Tennis

V F · 16 Sep 2022 at 20:21

Alice In Wonderland said:
A sad day for tennis but he is retiring at the right time if his body is telling him that he should stop. I will miss him playing as he was incredible to watch. He really danced like a ballet player around the court.

Sometimes it's frightening, where did the time go?

Alice In Wonderland · 16 Sep 2022 at 21:15

V F said:
Sometimes it's frightening, where did the time go?

I know what you mean.

Pigeon_Killer · 23 Sep 2022 at 18:04

Guy set himself on fire at the Laver Cup today to protest against Private Jets. Should've let the **** burn!

omnomnom · 23 Sep 2022 at 19:05

Alice In Wonderland said:
A sad day for tennis but he is retiring at the right time if his body is telling him that he should stop. I will miss him playing as he was incredible to watch. He really danced like a ballet player around the court.

This is why slams won shouldnt always be used to recognise whos the better player. Federer was unreal to watch.

Alice In Wonderland · 23 Sep 2022 at 20:43

Pigeon_Killer said:
Guy set himself on fire at the Laver Cup today to protest against Private Jets. Should've let the **** burn!

Is he badly injured then or did they manage to put it out? :eek:

Alice In Wonderland · 23 Sep 2022 at 20:45

omnomnom said:
This is why slams won shouldnt always be used to recognise whos the better player. Federer was unreal to watch.

It was like watching an artist perform.

I've never seen anyone else play so eloquently like he did.

Pigeon_Killer · 23 Sep 2022 at 20:48

Alice In Wonderland said:
Is he badly injured then or did they manage to put it out?

He only set his arm alight but it looked like he regretted it immediately. Probably got a nasty burn but wasn’t badly injured.

Alice In Wonderland · 23 Sep 2022 at 20:56

Pigeon_Killer said:
He only set his arm alight but it looked like he regretted it immediately. Probably got a nasty burn but wasn’t badly injured.

I was imaging something much worse! Still, what an incredibly stupid thing to do!

Reuben klang · 23 Sep 2022 at 21:19

Novax trying so hard.

Reuben klang · 23 Sep 2022 at 22:23

What are the chances of it going through that section of the net!

HACO · 23 Sep 2022 at 23:03

Roger has exceeded my expectations, even at this age he's still a top 20 player.

Pigeon_Killer · 24 Sep 2022 at 10:09

Raducanu out injured in the Korean open.

Reached the semi finals and was a set and a break up against Ostapenko, so her tennis is showing steady improvement under her new coach, but another injury is concerning.

Edit: Just watched Federer's speech, pretty emotional as was Nadal's reaction.

corkhead · 24 Sep 2022 at 15:14

I was at the laver cup yesterday. Atmosphere was immense.. bought tickets before all the feds retiring stuff so it was complete luck that I got to see that. But I did buy tickets to see the big 4 obvs

Some scalpers bought all the laver cup/feds merch at the arena and there was nothing left for anyone else

HACO · 24 Sep 2022 at 15:28

corkhead said:
I was at the laver cup yesterday. Atmosphere was immense.. bought tickets before all the feds retiring stuff so it was complete luck that I got to see that. But I did buy tickets to see the big 4 obvs

Some scalpers bought all the laver cup/feds merch at the arena and there was nothing left for anyone else

Lucky you. I wish I could be there.

Reuben klang · 24 Sep 2022 at 17:23

Nice one, it looked amazing on TV. Would have love to have been there.

Hopefully they don’t manage to sell any of that, hate scalpers.

Alice In Wonderland · 24 Sep 2022 at 18:41

Reuben klang said:
Nice one, it looked amazing on TV. Would have love to have been there.

Hopefully they don’t manage to sell any of that, hate scalpers.

What are scalpers?

Pigeon_Killer · 24 Sep 2022 at 18:47

Alice In Wonderland said:
What are scalpers?

Scum that buy all of the stock of something and then put it all on eBay for far higher prices.

manic111 · 24 Sep 2022 at 18:54

corkhead said:
I was at the laver cup yesterday. Atmosphere was immense.. bought tickets before all the feds retiring stuff so it was complete luck that I got to see that. But I did buy tickets to see the big 4 obvs

Some scalpers bought all the laver cup/feds merch at the arena and there was nothing left for anyone else

Must have been incredible. Was seeing two of the greatest players ever crying to Ellie Goulding as surreal in person as it was on TV?

corkhead · 24 Sep 2022 at 19:20

manic111 said:
Must have been incredible. Was seeing two of the greatest players ever crying to Ellie Goulding as surreal in person as it was on TV?

Haha does she live nearby or something? It came out of nowhere, and to be honest the crying had already started.

I guess they didn’t have much time to prepare something.

Part of me even thought that he’d play another one of the matches as a pure exhibition if europe we’re winning. But then this whole ceremony happened so it really was the last one

HACO · 21 Oct 2022 at 20:39

Halep provisionally suspended for doping... it's sad as I liked her style of play. She firmly denied it so we'll see if the charges stick.