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US Open
Aug 29, 2016 20:00:23 GMT -5
Post by RanDaddy on Aug 29, 2016 20:00:23 GMT -5
My all-time favorite tennis tournament! Lots of energy from the crowd and a lot of good, passionate tennis action.
Good matches tonight and they will get better as we get past the qualifiers and get to seeded players playing seeded players.
I'll watch every night until college football is on, but the good thing about the US Open is it's on late...
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US Open
Aug 30, 2016 21:06:42 GMT -5
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Post by prestonco on Aug 30, 2016 21:06:42 GMT -5
Zzzzzzzz...
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US Open
Aug 31, 2016 14:48:06 GMT -5
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Post by HuffNfeffeR on Aug 31, 2016 14:48:06 GMT -5
Tennis? We talkin bout tennis? Still?
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US Open
Aug 31, 2016 15:24:40 GMT -5
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Post by IMG Public Relations on Aug 31, 2016 15:24:40 GMT -5
Practice?
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US Open
Sept 8, 2016 7:47:18 GMT -5
Post by IMG Public Relations on Sept 8, 2016 7:47:18 GMT -5
Is this lezfest still happening?
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US Open
Sept 8, 2016 8:48:57 GMT -5
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Post by RanDaddy on Sept 8, 2016 8:48:57 GMT -5
Absolutely! Great tennis is being played in a great atmosphere!
The Men's Semi-Finals are set...
(1) Novak Djokovic vs (10) Gael Monfils is a David vs Goliath match. Should be quite entertaining
(2) Stan Wawrinka vs (6) Kei Nishikori is a great match too. Nishikori upset Andy Murray yesterday. Wawrinka is a great hard court player.
The Women's Semi-Finals are set...
(1) Serena Williams vs (10) Karolina Pliskova. Serena is seeking her 23rd Major Victory, passing Steffi Graf. Pliskova is a hottie, so there's a lot of interest in that too.
(Unseeded) Caroline Wozniaki vs (2) Angelique Kerber. Wozniaki (formerly Rory McElroy's gf) is the Cinderella of the tourney & Kerber is red hot right now.
Lots of good tennis this weekend!
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US Open
Sept 8, 2016 14:54:15 GMT -5
Post by sdot on Sept 8, 2016 14:54:15 GMT -5
why is the scoring so stupid in tennis?
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US Open
Sept 8, 2016 15:24:20 GMT -5
Post by IMG Public Relations on Sept 8, 2016 15:24:20 GMT -5
love
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US Open
Sept 8, 2016 15:58:02 GMT -5
Post by RanDaddy on Sept 8, 2016 15:58:02 GMT -5
why is the scoring so stupid in tennis? History[edit] The origins of the 15, 30, and 40 scores are believed to be medieval French. The earliest reference is in a ballad by Charles D'Orleans in 1435 which refers to quarante cinque (which gave rise to our 40) and in 1522 there is a sentence in Latin "we are winning thirty, we are winning forty-five". The first recorded theories about the origin of fifteen were published in 1555 and 1579. However the origins of this convention remain obscure. It is possible that clock faces were used on court, with a quarter move of the hand to indicate a score of 15, 30, and 45. When the hand moved to 60, the game was over. However, in order to ensure that the game could not be won by a one-point difference in players' scores, the idea of "deuce" was introduced. To make the score stay within the "60" ticks on the clock face, the 45 was changed to 40. Therefore, if both players have 40, the first player to score receives ten and that moves the clock to 50. If the player scores a second time before the opponent is able to score, they are awarded another ten and the clock moves to 60. The 60 signifies the end of the game. However, if a player fails to score twice in a row, then the clock would move back to 40 to establish another "deuce". Another theory is that the scoring nomenclature came from the French game jeu de paume (a precursor to tennis which initially used the hand instead of a racket). Jeu de paume was very popular before the French revolution, with more than 1,000 courts in Paris alone. The traditional court was 90 ft in total with 45 ft on each side. When the server scored, he moved forward 15 ft. If he scored again, he would move another 15 ft. If he scored a third time, he could only move 10 ft closer. The origin of the use of "love" for zero is also disputed. It is possible that it derives from the French expression for "the egg" (l'œuf) because an egg looks like the number zero. This is similar to the origin of the term "duck" in cricket, supposedly from "duck's egg", referring to a batsman who has been called out without completing a run. One possibility comes from the Dutch expression iets voor lof doen, which means to do something for praise, implying no monetary stakes.[9] Another theory on the origins of the use of "love" comes from the acceptance that, at the start of any match, when scores are at zero, players still have "love for each other".
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US Open
Sept 8, 2016 16:17:27 GMT -5
Post by IMG Public Relations on Sept 8, 2016 16:17:27 GMT -5
Something so shitty could only be developed by cheese eating surrender monkeys.
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US Open
Sept 8, 2016 20:06:33 GMT -5
Post by RanDaddy on Sept 8, 2016 20:06:33 GMT -5
...and down goes Serena!
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US Open
Sept 9, 2016 5:31:02 GMT -5
Post by IMG Public Relations on Sept 9, 2016 5:31:02 GMT -5
giggity?
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US Open
Sept 11, 2016 19:44:06 GMT -5
Post by RanDaddy on Sept 11, 2016 19:44:06 GMT -5
Your 2016 US Open Tennis Champions...
Men: Stan Wawrinka defeats Novak Djokovic
Women: Angelique Kerber defeats Karolina Pliskova
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US Open
Sept 12, 2016 7:00:16 GMT -5
Post by IMG Public Relations on Sept 12, 2016 7:00:16 GMT -5
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US Open
Sept 12, 2016 7:27:50 GMT -5
Post by sdot on Sept 12, 2016 7:27:50 GMT -5
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