ti-amie wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:08 am Yastremska is out due to visa issues.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:08 am Yastremska is out due to visa issues.

Mboko & Andreescu have been given WC's.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 2:57 am

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:08 am Yastremska is out due to visa issues.

wonder why a Ukrainian would have visa issues..?

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 28, 2025 1:52 am Glad to see Andreescu back and winning...

jazzyg wrote: ↑Mon Jul 28, 2025 6:37 pm The Siegemund-Maria match on T2 was entertaining. I believe 163 points were decided at the net, which has to be a modern-day record. Some points had both of them at the net in volley exchanges.

Siegemund blew four match points over three games in the second set when I had not started watching but pulled it out 7-2 in the third-set tiebreak. The funny thing is they were playing for the right to face Madison Keys, whom both of them beat on grass recently.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 29, 2025 5:21 am

jazzyg wrote: ↑Mon Jul 28, 2025 6:37 pm The Siegemund-Maria match on T2 was entertaining. I believe 163 points were decided at the net, which has to be a modern-day record. Some points had both of them at the net in volley exchanges.

Siegemund blew four match points over three games in the second set when I had not started watching but pulled it out 7-2 in the third-set tiebreak. The funny thing is they were playing for the right to face Madison Keys, whom both of them beat on grass recently.

Sounds fun..must see if I can get it on YouTube

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 12:13 am Paolini just split from her coach..maybe that is a factor..maybe it is a consequence..,!

Obviously nobody who has posted in this thread watched Cirstea v Sun yesterday. Cirstea served an "ace" down the middle in the first game, which umpire Aline Rocha entered into the system because there was no "fault" call, only to see both players agree that it WAS a fault and for Cirstea to serve again (she won the great rally on her second serve anyway).

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 1:27 am Too many mistakes by the electronic line calling system...why not compromise by going with the electronic system but empower the umpire to correct/overrule an obvious error...that would not require rehiring of dozens of people, and the umpire is anyway sitting there...

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 12:47 am Apparently yesterday was a mess. A fan posted this on the big WTA fan site. When the players are ignoring the ELC there's a huge problem.

Obviously nobody who has posted in this thread watched Cirstea v Sun yesterday. Cirstea served an "ace" down the middle in the first game, which umpire Aline Rocha entered into the system because there was no "fault" call, only to see both players agree that it WAS a fault and for Cirstea to serve again (she won the great rally on her second serve anyway).

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 3:04 am This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

skatingfan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 1:01 pm

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 3:04 am This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

That's very unfortunate - Tennis Canada may not be able to hang on to the event for much longer.

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 4:28 pm

skatingfan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 1:01 pm

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 3:04 am This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

That's very unfortunate - Tennis Canada may not be able to hang on to the event for much longer.

Yes, it sounds like because of its location in a very busy section of the city, remodeling isn’t really in the cards. There was a brief window during the pandemic where changes could have been made, but nothing happened.

https://tennisuptodate.com/tennis-news ... n-montreal

I also read somewhere else that there are only 4 courts of enough quality to play professional tennis on and players have to navigate through an annoying series of chain link fences just to get to them, but have not verified.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:34 pm So the talk about Elmo moving the event to Austin is not just idle chit chat huh?

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 3:04 am

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 12:47 am Apparently yesterday was a mess. A fan posted this on the big WTA fan site. When the players are ignoring the ELC there's a huge problem.

Obviously nobody who has posted in this thread watched Cirstea v Sun yesterday. Cirstea served an "ace" down the middle in the first game, which umpire Aline Rocha entered into the system because there was no "fault" call, only to see both players agree that it WAS a fault and for Cirstea to serve again (she won the great rally on her second serve anyway).

This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

martini4me wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 1:02 am

JTContinental wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 3:04 am

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 12:47 am Apparently yesterday was a mess. A fan posted this on the big WTA fan site. When the players are ignoring the ELC there's a huge problem.

This wont help Montreal’s rep as the worst venue on the tour

In what way is Montreal the worst event on tour? The facilities specifically? (I heard on a podcast that they don't have enough practice courts for the expanded 96-player field, so are shuttling some players to another tennis facility (where they've put down the same surface) ten minutes away.) Not fan support, I would think.

Meanwhile Genie Bouchard is looking to stave off retirement again, now up a break against Bencic in the third set (and has been playing very well).

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 2:57 pm And yet she wins! Shame on her opponents..

Something to keep an eye on for the NA hardcourt season: At the USO last year, 1st serve%s dipped (down to 57%) and double fault rates skyrocketed (close to Medvedev's seasonal average) due to the hard-to-control balls being used. This trend appears to be repeating itself in Canada so far.
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If you look at the completed ATP matches so far there are a ton of sub-60% 1st serve rates

Iga Swiatek in her interview on Roddick's podcast also said that the balls seem much lighter to her when practicing with them and that they're much harder to control

This also has rallying implications as well because the Cincy/USO balls last year tended to not take spin very well at all which was part of the reason certain high ranked players had massive issues keeping it in play

At first it might seem like grasping at straws but there have been some pretty clear massive swings in results among even high ranked players with different ball conditions and Iga outright said it herself

A slow start from Mboko but then she put on a show in front of the home crowd. Mboko is into the 4th round on her debut and will play top seed Gauff next

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 3:37 am Coco suddenly looks more mature, tougher...what has she done?

