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DICK move


Chinese tennis player Zhang Shuai retired from a match in tears after a tense incident with Amarissa Toth at the Hungarian Grand Prix saw Toth use her foot to erase a contested ball mark from the court.
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That is atrocious behaviour. The only thing I will give her is she's 19 years old and possibly clueless but she behaved horribly.

Why did Shuai retire, was it an injury or because of the other player?
 
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Alcaraz is playing in the Hopman Cup. I thought he would take some time off after Wimbledon. He has a hip new haircut!
 
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Djokovic pulled out of the National Bank tourney in Toronto, aka the Canadian Open, due to fatigue. Makes me wonder if he injured his wrist after smashing the net post. The tournament begins 2 weeks from now and he would have a first round bye so he would be playing on the Wednesday.
 
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I never thought Djokovic was coming to Toronto. Nole has played in Canada only once since 2016 (2018).
 
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Sunday summary:

Rublev's winning a 1000-level tournament, Monte Carlo, has done wonders for his confidence. He beat Ruud in straight sets in Bastad, playing a near perfect breaker in the first set and blowing Casper off the court in the second set 6-love.

Note: Ruud remains with ten tournament wins in his career. All of them at the 250-level. The dude has still not won at the 500-level, let along the 1000-level or a Grand Slam. Somehow I just find that stat irritating.

In Newport, Mannarino had an easy two-set win over unheralded junior, 18-year-old Alex Michelsen who two weeks ago was ranked #250 in the world and had never played in an ATP tournament before.

In Gstaad, Pedro Cachin defeated Ramos-Vinolas in a come-from-behind three set win. In a bigger tournament, that match up might have occurred in the first round. Cachin is one of the very few players to win an ATP tournament while possessing a career losing record (22-28).
 
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Alexander Zverev faces new assault allegation after penalty order reportedly sought in Berlin | Tennis.com

RTL first reported that the latest accusation made against the German is by ex Brenda Patea, the mother of their daughter.
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Zverev faces another assault allegation, this time by former partner Brenda Patea. In this instance, the assault appears to be the subject of a criminal investigation. The ATP needs a protocol established in the worst way for situations like this. I mean, it seems crazy to suspend someone like Mikael Ymer because he was tardy in informing ATP of his whereabouts for a drug test, but letting a second accusation of physical assault carry no consequences. Sure, people are innocent until proven guilty. But, maybe, after a second such accusation, perhaps the prudent thing would be to suspend a player until the issue is resolved in court. That suggestion has a lot of pitfalls, I realize, but the ATP shouldn't be able to just look the other way and ignore the possibility that they have a predator on their hands.
 
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Again related to Zverev, for those who think suspension based on an accusation is too drastic, maybe something like this would work. For a second accusation, from the time the accusation is filed with the police, that player's prize money is held in escrow and his points detained. If he is innocent of the accusation, he gets the money back with interest and the points are returned. If he is found guilty, he receives a suspension (a year?) and his prize money goes to a women's shelter in the city in which the assault occurred while his points are permanently withheld. Any subsequent legally proven offense receives a lifetime ban.
 
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kihei said:
Again related to Zverev, for those who think suspension based on an accusation is too drastic, maybe something like this would work. For a second accusation, from the time the accusation is filed with the police, that player's prize money is held in escrow and his points detained. If he is innocent of the accusation, he gets the money back with interest and the points are returned. If he is found guilty, he receives a suspension (a year?) and his prize money goes to a women's shelter in the city in which the assault occurred while his points are permanently withheld. Any subsequent legally proven offense receives a lifetime ban.
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They have no doubt taken some legal advice and feel there is far less risk going this route (don't say or do anything). It's a spineless approach and does not send a very good message.


Does the name match the picture?
 
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PanniniClaus said:
They have no doubt taken some legal advice and feel there is far less risk going this route (don't say or do anything). It's a spineless approach and does not send a very good message.


Does the name match the picture?
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No, not in terms of anything, gender ethnicity age.😁
 
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Sunday Summary:

Alexei Popyrin comes from behind to win the 250-level Croatian Open in three sets over Wawrinka. Chronic underachiever Popyrin is something of an enigma. Against Top 20 players, he can look like a Top 20 player. Against everybody else he normally looks like a Top 200 player. But Popyrin put it all together this past week in Umag.

Top seed Taylor Fritz takes the 250-level Atlanta title with a three set win over a Challenger guy, Aleksandar Vukic, who was 3-8 on the main tour this year before his nice run here. Taylor never looked really threatened all week, including today despite the third set.

Zverev wins the 500-level Hamburg Open over Djere. Wish he hadn't.
 
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Did anyone go down to Toronto yesterday? I miss qualifying weekend and used to go all the time.
 
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Sunday Summary

Baez wins Kitzbuhel (250 level) over Thiem in straight sets, 3 and 1, A dream week for a resurgent Thiem, playing clutch tennis (saving five match points in the semis, for instance) in front of an adoring and supportive crowd of fellow Austrians, came to a crashing halt in the final. Thiem was flatter than pee on a plate all day, and he made Baez, almost certainly the worst server in the Top Fifty, look like prime John Isner. Fairy tale location but no fairy tale ending.

Tsitsipas over De Minaur in Los Cabos (250 level) 3 and 4. Alex went into the match 0-9 against Stefanos so the end was never really in doubt. Both sets were virtual carbon copies of one another. Alex broke back to even each set at three all but was quickly broken again to lose both sets. De Minaur looked frequently frustrated and who could blame him? Stefanos looks relaxed without his father around.

Evans over Griekspoor in straight sets in Washington, DC (500 level), 5 and 3. Not the sort of final's match-up to quicken the pulse of anyone except close friends and relatives of the participants. Evans, who had been having a horrible year (8-18) played solid, unspectacular tennis, made very few mistakes of any kind and, thus, cruised to only his second tour victory of his career. Definitely a yawner, though.

For the third time in three weeks, guys with losing career records win tennis tournaments, Evans and Baez this week joining Cachin.
 
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Except when native son Eubanks played, attendance was dismal in Atlanta, even through the final. Washington was nearly as bad. Wonder if the ATP is taking note.
 

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Saw a pre-tournament interview with Milos Raonic on TSN. The guy is a natural to be a future analyst.
Bright, articulate and knows the sport inside out and backwards. Move over Johnny Mac!
 
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