Tennis 2016 Discussion Thread

[crovitlaci 177]

18 hours ago, LDOG said:

Has Karlovic refused or retired from playing Davis Cup?

 

He had a quarrel with the Croatian tennis federation about distribution of the money in Davis Cup for players few years ago, and refused to play for the team ever since.

 

Btw. I didn't know till now that your coach has Croatian ancestry. There are actually lot of Croats in South America, especially in Argentina and Chile, mostly came there during the WWII.

Edited September 19, 2016 by crovitlaci

[dcro 10,210]

1 hour ago, crovitlaci said:

Btw. I didn't know till now that your coach has Croatian ancestry. There are actually lot of Croats in South America, especially in Argentina and Chile, mostly came there during the WWII.

 

That's right. For example, the only Argentinian gold medalist from London 2012 Sebastian Crismanich also has Croatian ancestry.

[Henry_Leon 1,397]

Draw for DAVIS CUP 2017 (World Group)

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[Gianlu33 4,555]

Zverev won his 1st ATP Title at only 19 years old . Pouille won his 1st title too

Here all winner of the week:

 

 ATP San Petersburg - Alexander Zverev 

 ATP Metz - Lucas Pouille

 WTA Seoul - Lara Arrabuena 

 WTA Tokyo 2 - Caroline Wozniacki 

 WTA Guangzhou - Lesia Taurenko

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[crovitlaci 177]

Ivo Karlović will play for the Croatian Davis cup team for the first time since 2012. Borna Ćorić will not play because of knee injury.

[hckošice 14,822]

 

Martin Kližan and Lukáš Lacko are conditionally excluded from the national team for 1 year. Lacko was fined 10 000 Euro, Kližan 20 000 euro 

 

source in svk http://sport.aktuality.sk/c/238554/pohar-pretiekol-klizan-a-lacko-podmienecne-vyluceni-z-repre/

[Wanderer 1,726]

Incredibly happy to see Kvitova winning P5/PM title for the 6th consecutive year! Her level of tennis this week was sublime. Everything clicked in the match with Angie, and the way she outplayed Halep was awe worthy. Well done Petra  Curious about her stamina in Beijing. Would be a miracle if she snatches spot in Singapore, but given how awfully slow the surface is there, better to go for that Zhuhai title

 

And great to see Khachanov's breakthrough!!! After Zverev, another youngster (though, not a teenager) with ATP title, second week in a row!

 

Younger of Ymer brothers, Mikael had good run in Rome challenger. Curiously on clay, which is supposed to be his worst surface. Elias is better on clay but failed to beat Lamasine.

Mmoh is into his first challenger final, another promising teen from USA.

Few weeks ago we also witnessed to all-Korean final, my fave Duck-Hee Lee lost to two years older compatriot Hyeon Chung. Glad to see Chung won as well, after reaching top 60, he had really bad season. Hopefully this is a good sign.

[rybak 3,217]

Aga winning Beijing tournament take her 20th title in main tour 

 

[NikolaB 432]

This trophy is little too big