Tennis!

[Bobfoc]

Another great win for Konta. She's now going to play Serena in what could be a belter.

[Bobfoc]

The Williams sisters will play in the women's final and the men's final could be contested between Federer and Nadal. Who's been tinkering with the time machine?

[Chris2K]

It's kinda fun in a lot of ways, it may well be the last time we see those two matches in a final (although you could have said that for the last five years for the Williams sisters, Venus just seems to turn it on in one tournament every year). Federal and Nadal should be good although they might both be a bit knackered after the tournaments they've had, I do hope Federer wins though.

[Benjamin]

Holy shit, this match is amazing.

[MDK]

Bloody Australia putting tennis on at a stupid time in the morning.

[Bobfoc]

Remarkable end to the Davis Cup tie. 17-year-old Denis Shopalov gets disqualified for accidentally twatting the umpire with an angry forehand, handing victory to Great Britain.

[Chris2K]

And sweet Jesus did he smack it hard. 

 

[Adam]

Bloody hell.

[Cymbols]

Is it bad that I can't watch that without laughing?

[TCO]

Not at all, its hilarious! 

Getting smacked square in the face by a professional tennis player can't be fun though. If it hit him in the nose then that's a proper eye waterer!

[Adam]

4 minutes ago, TCO said:

Not at all, its hilarious! 

Getting smacked square in the face by a professional tennis player can't be fun though. If it hit him in the nose then that's a proper eye waterer!

I think it hit him in the eye, which I guess is still an eye waterer!

[Chris2K]

Yeah, right in the eye.

[MDK]

Thank fuck it wasn't Raonic. His head would have popped off.

[Gazz]

Jesus, that umpire has had to have surgery on a broken orbital bone.

[Baddar]

Ouch.

[Chris2K]

So Serena Williams was 8 weeks pregnant when she won the Australian Open. As someone on Twitter pointed out, this means that her child has won more Grand Slam titles than 99.9% of humanity.

[MalaCloudy Black]

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Mike Cation heard a moan, and figured it was just two people in the stands talking loudly. The tennis announcer, working the USTA Pro Circuit’s Sarasota Open on Tuesday, looked at the crowd and saw everyone looking around. Then it became clear: This wasn’t two people talking. This was two people fucking.

“After the first three moans, it was clear that it was copulation,” Cation says, “being enjoyed vigorously.”

The tennis match yesterday interrupted by sex noises was, obviously, the first time Cation had ever experienced this during his four years as a tennis announcer. Like everyone, he was shocked. “Well, that is the most bizarre situation,” he said on the broadcast. “I don’t know how to put this, folks, but somebody’s phone—going off—in the stands.” He paused for a full 10 seconds. “And it was an adult video.”

It actually wasn’t an adult video, though. The sex sounds were coming from one of the houses adjacent to the United Tennis Academy in Bradenton. “No, that’s not a phone,” Cation added. “That’s an apartment across the lake.”

 

http://deadspin.com/what-it-s-like-to-announce-a-tennis-match-thats-been-in-1794461129

 

[Bobfoc]

Most top players sound as though they're doing something similar when they play anyway.

[Adam]

So Ilie Nastase made racist comments about Serena Williams and her pregnancy yesterday and has now been ejected from the stadium during GB's Fed Cup tie with Romania for verbally abusing captain Anne Keothavong and British #1 Jo Konta, who was reduced to tears on court by something someone said to her from the crowd. What a disgrace.

[hugobomb]

Nastase apparently decided to double down on his dickishness today, throwing verbal abuse at both Anne Keothavong and Johanna Konta during Konta's Fed Cup match, being ejected for apparently calling the pair of them "fucking bitches" and sending Konta off the court in tears. Twat.

 

For the record, having left the court 3-1 down in the second set, Konta returned and won the next five games in a row to win the match 6-2 6-3. WAR KONTA!