re: The Unofficial 2015 Australian Open Thread

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For 6'5 220? Absolutely. His first step towards the net and around his backhand are great. And his balance on the baseline to allow him to get balls is actually very good for his size as well

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For a 6-5 professional tennis player? He moves worse than:
Delpo
Jano
Berdy
Cilic

And all but one of those guys is over 6-5.

Yeah, Delpo and Cilic are lighter than Raonic. Because the ATP said so.

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I“I don’t know where they got that number from — I’m like 238,” Isner said. The listed weight on his ATP profile was updated at the same time as his height.

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Nicola Arzani, the senior vice president for public relations and marketing for the ATP World Tour, said that while there was a biannual medical examination provided by the tour, height and weight figures were largely provided by each player. Players are sometimes asked to reverify the data before the annual media guide is printed.

“We rely on them to tell us information as well,” Arzani said. “We cannot measure them every single week.”

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Cilic 196. Lol. Maybe when he was 15.
Raonic is slow, even for a big man, because when he's slower than every meaningful player from 6-5 to 6-8, that means he's slow.


And you're right, they wouldn't call him slow. That'd be downright rude. They'd say he needs to continue to improve his mobility.

Keys +137 in this first match

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Ok, I guess the ones I've trained with don't know shite

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Honestly...if they say that then I don't know what to tell you. I like your posts here; you provide good insight. But anyone with two eyeballs can see Milos traipsing around the court.

What did they give Keys during her medical timeout?

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Milos traipsing

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more like "lumbering"

Yeah, lumbering works better.

What was the deal with Keys, btw? What was the nature of her injury?

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She went down and sort of grabbed her crotch. If it were a dude, we would say groin. I think it's a thigh or stomach deal.

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How'd she look in the third? Stated differently, do you think it will affect her in the next match?

I wouldn't bet on her, but she mostly looked OK. She hits so big she doesn't really have to grind 20 shot points. She says it's just a muscle tweak.

Serena v. Maria final