Talk About Tennis 2.0

skatingfan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:28 am

That's funny

Ayan Broomfield has a good point. She played for UCLA and won a doubles title.

For me, the thing about Break Point was that it was covering the Australian Open from the year before, and the Australian Open was about to happen again. If the series came out in chunks during the current season rather than a year later that would be more interesting because the information in the series would be relevant to the events about to happen not already a year out of date.

That is not what people are interested in. They are interested in:
Players that are having their lives wrecked due to drug abuse.
Who is cheating with whom?
Who is fighting alcoholism?
Who is in deep trouble due to gambling debts?

And since the answer to all that seems to be nobody (I assume some affairs are going on in the ATP and the WTA), the series is bland to people's interest.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:38 pm That is not what people are interested in. They are interested in:
Players that are having their lives wrecked due to drug abuse.
Who is cheating with whom?
Who is fighting alcoholism?
Who is in deep trouble due to gambling debts?

And since the answer to all that seems to be nobody (I assume some affairs are going on in the ATP and the WTA), the series is bland to people's interest.

But that's not the case with the Formula 1 show, or any of the other very successful sports documentaries that are airing on Netflix.

I see.
Maybe because F1 has an intrinsic sense of danger? Anyway, since I stopped watching F1 so many years ago, I am really not qualified to say anything about it.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:05 pm I see.
Maybe because F1 has an intrinsic sense of danger? Anyway, since I stopped watching F1 so many years ago, I am really not qualified to say anything about it.

Perhaps - doesn't explain the appeal of the golf series though - the other series have just been way more interesting - maybe tennis players are just boring.

Somebody needs to read stats better.
Of course he made him play from a level below, because he hit 34% slice BH. That would bring the height down. But I would like to see his average height when playing topspin.

Collins Plans To Celebrate Miami Open Win With Pickleball Tournament
by Zachary Wimer


https://tennis-infinity.com/wta/collins ... tournament

And April 1 has started in earnest...

Spinopsys
@spinopsys@aus.social
Huge news just breaking out of Saudi with the Public Investment Fund (PIF) not only proposing a merger and takeover of #tennis but also #pickleball with those events replacing the doubles events at all tournaments from the 1000 to 250 level except for the Grand Slams.

Fleshing this out, it seems Craig Tiley has broken with the other Slams and will join PIF. This leaves the Australian summer of #tennis intact while opening the doors to competing slams during Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open.

Also hearing there will be prizemoney parity for #pickleball with #tennis so the AO pickleball singles champions will pocket over three million each. All current #tennis doubles specialists will transition over to pickleball.

Well, that puts the hard court season to bed.
Now for the clay...
the big questions, I would think are:
- how good will Djokovic be? 90% of his best? 80%?.. if he is below that, he wont be a force..
- how well will Sinner do on clay this time?Last year, he was pretty mediocre even in the Italian.. there is nothing in his game to suggest he cannot do well.. at least in the tournaments before the French - 5 sets on clay may be too much for him, but 3? He should be ok..
- Can Osaka finally figure out clay? Nothing in her game suggests she cannot.. after all, even Sharapova figured it out eventually..
- is Halep going to be a force? I dont think her game is really suited to clay - speed and defense are her strength, she will do better on grass (I know, I know, she has won the French and so on)
-the usual suspects - Swiatek and Alcaraz will do well but will they sweep all the titles? They havent in the past, so there is hope for the others yet.