Tennis 2022
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I hate to hold someone’s family against them but the mom bugs me too. I think she sometimes yells crap at the opponents. She is probably just bitter about the end of her tennis playing and she is certainly beyond his control, but I cringe every time they cut to her.
I wasn’t paying enough attention to notice if they ever showed Isner’s box. Seems like the American coverage never favors Isner.
I don’t like him at all but I tend to dislike drama. One of many reasons I always adored Venus. You didn’t even hear much from her when Wimbledon got her score wrong in a tiebreak or when she was relegated by them to other courts cause she wasn’t a little blonde. But she got money for womens tennis. The court demeanor though was always so classy, even when hatred was spewed at her.
I'm not a fan of Nick, big time talent but doesn't give max effort all the time. Johnny Mac and Caroline Woz were talking about him this morning and both were not big fans of his. Caroline said he blames everyone and everything when he loses. Speaking of Caroline, does her voice ever change inflection. She is very soft spoken and her tones rarely changes.
It's amazing he has this much to complain about in this era with the technology. Some tournaments have almost all electronic line calls and then others have hawkeye. Yet there he is complaining to the umpire every other match.
I'm also a big Venus fan. Coco kind of reminds me of her with her calm presence
Mac has been very harsh albeit fair with Nick over the years. He basically dared and asked that he retire from tennis 4 or 5 years ago when he had a pathetic exit from the US open. I'm not sure I've caught much of Woz in the booth yet.
I just can’t stand Mac. I don’t think he has much room to criticize anyone’s antics. And his blatant favoritism is always for the players I don’t like and against the ones I do. Also really tired of them being so unsupportive of the American men.
Mac is just ok in the booth. I much prefer Brad Gilbert, Jason Goodall or Drysdale when he was younger.
Yep. They need to keep old Clifford away from women’s matches, he sounds pervy. Like Gilbert a lot. Not sure if Cahill still in booth, like him but I just go to turning volume down enough to hopefully hear hits but not too much commentary any more.
That bit me a little bit when Isner won. Were they talking about him retiring soon? With that baby face you kind of forget how old he is.
Doubles is so fun to watch, wish they showed it more. Venus vs Venus was so entertaining.
Doubles is more fun to watch and play. I don't know why it's never been that popular. The modern singles game can get monotonous with so many grueling baseline rallies. Doubles is faster paced, more winners, more variety of shots, etc...
Kvitova and Coco too. Women's side is wide open. Still think Men's comes down to Djokovic vs Nadal
Nadal is a shoe in to the Final because his draw has become the easiest draw in slam history perhaps as a top-2 seed. He can’t control it but those are the facts with a couple of withdrawals and then some upsets. At this point I am hoping somehow Kyrgios actually can keep things going and meet Rafa. He would try against Rafa as he has made it known he doesn’t care for Rafas antics of time wasting and such.
This tournament needs something spicy. However as I said way back this next one with Van De Zandschulp could be tricky for Rafa.
If you're just figuring out sports are better with the commentary off I don't know how you've ever enjoyed sports
There are good announcers. These guys seem appalled at Kyrgios but then that’s all they talk about too.
