Tennis US Open 2019

[heywoodu 13,562]

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  

[Wanderer 1,597]

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

[Gianlu33 3,577]

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

[heywoodu 13,562]

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

[Dunadan 1,103]

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 13,562]

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  

[thepharoah 2,290]

Serena is simply on fire today  , will it be another GS final loss for her 

[Canada4thewin 90]

Congrats to Bianca 

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Great finals line-up in women's doubles too

 

Azarenka/Barty vs. Sabalenka/Mertens

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Of course DImitrov's game would fall apart in the very next match after an important win