This is the best description of Djokovic’s game i’ve ever read. it makes perfectly clear how and why i don’t enjoy watching him play.

this is exactly right, and I have a hard time with so many of the commentators saying they’re ‘playing better than ever.’ it’s simply not the case.

this rules

he doesn’t come across as the ‘reasonable one’ here or anywhere else. just read fucking ONE of Stephens’ columns and realize he needs to be spoken to as the petulant child he is. i applaud Samer’s restraint in the first two emails, which incidentally (and i mean this in the best way) are perfectly on-brand for…

match of the year so far, no doubt. for me it wasn’t as much about the level of the tennis as much as it was about the tension. Rafa just doesn’t like this kid and Kyrgios doesn’t give a fuck about who Rafa likes.

I think that’s a false equivalency. If Cory Booker wants to help huge pharmaceutical companies that a) clearly don’t need help based on any metric, and b) then go on to lobby against, just for example, a reduction in drug prices, that could be reasonably construed as hypocritical at best and a conflict of interest at…

I lived in Vermont for a long time, Bernie was the mayor of Burlington when i was in high school and he’d gotten to the House by the time i went to college at UVM.

i’m not sure that Isner is at the end of his bot-reign just yet, especially when you consider his first Masters win just last year at Miami and his run at Wimbledon (i actually think he’d have a shot at winning the whole thing on the old grass).

christ, i was responding to some other dipshit who brought up how Obama ‘fooled’ us with some kind of hidden inflation rate. i simply provided the actual data, which are directly in conflict with what he’s saying.

not sure how Obama ‘fooled’ anyone, the inflation rate during his presidency hovered between 0% and 3%.  cut unemployment in half, and while GDP growth was slow the economy was sound when he left office - especially when you consider the economic crisis he inherited from the Bush administration.

that one drop shot point for Kvitova, with both players making running saves, was the point of the match and i completely thought Osaka was cooked after that. what she was able to do, recovering after that point and after the second set, is something most players even at the top level are incapable of doing.  for her…

haven’t been keeping up the way i should.  glad you’re keeping an eye out ;)

not really sure how you can throw in the ‘out or a single, should it also just then be a GRD or should the batter just stay half way to first base with no out?’ and expect to be taken seriously. of course i’m not talking about anything like that - i’m talking about this situation specifically, which has arisen enough…

i just feel like that would be a half-measure, and would eliminate the possibility (and fun) of the early round, 2-sets-down upset. those matches are part of the magic only Grand Slams can bring to the game.

i’ll go further and say if she stays healthy this year, she’ll be in the top ten by December. i was blown away by her game, Sabalenka played well - and got worked.

haha

I’m a tennis fan, and I love best-of-5 sets at the Grand Slams. These tournaments are special, and anyone who loves tennis wants to watch longer, not shorter matches.

so this is how he plays in debilitating pain, i hope he finds a way to feel well enough to rejoin the tour full time. he’s still young-ish by modern tennis standards, and medical science being what it is, etc.

re: Djokovic, I’ll take your word on the statistics. That said, my point isn’t about tactics (though tactically they do share many fundamental characteristics - defense into offense from the baseline, controlled aggression, etc), but more about aesthetics.  for me at least i’ve never found either of their games…

Henin was a competitive rival, for sure.  FWIW Henin created plenty of personal animus with her opponents throughout her career with her gamesmanship - but what a backhand.