Watched her match against Kasatkina, wtf happened to her? Completely out of shape physically and a forehand that reminds one of Gulbis at his lowest

I only saw the R2 match, but yeah not great form. She's winning matches and getting the ranking back up at least. Goerges won the 1st set getting 33% of 1st serves in. Early in the 2nd set, MDV smashed a racket and then settled down and cleaned up the errors, in classic MDV fashion. Goerges then went off the rails and beat herself.

Yastremska took down the title. Highest ranked u20.





Mom seems nice

I meant Kasatkina, Zvonareva reaching a SF at a big tournament again (first time since 2011 I think) after years of grinding the lower levels was great

Interesting research:

http://www.tennisabstract.com/blog/2...-the-atp-tour/

They should do an analysis of that for Federer at deuce vs BP up

In my view, he is often greatly aggressive to force a BP, then turns passive at BP up and screws himself over. See matches against Nadal and the most recent one against Tsitsipas

Fed 90% to hit a slice return on bp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...17-p50s27.html

Fight fight fight

Going to Rotterdam tomorrow:

Nishikori - Gulbis
Fucsovics - Basilashvili
Kukushkin - Dzumhur
Medvedev - Verdasco
Tsonga - T. Griekspoor

Only bummers are that Tsitsipas lost today and would've liked to see Shapovalov as well

my picks

Trip report imminent

Today
WTA:
Simona
Kerber

ATP:
Cecchinato

It wasn't very exciting tennis quality wise lol, all ended in straight sets as well

Gulbis managed to lose the first 14 points of the match. But it was impressive to see Nishikori play, he wouldn't give Gulbis any breathing room. Just effortless ballstriking and putting defensive balls back near the baseline. Davydenko-esque Playstation tennis.

Fucsovics was the second most impressive player, but he said he was feeling a bit tired after reaching a final on Sunday, so we'll see how he holds up

He lost to Medvedev in that final, who actually looked tired but was playing a Verdasco in full Spanish soap opera mode, cursing and yelling after every other point. Will be interesting to see how he will be able to cope with his defensive playing style in a 1.98m frame, will probably have to be more aggressive to stand a chance winning the bigger titles.

Tsonga looked a bit tired as well, but after a high quality first set Griekspoor played like his ranking in the second

Glad Dzumhur got the win, Kukushkin might be the blandest player in the top 100. Dzumhur tilted Tsitsipas in R1, who cried about Dzumhur just putting everything back into play and how Dzumhur didn't beat him but he beat himself lol. Bit of misplaced arrogance there, not every match is on his racket and there is such a thing as players who make you play bad (see chapter Gilles Simon)

I can't wait til Stan vs Kei today. Stan's been moving better than he has in the last couple years and hasn't lost a set at Rotterdam so far (he blew a 2-break lead in the 2nd set vs Shapovalov yesterday but won the tiebreak). Kei is obv his biggest test so far. Winner likely gets Medvedev in the final. Stan +200 seems like good value to me, should be a great match either way tho.

Monfils crushing Medvedev since the last post, now up a break in the 3rd set

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt8vhoBn...d=xc91jl3zaqoi

"This video not available in your country"

I tried 5 different countries, still didn't work.

Agree. This better be on tennis channel.

I got Wawrinka winning without issue. Kei was my favorite player for a long time, but I'm now the leader of the anti-Kei bandwagon. He's made of glass, can't serve, and starts every big match by giving up a break.

Yay. It's on TC.

I'm digging this green on green court in Rotterdam.

Indoor tennis is so awesome. Big fan.

Wawrinka serves first and holds.

Nishikori followed that up by being broke.

Who could have guessed!?

Wawrinka serving at 4-0, and Kei gets a break back to make it 4-1.

About to serve for the 3rd time and try to get his first hold of the match.

Kei goes down 15-40, but toughs out a hold.

Stan serving at 4-2.

Kei with a break in the 2nd set opening game !

Maybe we'll get a match here...

Wawrinka down 0-2, and love-40 serving...

...before getting broke for the second time this set.

Kei up 3-0 and about to serve.

Kei 4-0. Weird match.

Kei serving at 4-3. Crucial game for him.