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09-19-2020 , 12:26 PM

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El Shapo vs former thread curse player Dimitrov. Let's go Denis!

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09-19-2020 , 09:32 PM

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Schwartzman god mode straight sets Nadal. Nadal lock to 21-0 RG

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09-19-2020 , 09:52 PM

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1st Quartiled the 500

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Anyone remember Ashley Harkleroad? Still looks good imo

Brazzers?

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09-20-2020 , 03:25 PM

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The camera during a Schwartzman match spends lot of time perving at his girlfriend.

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09-20-2020 , 04:07 PM

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This Shapovalov v Schwartzman match is pretty decent, some crazy rallies.

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09-23-2020 , 12:17 AM

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Anyone remember Ashley Harkleroad? Still looks good imo

Phenomenal Instagram follow fo sho

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09-23-2020 , 12:43 PM

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If a child is introduced to tennis since the age of 5 and they are dedicated to tennis throughout youth and really give it their all - what is probability of making it to ATP/WTA top 100 when in their prime years?

*Assuming average to below average athletic genes

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09-23-2020 , 12:51 PM

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Isn't that basically Noah Rubin? Think I remember reading a Bloomberg article about him a while back.

Edit: found it

I would argue it's probably easier to crack the WTA top 100 than ATP top 100 as well. Obviously making either is a huge accomplishment.

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09-23-2020 , 02:32 PM

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thanks for the article link. Crazy how much competition there is - this dude won youth Wimbledon but he's now basically a perennial 1st round loser in majors and has to constantly go through qualifiers. Didn't realize tennis was such an expensive sport.

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09-23-2020 , 02:59 PM

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Although the way his parents went about it is probably not the most cost-efficient, it's still quite expensive - especially because of travel costs.

The other half of it is that if you're outside the top 100-125 its unlikely you're making any money. And guys who are on the fringe aren't saving or living comfortably. Tennis is just a structurally difficult game to try to stay afloat unless you have some money backing you up. The fact that there isn't really a player's union also pushes it further into a tournament-style payout compared to other sports.

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09-23-2020 , 03:15 PM

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Anyone remember Ashley Harkleroad? Still looks good imo

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09-24-2020 , 01:21 PM

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Djokovic is on the opposite side of the French draw from Nadal and Thiem. That's big for him. He's my pick to win.

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09-24-2020 , 02:45 PM

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Top half is a complete Djoke. All Novaxx needs to do is not smack a ball at a line judge and he'll cruise to the final.

Nadal - Fognini R4 sounds fun. Probably Zverev QF and Thiem SF. Bottom half is stacked. Some actual good matches R1 with wawrinka-murray and thiem-cilic.

My upset pick is jannik sinner over goffin. The ginger has game imo, beat tsitsipas in rome last week, beat goffin in rotterdam this year. He could play zverev R4.

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09-24-2020 , 05:50 PM

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This would be far easier for a female than a male. I think for a male it can't be more than 1%. I mean there's thousands of kids in the world who do have decent athletic talent spending their childhoods training to be tennis pros and the majority of them will never be in the top 500 for one reason or another.

BTW, Noah Rubin has podcast called Behind The Racquet. It's worth listening to if you're a tennis nerd.

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09-24-2020 , 07:52 PM

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Assuming the bolded it's got to be close to 0%. Tennis is a worldwide sport and extremely competitive, you have to have above average athletic ability to compete.

Here's a rough estimate though: There are around 18 million US tennis players. Assuming a normal population distribution, around 22% are under 18 and 39% of them are 5-11. So you have 1,544,400 kids 5-11 in the US playing tennis and let's take half as male so you have 772,200. Assume 1/100 of them take it as seriously as you say. There are currently 9 ATP100 ranked US players so your chances are 9/7,722 = 0.1166%.

There are roughly twice as many US WTA100 players as the men's so for women it would double to 0.23%

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09-25-2020 , 10:57 AM

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Other than Novak and Rafa (who just lost in straight sets to Diego Schwartzman in the Rome clay M1000), anyone have any players they think might make a run?

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09-25-2020 , 11:01 AM

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Other than Novak and Rafa (who just lost in straight sets to Diego Schwartzman in the Rome clay M1000), anyone have any players they think might make a run?

Theim

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09-25-2020 , 11:38 PM

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Nadal primed to be beat with conditions and ball change he is not happy about it.

Verdasco was forced to pull out, tested positive then negative he wasn't thrilled either.

Stan/Murray R1 interesting on name alone.

Monfils draw isn't terrible to make a run even if in stacked bottom half. Who the **** did Novak pay off?

Women's who knows, let there be carnage and hopefully Genie can do something. Actually earned a wildcard with some decent form recently.

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09-27-2020 , 09:35 AM

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Nadlal is goat at prepararing excuses.

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09-27-2020 , 02:43 PM

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Is Sinner a future top 10 type player or was Goffin just max WIL?

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09-28-2020 , 02:08 AM

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Is Sinner a future top 10 type player or was Goffin just max WIL?

Both

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09-28-2020 , 02:22 AM

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I feel a classic unnecessary 5-setter from Monfils tomorrow.

Upset pick of the day: Juvan > Kerber.

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09-28-2020 , 04:19 PM

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Monfils out R1 so much for that run

Krajinovic fell to a massive 8.00 underdog today yikes

Fog bitched out hardcore

Young Canadian FAA got a clay court lesson handed to him

Keys blows, McHale and Coco solid upsets and wtf Errani is still playing tennis?!

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09-28-2020 , 04:25 PM

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He mad

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09-28-2020 , 05:04 PM

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Never overestimate Monfils.

Medvedev is so useless on clay.

Hell yes Errani is still playing, just not very well. I've grown into a huge Errani fan. I want her to keep trolling bitches with that jankass puff serve forever.

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