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Post by janie on Aug 14, 2013 19:33:35 GMT -5
Qualies start next Tuesday and they're going to be televised. Did this also happen last year, or is this a first for the USO? Anyway, it's fantastic -- as long as the matches are also streamed. USO TV schedule for the US is here: www.usopen.org/en_US/about/tv_us.html?promo=subnavUnfortunately I'll be having company (family) for 2 weeks, starting next week, so I wonder if I'll get to see any of this tournament at all. Okay, the 2nd week of "company" is janiehub, who hardly counts as company since this is his house, too, but when he's here I don't tend to sit around watching that much tennis.
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Post by The Chloe on Aug 17, 2013 20:54:11 GMT -5
I will also see none of this. Oh well.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 17, 2013 21:33:07 GMT -5
I have work so yeah.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 20, 2013 21:20:43 GMT -5
Well, they've been showing Cohen-Majeric for 1000 hours now, so I'm not sure this all worked out for the best. It is a Comedic Epic though.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 21, 2013 19:57:11 GMT -5
Tonight, I'm watching Hibi-Kiick. Much better.
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 22, 2013 3:30:05 GMT -5
Report?
I've only seen amateur clips of Hibi! I want to know how effective her BH slice/big FH combo is, whether she'll be any good etc.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 22, 2013 21:46:48 GMT -5
I don't think her BH will be good enough. But others disagree. It was enough yesterday, but she just lost to A-Rod.
She is way way way way way too skinny.
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Post by janie on Aug 23, 2013 11:59:41 GMT -5
I had a bad experience with my match, where both players completely lacked a serve. How did they even reach this stage? In women's Q thread. But even worse than the match itself was the discovery that the improved USO stream (apparently) takes up more bandwidth, and my stupid internet connection can't handle it, so the stream keeps stopping for fairly lengthy periods. I finally went to the USO web site to check on other scores and found out that the match I was still watching had ended some time before! I should phone Verizon to ask about a speed upgrade -- the maximum I can get here is still very slow but I bet it would be enough -- but am just not in the mood for one of those tiresome phone-company calls with all their robo-menus, conflicting stories about prices, etc. that you get from different reps, etc etc etc.
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