re: Tennis 2020 -- The Unofficial Non-GS Thread

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That’s the extent of my WTA discussion for today Moester

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Hahahaha, hell Crack I’ll take whatever I can get when it comes to you and WTA tennis. I’m just distraught that Serena Williams is never going to get the Grand Slam record. Covid virus has completely screwed Serena out of it but it ain’t like Serena didn’t have her shots. I’m also scared Covid has screwed Rafa out of his shot at winning the men’s Grand Slam arms race. Novak is going to end up with the Slam record solely due to his younger age and the fact that Novak is an all surface player. I’ve already accepted it that the US Open isn’t happening in September. We’re talking about New York here it’s a pipe dream. I’ll check back in with you and Bunk tomorrow to see what the Tennis Channel has going on.

If the US Open was held in a different state there might have been a slight chance it would happen. But Bill de Blasio is too busy gargling black balls and charging white people with hate crimes to let it happen. Plus New York is the most chicken shite state in this cesspool Union.

Yea I’m a bitter, white trash, red neck, angry, bastard I admit it but I was SO looking forward to the US Open being played. Admins please let me vent I can’t bottle all this angst up. I gotta let it out.

Nice. At the office this morning, but I will check out whatever action is on this weekend. It looks like they were playing on grass in Berlin early in the week and now hardcourts for the weekend.

I think there will be more Spanish tennis, this weekend is in Valencia. Boring, but I'll take it.

The first official tourney will be the Palermo Open on clay in Italy. Looks like they were able to pull some big names.

ETA: Just noticed it’s all whites

So if Cincy and US Open are held in New York without fans

How many players in the top ~40 + qualies can even technically make it to "Cincy" and how many can make it out of the top 104 + 64 qualies to the US open

As far as I am aware Djokovic still has a Serbian passport and he is not even allowed to enter the European Union technically anymore even.

That means he is banned from the only two majors left this year if they even were to happen.

And then everyone from the EU is banned from the US technically. So like half top 15.

This is a mess

I’m not the one to ask YF12 I just watch the Tennis Channel and read this thread buddy. In my observation, Cincinnati nor The US Open will probably happen at all fans or not. Forrest Hills doesn’t give af about The US Open right now because of COVID and OMB. I don’t expect sports to return to normal until after November 3rd.

As for the Novak and his passport situation you mentioned, I’ve never heard anything about that ever. I’m more of a “Just The 4 Slams Only” tennis fan but Novak has never been prevented from playing in any country because he’s a Serb that I’m aware of. Monica Seles dominated the WTA whilst that crazy ethnic cleansing war was going on and Monica had no problems traveling or playing tennis. You need Bunk, Crack, or MV for reliable information.

Wow you have enlightened me on that one I was not aware of that Serbian - EU crapola at all. This is a serious situation because Novak is in the midst of a Grand Slam arms race. This COVID-19 shite has really fricked up tennis but the two players that are going to be hurt the most are Serena Williams and Rafa Nadal.

I think I remember watching that at 21 years old. He deserved a title after those 5-set final losses to Agassi and Sampras.

Yes Goran had to win that 2001 Wimbledon he was the epitome of a grass court attack player. Today it looks like it’s tennis in Berlin in the airplane hanger or Czech Republic outdoor.

Dominic Thiem is playing some outstanding tennis on all three surfaces right now. He just killed it in Berlin. He’s world # 3 and it’s time for that Austro-Hungarian to hold up a Grand Slam trophy. If the US Open does happen Thiem is my pick to win it.