re: 2023 non-grand slam tennis thread.

I find it interesting that Cincy is super fast and outdoors and the Open is on the slower end and sort of indoors on the bigger courts. I’m assuming NY is hotter and more humid too. Plus they use different balls. So the tourneys are basically nothing alike. Wonder if there’s any negative correlation between doing well in Cincy and having success at the Open.

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I didn't, but saw some pretty nice highlight shots from Monfils and Shelton.

I tried to do a quick dive in some forums. A UK stringer said they strung him at 54, but didn't get into anything about different tensions.
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I saw some speculation on other forums it's probably higher tension on return for more control and lower on serve for more pop, but then they had differing info on which racquet has more weight/lead.

ETA, one thing I don't completely understand is swingweight. I get the general concept of head-heavy versus head-light. But, I've read some anecdotal stuff that the real racquet ninjas like Roman Prokes can help a person a ton and really change the feel of a racquet by playing with swingweight.

That is awesome and the Cressy info squares with the info I came across. Isner's low tension jumped out at me, but he sort of does just swat at groundies. I seem to remember growing up that 70 lbs tension and even up to 80 wasn't uncommon -- I guess things have changed due to poly.

Anybody wanna roll into the Nation's Capital for some Citi Open action?

I'll teach you my tried-and-true strategy of sneaking into unoccupied corporate boxes and eating the funk out of their food / drinking the funk out of their beer while enjoying an amazing view of the action.

Maybe this year I can even take the next step up and bring a hot bitch or two along with me and give them a nice rogering.

Fair enough, Chicken. I have no problem with the anchor. We'll just fire them up during the slams and other big tournaments.

Guess we could just fire up August and see what happens lol. That’ll cover everything before the Open.

Stan and Giron just won all 36 service games without facing a break point on a slow indoor court in Kazakhstan. Basically like a double perfect game in baseball.