Tennis ITF Australian Open 2020

[Monzanator 4,611]

  On 2/1/2020 at 11:54 AM, dcro said:

Wait a minute... Tennis ITF Australian Open?

 

ITF? Is that even a thing?

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All Grand Slam events are organized by ITF - not by ATP or WTA

 

Same goes for Davis Cup & Fed Cup.

[heywoodu 15,353]

Refresh my mind please, what was Sharapova always accused of?  

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 2/1/2020 at 11:54 AM, dcro said:

Wait a minute... Tennis ITF Australian Open?

 

ITF? Is that even a thing?

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Yes, we need to have that in the thread or else we might think this is the Tennis FEI Australian Open and we expect people to jump over the nets on horses with a tennis racket in their hands. Ah, the strictly forced rules of Totallympics thread names, gotta love it.

 

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Edited February 1, 2020 by heywoodu

[Monzanator 4,611]

  On 2/1/2020 at 12:10 PM, heywoodu said:

Refresh my mind please, what was Sharapova always accused of?  

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Sharapova was always accused of not being a real Russian and basically an American.

 

Anastasia Myskina and Elena Dementieva were in particular against her and Myskina flat out refused to play in the Russian Fed Cup team if Sharapova was selected as well. As it turned out Sharapova didn't make her Russian Fed Cup debut until 2008, basically the year after Myskina was forced to retire due to a persistent ankle injury.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/4040243.stm

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2005/oct/06/tennis.sport21

 

Evgeniy Kafelnikov also went on a Sharapova rampage but he blasted everyone.

 

https://www.tennis365.com/tennis-news/kafelnikov-blasts-federer-nadal-djokovic-sharapova/

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 2/1/2020 at 12:22 PM, Monzanator said:

 

Sharapova was always accused of not being a real Russian and basically an American.

 

Anastasia Myskina and Elena Dementieva were in particular against her and Myskina flat out refused to play in the Russian Fed Cup team if Sharapova was selected as well. As it turned out Sharapova didn't make her Russian Fed Cup debut until 2008, basically the year after Myskina was forced to retire due to a persistent ankle injury.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/4040243.stm

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2005/oct/06/tennis.sport21

 

Evgeniy Kafelnikov also went on a Sharapova rampage but he blasted everyone.

 

https://www.tennis365.com/tennis-news/kafelnikov-blasts-federer-nadal-djokovic-sharapova/

 

 

 

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Ugh.

[thepharoah 2,405]

BTW when I read the topic of this thread at first I thought it's another tournament being made by itf just like atp cup I looked 3 or 4 times at the date to assure that this's Australian open I follow 

[rajiv 31]

Great day for Andorra

[Monzanator 4,611]

JImenez Kasintseva was the youngest player in the draw. She will turn 15yo in August though she is older than Cori Gauff when the American won the French Open juniors in 2018. Still it's basically two years older than Martina Hingis who won 1993 French Open aged 12 and 8 months 

[heywoodu 15,353]

This is promising so far  

[heywoodu 15,353]

Medical timeout or something? Surprise

Edited February 2, 2020 by heywoodu