Mixed doubles has got to be one of the weirdest elite level competitive sports going. A bit like attempting a three legged race tied to a blow up doll filled with sand.
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Good to see someone is paying attention to me.
Jack Draper has won fifteen straight sets in elite level tennis, to reach the last four of a tournament every top player on the planet is trying to win. Now in his first us open semi-final. That's really something.
Draper vs Sinner.
Seems unlikely that someone who makes curtains could beat a disciple of the devil. But he's doing okay.
Winning the U.S. Open aside, this might prove to be the most significant event in Raducanu's career.
Nottingham champion, born in Woodhouse Eaves, Katie Boulter is currently engaged in a titaninc coin toss battle in the second round of the Aussie Open (at which she is the 22 seed). (Eurosport2 in the UK)
Not much of a coin toss in the end. Went down like a house of cards towards the back end of the deciding set.
Felt quite sorry for the head racquet folder. Just took quite a humping against the lead pharmaceutical practitioner.
Tennis world incredulous about totally consequence free drug ban for world number one.
The modern world is all about protecting the brands, and keeping the cash flowing above all else. Ain't it kids?
It's funny that the world 766 is complaining about it though, like it's costing him his shot at winning the French Open.
Maybe he's going on record because he has nothing to lose, compared to others higher up the rankings? But others have spoken about it. Maybe he's been reported on in Britain because he's British?
Funny how we are so programmed to accept the orthodoxy, that we seem to react to any challenge with whataboutery.
For the record. In a sport with supposed strict liability, where the number one in that sport is found guilty of and accepts an adverse doping violation, it is wholely unsatisfactory for them to negotiate a meaningless short ban with zero actual consequences. As in this case with not even a single ranking point lost, and not a single major tournament missed.
You get the feeling that sport is now totally corrupt, to the extent that you could imagine a so called sporting organisation having hundreds of accusations of cheating against them, for years on end, and the governing bodies would crawl towards a meaningless resolution, and people would keep mindlessly paying (attention, cash) the same, and suspending all thought that it's not sport they are watching but rather the impact of vast wealth and it's ability to take everything from them. And just keep swallowing the crumbs from that table that they are being fed, to cling desperately to the thinnest of threads of what they once had. You could imagine.
Oh no, sorry, you misunderstand me. I was just making a lazy joke about it because if they were playing the French Open final in my back garden I probably wouldn't bother opening the curtains, such is my lack of interest in tennis. Please don't read anything into my post about accepting the ruling, I just don't give a shit about it. I've never even heard of the bloke who's getting banned and apparently he's the best in the world.
Is hard to believe that there are any female tennis players who don't know the story of monica seles. So you can only imagine the mental impact of this sort of shit. Ultimately tennis courts are not the safest of places.
