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Post by Brinyi on Jan 23, 2009 11:19:42 GMT -5
Rod Laver Arena Shuai Peng (CHN) - Serena Williams (USA/n°2) Victoria Azarenka (BLR/n°13) - Amélie Mauresmo (FRA/n°20) Dudi Sela (ISR) - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA/n°5) Samantha Stosur (AUS) - Elena Dementieva (RUS/n°4) Rafael Nadal (ESP/n°1) - Tommy Haas (ALL)
Hisense Arena Gaël Monfils (FRA/n°12) - Nicolas Almagro (ESP/n°17) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS/n°8) - Alona Bondarenko (UKR/n°31) James Blake (USA/n°8) - Igor Andreev (RUS/n°18) Andy Murray (GBR/n°4) - Jurgen Melzer (AUT/n°31) Scrubs
Magaret Court Center Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP/n°21) - Flavia Pennetta (ITA/n°12) Mario Ancic (CRO) - Gilles Simon (FRA/n°6) Virginie Razzano (FRA) - Dominika Cibulkova (SVQ/n°18) Scrubs Richard Gasquet (FRA/n°24) - Fernando Gonzalez (CHI/n°13)
Show Court 2 Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) - Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) Jie Zheng (CHN/n°22) - Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) Radek Stepanek (RTC/n°22) - Fernando Verdasco (ESP/n°14) Scrubs
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Post by Brinyi on Jan 23, 2009 11:22:15 GMT -5
Goooooooooooooooooo
JieJie! ShuaiShuai! MauMau! JoJo! ED! J.Blake! Simon! Wussquet! Ma. jose! Sexxxpanek!
Goooooooooooooooooooo
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Post by Traveling Man on Jan 23, 2009 14:47:32 GMT -5
I will wake up to watch Peng/Williams - which hopefully pays off in the form of an upset win.
Hope Lena D doesn't collapse against Stosur.
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 16:24:13 GMT -5
Hisense used to be Vodaphone Arena.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 19:04:37 GMT -5
Here we go again...
First up, the two very interesting matches featuring the four women vying for the QF spot vacated by Penis Williams: AMG/Pennetta and CSN/MJMS. This is a great chance for Anabel to make the Slam QF she thought she was getting at the French last year...
Also Serena Williams will roll over Peng, and Monfils will crush Almagro.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 19:32:58 GMT -5
AMG and CSN jumping out to big leads IAWP.
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 19:55:56 GMT -5
What is IAWP?
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 19:56:27 GMT -5
Dokic leading the women in AO aces so far ... no one can say this AO has been completely predictable!
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 20:32:30 GMT -5
Anabel through, easily. So why couldn't Fishin' Hat take out Flavia.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 20:33:56 GMT -5
This is a Brinycronym which stands for "In Accordance With Prophesy"
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Jan 23, 2009 20:37:13 GMT -5
This Eurosport commentator should really join The Cult. He bitches about everything and cheers for the sistahs' opponents.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 20:39:55 GMT -5
Anabel through, easily. So why couldn't Fishin' Hat take out Flavia. I don't know! MJMS saves MP on her serve. Up to CSN to serve it out. DOOSE.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Jan 23, 2009 20:41:49 GMT -5
Bleh. Ree plays like poo for like 90% of the set and then she suddenly steps up a gear for a couple of games and it's GSM in 10 minutes. This could be a repeat of AO '07.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 20:47:48 GMT -5
CSN and Ree win at the same time, by the same score. CSN is repeating the career of Marta Marrero, making the quarters at her first Slam (RG) as a qualifier, and following it up with a fourth round appearance at the following year's AO. And we all know how well things turned out for Marrero! So the AMG-CSN R16 has come to pass. If AMG lets this one go, she may never recover. But only one of the two has been to a Slam QF...and it ain't her.
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 20:50:11 GMT -5
This is a Brinycronym which stands for "In Accordance With Prophesy" Ah! Thanks. But don't be surprised if I ask again sometime. That is the Law of the .
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 20:53:31 GMT -5
CSN and Ree win at the same time, by the same score. CSN is repeating the career of Marta Marrero, making the quarters at her first Slam (RG) as a qualifier, and following it up with a fourth round appearance at the following year's AO. And we all know how well things turned out for Marrero! So the AMG-CSN R16 has come to pass. If AMG lets this one go, she may never recover. But only one of the two has been to a Slam QF...and it ain't her. I really, really, really want Carla to win. I was so excited about her after RG, and then, pfffft! I really don't want her career to be Marreroesque. Bud Collins has just informed us that Dinara wants her name pronounced correctly: SA-finnuh. SA rhyming with bat, fin rhyming with Finn. No more SuhFEEnuh for her. Get on board, Tennis Cult!
