Actual Tennis

[Majingir]

Osaka taking heat right now for her post match speech.

She lost and was visibly upset at the crowd being 100% against her (to be fair, she's in the finals in Canada against a Canadian), and in the speech she doesn't acknowledge Mboko (the person who beat her) at all and just rushes through her post match speech.

[l3ulvl]

Osaka taking heat right now for her post match speech.

She lost and was visibly upset at the crowd being 100% against her (to be fair, she's in the finals in Canada against a Canadian), and in the speech she doesn't acknowledge Mboko (the person who beat her) at all and just rushes through her post match speech.

I've been watching the matches on Tennis 2 (free roku channel), and it really bugged me they didn't show the finals. I get it, they teased the whole open live and free, then you have to pay for the main channel, it is what it is

So I have no idea what happened in her speech, I usually turn that off anyway because I don't care. I was more interested in learning about the 18 year old that beat her, I don't know anything about her but she's already the #1 ranked Canadian, would've loved to watch that match.

Even the doubles final, I don't usually care about doubles but Coco was playing with Kessler and they played Zhang and Taylor Townsend in the final, it ended in a 13-11 tiebreak win for Coco and Kessler, apparently the first time they'd ever played together and immediately won a championship

sidenote: Osaka has issued a public apology for not acknowledging her opponent (which is dumb to me, but whatever, we're prim and proper in this sport)

[l3ulvl]

Medvedev in full villain mode tonight, and it nearly worked!

https://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/breaking-news/article/us-open-benjamin-bonzi-upsets-daniil-medvedev-after-photographer-walks-onto-court-causing-wild-delay-045059163.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACStj_4K9_yzLkQZzksxuiT1retofnrgyFSTVs9kOvltw0618FVv-qPTu_Sl9E0JuJi-vLoT7MbAsI-8IOODq36DJXFhXR7eFZLO4dxoGZSMkZWASCL698hQ9h50rehLHWns06beYtTgo8uHeQq4H1hxfgJ70W3VtInIoQHWhva4

ended up breaking serve after a long delay, demolishing the 4th set 6-0, and then losing in the 5th and smashing the crap out of his racket

there was a lot of playing to the crowd both ways, this is the same dude that beat Medvedev in the 1st round of Wimbledon so there's history

[Kayla]

Musetti vs Cobolli would be a really interesting match to watch today.

[l3ulvl]

Dang, Taylor Townsend's singles run came to an end after Krejcikova saved 8 match points in an epic 15-13 tiebreak

it's gotta be taxing to make a singles and doubles run at the same time

edit: the comments against the American crowd happened again: “To be honest, I’m totally enjoying this crowd. Even though it’s not for me, it’s for the Americans, it’s fine,” Krejcikova said. “I’m looking forward to seeing you again in my next match – I think against another American.”