The Old Tennis Thread
 

We've had precise threads for the grand slams, just thought that there should be a thread for the tennis fans on TiBB to discuss all the tennis worldwide throughout the whole year!

Roger Federer just won his 15th Grand Slam title and his 6th at Wimbledon this year, breaking the record previously set by Pete Sampras (at 14). Next up is the hard court season! More success for the top 4? or is it time for someone else to join the elite four at the top! and Serena Williams has won her 3rd Wimbledon title against her sister Venus to make it her 11th Grand Slam title, will she do enough on the hard courts to clinch the No.1 position held by Safina?

I personally want new players to keep coming and improving the quality of tennis!

Major websites that may help with people who want to follow tennis throughout the year:

Men's ATP Tennis

Women's WTA Tour

Tennis.com

Marc why dont you change the title off the Wimbledon thread to the official tennis thread

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^^^^^

Ooh I could do! I think I will :tongue:

OK I'l going to keep this thread as the official thread. The other one was purely wimbledon. :bigsmile: :thumbs:

This Week's Tournaments

ATP Men's:

Campbell’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships (Newport, U.S.A) Website

Category - ATP World Tour 250
Surface - Grass
Draws - Singles;32, Doubles;16

2008 Result : Fabrice Santoro [2] df. Prakash Amritraj 6-3 7-5



WTA Women's:

GDF SUEZ Grand Prix, Budapest, Hungary Website

Surface - Clay/Outdoors
Draws - Singles;32, Doubles;16

2008 Result : Alize Cornet [2] d.f A. Klepac 7-6 6-3

COLLECTOR SWEDISH OPEN WOMEN, Sweden, Bastad Website

Surface: Clay/Outdoors
Draws - Singles;32, Doubles;16

2008 Result : Caroline Wozniacki [4] df. V.Dushevina 6-0 6-2

I wondered where this had disappeared too:cheer2:

Well hello! I have a feeling me and you may be regular posters on here

Yeah well hopefully *crosses fingers*

*crosses fingers* We're cool LOL

Sad News

Tennis star Montcourt dies at 24

French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt has died unexpectedly at the age of 24.
Montcourt, who was ranked 119 in the world, was found dead by his girlfriend in the stairwell of his Paris apartment.

The reason for his death is as yet unexplained and an autopsy will be carried out to determine the cause.

"Mathieu was an enthusiastic young man, passionate, and extremely appreciated for his kindness and politeness," read a French Tennis Federation statement.

In June, Montcourt achieved his highest career ranking of 104 after reaching the second round at the French Open, where he lost to Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic in four sets.

"Mathieu was a promising young player," added Patrice Dominguez, the FFT's technical director.

"We are totally devastated. Our first thoughts are with his family."
In August 2008, Montcourt was banned for eight weeks and fined £7,420 for betting on matches.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport later reduced his ban on appeal from eight to five weeks.

That is awful sad news. ):
My thoughts are with his family and girlfriend.
I watched him play at the french open a few times.. I remember him playing in the second round with Leyton Hewitt a few years ago, 2006? I think. He was a very promising player, and so young.. very sad news.

So young as well! Would tear any family apart

The fact his girlfriend found him.. very sad. :sad:

Question marc..
Will the Rogers Cup be shown on Sky this year?

I read that on BBC yesterday. Very sad news although I didnt know him very well its still sad news

I am not sure actually! Usually it is, I remember watching Ana win it in 06 :lovedup:
It usually changes every year from Toronto to Montreal and visa versa. But I've seen it on TV before so I am guessing they will show it, it is a Masters event afterall!

It's in Montreal this year and has been listed in Roger's schedual... but he said he's taking a break for a while.. (Until the US open, to defend his title :D) to be a dad and stuff... :P
I wanted him to be in it... anyway, I don't like watching highlights online.. it annoys me so I was just wondering. I hope it is (:

Latest WTA

Bastad-SWE

Wozniacki [1], Kirilenko, Pennetta [3], Kudryavtseva, Suarez Navarro [7], Martinez Sanchez and Dulko are all throw to the Quarters. Dulko will play the winner of Cibulkova Vs. Llagostera Vives.

Budapest-HUN

Schnyder [1] is through to the second round.
Peer df. Cornet [2], A. Bondarenko and Martic both through to Quarters.

If you have Sky then your sorted. But if not I'm not sure

I do have Sky (:
I will have to search through all the channels a week before it's due to start.

404, 410, 411 usually key tennis channels

Also.. I'm pretty sure that Federer WONT miss a masters tournament

Eurosport may have it?

Indeed I think thats 410 on Sky