Tennis
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That's pretty awesome by Venus!
Not to pour cold water on Onny's achievement, either, but the fields at the French Open in 1974 were somewhat weakened because Philippe Chatrier banned people who had signed for the World Team Tennis league in the US.
Google doesn't readily tell me who else was banned, but the most notable "banee" was Jimmy Connors - who ended up winning the other three Grand Slam tournaments that year - so potentially missed a Grand Slam year!!!
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And Rafa wins his 10th French Open - and drops just 35 games along the way.
Stan does slightly better than the average 6 - 1.75 set scoreline against Rafa and averages 6-2 in the final.
Totally dominant. Roger will be very pleased he won that Australian Open final - otherwise Rafa would be breathing right down his neck!
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It's clay. Isn't it a foregone conclusion if Rafa's fit?
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@canefan said in French open; USA open (tennis):
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11921583
Interesting insight into the "rivalry". I think it would be very hard to friends in an individual sport where you are both fighting for the same thing.
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Michael Venus has reached the doubles semi-finals at Wimbledon with partner Raven Klaasen (SA) after a lengthy battle in the QFs (6-7 7-6 5-7 7-6 6-4). Three sets went to tie break! I wish I'd seen that match!
In the semis, they'll play Frederik Nielsen (Denmark) and Joe Salisbury (GB) on Thursday.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/tennis/news/article.cfm?c_id=94&objectid=12086879
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@stargazer Pretty impressive. Venus at least 50-50 to make two Wimbledon finals! He and Srebotnik are the highest seeded combo remaining in the Mixed - not that that means a great deal.
Artem Sitak also made the Men's QFs and was knocked out by Venus' Men's Final opponents, in four sets.
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Not a second final for Venus at Wimbledon. He and his mixed doubles partner, Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia), lost their semi-finals to Alexander Peya from Austria and his American partner Nicole Melichar 6-4 6-4.
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@canefan my girlfriend was going to stay up last night to watch the rafa vs joker game. I looked at the Anderson score (was only in the second set) I said na just record it watch it tomorrow.
I kind of wish she stayed up now.
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And Kerber beats Williams for the woman’s. So happy about that, felt sorry for her as the whole lead in was all about Williams, Williams and Williams.
She really was second fiddle and she absolutely destroyed her.
Exhibit A .
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@pakman said in French open; Wimbledon; USA open (tennis):
@canefan Indeed. He's been staying opposite me. Spends quite a lot of time with his kids.
He's been in a dark place tennis wise for a long time now. I wondered if he would ever pull out of it
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Watching Andy Murray playing in his final AO right now. It is sad that he is to retire from the game due to injuries, he is trying to make one last run coming back from 2 sets down to force the match to a 5th set. His 22nd seed Spanish opponent drew the wrong guy to play, the crowd are absolutely fizzing trying to drive Andy home one last time