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 28, 2025 7:25 am this court is rated significantly slower than average.. look for Anisimova, Swiatek, even Rybakina to do well here..Rybakina and Anisimova needa little more time to hit their shots, and neither is the quickest mover out there.. Swiatek is.. Swiatek... not clear how Coco will do, didnt do all that well at IW, where the court was slow, but did do well at RG, so who knows.. her game is adaptable enough..though I still think she will do better at Cinci than here, because the court there is significantly faster.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 4:25 am Great win for Muchova over Bencic but she is still unable to crush that double-hander...her arm must be injured still...

mick1303 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 5:45 pm I have a feeling that Iga will go on a tear now. Wimbledon win was liberating. It will be a while until she loses.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 6:37 pm [...

Agree.
I say that a good gauge will be a meeting Vs Gauff. Sure, she has the lead on the H2H, but Gauff seemed to have turned the tables recently. If Swiatek gains again on Coco, as you say, solid candidate for the USO.

Mboko with the biggest win of her career. Her first ever top 20 win, and she is into her first wta quarter final. Gauff loses to a younger player for the second time in her career, both loses have been in Canada

Mboko will play Zhu or Bouzas Maneiro next

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:56 am

mick1303 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 8:22 am Mboko has much cleaner and more classic stroke production.

jazzyg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 4:47 am Still, Andrea Petkovic insisted Gauff would use the loss as fuel just as she did the first-round loss to Kenin at 2022 Wimbledon. That's a big stretch. Whatever is going on in her head about her serve is no easy matter to fix, and in the short term it is more likely to affect the rest of her game than it is for her to suddenly fix the serve issues.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 10:33 pm Mboko played goddess like tennis in that first set.

jazzyg wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 12:39 am I have become quite the contarian on women's tennis, but in my view there is a much better chance that Swiatek's only tourney win this year will be Wimbledon than her going on a dominant run.

Sure seems like her performance in London was an outlier.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:52 am Svitolina through 6-4, 6-1 against a cranky out of sorts Anisimova.

Shelton is through.

Once again Fritz is playing the late match although they may have done him a solid because I think it was his girlfriend's birthday yesterday.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 3:52 am

ti-amie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:52 am Svitolina through 6-4, 6-1 against a cranky out of sorts Anisimova.

Shelton is through.

Once again Fritz is playing the late match although they may have done him a solid because I think it was his girlfriend's birthday yesterday.

saw only the highlights, from which you cant tell aything.. what did Svitolina do right or Anisimova do wrong?

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 2:00 pm I have not been able to see her play because they are not showing Montreal here.
How far can she go? Are we talking a new Coco? Is she in the same path as Andreeva? Or Vaidisova?

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 2:00 pm I have not been able to see her play because they are not showing Montreal here.
How far can she go? Are we talking a new Coco? Is she in the same path as Andreeva? Or Vaidisova?

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 5:17 am in a perverse way, mboko's win over Bouzas Manneiro impressed me even more than her win over Coco.. for a 17 year old, beating someone you are expected to beat, can be harder than beating someone you are not expected to beat...

Tauson knocks out another 2025 major winner, and is into her second wta 1000 semi final of the season. She will play Svitolina or Osaka next

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 11:39 pm I have yet to see the name(s) of the women who appear to be her coaches. Let's hope she stays away from the celebrity coach merry-go-round.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Wed Aug 06, 2025 1:08 am Naomi easily over Elina 2 & 2. I'm surprised it was that easy for her.

atlpam wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 12:57 am Great composure from Mboko.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 1:58 am Rybakina has no extra gear..when it gets close...

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:00 am

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 28, 2025 7:25 am this court is rated significantly slower than average.. look for Anisimova, Swiatek, even Rybakina to do well here..Rybakina and Anisimova needa little more time to hit their shots, and neither is the quickest mover out there.. Swiatek is.. Swiatek... not clear how Coco will do, didnt do all that well at IW, where the court was slow, but did do well at RG, so who knows.. her game is adaptable enough..though I still think she will do better at Cinci than here, because the court there is significantly faster.

So far so good..all as expected/predicted

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:03 am Mboko beat 4 Major champions in a row..has that ever been done before?!

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:03 am Mboko beat 4 Major champions in a row..has that ever been done before?!

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 1:09 am After that miraculous get she stopped playing.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:03 am Mboko beat 4 Major champions in a row..has that ever been done before?!

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 1:58 am Now Coco losing to Mboko looks a little less bad...

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 1:09 am After that miraculous get she stopped playing.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 12:55 am Both Naomi and Victoria started out nervous in the third set but Mboko recovered first and after Naomi hit a ball out in frustration the match was Victoria's who romped 6-1 in the third set.

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:57 am Never seen Osaka so grumpy after a match.. she was really upset.. wonder why? Crowd against her? losing to a kid?

martini4me wrote: ↑Fri Aug 08, 2025 10:16 pm Osaka actually checked out early in the second set. Does anyone else listen to Cam Williams's Tennis Talk during matches?