The long overdue (no staking) tennis betting and discussion thread

[Doobs]

In a couple of weeks when there has been lots of good British News (eg Fran Jones won a 125 and is now provisional top 100), Tara Moore has just got her 4 year ban reinstated.

21 tests in that Colombian tournament, 3 seemingly independent players all tested positive to the same steroid for the first time.  One that Colombian farmers use on livestock. Tara should have known this according to the wankers in charge.

Excellent timing straight after two other players who ducked a drug ban won at Wimbledon.

[Doobs]

Don't know if anyone noticed, but Dan Evans got a wildcard into the Citi Open draw, presumably as a previous champion.  Good to see

Also good to see Raducanu paired with Rybakina in the doubles.  Might try and catch some of that later.

[Ironside]

Don't know if anyone noticed, but Dan Evans got a wildcard into the Citi Open draw, presumably as a previous champion.  Good to see

yeah he won it 2 years ago and gave up the chance to defend it last year to help send off Andy.

Also good to see Raducanu paired with Rybakina in the doubles.  Might try and catch some of that later.

routing against her so Nicholls can hopefully get a better seeding for the US open. Its taken a while but team Emma have gotten into the match

[Ironside]

Emma and partner pulled out of doubles semi half way through match, not sure if injury or if it's preserving energy as both still in singles

[Doobs]

Emma and partner pulled out of doubles semi half way through match, not sure if injury or if it's preserving energy as both still in singles

She was suffering with the heat in the earlier match, and just hadn't recovered enough, and started suffering again.  It was over 40 degrees and humid.

She is playing the best she has in years, so hopefully is going to be ok later. It is bad for them all, and a few others have suffered to.

She is back in the seeds for the US Open, so a very positive week regardless of her ability to play later.

[Ironside]

Emma and partner pulled out of doubles semi half way through match, not sure if injury or if it's preserving energy as both still in singles

She was suffering with the heat in the earlier match, and just hadn't recovered enough, and started suffering again.  It was over 40 degrees and humid.

She is playing the best she has in years, so hopefully is going to be ok later. It is bad for them all, and a few others have suffered to.

She is back in the seeds for the US Open, so a very positive week regardless of her ability to play later.

yeah i saw the singles and the Drs out to her end of 2nd. Was shocked she even thought about starting the Dbls

[Doobs]

Emma and partner pulled out of doubles semi half way through match, not sure if injury or if it's preserving energy as both still in singles

She was suffering with the heat in the earlier match, and just hadn't recovered enough, and started suffering again.  It was over 40 degrees and humid.

She is playing the best she has in years, so hopefully is going to be ok later. It is bad for them all, and a few others have suffered to.

She is back in the seeds for the US Open, so a very positive week regardless of her ability to play later.

Was a bit too early, as she ended up the week ranked 33.  Think she should be safe for a seed though, as she has no points to defend before the seeds are announced, so just has to win a couple of games to get in.

In other news Fran Jones won another 125 today, that is two in 3 weeks, so she won't have to do qualifying.

Also seems a lot of the lower ranked British men are playing well right now, with George Loffhagen winning a challenger today.  Lot of players ranked around 200 on the up. 

[Ironside]

Emma and partner pulled out of doubles semi half way through match, not sure if injury or if it's preserving energy as both still in singles

She was suffering with the heat in the earlier match, and just hadn't recovered enough, and started suffering again.  It was over 40 degrees and humid.

She is playing the best she has in years, so hopefully is going to be ok later. It is bad for them all, and a few others have suffered to.

She is back in the seeds for the US Open, so a very positive week regardless of her ability to play later.

Was a bit too early, as she ended up the week ranked 33.  Think she should be safe for a seed though, as she has no points to defend before the seeds are announced, so just has to win a couple of games to get in.

In other news Fran Jones won another 125 today, that is two in 3 weeks, so she won't have to do qualifying.

Also seems a lot of the lower ranked British men are playing well right now, with George Loffhagen winning a challenger today.  Lot of players ranked around 200 on the up. 

Fearnley just lost in Canada 1st round

[Doobs]

Emma and partner pulled out of doubles semi half way through match, not sure if injury or if it's preserving energy as both still in singles

She was suffering with the heat in the earlier match, and just hadn't recovered enough, and started suffering again.  It was over 40 degrees and humid.

She is playing the best she has in years, so hopefully is going to be ok later. It is bad for them all, and a few others have suffered to.

She is back in the seeds for the US Open, so a very positive week regardless of her ability to play later.

Was a bit too early, as she ended up the week ranked 33.  Think she should be safe for a seed though, as she has no points to defend before the seeds are announced, so just has to win a couple of games to get in.

In other news Fran Jones won another 125 today, that is two in 3 weeks, so she won't have to do qualifying.

Also seems a lot of the lower ranked British men are playing well right now, with George Loffhagen winning a challenger today.  Lot of players ranked around 200 on the up. 

Fearnley just lost in Canada 1st round

And got Raducanu's points wrong.  Her points from Washington last year have just come off, so she needs another 100 points or so still.  That isn't so hard in 1000s, but harder than I implied.

[Ironside]

Think she will need to make a 1/4 final this week to get back inside the seeding

[Doobs]

Think she will need to make a 1/4 final this week to get back inside the seeding

Top 16 is 120 points, so gets her very close.  Think she'll be ok with a couple of solid results.  Think most others will lose points.  Not calculating them all, but she may need 120, may need 200?  Think next game is relatively easy despite playing a seed, then the one after is tough, so even top 16 is unlikely right now.  Top 32, top 32 might be enough though.  Think her level dropped off Vs last week, but understandable.

Katie Boulter wasn't good yesterday.

[Doobs]

Think she will need to make a 1/4 final this week to get back inside the seeding

Top 16 is 120 points, so gets her very close.  Think she'll be ok with a couple of solid results.  Think most others will lose points.  Not calculating them all, but she may need 120, may need 200?  Think next game is relatively easy despite playing a seed, then the one after is tough, so even top 16 is unlikely right now.  Top 32, top 32 might be enough though.  Think her level dropped off Vs last week, but understandable.

Katie Boulter wasn't good yesterday.

Well Boulter plays Raducanu if she gets past round 1 (50/50), and the winner probably plays Sabalenka.  So Raducanu has gone from a fairly promising position to 5% chance of a seeding.  Those around her have done well, so that hasn't helped either.

The Montreal final is interesting with Osaka, who hasn't won a big title in a few years, playing Victoria Mboko, who is young, was given a wildcard and has never won above ITF level.  It isn't on too late (11pm), so might watch the start.

[Ironside]

all British final in the men's doubles don't think we have been able to say that for a long time.

Going to make the next Davis cup selection interesting presuming we go 3 singles and 2 doubles player in the team Salisbury and Skupski have the experience Cash and Glasspool on a heater and Patten is the odd man out by not having a British partner