Originally Posted by
Cherry-choc:
“Further to my previous post, wasn't Nick too young to get on the original Pokemon bandwagon? It seemed to peak in 1999/2000, when he would be about 4-5. He lost to Shapovalov, who was born in 1999 so he was defo too young.
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Yep it would have passed Nick by the first time. I'm young enough to have got the full Pokemon experience as a child, I remember buying my Gameboy colour and pokemon blue with my first holy communion money, think the two of them cost me about eighty Irish pounds at the time
Originally Posted by Cherry-choc:
“Oh dear, Thiem retired. As did Querrey, Chardy. Isner looked knackered after going deep in Washington. Errani withdrew. Feel for the Rogers Cup organisers at this point.
Thiem has played an awful lot in the first half of the year, and foolishly played Kitzbuhel last week. Wonder if he'll take his place in Los Cabos.”
Really not sure what Thiem is thinking playing tournaments every second week, glad that he's finally seen sense and decided to pull the plug this week. Zverev is another who'd want to curtail the schedule a bit.
Originally Posted by
Lisa.B:
“Belinda Bencic has withdrawn from Rio. Fair enough reasoning given her injury woes.
Does continue to put Hingis in a pickle though!”
Very concerning how injured Belinda is at this early stage of her career
Originally Posted by Irishguy123:
“Yay, nice win for Genie, in fact that's two tough opponents she's beaten. I really want her to improve her ranking and confidence, just to see what her actual level is. Personally I feel top 20 is probably about where she should actually be. She's got an outside chance of reaching the semi's here in Montreal, just don't ruin it by losing to Kucova!”
Oh Genie girl, you never let me down
Speaking of Genie, I found these sentences from the 'playing style' section of her poorly edited Wikipedia page funny
Quote:
“She will also make drastic and unpredictable changes in ball direction, which also causes many points won and winners, as her opponents don't know where she's going. However a lot of her shots tend to land outside the court, making the shot accuracy percentage very low.”
Also, sad to see some of the pictures from the upcoming Olympics. I had heard a lot about in the months gone by but I kinda assumed that it would be ready in time. Terrible to see that they haven't even finished the roof. Let's hope if it does rain it'll only affect one third of the stadium