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 20:57:28 GMT -5
I mean...that's how the syllables should be stressed, but I'm sure she doesn't care. In fact, I think by "Dinara," he meant himself.
Bud always does that, with NavraTEEL!ova and ShaROP!ova and MandLEEK!ova, but he loses credibility because everyone thinks he's insane due to the Pants, and American announcers thus ignore him.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 20:58:45 GMT -5
And, if he wants it right, it should be SA!fina, the A! not as in "bat" but in "far."
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 20:58:51 GMT -5
I think.
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 21:00:25 GMT -5
I mean...that's how the syllables should be stressed, but I'm sure she doesn't care. In fact, I think by "Dinara," he meant himself. Now we've got Brad Gilbert, so annoying with his talk of Ti-Rich, aka "Dickie Gasket". BG makes me cringe ... we need a cringe smiley!
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 21:00:35 GMT -5
He's right about the FINN though. SA!finn-uh.
Pam Shriver will never ever stop pronouncing it saFEEEEEENa. I hope they get into a knock-down brawl over it.
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 21:02:00 GMT -5
And, if he wants it right, it should be SA!fina, the A! not as in "bat" but in "far." Well probably in England some people pronounce the A in Bat just like the one in Far. So it's all a wash.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 21:02:16 GMT -5
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH LOL. Why does he call him that? Why does he do it at every Slam? LOL. Janie, why did you remind me!
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 21:03:23 GMT -5
And, if he wants it right, it should be SA!fina, the A! not as in "bat" but in "far." Well probably in England some people pronounce the A in Bat just like the one in Far. So it's all a wash. English people are stupid. Yeah, I said it
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 21:05:26 GMT -5
And Nav did say that the syllable to emphasize should be the 3rd from the end. And I guess Bud took that to heart. Good for him for trying to get it right, unlike McEnroe's eternal HENNin. Pants or no pants, it's good to try to get the names right instead of insistently Americanizing them all.
Thankfully Serena and Peng have left the screen so for now we get Monfils, pronounced pretty well by BG, surprisingly!
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 21:06:00 GMT -5
As punishment for my anti-England comment (which should really be read as an anti-Europe comment, since Europe is the worst), K-Bond is quickly down a break to JieJie.
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 21:08:12 GMT -5
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH LOL. Why does he call him that? Why does he do it at every Slam? LOL. Janie, why did you remind me! If I have to suffer, you have to suffer! It must be torture to actually hang around with Brad. I'm sure he never lets up with this stuff. It almost makes me wish Ti-Rich ill, just so I won't have to hear Dickie Gasket ever again!
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Jan 23, 2009 21:09:29 GMT -5
And, if he wants it right, it should be SA!fina, the A! not as in "bat" but in "far." That's true. Russian names are somewhat tricky to pronounce 100% correctly because of the vowel reduction and spelling doesn't give much clue to the outsiders, but the commentators should really know which syllable is stressed. I don't know how the ESPN crowd does it, but the British commentators on Eurosport always say Yeh-LAY-na (Jankovic) when it should be YEH-leh-na.
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Post by janie on Jan 23, 2009 21:09:33 GMT -5
Is Az going to beat Am? That would be fun. Unless Am is going to play her aggressive game, in which case I'd like her to go far.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 23, 2009 21:10:15 GMT -5
And Nav did say that the syllable to emphasize should be the 3rd from the end. And I guess Bud took that to heart. Good for him for trying to get it right, unlike McEnroe's eternal HENNin. Pants or no pants, it's good to try to get the names right instead of insistently Americanizing them all. Yup, I think that's the general rule, but American announcers will always pronounce the Czech and Russian names the way they would read them in English, and once they start winning and being referred to by TDs and such in these ways, usually the girls just roll with it. I mean, the Anglophiles are responsible for the money: why rock the boat? That's why we have misKEEna instead of MISkina, saFEEna instead of SAfina, etc. Probably we should have vaiDEEsova, beNESova, PETrova, etc. too. But it's too late.
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