Tennis 2019 Discussion Thread

[hckošice 14,825]

58 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

Delpo will miss the rest of the season.

 

Which means he will drop to 150-something in ranking and then win the gold medal in Tokyo. Maybe, probably

 

Yeah, that´s what I heard too... the guy is really one of the most unlucky athletes I know

 

haha, well, if he´ll avoid Murray

[Wanderer 1,726]

22 hours ago, wumo26 said:

  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. 

 

 

The fastest way is to import some Slavic girl.

[heywoodu 15,141]

The road to this week's Challenger in Amersfoort is...not very big On my way back from work to the train station today I'd like to take a 5 minute detour and check out a match or two

 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Meh, €10 entry. That's too much for me to probably watch one match. Too bad, I saw and heard Igor Sijsling had just started, that would have been nice.

[Monzanator 4,502]

Shock alert:   Katarzyna Kawa had made a WTA final in Jurmala

[mrv86 3,138]

Romain Arneodo and Hugo Nys  win their first ATP title at Los Cabos. 

 

They defeated Inglot  and Krajicek  in a super tiebreaker that went 16-14. 

[Monzanator 4,502]

Tennis pulls further ahead as the top-paid sport for women. Forbes published a list of the highest-earning female athletes and tennis players occupy Top 11 spots on the list (some of them weren't even all that successful in 2018).

 

The only non-tennis athletes are Alex Morgan (soccer), PV Sindhu (badminton) & Ariya Jutanugarn (golf).

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2019/08/06/the-highest-paid-female-athletes-2019-serena-and-osaka-dominate/

 

Name	Total earnings	Prize money/salary	Endorsements
Serena Williams	£24.3m ($29.2m)	£3.45m ($4.2m)	£20.57m ($25m)
Naomi Osaka	£20m ($24.3m)	£6.8m ($8.3m)	£13.14 ($16m)
Angelique Kerber	£9.71m ($11.8m)	£4.85m ($5.3m)	£5.34m ($6.5m)
Simona Halep,	£8.39m ($10.2m)	£5.09m ($6.2m)	£3.2m ($4m)
Sloane Stephens	£7.90m ($9.6m)	£3.36m ($4.1m)	£4.59m ($5.5m)
Caroline Wozniacki	£6.17m ($7.5m)	£2.87m ($3.5m)	£3.2m ($4m)
Maria Sharapova	£5.76 ($7m)	£823k ($1m)	£4.92m ($6m)
Karolina Pliskova	£5.18 ($6.3m)	£3.77m ($4.6m)	£1.39m ($1.7m)
Elina Svitolina	£5.02m ($6.1m)	£3.77m ($4.6m)	£1.2m ($1.5m)
Venus Williams	£4.84m ($5.9m)	£739k ($900k)	£4.1m ($5m)
Garbine Muguruza	£4.84m ($5.9m)	£1.97m ($2.4m)	£2.87m ($3.5m)
Alex Morgan	£4.77m ($5.8m)	£205,416 ($250k)	£4.51m ($5.5m)
PV Sindhu	£4.53m ($5.5m)	£410,833 ($500k)	£4.1m ($5m)
Madison Keys	£4.53m ($5.5m)	£2.04m ($2.5m)	£2.46m ($3m)
Ariya Jutanugarn	£4.35 ($5.3m)	£2.7m ($3.3m)	£1.64m ($2m)

[heywoodu 15,141]

At least these numbers sound less idiotic than when making the same list for men  

[intoronto 5,639]

Wow Serena Williams withdraws in set one, allowing Bianca to take the Rogers Cup title on home soil.

[dcro 10,210]

Federer lost to Rublev in just 63 minutes. Apparently it's his quickest defeat since 2003.