Sunday Order of Play

ATP: Rotterdam started at 8 AM - Roger Federer vs Juan Martin Del Potro
WTA: Doha at 10 AM - Victoria Azarenka vs Samantha Stosur
WTA: Memphis at 11 AM - Rodina vs Falconi, Brianti vs Lucic, Govortsova vs Dolonts, Larsson vs Pavlovic and Hampton vs Rybarikova scheduled
ATP: Sao Paulo at Noon - Nicolas Almagro vs Filippo Volandri
WTA: Bogota at 12:30 PM - Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino vs Alexandra Panova
ATP: San Jose at 4 PM - Milos Raonic vs Denis Istomin

May the best ladies win Doha...

ok another thread han,so is it here or there?

plus who goes fishin in winter? not us Hoosiers!lol

ok of to read before I comment!

Roger holds the service and moves to 6-1 4-2 lead..

by the way, how much vacation time do you get a year?,really "verte de jalousie"

anyway enjoy your time away Pete,have fun and be safe!

Well well well

I return, turn on the TV and guess who's just won a tournament?
Yup, Roger. Once again my absence from this site has proved golden for
the Creamy bastard. He's clearly doing this just to piss me off.
As always it's all about me. Even when it's not about me at all.

6-1 in the first set? Look forward to a replay of this one.

Commies to Ms Wilks. Congrats to zenggi. Congrats to LadyJulia
who scoffed at my superstition.

Me? I was playing golf, getting blasted, writing words, having lots
of laughs and trying to get laid. I was fighting "the good fight."

Fishing? You bet.......................................

Wow, this Fed reminds me a bit of a player I used to know; plays like crap in match after match; then flips the switch in the final -
Nice to see you again!

BP, welcome back:-)

For the last year or so I have never watched a Fed match live. Whenever I watch, he plays badly for sure. I enjoy replays of his wins with peace of mind. Yes, I am very superstitious and a deist.

" And at the end of the week, Bobby Chinatapalli, who will be in Charleston (all you WTA fans ought to be thrilled about that) for the last few days of that tournament, will be posting here."

TWibe,
That probably reads Memphis this week where it is a mixed event which main draw action starts today for WTA.

Jason Goodall and Clare Wood in the commie box, and Robbie Koenig at courtside.

BP

Good to see you

Roger was just a pleasure to watch today

I did get up at Midnight by the way to watch the mens final

Though I didnt mind a bit when watching Roger produce so much variety in his game...as a tennis fan cant ask for more.

Victoria Azarenka won the toss and elected to received against Samantha Stosur, who made the coin toss call.

Jason Goodall and Robbie Koenig doing the commentary

Eva Asderaki is the chair umpire

Will World Number 1 stay undefeated despite dealing with an injury?

Master Ace

Great news for us fans of the WTA with Bobby C....

Manixdk,
Thanks for the correction on the commentary.

Mater Ace

You forgot Clare Wood

I hope Vika's ankle holds up.

Vika, please make at least one of my predictions come true, I'm 0/4 so far :-))

Davai, Vika!

Hi Chegu

I totally avoided all things tennis this week. Walk thru the door
at 6:00 am and immediately think, "Well, Roger played this week, let's
find out how badly he did." Turn on TC and there he is smiling. A
winner once again. Delpo seems to inspire him. That and my absences
from this site. Bastard!

Master Ace

As I did post earlier

I just hope Vika's ankle will be okay.I would hate to see her injured at this start of the season....since she has been playing soo well.

"Great news for us fans of the WTA with Bobby C...."

+1

I wonder who's doing the comms for Eurosport. Likely Simon Reed or Chris Bradman and Jo Durie.

sokol

Do you ever root for a player I like:)

Martina Hingis in the stadium

TBH, I won't be unhappy to see either of these girls get the win today - but I also hope that Vika's ankle is going to be Ok !

lol, AM

sorry, it's just often turns out we're on the different side of the net :-))

I was rooting for Sam to win last USO

I'll be happy if Sam wins too

If there's anything to this superstition of yours, thanks for taking one for the team, BP ;)
Martina Hingis in the house
Have a great holiday, Pete. After that Vamos Syndrome post, I believe you could do with one ;)

Just seen that poor Robin Soderling is afraid that his career might be over because of the mono .... he says he's making progress but it's at a snail's pace. Jgoes to show how fragile an athlete's career is. Robin gave an interview to one of the Swedish newspapers - I'm sorry I don't know how to post the link.

sokol

I understand you want a win seeing you a love 4

Still............

Where is Clare by the way she wrote down all our picks

I still cant find by piece of paper where I wrote down my picks.pfft.

Hey Marg

Think I'll watch Sam and the new No 1.
So Roger looked good? I see Daveydenko took
a set off him. Glad I didn't see that.

Nuts....do I hang here for Roger's next tourney?

I'm bad luck when I do and good luck when I don't.

Hi, H2L:)) Wasn't it a great, great week for Roger. So confidence boosting to get the win.

