heywoodu 13,610 Posted September 5, 2019 #101 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Just now, Dunadan said: Poor Andreas Seppi...a top 20 once, this is his 15th years in a row in top 100, and people never heard of a player from South Tyrol. I had no idea he was from there indeed I guess his name sounds too Italian for me to recognize that - unlike of course Jannik Sinner which I thought for a while was a German - and I generally don't really search where people are from If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderer 1,599 Posted September 5, 2019 #102 Share Posted September 5, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, heywoodu said: I had no idea he was from there indeed I guess his name sounds too Italian for me to recognize that - unlike of course Jannik Sinner which I thought for a while was a German - and I generally don't really search where people are from If you only judge by a name, you wouldn't guess around 50% where certain athletes come from Anyway, Italian tennis federation, as flawed as it can be, really is one of the strongest around there. There is a challenger level tournament almost every week in Italy! Which is a very helpful, plenty of young players get opportunity to play a professional tournament and often against decent opponents. And good thing is - even there are bunch of challengers in China/Japan/Korea - the level at the tournaments in Italy is much higher. Geography Just checked - this year, around 20 challenger tournaments in Italy alone Edited September 5, 2019 by Wanderer Майкл 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,675 Posted September 5, 2019 #103 Share Posted September 5, 2019 4 hours ago, Monzanator said: What is he? A failed skier? Sud-Tirol & tennis don't add up much So the last standing quartet in the women tournament are Serena and three players who never reached a GS semi-final before this summer He was really a skier until he had 13 years old After he decided to switch to tennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,610 Posted September 5, 2019 #104 Share Posted September 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Wanderer said: If you only judge by a name, you wouldn't guess around 50% where certain athletes come from That's surprisingly untrue I've noticed If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunadan 1,103 Posted September 5, 2019 #105 Share Posted September 5, 2019 4 hours ago, heywoodu said: I had no idea he was from there indeed I guess his name sounds too Italian for me to recognize that I thought you were a real fan of South Tyrolean sports. Federica Sanfilippo, Nicol Delago, Emanuele Buzzi, Riccardo Tonetti, Omar Visintin, Edwin Coratti, Samuel Costa, Tania Cagnotto, Simone Giannelli...just so you know a few more athletes to support even if they don't have German sounding names. heywoodu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,610 Posted September 5, 2019 #106 Share Posted September 5, 2019 Just now, Dunadan said: I thought you were a real fan of South Tyrolean sports. Federica Sanfilippo, Nicol Delago, Emanuele Buzzi, Riccardo Tonetti, Omar Visintin, Edwin Coratti, Samuel Costa, Tania Cagnotto, Simone Giannelli...just so you know a few more athletes to support even if they don't have German sounding names. Well I'll be damned If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepharoah 2,300 Posted September 6, 2019 #107 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Serena is simply on fire today , will it be another GS final loss for her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada4thewin 90 Posted September 6, 2019 #108 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Congrats to Bianca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Майкл 542 Posted September 6, 2019 #109 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Great finals line-up in women's doubles too Azarenka/Barty vs. Sabalenka/Mertens thepharoah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Майкл 542 Posted September 6, 2019 #110 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Of course DImitrov's game would fall apart in the very next match after an important win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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