Remarkable non-GB performances

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

RE: Remarkable non-GB performances

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Thanks, Ali - I like the 'unsung' heroes too :)

Major congrats to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, the young star with the truly abusive father, who - many years later, at 32 - has just won her first WTA title since 1998 - sixteen years ago !

And a little congrats in passing to Adrien Bossel, the Swiss player currently in the final Q round at the Moselle Open, and the only player (I believe) on the pro-tour with a pacemaker.

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Mirjana's renaissance is just wonderful to see.

I'm not sure whether Gael's antics today count? But if you haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFw-FCM2LYQ

Is that bad sportsmanship? The crowd say, 'non!'

Spectator · All-time great

Thank you Ali and CD: three lovely "overcoming the obstacles" stories. As for M Monfils' shot - only he could pull that one off. But I would not like to have been from Czechoslovakia playing that tie ... that crowd was a Davis-cup crowd that made Argentina look tame!

Incidentally, did anyone else see the "featured video" with Gael Monfils on the ATP site? I found it really problematic - the tone of the various people interviewing him was so patronising.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

Just want to say how sad I am to see Li Na retire. I loved watching her play and her personality brought something extra to the women's game. Her formal announcement (available on WTA site) is very personal and I found it quite moving. A class act.

-- Edited by The Optimist on Friday 19th of September 2014 06:20:39 AM

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

The Optimist wrote:
Just want to say how sad I am to see Li Na retire. I loved watching her play and her personality brought something extra to the women's game. Her formal announcement (available on WTA site) is very personal and I found it quite moving. A class act.

-- Edited by The Optimist on Friday 19th of September 2014 06:20:39 AM

I put my two penneth worth in the Wuhan thread, but echo everything The Optimist says here.

Womens tennis is so much the poorer without her.

korriban · Challenger level

Probably not really a remarkable performance by his own standards, but Borna Coric has won the Ismir CH (i.e. the whole tournament) to go up to a ranking around 140.

That's 2 17 year olds in the top 150, along with Alexander Zverev.

wolf · Tennis legend

16 year old Stefan Kozlov into the final of Sacramento challenger.

RJA · Hall of fame

By my calculations yesterday was Mikhail Youzhny's 5,000th consecutive day as a top 100 player.

He is currently 9th in the open era list of most consecutive weeks in the top 100. If he stays there for another 8 months he will be up to 5th with only Connors, Lendl, McEnroe and Federer ahead of him.

The Optimist · ATP qualifying

RJA wrote:
By my calculations yesterday was Mikhail Youzhny's 5,000th consecutive day as a top 100 player.

He is currently 9th in the open era list of most consecutive weeks in the top 100. If he stays there for another 8 months he will be up to 5th with only Connors, Lendl, McEnroe and Federer ahead of him.

Thinking about it, that's a fantastic achievement. Be interested to know who the rest of the top 10 are in that regard. Would imagine Tim Henman might be pretty high up.

RJA · Hall of fame

The Optimist wrote:
RJA wrote:
By my calculations yesterday was Mikhail Youzhny's 5,000th consecutive day as a top 100 player.

He is currently 9th in the open era list of most consecutive weeks in the top 100. If he stays there for another 8 months he will be up to 5th with only Connors, Lendl, McEnroe and Federer ahead of him.
Thinking about it, that's a fantastic achievement. Be interested to know who the rest of the top 10 are in that regard. Would imagine Tim Henman might be pretty high up.

Tim did just short of 12 years in the top 100.

Spectator · All-time great

I know that this thread isn't really about the top group of players - most of their performances are remarkable, so noting one in particular doesn't make sense. But (you knew the but was coming ...), Federer's performance against Djokovic today ... at 33 ... was rather something.

BeefyDeedz · Pro player

I managed to watch a lot of it and I was pretty amazed by some of it. At times, it felt like Federer was on auto-pilot, moving extremely well and hitting some amazing backhand slices with little-to-no effort. Like you say, remarkable.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Well, we're all here to support Andy, but in my book mothing wrong with acknowledging that some of his competition are pretty special, and he's playing in a special era.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Well done to young Cici Bellis (age 15) who won the 25k in Rock Hill this week (smile)