WTA Dubai, Guadalajara; ATP Doha, Marseille, Santiago
Five tournaments this week. I don't know about you, but I feel like we're
slowly getting back to normal tennis? I know, no crowds, but still... grampa
is back!
So the women have a big one this week! And a little one for the lower
ranked. The men have three ATP 250 on three continents. Everyone can play!
That WTA 1000 says we gonna start with the ladies!
Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
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A Bunch of Sand with a glass/concrete background
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WTA 1000, HC outdoors. This was hit by a lot of top 10 players withdrawing, so
we're left with just four: Svitolina, Pliskova, Sabalenka and
Kvitova. They have byes in the first round together with
Bertens, Bencic, Azarenka and Swiatek. We get eight more seeds
too:
Muguruza, Mertens, Keys, Vondrousova, Martic, Rybakina, Kontaveit and
Sakkari. So 16 ladies from the top 25. It's pretty awesome, I'd say.
Who else we got here (it's a 56 players draw)? Kuznetsova (already beat
Wang), Țig v Ostapenko, Kudermetova just beat
Pavlyuchenkova, Jabeur dispatched Siniakova, Gauff v Alexandrova, Hercog, Anisimova, Cîrstea, Cornet beat
Kasatkina, Kerber v Garcia, Ferro, Mladenovic,
Sevastova
(beat Pera). As I said already, pretty awesome even without the other top tenners.
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| Garbine Muguruza - on a construction site, I mean look at all that welding in the background... |
Abierto Zapopan, Guadalajara
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Tequila, some of those bottles are made in Guadalajara, I'm 87%
sure.
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WTA 250, HC outdoors. It's a 32 players draw, no byes. The eight seeds are
Podoroska, Bouzkova, Blinkova, SST, Hibino, Kovinic, LAF and
Juvan. Well... of course Dubai being so strong means here we have some
weaker sauce. I mean seeds go from #45 to #91. Lets see who else is in Mexico:
Wang (X1), ALF, McNally, Bouchard, Kalinskaya, AKS, Vandeweghe v
Buzărnescu, Bara.
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| Sara Sorribes Tormo - the only valid way to celebrate your 1st tropy: levitating! |
Onto the men.
Qatar ExxonMobil Open, Doha
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Doha Brunch, I'm 87% sure it would perfectly complement
those tequilas.
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ATP 250, HC outdoors. 28 players draw, so Thiem, Federer, Rublev and
The Shap have byes. The other four seeds are
RBA, Goffin, The Man and Coric. Who else is there? I'm gonna
start with well known Qatari Mubarak Shannan Zayid. Ha!
Opelka, Gasquet, Fucsovics, Fritz, Pospisil, Jaziri, Evans are
also in the mix.
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| Nikoloz Basilashvili - clearly less than impressed with that bird |
Open 13 Provence, Marseille
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| Bouillabaisse, I almost posted the raw materials and I'm 87% sure that it would've make you guys squirm |
Another ATP 250, HC but this time indoors. The guys with byes are
Medvedev, The Tsi, The Khach and Humbert. The guys without byes
are Sinner, Nishikori, ADF and Nishioka. Other notables:
4U, Tsonga v Lopez, Herbert, Norrie and Pouille.
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| Daniil Medvedev - that's a good trophy, almost as big as his forehead |
Chile Dove Men+Care Open, Santiago
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Back to normal pics, Santiago and The Andes.
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ATP 250, clay, outdoors. Yes, the Golden Swing keeps swinging. You know the
drill... 28 players, so Garin, Paire, Andujar and Djere have to
wait a bit for the action. The other four seeds are
The Tiaf, Caruso, Coria and Delbonis. Who else is there? The
Cerundolos (will they?)! And the Sousas! And the Cecchinato!
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| Cristian Garin - Homeboy! Vamos! But his real name is Christian Ignacio Garín Medone! |
C19 still is a thing, awful and shit so the coda will stay:
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