Week 43 - ATP 500 - Swiss Indoors - Basel, Switzerland (indoor hard)

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

Week 43 - ATP 500 - Swiss Indoors - Basel, Switzerland (indoor hard)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Not sure how I feel about Becker being involved in tennis again. On one hand I hate to see people tossed aside and condemned for mistakes in life, cancel culture is awful. However the other side Im kind of thinking hes got away with it in the main.

He got a lot of support on X (fka Twitter) when it was announced, seems a lot of folks like Boris still. I personally dont mind - it is Rune's call and if he is happy so be it, and I have never minded Boris or, as you say, giving folks a chance. He will be limited on being coach though to Europe - Australia, UK and USA dont allow convicted criminals into their country without formal Visa approval and he would be unlikely to get it to any of those countries, at least whilst he is still on license (although released after 8 months, he will be on license for the full 30 months) and probably not at all - I dont think he can return to the UK, that is for sure, as he received a sentence greater than 12 months until such time as a future Home Secretary allows him to, and Suella sure as heck wont!

And with his profile, I would be surprised to see the Aussies or Americans give him a waiver on his Visa. So he will have to coach Rune around EU Europe alone it would appear.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
Not sure how I feel about Becker being involved in tennis again. On one hand I hate to see people tossed aside and condemned for mistakes in life, cancel culture is awful. However the other side Im kind of thinking hes got away with it in the main.

me twittering on......have deleted biggrin

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Tuesday 24th of October 2023 08:01:01 PM

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

What did I miss CD roughly?

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
What did I miss CD roughly?

Me disliking Becker, bigtime....

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coup Droit wrote:
Jaggy1876 wrote:
What did I miss CD roughly?
Me disliking Becker, bigtime....

If Andy wins today and Rune gets through, Andy and Rune (and Becker) will collide in the last 8. A lot of ifs before that though

SuperT · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
Jaggy1876 wrote:
What did I miss CD roughly?
Me disliking Becker, bigtime....

Me too

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

If Andy and Rune do meet, we will get to see Lendl and Becker collide in the coaches box. That will be fun ! Although I suspect Lendl isnt in Basle. In fact, does anyone know, is Lendl still with Andy at all or was that just an arrangement for the summer?

Blue_Belle · Club Coach

ATP still has Lendl down as his coach

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Blue_Belle wrote:
ATP still has Lendl down as his coach

ok, cool - I hadnt realised they list coaches, is that on the players profile page?

wolf · Tennis legend

L16: Alex de Miñaur & Max Purcell (AUS/AUS) CR 262 (221+41) defeated Lloyd Glasspool & Nicolas Mahut (FRA) CR 64 (30+34) by 7-5 7-6(5)

wolf · Tennis legend

Jonny OMara is with him this week, the cameras just showed him sitting with his physio I think it is.

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

First set Andy 7-6 on the breaker lovely wee drop shot to win it

wolf · Tennis legend

Andy wins the first set 7-6(5). Takes an hour and 17 minutes - quelle surprise.

Jamie and Mike just about hanging in there a set down.

wolf · Tennis legend

Jamie and Michael have saved 0-40 situations at both *2-3 and *5-6 and find themselves in a second set TB. Have missed a few sudden death points themselves on return.