Author Topic: Tennis 2022 (Read 16473 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #150 on:** August 11, 2022, 09:59:24 AM »

Interesting article on Serena Williams

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2022/aug/10/serena-williams-farewell-eloquent-acknowledgement-biological-inequality?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #151 on:** August 12, 2022, 09:21:24 AM »

Draper and Evans through, Norrie out.

In the women's, Swiatek knocked out, leaving Pegula the highest seed left in the draw at 7. Looking at who is left in the draw, Gauff looks strong, and we perhaps have the emergence of a new star in Qinwen Zhang.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62514162

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #152 on:** August 13, 2022, 10:00:31 AM »

Evans wins but Draper out, and Kyrgios loses to Hyrkacz. Both Evans and Hurkacz are in the semi finals of the doubles aa well.

Halep knocks out Gauff, and Haddad Maia becomes the first Brazilian woman in the semi finals of a 1000 WTA tournament

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62531546

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #153 on:** August 14, 2022, 10:20:08 AM »

Evans loses in the singles semi final but goes through to the doubles final.

A couple of interesting matches for British players in Cincinnati with Raducanu playing Serena Williams, and Murray playing Wawrinka.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62538655

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #154 on:** August 15, 2022, 11:18:41 AM »

Wins for Halep and Carreno Busta in Montreal, now onto Cincinnati and the return of Nadal.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #155 on:** August 16, 2022, 11:19:30 AM »

Murray and Norrie through after tough matches and will now play each other.

At Montreal Gauff's win in the doubles means she is now ranked the No 1 women's doubles player.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62555150

SusanDoris · « **Reply #156 on:** August 16, 2022, 05:12:31 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 16, 2022, 11:19:30 AM

Murray and Norrie through after tough matches and will now play each other.

At Montreal Gauff's win in the doubles means she is now ranked the No 1 women's doubles player.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62555150

That was an interesting article - thank you for posting the link. I hope the match is on FiveLive.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #157 on:** August 17, 2022, 06:03:12 PM »

And easy win for Raducanu over Serena. Evans knocked out. Murray and Norrie currently at 1 set each.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #158 on:** August 17, 2022, 06:57:18 PM »

Norrie wins 6-4 in 3rd set against Murray. So Murray will not be seeded for US Open

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #159 on:** August 17, 2022, 09:21:54 PM »

And Raducanu beats Azarenka 6-0 6-2 which means she's beaten two former world No1s with 25 Slams for a total loss of 6 games.

SusanDoris · « **Reply #160 on:** August 18, 2022, 06:13:34 AM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 17, 2022, 06:57:18 PM

Norrie wins 6-4 in 3rd set against Murray. So Murray will not be seeded for US Open

And that's the way it should be now that Murray is older, but I hope it was not too one-sided and that it was not marred by anythin confrontational.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #161 on:** August 18, 2022, 07:48:28 AM »

Nadal loses in his return. He's currently way ahead in the year to date points race but a big run from any of a number of players in the indoor season could see them end as year end number 1.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62587086

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #162 on:** August 19, 2022, 12:44:13 PM »

Raducanu out, but Norrie through easily

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62599673

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #163 on:** August 20, 2022, 09:33:56 AM »

And Norrie into semi final against Coric who is having a return to form.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62615492

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #164 on:** August 21, 2022, 12:08:45 PM »

Coric beats Norrie and will face Tsitsipas in the final. In the women's Kvitova and Garcia will play. The US Open looks very open on both men and women's competitions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62622489

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #165 on:** August 22, 2022, 10:40:23 AM »

And Coric and Garcia win in straight sets. He's the lowest ranked qualifier to win a Masters 1000 tournament in men's, and she's the first qualifier to win a Women's 1000 tournament.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62627507

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #166 on:** August 25, 2022, 01:27:13 PM »

Draper into quarter finals in Winston Salem tournament beating the returning (slowly) Thiem but beating a former US Open Champion the week before the US Open starts is a good boost.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #167 on:** August 28, 2022, 02:21:12 PM »

The Williams sisters to play doubles as well as singles at US Open

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62703155

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #168 on:** August 28, 2022, 05:39:12 PM »

Interesting article on Kyle Edmund's return from injury

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62704094

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #169 on:** August 30, 2022, 02:02:26 PM »

Successful day for Murray beating the 24th seed Cerundulo, Draper, and particularly Dart beating Kasatkina who after a couple of recent tournament wins had moved into the top ten and was a reasonable bet for the whole thing. Edmunds list to Ruud but that is no disgrace given Ruud is the 5th seed.

Couple of other shocks with Tsitsipas and Fritz losing in the men's, and Halep in the women's.

Meanwhile huge celebrations were held around Serena Williams match, but given she won, all going to have to happen again when she plays the second seed Kontaveitt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62708531

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62718319

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62718326

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62718771

SusanDoris · « **Reply #170 on:** August 30, 2022, 02:48:08 PM »

That sounds like a good start for Murray, but I think the Serena rapturous welcome that I listened to part of on FiveLive was just the teenniest bit OTT!

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #171 on:** August 30, 2022, 04:07:29 PM »

Quote from: SusanDoris on August 30, 2022, 02:48:08 PM

That sounds like a good start for Murray, but I think the Serena rapturous welcome that I listened to part of on FiveLive was just the teenniest bit OTT!

I think the thing with Serena is that she's bigger than her success in tennis. She's a breakthrough athlete for US black women. Add to that that it takes place at the US Open which is the most racuous of the Slams, and on the iconic Arthur Ashe court.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #172 on:** August 31, 2022, 09:39:45 AM »

Norrie and Evans through, Raducanu out. 4 UK men in second round in US - couldn't tell you last time that happened.
Match ups are Murray vs Nava - US wild card that Murray should beat
Draper vs Auger Aliassime - tough match
Evans vs Duckworth - not easy but Evans should win
Norrie vs Sousa - and Norrie should win

In the women's Dart vs Galfi - very even match up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62720093

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62733471

Elsewhere in the women's 2 former champions knocked out in Venus Williams, and Osaka. Venus definitely not a surprise, and Osaka only a bit of a surprise.

More surprising was Rybakina, the Wimbledon champion's loss to Burel. It's been obvious though that all is not right with Rybakina who feels the lack of points at Wimbledon has affected her ranking, undeniable, and the stature of her win, possibly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/62729238

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #173 on:** August 31, 2022, 06:50:06 PM »

Ooh err Nava takes 1st set from Murray.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #174 on:** August 31, 2022, 07:30:28 PM »

Murray takes 2nd set

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