SK790 wrote:

702 wrote:I think Donald plays tonight. Get Um.

that's correct.

plays Slovakian Lukas Lacko, who beat 28th seeded Ivan Ljubicic in a battle for Slavic pride.Young should win this one.

fish is being a complete dick here. falla and him are supposedly friends, too.

Hard time finding when and where but he's on Court 6 and plays after the womens match involving McHale.

702 wrote:

SK790 wrote:

702 wrote:I think Donald plays tonight. Get Um.

that's correct.

plays Slovakian Lukas Lacko, who beat 28th seeded Ivan Ljubicic in a battle for Slavic pride.Young should win this one.

fish is being a complete dick here. falla and him are supposedly friends, too.

Hard time finding when and where but he's on Court 6 and plays after the womens match involving McHale.

It'll be on ESPN3

ESPN2 may cut to it at times if it's close.

SK790 wrote:

702 wrote:

SK790 wrote:

702 wrote:I think Donald plays tonight. Get Um.

that's correct.

plays Slovakian Lukas Lacko, who beat 28th seeded Ivan Ljubicic in a battle for Slavic pride.Young should win this one.

fish is being a complete dick here. falla and him are supposedly friends, too.

Hard time finding when and where but he's on Court 6 and plays after the womens match involving McHale.

It'll be on ESPN3

ESPN2 may cut to it at times if it's close.

I have DirecTV with the Tennis thing so I have all the matches. Including the 6 screen mix channel.

i hate you.

Young to play in 5 minutes. Rolls out with the Beats By Dre. Yessir.

espn2 announcers just snarked him. Gilbert called him DJ DY.

not looking good early....puttin the ball in the net a ton. About to get broke right now.

what you said: donald young is playing

3-1 doh...

Hey SK, is there challenges on these outside courts? Wonder why he didnt challenge that call he was so demonstrative about.

702 wrote:Hey SK, is there challenges on these outside courts? Wonder why he didnt challenge that call he was so demonstrative about.

no there is not. aussie only has top 2 court iirc

Is there any consensus as to why so many women's professional tennis players are chubby/overweight?

unfair judgement, imo. some of them are thickish, but that helps with durability.

Yeah feel like it is just massive thigh muscles.

joe table wrote:Is there any consensus as to why so many women's professional tennis players are chubby/overweight?

Other than Serena Williams, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, none of whom are "chubby" but they also aren't exactly slim, who are you referring to?

BTW, all three of those women can play 3 hours of singles in the heat on a hard court, so what does it matter?

On the flip side, Daniela Hantuchova used to have an eating disorder, and while she's healthier now, looking at her arms, I have no idea where she gets power from.

No Americans in the round of 16 for the first time in about 50 years (aside from years when no Americans entered). Hooray American tennis!

I couldn't get too worked up when John Isner went down in five sets to Feliciano Lopez, meaning the last of the American men were out. I like Isner and think he'll have a solid career, but Lopez, while not a big name, is one of my favorite players to watch. He's one of the few guys who still serves-and-volleys a little.

Speaking of which, that is part of why I have trouble getting behind American players like Isner, Sam Querrey, Mardy Fish and before them, Andy Roddick. These guys have huge serves but they just stay back, stay back, don't challenge.

As much as we get high-quality tennis these days - and Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray are an amazing foursome - I miss the tennis of the '80s and '90s, when there was more of a contrast of styles - serve-and-volleyers (McEnroe, Edberg, Rafter), baseliners (Borg, Lendl, Wilander, Agassi) and all-court players (Connors, Gerulaitis, Noah). Just about everybody hugs the baseline these days.

the players are just too good to play at the net anymore.

And the equipment is much better.

ReadingPhilly wrote:the players are just too good to play at the net anymore.

I've certainly heard that argument before, but I think it's an over-simplification.

If, basically speaking, we can call baseline play "defense" and net play "offense," why would virtually all the athletic improvement in a specific sport be only in one area? In baseball, we saw an ascendancy of hitting, but lately we've seen a counter-adjustment on behalf of pitching, and in baseball the game is leveling out again.

Even if most, if not all, of the athletic advancement in tennis lately has been on the "defensive" side, why does that mean that eventually there would not be an adjustment on offense?

In the meantime, if a player as great as Federer can mix it up and come in to net at least some of the time, why can't others? When Roddick took Federer to 16-14 in the final set at Wimbledon a few years, it was with an increased emphasis on aggression and net play.