Tennis 2016 Discussion Thread

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Pos Player NOC Slot Points

1 Serena Williams USA 1 5360

2 Agnieszka Radwanska POL 1 5097

3 Angelique Kerber GER 1 4881

4 Garbine Muguruza ESP 1 3934

5 Belinda Bencic SUI 1 3301

6 Roberta Vinci ITA 1 3004

7 Simona Halep ROU 1 2801

8 Venus Williams USA 2 2742

9 Flavia Pennetta ITA 2 2723

10 Karolina Pliskova CZE 1 2086

11 Victoria Azarenka BLR 1 2060

12 Jelena Jankovic SRB 1 1956

13 Petra Kvitova CZE 2 1949

14 Sara Errani ITA 3 1913

15 Maria Sharapova RUS 1 1901

16 Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaRUS 2 1776

17 Johanna Konta GBR 1 1677

18 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS 3 1602

19 Ana Ivanovic SRB 2 1502

20 Elina Svitolina UKR 1 1461

21 Madison Keys USA 3 1421

22 Kristina Mladenovic FRA 1 1339

23 Anna Schmiedlova SVK 1 1333

24 Carla Suarez Navarro ESP 2 1281

25 Barbora Strycova CZE 3 1236

26 Samantha Stosur AUS 1 1189

27 Sloane Stephens USA 4 1187

27 Shuai Peng CHN 1 SR

29 Caroline Wozniacki DEN 1 1180

30 Timea Bacsinszky SUI 2 1166

31 Monica Niculescu ROU 2 1130

32 Lucie Safarova CZE 4 1119

33 Andrea Petkovic GER 2 1039

34 Lesia Tsurenko UKR 2 1036

35 Annika Beck GER 3 1034

36 Daria Kasatkina RUS 4 1018

Coco Vandeweghe USA 5 992

--- Current Top 56 Projection --- 986

37 Mona Barthel GER 4 968

38 Dominika Cibulkova SVK 2 938

Margarita Gasparyan RUS 5 922

39 Johanna Larsson SWE 1 898

Varvara Lepchenko USA 6 894

--- Current Top 65 Projection --- 893

Anna-Lena Friedsam GER 5 890

40 Caroline Garcia FRA 2 883

Ekaterina Makarova RUS 6 877

41 Camila Giorgi ITA 4 873

42 Yanina Wickmayer BEL 1 865

43 Nao Hibino JPN 1 861

44 Misaki Doi JPN 2 836

45 Timea Babos HUN 1 791

Sabine Lisicki GER 6 787

46 Monica Puig PUR 1 782

47 Alize Cornet FRA 3 779

48 Yulia Putintseva KAZ 1 765

49 Shuai Zhang CHN 2 764

50 Irina-Camelia Begu ROU 3 763

Madison Brengle USA 7 759

Denisa Allertova CZE 5 718

Daria Gavrilova 715

51 Kirsten Flipkens BEL 2 710

52 Naomi Broady GBR 2 695

53 Genie Bouchard CAN 1 689

Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA 8 687

54 Kateryna Bondarenko UKR 3 669

55 Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ 2 663

Laura Siegemund GER 7 652

56 Su-Wei Hsieh TPE 1 651

Next in...

A1 Qiang Wang CHN 3 633

A2 Ana Konjuh CRO 1 618

A3 Danka Kovinic MNE 1 612

A4 Mirjana Lucic-Baroni CRO 2 610

WTA Race to Rio standings after Acapulco/Doha...

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Janowicz will not play in tie against Argentina! Majchrzak as well  Instead them will be play Przysiężny and Hurkacz... Our chances to win this meeting are now very small.

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Davis Cup weekend...Italy vs Switzerland...we must to win...Switzerland is without Federer and Wawrinka....

Schedule:

Lorenzi - Chiudinelli

Seppi - Laaskonen

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1 hour ago, Danylove80 said:

Davis Cup weekend...Italy vs Switzerland...we must to win...Switzerland is without Federer and Wawrinka....

Schedule:

Lorenzi - Chiudinelli

Seppi - Laaskonen

Bookmakers give Italy around 95% to win  

[Wanderer 1,738]

Bah, cakewalk for Italy.

 

On the other hand, the most interesting tie is between Germany and Czech Republic. Berdych is a big plus for the Czechs, but I hope Davis Cup will provide some surprise.

As expected, even Hong (who won three Futures in Turkey over the last few weeks) was too strong for Statham. South Korea should become great power in men's tennis in upcoming years with, at least, 3-4 highly talented youngsters.

Back on WTA, Kontaveit with two great back to back wins over Cibulkova and Errani 

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4 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

Bah, cakewalk for Italy.

 

On the other hand, the most interesting tie is between Germany and Czech Republic. Berdych is a big plus for the Czechs, but I hope Davis Cup will provide some surprise.

As expected, even Hong (who won three Futures in Turkey over the last few weeks) was too strong for Statham. South Korea should become great power in men's tennis in upcoming years with, at least, 3-4 highly talented youngsters.

Back on WTA, Kontaveit with two great back to back wins over Cibulkova and Errani 

Yes Korea have good prospective players but for me USA have 4-5 great talent in their hand...

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1 minute ago, Danylove80 said:

Yes Korea have good prospective players but for me USA have 4-5 great talent in their hand...

USA are on the way to their old glory days! I hope most of their young players will pass the transition to senior tennis, like Fritz is doing lately. Great depth of players, most of them born in 1996-1998 span. 

Fritz, Paul, Tiafoe, Kozlov, Opelka, Mmoh, Donaldson...

I was delighted with Fritz's performance in Memphis and Acapulco. That guy is great, and I expect him in top 50 very soon.

[Майкл 561]

Anett! Quite a delightful year for the youngsters on both WTA and ATP circuits.

Edited March 4, 2016 by Майкл

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Hantuchova was given a MDWC for Indian Wells... I understand she has won that event two times, but she didn't deserve to get it.

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Ram, Fritz, McDonald, Del Potro and Tiafoe on men's side and Watson, Riske, Hantuchova, Davis, Crawford, Shuai Zhang, Rogers, Loeb on women's with MDWCs along with Sharapova's withdrawal...

Tiafoe will become first player born in 1998 to play at some ATP Masters 1000 event.