hand

Gonna be fun when Genie is no longer a top 40 player.

I've never understood this mentality, which is very common among the dumber posters on TennisForum. You think a player is being overrated by some people, so you react by rooting against them and celebrating their losses or when they go down in the rankings. I don't get why you would suddenly develop a strong negative opinion of a player just because you think other people have inaccurate expectations of the player. Seems like a waste of energy.

Especially with regard to genie, because it should be obvious that most people just love her because she's hot and want her to win so they can watch her more often, not because they actually think she has an incredible GOATworthy game.

I don't dislike her because she's overrated. I dislike her because she's not very likable.
The more she loses, the less I have to watch her or listen to her.

Apparently Novak has already qualified for the WTF.

Tennis etiquette: during the point, don't talk.

Unless your name is Mary carillo; then never shut your whore mouth.

Djordje Djokovic got a WC to the Prague challenger next week, despite a ranking of #2076 and never having gotten past R2 of a $10k futures. Must be nice.

Just one more day of this clay muggery and then it's finally grass season. The new and improved grass season, with 3 weeks of pre-wimby grass tournaments, two of them 500s.

If I could make one change to the tour it would be having a masters 1000 on grass. Always been baffled on why their is not one

well it should be obvious why sponsors wouldn't be willing to put up the $ for a 1000 tournament the week before or the week after a slam. People have always considered the 2 weeks between RG and wimby nothing more than grass warmup weeks and not to be taken seriously. But now that grass season is 3 weeks in between RG and wimby, I think it makes it much more feasible for there to be a 1000 in the halle/london week. But of course there would have to be tons of politics involved in deciding which tournament it would be so I doubt it will happen soon. For now let's just be glad that at least we have two 500 grass tournaments when there were only 250s before.

Grass season always makes me regret not ever playing on the grass courts they used to have at Landfall in Wilmington, NC when I'd visit some friends from HS. Cliff Drysale actually built the sports complex there and has a street named after him right outside the gates. They got rid of them of course since no one used them. So so so so so stupid I never stepped foot on them.