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Europe's lowest ranked player, Fognini, is some 8-9 places higher than the highest ranked World player.
 

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Extremely excited bout Kim returning. Her and Henin were my favorites. Would be incredible if she managed to come back and win on another return to the tour.
 

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Extremely excited bout Kim returning. Her and Henin were my favorites. Would be incredible if she managed to come back and win on another return to the tour.
I wouldn't be that excited if I were you. She's way passed her prime and I really doubt she still has the competitive killer instinct. But I still think she can win a few ATP tournaments, but GS is another story.
 

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Good story. We all know there are several ways to make a living in tennis besides ATP and challengers: you have the ITF tournaments, but even those are competitive and you also have local tennis tournaments who doesn't even count for rankings.

But in the end, only a small slice of the ranking can make it to big prize money positions, even at lower level.
 

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Anyone catching the Laver Cup? This could be fun but the teams are a bit of joke. What has happened to American men's tennis?
 

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Anyone catching the Laver Cup? This could be fun but the teams are a bit of joke. What has happened to American men's tennis?
Decent enough match so far between Thiem and Shapo. Looks like it'll go to a decider.

As for American tennis, all they've got are big servers and bashers. They've got Isner 2.0 in Olelka. Pretty poor state of affairs.
 

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Fognini is participating on this? Wasn't he supposed to be injured or recovering from injury?
 

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Fognini is participating on this? Wasn't he supposed to be injured or recovering from injury?
There was talk of him having some surgery as he looked injured in Montreal. He may just be delaying it until the end of the season.
 

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Good God! What happened to jack Sock this season? I knew his ranking was bad, but that bad!?!?!
 

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Decent enough match so far between Thiem and Shapo. Looks like it'll go to a decider.

As for American tennis, all they've got are big servers and bashers. They've got Isner 2.0 in Olelka. Pretty poor state of affairs.
Several aspects of this tournament are cringe (e.g. the player intros just now) but the tennis is surprisingly good - especially for an exhibition-type tournament. The black courts look amazing as well.
 

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I had a quick google and it seems Djokovic wasn’t invited. Is that down the issues on the Player’s Council or are Europe just embarrassed about the disparity in teams.
 

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I had a quick google and it seems Djokovic wasn’t invited. Is that down the issues on the Player’s Council or are Europe just embarrassed about the disparity in teams.
Probably politics considering how Fed and Nadal are both on the same side for that issue.
 

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Shocked at Nadal for appearing in the pointless exhibition, I know he did it for Fed but he needs to be careful with his body. It also looks like he’s playing Shanghai which for me he shouldn’t even bother regardless of what happened with the number 1 spot as it looks like Djokovic is back practicing anyway.
 

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I had a quick google and it seems Djokovic wasn’t invited. Is that down the issues on the Player’s Council or are Europe just embarrassed about the disparity in teams.
Probably because of his shoulder injury, surely that must be the reason.
 

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Shocked at Nadal for appearing in the pointless exhibition, I know he did it for Fed but he needs to be careful with his body. It also looks like he’s playing Shanghai which for me he shouldn’t even bother regardless of what happened with the number 1 spot as it looks like Djokovic is back practicing anyway.
There's no way you can call the laver cup a pointless exhibition anymore. Did you see how much Nadal and every other player was invested in the whole thing?
 

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Shocked at Nadal for appearing in the pointless exhibition, I know he did it for Fed but he needs to be careful with his body. It also looks like he’s playing Shanghai which for me he shouldn’t even bother regardless of what happened with the number 1 spot as it looks like Djokovic is back practicing anyway.
Shanghai it's an ATP 1000 tournament. The prize money is very good even if he just tanks and defaults at first round (which we know he wont) and it gives much more points.
 

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Isn't Nadal about to get married? He'd said he'll play a very minimal tour post the USO. The Laver Cup, the WTF and at most, one more tournament.
 

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Thiem vs Tsitsipas has been a really good match. Into the deciding set.
 

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Crazy day of tennis. Tsitspas beat Djokovic and Zverev beat a very annoyed, snappy and whiny Federer (kept fighting with the umpire in the third set).
Medvedev, as expected, beats Fognini.

Djokovic Medvedev would have been great fun but hopefully Tsitsipas gives Med a match as well.
 

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Crazy day of tennis. Tsitspas beat Djokovic and Zverev beat a very annoyed, snappy and whiny Federer (kept fighting with the umpire in the third set).
Medvedev, as expected, beats Fognini.

Djokovic Medvedev would have been great fun but hopefully Tsitsipas gives Med a match as well.
Look forward to it though I was surprised when I looked up the head to head. 4-0 to Medvedev, though none of them straight sets.

The Djokovic vs Tsitsipas match was excellent and the Federer vs Zverev match not far behind.
 

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Look forward to it though I was surprised when I looked up the head to head. 4-0 to Medvedev, though none of them straight sets.

The Djokovic vs Tsitsipas match was excellent and the Federer vs Zverev match not far behind.
Yeah it's a very one sided H2H but really looking forward to this as all of Thiem, Zverev and Tsitsi have looked a lot better and more confident since Laver Cup. Medvedev ofcourse is the form player on the ATP tour so should be a cracker!
 

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Very happy for Andy. What's been great is the fight he showed throughout the tournament in Antwerp. Stan was set and break up so to win from there in final is special.
 

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