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Former World No.6  Carla Suárez Navarro has revealed that she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma, and will undergo six months of chemotherapy treatment 

 

https://www.wtatennis.com/news/1801686/suarez-navarro-reveals-hodgkin-lymphoma-diagnosis

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Bob and Mike Bryan will retire after US Open 2020.

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/bryan-brothers-retirement-announcement-2019

 

The Bryan brothers have captured an Open Era record 118 trophies in 25-season careers, including all four Grand Slams, all nine ATP Masters 1000s, Nitto ATP Finals (four titles) and Olympic gold medal. They also own the all-time team record for Grand Slam titles (16) and ATP Masters 1000 crowns (39).

 

 

 

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Okay, I didn't see that coming.  Kim Clijsters makes a comeback at the age of 36. Let's see how it will go. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/sep/12/kim-clijsters-comes-out-of-tennis-retirement-for-a-second-time

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53 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Caroline Dolehide and Nadia Podoroska will qualify for the women's singles if they are in the top 300 on June 8th, 2020 and there aren't four athletes from or already qualified.

 

Dolehide will not be selected since there are 29(!) American women ranked ahead of her. Podoroska is the second ranked Argentinian women and will qualify as long as she maintains a top 300 ranking (she is currently 288th).

 

Unfortunately Veronica Cepede-Royg may now only qualify by ranking. She is currently 153rd and probably needs to climb around 80th to qualify.

Isn't it still very likely that  Cepede-Royg will qualify via a continental qualification place/quota?

According to the qualification document about reallocations:

2. Continental Qualification places: - Pan American Games, Asian Games or African Games place(s) – reallocated to the next highest placed athlete in the respective tournament (e.g. Asian Games Silver Medallist) who must have a minimum ranking of 300 in the Singles Rankings of 8 June 2020. Should the next athlete be equalplaced with another (e.g. two losing semi-finalists), reallocation will go to the athlete ranked highest on the Singles Rankings of 8 June 2020. If there are no athletes with a minimum ranking of 300, the place will be reallocated to the next highest ranked athlete on the Singles Rankings of 8 June 2020 notwithstanding the continent from which such athlete comes, respecting the maximum number of quota places per NOC.

 Dolheide will not qualify, as you have described above, so  will not use it's quota here. Let's say  Podoroska stays in top 300 and takes one of the quota places, then it would be a battle between  Cepede-Royg  and  Alves about the second quota place.  Cepede-Royg is currently ranked 153rd and  Alves is currently ranked 334th, so it looks like  will get the second continental quota.

Of course I could have misunderstood this paragraph. 

Edited August 3, 2019 by wumo26

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  Ashleigh Barty is the new number 1 on the WTA ranking.

https://www.wtatennis.com/rankings

She becomes the second number 1 (Singles) from  after Evonne Goolagong Cawley.  

 

@Wanderer

Maybe there is a chance for  to have a number 1 in the next 500 years. 

 

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6 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

That's Feliciano Lopez, right? He must be the one Spaniard who was doing good on grass over the years?

Yep.

Well Nadal has won Wimbledon twice, so he is probably the best Spaniard on grass. 

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 Karlovic won the match of the "old" men, 7-6, 7-5, 6-7, 7-5., against  Lopez 

 

Some photos from the match:

Spoiler

A good forehand cross court from Karlovic:

 

A solid forehand from Lopez:

 

 

 

Edited May 28, 2019 by wumo26

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A classic WTA match between Osaka and Schmiedlova. Schmiedlova wins the first set 6-0, but loses the next two with 6-7, 1-6. 

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The groups for the Davis Cup Finals

 

 

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I just hope Tauson is going to more successful than Kristian Pless. (Probably the best male junior player in Danish tennis history). 

Edited January 26, 2019 by wumo26

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I also have to mentioned that  Clara Tauson won the Girls Junior title by beating  Leylah Annie Fernandez 6-4, 6-3. 

 

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Osaka will become the first Asian tennis player to be no. 1 in the singles ranking. 

