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Raj

Raj

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1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

I'm quite sure you're teasing, but none of that actually matters.

You should know by now!!!

Seriously, absolutely fantastic story.

At 18 I think I was still deciding what sh1t job I was going to do.

This 18 year old just wins a major sporting trophy and bags nearly 2 million!!!

I'd retire!!!!

Sports personality may as well last just 10 minutes  at the end of the year!

 

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HighPeakFox

HighPeakFox

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Just watching the Fernandez Press Conference, and she dealt with the medical timeout question with great maturity and grace.

 

She also said that she had taken advice from Piers Morgan... (this might be a huge lie)

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Brizzle Fox

Brizzle Fox

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7 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Just watching the Fernandez Press Conference, and she dealt with the medical timeout question with great maturity and grace.

 

She also said that she had taken advice from Piers Morgan... (this might be a huge lie)

Well to be honest i was disgusted that Raducanu didnt thank Morgan in her acceptance speech. That's just so ungrateful of her. 

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Jimothy

Jimothy

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13 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Just watching the Fernandez Press Conference, and she dealt with the medical timeout question with great maturity and grace.

 

She also said that she had taken advice from Piers Morgan... (this might be a huge lie)

What did she say about the time out?

gerblod

gerblod

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22 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I'm quite sure you're teasing, but none of that actually matters.

I wonder whether Shakespeare (William, that is) ever wrote something on the lines of 'consider not who I come from but who I am'. 

 

 

Heathrow fox

Heathrow fox

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50 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

He was ranked about 20th at the time to be fair.

He’d won Queen’s on the way in and had shot up through the rankings in what was more or less his first year or so as a pro.The expert’s would have been aware of him no doubt,but not the British public..A 17 year old German kid smashing Wimbledon was quite sensational at the time.Plus it marked a change over at the top of the men’s game.

One other fairly big sporting shock I can think off is Joe Johnson winning the Snooker WC,Very unexpected.However 99.5% of the world would’ve been clueless.

Jimothy

Jimothy

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2 minutes ago, Heathrow fox said:

He’d won Queen’s on the way in and had shot up through the rankings in what was more or less his first year or so as a pro.The expert’s would have been aware of him no doubt,but not the British public..A 17 year old German kid smashing Wimbledon was quite sensational at the time.Plus it marked a change over at the top of the men’s game.

One other fairly big sporting shock I can think off is Joe Johnson winning the Snooker WC,Very unexpected.However 99.5% of the world would’ve been clueless.

I'm not saying it wasn't a shock, it obviously was. But he had reached the 3rd round the previous year. He was also an Australian Open quarter finalist earlier that year, so I don't think you claim Queens propelled him up the ranking is quiet right. He was a top 50 player months prior to Wimbledon.

gerblod

gerblod

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22 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Just watching the Fernandez Press Conference, and she dealt with the medical timeout question with great maturity and grace.

 

She also said that she had taken advice from Piers Morgan... (this might be a huge lie)

I suspect that Fernandez lost her cool at that medical timeout because of the pressure she felt - not from her opponent, but from the baying crowd desperate for her to win and the multifaceted money-making machine behind her.

 

Had they been alone on court, Fernandez would have probably done the job of patching up Raducanu.

 

As for the lovable Piers, I suspect that, in a similar position, he'd have smashed his racquets, subjected the umpire to a tirade of McEnroe proportions and once that was over, stormed off court. 

Heathrow fox

Heathrow fox

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34 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

I'm not saying it wasn't a shock, it obviously was. But he had reached the 3rd round the previous year. He was also an Australian Open quarter finalist earlier that year, so I don't think you claim Queens propelled him up the ranking is quiet right. He was a top 50 player months prior to Wimbledon.

Yes of course you’re correct about him already being well on the rise.I used Queens as an example of how steep that rise was.The average Wimbledon fortnight fan really wasn’t prepared for him though.I seem to remember the British public getting right  behind him.A German aswell !! Imagine that.

HybridFox

HybridFox

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Only question is whether she wins the main SPOTY or the young category :cool:

 

Surely you'd say the main prize. 

 

Fantastic for women's sport as well, I've really found this tournament captivating. To an extent, I barely know what's happening in the men's one.

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Jimothy

Jimothy

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35 minutes ago, TK95 said:

Only question is whether she wins the main SPOTY or the young category :cool:

 

Surely you'd say the main prize. 

 

Fantastic for women's sport as well, I've really found this tournament captivating. To an extent, I barely know what's happening in the men's one.

She too old for the young person award. I think they have to be 17 at the turn of the year. She'll be 19 in November.

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Jimothy

Jimothy

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38 minutes ago, Heathrow fox said:

Yes of course you’re correct about him already being well on the rise.I used Queens as an example of how steep that rise was.The average Wimbledon fortnight fan really wasn’t prepared for him though.I seem to remember the British public getting right  behind him.A German aswell !! Imagine that.