Caroline

Sad to hear that news with Robin....though it dosent suprise me in the least.Having mono myself it usually takes 6 months to recover and seeing its well over that time period and all.I suspect Robin has CFS.

BP

Roger was just 'on' in his match and brought it all for the final as champion players do:)

Seriously

last 13 months

He's 4 for 4 when I'm not here. 4 for 4!!!!!!!!

When I am?

0 for like 20. ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

G*d mocks me.

Sam settle

Vika with 2BP

Isn't it sad, AM. You would know far more than I about CFS, but Robin would be past the peak of his career anyway and it would be so hard to get back. Very different for Juan Martin after his wrist injury because he was so young.

Good serving Sam back to deuce.Phew.

Caroline

I know too well what Robin is going through...sad to say

He must listen to his body at all times and not push it.

15-40 for Victoria as Samantha shanks FH - Samantha serves 1-all
30-40 Samantha FH winner set up by wide serve
40-40 Victoria FH return long
40-A Samantha FH wide
Victoria breaks as her BH passing shot hit the net and pass Samantha, who came forward behind FH, for the winner

Victoria serves 2-1

recent news re petkovic and söderling are about as un-encouraging as possible.
zero progress for petko, now in holiday til end of february cause there is nothing else she can do.
and söderling for the first time admits to the possibility that just maybe maybe maybe he might never quite get right enough to play top ball again.
says he's making progress but it's so slow that it might as well be no progress at all.

more cheerfully, hingis in attendance in doha today again and looking every bit like the tennis royalty she is.

Drool pumps please!

Nice b/hand slice Sam to set up your f.hand

My Al Jazeera Sport is breaking up too much, watching in italiano on Eurosport 2 Italy

EEK Sam at your o/head at the net

Samantha you are letting Vika dictate from the baseline???

Did i ever mention to anyone how completely frustratingly unreliable technology is, even when i've spent $700 on a new laptop.

The rain has stopped, but still my wireless connection only hangs about for 12mins at a time. I get snatches of games, followed 20mins of trying to get connection up again.

It's enough to send a girl to bed! Uh-oh, see what happens, Sam's down a break already! What to do now? Do i chase after another stream that'll work for 10mins, or do i just go for the written commentry. And how to make such a choice at this hour of the morning???

Good ROS from Vika and she has BP

Victoria breaks as her FH return is too hot for Samantha FH.

Victoria serves 4-1

Vika gets a double break...well done and well played soo far Vika

Seems that ankle isnt affected thus far.

4-1? C'mon Sam, please let this match be more than an hour. We've been having such breif matches, you blink and you miss it!

What a relief. No Italian drool.

sad news about Robin. I hope he recovers soon

so far this is going like every vika-stosur match.
vika's return more than neutralises the stosur serve. and once she's done that she takes stosur's ground game apart.

Okay Biz...I hear you:)

Still happy that Sam has made the final....after Australia:)

Shank Sam :)

Sam Sam that's the second 6 you've hit. This isn't the MCC.

BP
so it is all about you

Dave Taylor still making notes

Sam with one of her ankles taped?

Sam you pulled Vika wide and then???

Vika with a SP

Well, on the plus side, Sam usually plays better when she loses the first set. When she wins the first she often goes down in the second. Nowhere down to go here - so can only go up. :)

For the love of tennis Sam

Control on your ground shots

Hell that was your point and you stuffed it

Vika breaks...1st set 6-1

Victoria takes set 6-1 as she hit volley winner coming to net behind FH return

hey, Caroline :)) sorry, I was making tea. wow this match is going quickly. yes, I agree with what you posted at the end of the last thread, this is a nice win following the 'debacle' of last weekend, lol. Still, I very much want to see JMDP take a title soon, he could do with a confidence boost, as well. I admit, after yesterday, I wasn't sure Fed would take it today and as you said, he wasn't getting many easy points with his serve. So good thing his ground game was there and he wasn't making all the errors he had yesterday.

Vika's ankle is apparently ok. but horrible news about Soderling and Petko. I hope it's not career ending for Soderling, but from where he is right now, it's easy to see how he could become discouraged :(

breadstick? didn't think it would be so easy for Vika...

Come on, Vika, continue, finish it in 2, please, I need to go in 40 minutes...

Davai!

Jason Goodall, Claire Wood and Robbie Koenig doing the commentary

Eva Asderaki is chair umpire

Victoria serves 6-1 to start set 2 against Samantha

wow!

davaye Azababy,yahoo!for a slamful number one takes a set from 15-40,have no fear baby! don't look back and take this in 2,I have multiple tasks to perform and Mouha made a huge mess with pomegrenates in the kitchen, so just davaye Azababy sweetie pie!

no need looking back!

i dont know what it is...but i cant find a stream for vika-stosur...any help please...

gliciouss

You may not need a stream at the moment:)

Shank time again Sam?

Still, I very much want to see JMDP take a title soon, he could do with a confidence boost, as well.

Amen to H2L,speaking like the "grande dame" she is! me lovey:)and indeed Del Po deserves a real break soon but I see him getting in there very postive tournament for him this time around!

