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04-02-2025 13:06
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04-02-2025 12:43
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02-02-2025 02:06
04-09-2024 13:33
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07-08-2024 07:15
26-04-2024 06:09
13-03-2024 02:03
02-02-2024 11:50
01-02-2024 03:56
27-01-2024 08:25
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Sueiyin
It sounds seriously absurd that in Davis Cup, (unlike Grand Slams such as the Aus Open), medical time outs off court with the medical staff are not allowed?? I mean, if this was an Aus Open match, and the same thing happened to Gurin then, he would have been able to go off court for official medical time out and make an informed decision whether to resume the match or retire. How come such conditions do not apply in Davis Cup?? I mean, there with Davis Cup, it is even more like a soccer match or basketball game in that teams are playing. And so as with those, it ought to be the case in tennis that if a player needs serious medical time out, then one of the other team mates ought to substitute and each team needs to have stand-ins or understudies in case substitution is needed which will be rare but as we can see here, this kind of circumstance fits. But even if the teams do not go down the road of subbing other team mates in, in case of a health issue like the one which played out here, at least, as in the Aus Open and other Grand Slams, there ought to be time-outs with the health professionals and at the conclusion of these time-outs, the particular decision that has been reached between them and the player needs to be taken on board by the umpire. PERIOD.04-02-2025 13:06
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Sueiyin
"If Novak did this, he would be defaulted for life. WTF." 🤣 WTF sounds like What Tennis Fury?! What Tennis Flurry??! I mean, se-rious-ly, it was actually the unfairness of the silly umpire's decision that is the issue here! Further, how come it was Gurin & his team who got disqualified? If this kind of thing happens in soccer, it would be the other guy getting the yellow or red card! Because after all, it was the Belgian who's foul it was so why then penalize the opponents for something they didn't instigate? Fouls in both basketball and soccer are read as a hinderance that has been caused by the player who INITIALLY instigated the hinderance. In this case, okay, it is tennis, but while the precise rules are different to either soccer or basketball, the same type of recognition as to whoever instigates a hinderance should apply, and in this case, it was the Belgian player.04-02-2025 12:43
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Sueiyin
Typical narcissistic cynicism of Kyrgios! Very rarely has a decent word to say about anything. He's abusive, jeeringly loud and obnoxious. He needs to be officially called out by both the ATP and ITF for using foul language in public spaces such as social media. The guy's a vampiric hoon who sucks the lifeblood out of tennis by trying to bolster popularity of the good-for-nothing bad boy image. I once admired Kyrgios for his previous good-willed willingness to get honest help for his mental health issues but that all went down the drain once he figured he could reel money in through publicity stunts using the negativity of his problems in such a way as to declare them 'no longer problems' but something which he could become more entangled in just to boost an anti-hero image. Shame on him for turning his back on common human decency and good-willed fraternity. Instead he opts to make a 'hero' out of villany. I'm sorry Nick but u are only doing more harm to yourself in the long run by trying to serve up a bad name for the sport you claim to so proudly represent. Get real mate, tennis is not for hoons, neither is hoon-behaviour the hallmark of sporting integrity. It's an utter disgrace!02-02-2025 02:06
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Sueiyin
Emma Navarro has every right to the stance she took. Much of tennis news about players' interactivity with each other or the politics of the sport or the competition environment is common-place and features more often than just occasionally. There was alot of this kind of thing around the time when handshaking between Russia and Ukraine was banned on account of political tensions/sensitivities. Tennis is on the whole a very emotional sport and has a playing field doused in emotional grit, determination, mine-fields, roller-coasters and what not in spite of the fact that consistency in self-control and mental toughness is also part & parcel of the match process. I support Emma Navarro's right to owning her own perspective and I think if Serena Williams was allowed as much right to the many instances of her losing her cool at this person and that throughout her long career, then Emma Navarro has just as much right to stand her ground, state her cause and play her game the way she knows best. And besides, she was not contravening the rules of fair-play or even gaining unfair advantage by cheating in any way, shape or form. She was simply asserting her perspective on some communication issue, which btw, she is well within her rights to do. What's more, she's spot-on insofar as locker-room camaraderie goes - there ought to be an ethical attitude held by all the players on tour of common human decency and respect towards all other players full-stop, otherwise sporting integrity is compromised.04-09-2024 13:33
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Sueiyin
The exact same thing would have happened to anyone else who wanted to dine there when it was fully booked. So, what's the big deal Serena? It must be said, positive discrimination is just as bad as negative discrimination. The restaurant did the right thing as they couldn't let anyone else in as it was fully booked IN ALL AREAS.07-08-2024 07:15
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Sueiyin
I heartily disagree with Stubbs here. I mean c'mon! The whole idea of giving out wildcards is to give new & up-coming players a chance at getting as much circuit match-practice under their belts as possible. And this is a HUGE must and opportunity for these new kids on the block. Why curtail opportunities for these newbies in favour of stalwart monopoly?? That just isn't fair. At least give these lesser known players a chance to become more familiar at playing in bigger tournaments & give them also a chance of getting the crowds behind these underdogs.26-04-2024 06:09
+1
Sueiyin
😆 the technicalities of tennis!13-03-2024 02:03
+1
Sueiyin
I don't think his age has really anything to do with his lack-lustre performance this Australian Open. Actually, he was suffering the effects of a bug whilst competing and I think what he did was try and beat the bug at the same time as try to win the slam but somehow that bug got the better of him and consequently, Novak's performance diminished. Simple as that. Battle sickness simultaneously as your on-court opponants and u come up against a double-whammy.02-02-2024 11:50
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Sueiyin
What a load of from Garcia! 'Too old' is her misinterpretation of the reality which knocked the Joker out of the AO 2024 and that was a bug....some kind of infection which was more of the digestive kind than the cold&flu kind.....Basically this ageist position taken by Garcia is an absolute farse....Get real, age is the placebo for virus. U just gotta look at Bopana & Ebden taking the men's doubles final to realize that rationales about age being obstructive are nothing more than man-made mental constructs.01-02-2024 03:56
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Sueiyin
Gotta still love Nole for all he has been doing on the circuit. And yep, Boris is right....spot-on. It's like Jannik Sinner (pronounced "Zinner") was mirroring the way Novak plays when he is at the top of his form pretty much the whole way throughout that match. As I watched it, it was as though Sinner was taking the Joker's own game style right up close & personal to him. In a way, it doesn't surprise me because I learnt from the match commentary that Jannik was coached in junior years by one of the exact same coaches who also coached Nole for a solid number of years but the name of this coach escapes me although I recall he hails from Spain.27-01-2024 08:25