That was my real point really. Whilst it was a shock he already had played at slams and done well, won a tour title and was up to top 50 in the world. Its a shock he won Wimbledon, but nowhere near the level of shock of a qualifier ranked 150 in the world winning in only their second slam having hardly played any top level tennis.

 

Becker might have been a massive shock shock to casual Wimbledon viewers, but the shock would have been slightly less for big tennis fans, whilst still being a shock obviously. Raducanu's win is a shock to everyone. Nobody could have imagined it. Whereas after his Queens win, some might have wondered if Becker could have an impact at Wimbledon. Who thought Raducanu would make any real impact at the US? 2nd or 3rd round would have been more than enough for people to be happy with her performance.

Heathrow fox

Heathrow fox

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1 hour ago, Facecloth said:

That was my real point really. Whilst it was a shock he already had played at slams and done well, won a tour title and was up to top 50 in the world. Its a shock he won Wimbledon, but nowhere near the level of shock of a qualifier ranked 150 in the world winning in only their second slam having hardly played any top level tennis.

 

Becker might have been a massive shock shock to casual Wimbledon viewers, but the shock would have been slightly less for big tennis fans, whilst still being a shock obviously. Raducanu's win is a shock to everyone. Nobody could have imagined it. Whereas after his Queens win, some might have wondered if Becker could have an impact at Wimbledon. Who thought Raducanu would make any real impact at the US? 2nd or 3rd round would have been more than enough for people to be happy with her performance.

Can’t disagree with anything you’ve said.Anyway I know you’re one of the main contributors too this thread,and a big supporter of British tennis.You must be over the moon.

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ealingfox

ealingfox

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2 hours ago, Facecloth said:

That was my real point really. Whilst it was a shock he already had played at slams and done well, won a tour title and was up to top 50 in the world. Its a shock he won Wimbledon, but nowhere near the level of shock of a qualifier ranked 150 in the world winning in only their second slam having hardly played any top level tennis.

 

Becker might have been a massive shock shock to casual Wimbledon viewers, but the shock would have been slightly less for big tennis fans, whilst still being a shock obviously. Raducanu's win is a shock to everyone. Nobody could have imagined it. Whereas after his Queens win, some might have wondered if Becker could have an impact at Wimbledon. Who thought Raducanu would make any real impact at the US? 2nd or 3rd round would have been more than enough for people to be happy with her performance.

 

And he was 17? Blimey, how had he already done all that? This was all in the same year or so I take it?

kingfox

kingfox

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Just a case of what next now for Emma, massive season coming up for her, especially with a target now on her back.

 

I’ve just never known someone to win a Slam, with so much inexperience on the WTA tour, over the past couple of years we’ve seen Andreescu & Swiatek lift Slams in their teens, but they had a season worth of experience by then. Emma’s played five WTA events, two of which are Slams and she’s already a Slam winner, it’s bloody mental lol 

 

She’s a smart, intelligent tennis player who clearly learns fast, if she can back this up with a season like Swiatek has had after winning the French I’ll be happy, what I hope I don’t see is her going the Ostapenko route.

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HighPeakFox

HighPeakFox

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10 minutes ago, kingfox said:

Just a case of what next now for Emma, massive season coming up for her, especially with a target now on her back.

 

I’ve just never known someone to win a Slam, with so much inexperience on the WTA tour, over the past couple of years we’ve seen Andreescu & Swiatek lift Slams in their teens, but they had a season worth of experience by then. Emma’s played five WTA events, two of which are Slams and she’s already a Slam winner, it’s bloody mental lol 

 

She’s a smart, intelligent tennis player who clearly learns fast, if she can back this up with a season like Swiatek has had after winning the French I’ll be happy, what I hope I don’t see is her going the Ostapenko route.

I'm guessing that Covid sort of hijacked that season of preparation, and she's kinda caught up fast. But I agree, it's beyond comprehension.

reynard

reynard

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1 hour ago, HighPeakFox said:

I'm guessing that Covid sort of hijacked that season of preparation, and she's kinda caught up fast. But I agree, it's beyond comprehension.

She basically didn't play at all in a competitive match for over 14 months. Concentratred on her A levels. Finally appeared 3 weeks before Wimbledon at the start of the grass court season. I follow tennis quite a lot and many of us were questioning the approach. What the hell did we know?

To put this into context not only has she become the first qualifier man or woman to win a major since the open era bagan in 1968 and more than that she's only played two matches on the full WTA tour which she lost quite easily a few weeks ago. Just to clarify for those not in the know, the slams are run by the ITF and the full women's tour starts at the so-called WTA250 level. She played two lower ranked tournaments in the US pre the Open. Retired in one where the conditions were brutal and lost in the final of the other.

It was a high quality final and a simply staggering achievement. Just as our title win will be, so will this be talked about for many many years to come.

 

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