The tennis thread.

dena wrote:I'm super bias but i think serena is still the no.1 female tennis player, these ladies are so inconstant

Super biased indeed. Serena lost in the first round of Roland Garros and she's been taken to 3 sets twice at Wimbledon by players ranked considerably lower than her. She is no model of consistency - I wouldn't even rank her top 3 in the most consistent players in the women's draw.

Andy wrote:Serena playing 3 games in 3 days and winning them all.

Each match has a minimum of 12 games.

serena da gawd

Pico wrote:

dena wrote:I'm super bias but i think serena is still the no.1 female tennis player, these ladies are so inconstant

Super biased indeed. Serena lost in the first round of Roland Garros and she's been taken to 3 sets twice at Wimbledon by players ranked considerably lower than her. She is no model of consistency - I wouldn't even rank her top 3 in the most consistent players in the women's draw.

i know shes not consistant i was talkng about the womens game in general, i still think shes the best player overall though, sharapova a second. what do you think?

dena wrote:

Pico wrote:

Super biased indeed. Serena lost in the first round of Roland Garros and she's been taken to 3 sets twice at Wimbledon by players ranked considerably lower than her. She is no model of consistency - I wouldn't even rank her top 3 in the most consistent players in the women's draw.

i know shes not consistant i was talkng about the womens game in general, i still think shes the best player overall though, sharapova a second. what do you think?

Hard to compare Serena to anyone else. Even if she plays like shit, she can beat anyone with her serve which is undoubtedly the best serve the women's game has ever seen. Her ground game nowadays isn't as good though - I'd say Sharapova's ground game is better, Azarenka at her best (as we saw today) can compete with it too.

In the past 12 months, maybe even a bit longer, the women's game has improved drastically in terms of consistency. The likes of Sharapova, Azarenka, Radwanska, Wozniacki (up until the past 6-8 months), Kvitova and now Kerber are almost always in the latter stages of tournaments.

Nice reference to 'squeaky bum time' from Phil Jones there.

she got nervous towards the end of that set, but she was a church mouse beside Azarenka’s wailing banshee.

From the official Wimbledon site.

It's stupid how they're trying to ban players from grunting when hitting the ball. If it "distracts" you as they say, then tough shit.

I do sometimes think that grunting as loudly as some of them do must take more energy.

One thing I find ridiculous is that if you're playing Maria or Vika and they're grunting throughout it's okay but if you get cramp and make a loud noise through pain you lose the point.

kyro7 wrote:

she got nervous towards the end of that set, but she was a church mouse beside Azarenka’s wailing banshee.

From the official Wimbledon site.

Have they met Serena?

Pico wrote:

kyro7 wrote:

she got nervous towards the end of that set, but she was a church mouse beside Azarenka’s wailing banshee.

From the official Wimbledon site.

Have they met Serena?

Clearly not.



From 2009.

10RLegend wrote:It's stupid how they're trying to ban players from grunting when hitting the ball. If it "distracts" you as they say, then tough shit.

I think it's great. I tune in to watch a tennis match, not to listen to two women that sound like they're in labor.

Hearing it doesn't bother me in the slightest even though some of the noises are crazy.

Yeah, Serena sounds beastly.

I get why it might bother some people but there's always double standards. Men grunt too yet nobody seems to complain there.

Pico wrote:I get why it might bother some people but there's always double standards. Men grunt too yet nobody seems to complain there.

Probably because the high pitch noises go through people, which is also probably why Vika and Maria get most shit. Serena sounds enough like a man.

No, you're right. Watching men's matches is just as unbearable because of it.

I love watching Rafa, for instance, but he just sounds like a total phaggot when he plays.

If Rafa lost the grunt I'd hate it so fuck you.

Novak just sounds like he's trying to vomit.

Kyro loves dat Rafa grunt.

You know, I'd go as far as saying I'd rather everyone grunted than no one did.

kyro7 wrote:If Rafa lost the grunt I'd hate it so fuck you.

Novak just sounds like he's trying to vomit.

That's the impression I get from a lot of men's grunts, Rafa included Ferrer is another one.

Fed's the best. He's a robot, and therefore hardly ever grunts.

Giorgio Clooney wrote:Fed's the best. He's a robot, and therefore hardly ever grunts.

He holds in his inner grunt because that's how it comes out.

Good fight, good fight.

Michelle L. de Brito ‏@MichelleLBrito
Leave the grunting alone, it's what we do and how we play.. Stop telling us how to do our jobs, because we don't tell you how to do yours!!

damn I wanted Kerber to win

I ordered the Pico shirt by the way

kyro7 wrote:Michelle L. de Brito ‏@MichelleLBrito
Leave the grunting alone, it's what we do and how we play.. Stop telling us how to do our jobs, because we don't tell you how to do yours!!

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She's, like, top 200 ranking She was infamous as a junior for being the loudest grunter in the game though.