too hot out there for princess

Wasn't even that, she just has no game plan out there at all. Serve hard and hit the ball all over the place, maybe come into net from time to time and hit a crap volley or two. That about sums up Lisicki's game. If she serves BIG she can beat anyone on any given day because LOL @ women's tennis players consistently holding serve, but when that is neutralized she's fairly average.

Oh and a complete mental midget. It's a miracle she didn't cry. ONCE!

lol niculescu, the only thing uglier than her strokes is her face.

Bine didn't cry? At all? Not even after the match? That's a first.

I decided against tursunov last minute. I will never trust that maniac.

I mean good lord look at this ****, who taught her how to play?

Youz/Mayer getting good

Last point was so long during midst of it announcer goes "a little chips.... pauses for like 15 seconds and point is still going on... and salsa!"

How the **** is she at this level with that forehand? That's truly baffling. I know Fabrice Santoro was unorthadox but he used tactics, angles, spin, etc. This girl just hits a violent slice forehand as if her wrist won't turn over, it's insane.

She's successful because there's so few wta players who hit reasonably good slices and off-pace junk balls. So the only players who know how to deal with it are the good veterans in the top 50, basically. Younger players are usually clueless on how to play agianst those shots. I once saw Robson play against her and I was embarrassed for Laura that she just didn't know what to do.

guess what guys, she has better hands than 99% of girls on tour and that's how she gets away with it. She's very similar to Santoro in the way they drive their opponent's crazy and make them uncomfortable and ofcourse Santoro is a more skilled tennis player but saying she's just hacking the ball around with no intention is pretty ignorant, she uses more "tactics" than most girls and that's how she survives.

lol Kafelnikov tilting on twitter about niculescu:

kafelnikovY-Man!!! ‏@KYevgeni

How is fricking possible??? Top 10 player Lisicki, losing to a SLICE forehand of Niculesku!! That is ****ing enigma to me!! Lol

Yup and Lisicki actually did something only once during that match that I was begging of her to do over and over again. SLICE THE ****ING BALL BACK! Niculescu had no problems dealing with her pace with that cut slice forehand but the one time she tried slicing it back Niculescu didn't know what to do and she his a soft reply in the middle of the court that Lisicki ate up easily. She never tried it again. That was in the 3rd set.

Who are we blaming for these women and their lack of creativity out on the court? Are coaches not coaching it? I know when Maria shocked with her Wimbledon win @ 16, it kind of tricked all these up and comers into thinking this was the game you needed to be successful on tour, when that clearly isn't the case.

i love watched these junkballers play, but yeah it totally fails vs anyone good. luckily lolwomen is in full effect on the wta wat

anyway that was a virtuoso quitting performance from tomic, set it up real early and really milked the wincing all game long. bravo

Women who grew up playing at Bollitieri's are almost always the BBB (Brainless Ball Basher) type. Not that that's the only place they come from, but I'm just sayin.

A few of these chiming in on twitter now, Brad Gilbert as well. They are trying to piece Niculescu's forehand together, funny.

The Bosnian dude that beat dustin brown Q1 is in R3 now, plays Bird.

take this damn serena match off my screen ffs

yep, 3 occasions for me.

turn to espn2
see serena
prev channel

Two seeds about to get bounced. Youzhny and Jerzy. So glad I avoided running parlays today and took my own damn advice.

kind of gutted I didn't pull the trigger on andujar. i was looking to capitalize on lol janowicz, but andujar was not quite good enough for me to get in on it this round.

the loljerzy factor was priced into the line imo

Jerzy righting the ship. Ferrer grinds the first set to his advantage. He's so so so so so vulnerable here.

Why did the home town crowd boo Tomic last night? What could the guy do?

Ben Rothenberg ‏@BenRothenberg 15h

Just in Tomic's press where he expressed huge sadness over his leg injury at his favorite Slam. Then he jogged past me in the hall.

Bernie just called a press conference btw

Matt Cronin ‏@TennisReporters 26s

Tomic coming into press now, have no idea why since he did a presser last night post retirement loss to Nadal.

Nadal "The court is so quick" "Makes great points for the crowd, much more difficult"

lolwut? You don't need 900 shot rallies for great points Rafa. We don't want you guys finishing matches needing chairs to sit down with because you can't stand during the ceremony. I get you like slow courts but come on guy.

he has a groin tear. ok

he called the presser just because he was butthurt about getting booed and wanted to tell people he's really hurt