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Tsitsipas is through to the semifinal after a 3-1 win against Bautista.

 

Maybe if Zverev let his hair grow a bit longer he will reach a Grand Slam semifinal. 

 

 

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An organised crime group involved in manipulating professional tennis competitions was dismantled in an operation led by the Spanish Civil Guard and coordinated by the National High Court of Spain (Audiencia Nacional), supported by Europol. In total 83 suspects were arrested, 28 of them are professional players. One of them took part in the last US Open.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/fraud-tennis-court-criminal-network-gained-millions-fixing-professional-matches

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The ATP and Tennis Australia today officially unveiled the ATP Cup - a new team competition to kickstart the men’s tennis season from 2020. The tournament will be played across three Australian cities over ten days in the lead up to the Australian Open and will feature teams from 24 countries.

The format of the ATP Cup will see nations split into six groups, with eight teams emerging from the round-robin stage to compete in the knockout phase until only one team is left standing. There will be up to five players in each team, with ties comprising two singles matches and one doubles match. The criteria for entry into the ATP Cup will be based off the ATP Ranking of the No. 1 singles player from each country.

https://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/atp-unveils-atp-cup-team-event-for-2020-season

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Groups:

Singles:

 

Group Guga Kuerten

  Novak Djokovic (1)
  Alexander Zverev (3)
  Marin Cilic (5)
  John Isner (USA) (8)

 

Group Lleyton Hewitt

  Roger Federer (SUI) (2)
  Kevin Anderson (RSA) (4)
  Dominic Thiem (AUT) (6)
  Kei Nishikori (JPN) (7)

 

Doubles:

 

Group Knowles/Nestor
  Oliver Marach / Mate Pavic (1) 
  Lukasz Kubot /  Marcelo Melo  (3)
  Mike Bryan /   Jack Sock  (5)
  Pierre-Hugues Herbert /   Nicolas Mahut (8)

 

Group Llodra/Santoro
  Juan Sebastian Cabal /   Robert Farah  (2)
  Jamie Murray /   Bruno Soares  (4)
  Raven Klaasen /  Michael Venus (6)
  Nikola Mektic /   Alexander Peya  (7)

Edited November 7, 2018 by wumo26

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16 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What are the Nitto Finals? Sort of like WTA's Elite Trophy that's for the sub-elite?

 Nadal and Del Potro are injuried, so it's kind of sub-elite, well except Federer and Djokovic. 

Edited November 7, 2018 by wumo26

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8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

What are the Nitto Finals? Sort of like WTA's Elite Trophy that's for the sub-elite?

https://www.nittoatpfinals.com/ 

 

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Congrats to "Babosdook" and "Kiki". 

 Babos and  Mladenovic won the WTA Finals title in two straight sets, 6–4, 7–5, against the  pair, Krejčíková and Siniaková.

It's also a back-to-back title for Babos, who won last year with Hlaváčková. 

 

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The draw for the two groups:

 

Red Group:

 Angelique Kerber (1)

 Naomi Osaka (3)

 Sloane Stephens (5)

 Kiki Bertens (8)

 

White Group:

 Caroline Wozniacki (2)

 Petra Kvitova (4)

 Elina Svitolina (6)

Karolina Pliskova (7) 

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Just now, heywoodu said:

After the Davis Cup, also Wimbledon has banished the most epic of fights: 5th sets will now get a tiebreak when it gets to 12-12.

Why 12-12 ? I guess 6-6 is too mainstream for Wimbledon. 

 

At least Isner's matches will be at least 30 minutes shorter 

Edited October 19, 2018 by wumo26

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Wozniacki goes into the cryptocurrency business...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-tennis-wozniacki/tennis-star-wozniacki-signs-deal-to-launch-her-own-crypto-token-idUSKCN1MS1HU

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Halep is in danger of missing the WTA Finals after today's scanning. 

 

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20 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Robin has got himself a new one

 

 

Haase is one of the most WTA  ATP players.

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When your coach knows you well...