Victoria 4-4 Samantha 7-14 W/UFEs in set 1

1st set w/ufe
Vika: 4/4
Sam: 7/14

Sam winners 7 and ufe 14???? in the first set

Tells me all I need to know???

haha AM...i know
sooo tired....might as well just go back to sleep...i woke up for this???
it is tough being a stosur fan right???

I hate pomegrenates mess! I hate pomegrenate mess! I'm going to have a nerve break down,arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Great f.hand winner Vika

I'll happily leave it you, MA :)
Aube, hope you are drawing some solace from your 'Azababy' after the earlier result. Still, I'd like to see Sam make it a match.

ha ha - tough, but we're used to it!

Gliciouss

Look regardless of the score line...I am just happy Sam has made a final after her dismal performance in Australia:)

30-40 for Victoria as she hit FH return winner - Samantha serves 1-6,0-1
Victoria breaks as her CC BH too hot for Samantha BH

Victoria serves 6-1,2-0

Vika has a h2h 5-0 against Sam and I dont see that changing too soon:)

Damn

Pete writes a Nadal satire (Vamos Syndrome) and I missed it.
I could've brought my "I think Rafa's gay" material back out of the
closet I retired it to. I could've really spelled it all out.

I could've written fantasies that Rafa has about Deliciano.
All sorts of scenes where Lopez is continually embarrassed by
Rafa's puppy dog perseverence.....Uncle Toni scrambling furiously
to keep a lid on the story. Rafa's shill girlfriend hitting on
Feliciano just to drive Rafa crazy. Feliciano licking her face
in front of Rafa just to see what kind of reaction he'll get.

Would've been fun, unlike this boring match..................

Uh-oh. I was wrong - there was still a down to go.
She at least one a game last set.

Well at least I have some yummy chocolate to munch on:)

in that last service game of hers stosur made 5 out of 6 first serves.
1 was an ace. the other four times vika returned it deep and eventually (sometimes outright) won the point.

not many bigger 'mares on the wta tour for stosur than playing vs vika.

1 two Punch works all the time Sam dosent it?

H2L,sorry but from what I'm going through here with the girls behaving badly and Mouha making a mess I'm not taking any walkabouts with Azababy,heck I'll even take a bagel or breadstick:)lololol

kids can honestly drive adults crazy,well I know they can drive me insane!

jodiecate, sorry for your bad connection, may I ask where in the world is your neck of the woods?,I get that frustrated when I'm at home by the way polititians are setting Senegal on fire hope they come back to their senses before a greater damage!election is on the 26,the youth is a mad house!

Wonderful construction of shots Vika on that last point

Woo-hoo!! A game!! Such simple pleasures...

Sam you could have tried a b.hand ROS then?

Victoria looks good in those shorts. I wanna wear them
when she's done. Feel her sweat. I'll top the thing off
with a Jeremy Lin jersey. Linsanity has messed up my mind.

Great service game to love from Vika she leads 4-1 2nd set

hahah jodiecate I concur, but may it be all for you:) for real though!

Aza could loose focus giving away margin for sammie to get back in,not wanting that to happen!

Aube, i'm in Newtown - in inner Sydney (Australia)
I live in one of the few streets in Sydney that has no cable tv access.
No cables in this street i guess, or the ones close by. It's an outrage!

As i can't see the match, i'm curious, did Sam really celebrate winning that game. Did she smile & stuff, or is it just all to seriously dreadful for her?

They dont give those kind of details on tennisearth

Thats the Sam moving up the court and taking the ball on and away from Vika

nice hold for Sam.
hope your family in Senegal is ok, Aube.

Even Dave Taylor gave a fist pump after that last point Sam:)

Okay 2handed over head smash from Vika

Bows!

Forget to add with angle as well:)

wow Fred, saving all those bps, im very impressed, another masterclass indoors... Roger must be on a crazy indoor win streak, at least back to the 2010 Masters Finals...he's the indoor GOAT! too bad indoors doesnt get the media coverage clay does...

and given the depressing news about Soderling (and Ancic before him), i hope some keep the Fed mono eyerolls in perspective, its an incredibly tricky condition and it can ruin a career, Fed got lukcy, sounds like Robin, not so much..he's still kinda young I hope he can come back

A sisu sighting...!!??? Thank you and Aube for your kind words.

Wow, how much better can a Sunday get!?; sausage and pancakes for breakfast, a Federwin over a top opponent and Downton Abbey and martinis to look forward to. :-) Me happy.

I know there is live tennis going on so this will be brief...also, auto 'energy save' turned the satellite off so I missed the first 5 games of the match, which I gather, were rather good from TMG. More cogent, yet silly analysis later. From what I saw, Roger played just a VERY smart match. Setting the agenda and refusing to let The Ent do what the Ent does so well. It is where his variety and shot making skills pay the biggest dividends. He must have been sore today and since his serve wasn't on, he made sure that everything else was. Now, if we could just get them to close the roof in all his Wimby and AO matches, the Indoor King could and would reign there as well. ;-))

(Anyone think that he might pull out of Dubai? )