2020 ATP General News

[Moxie]

Almost two months without professional tennis during coronavirus,Tennis Channel will bring live matches May 1-4.Based in Germany,the Tennis Point Exhibition Series will feature eight players in a 32-match,round - robin competition with prize money and playoffs.

I saw an ad for this. Dustin Brown is in. They're going to play to no crowd, I think, and practice social distancing. It will be very interesting to see how this experiment works out. It will be fun to watch some live tennis again. (I couldn't really be bothered with the Mutua Madrid playstation version, though it's a fun idea.)

 

[Carol]

Good boy!

 

[the AntiPusher]

Almost two months without professional tennis during coronavirus,Tennis Channel will bring live matches May 1-4.Based in Germany,the Tennis Point Exhibition Series will feature eight players in a 32-match,round - robin competition with prize money and playoffs.

Live tennis in Germany.. Awesome. But it's midnight here and need to go to bed..Two players and an umpire..no ball kids, no line judges. .Hey this is like a USTA tournament.. NICE. (Anything beats talking useless politics with Cali.)

 

[AnonymousFan]

Haha. Watching atm too. Don’t know either player at first glance.

 

[AnonymousFan]

Video quality was pretty poor imo, like the lower quality challengers or college matches. Or like the H.O.R.S.E. basketball game on ESPN a few weeks ago.

Regardless, it was nice to have something "Live" after a month!

Two players and an umpire..no ball kids, no line judges.

Yeah, that was my favorite part lol. Will be watching again tonight, because why not...

 

[AnonymousFan]

Werner vs Broska coming up, career highs 482 and 1517

They say no doctor on site or something for MTOs

 

[AnonymousFan]

Awesome, TC advertising West Palm Beach exhibitions coming up late May featuring Sandgren, Berrettini

edit: May 8-10 ft. Berrettini, Opelka, Sandgren, Tommy Paul

 

[Carol]

If you want to laugh a little bit then look this vid, the movements of the legs and the gestures are so well imitated

 

[don_fabio]

Video quality was pretty poor imo, like the lower quality challengers or college matches. Or like the H.O.R.S.E. basketball game on ESPN a few weeks ago.

Regardless, it was nice to have something "Live" after a month!



Yeah, that was my favorite part lol. Will be watching again tonight, because why not...

Agree, it's nice to watch some live tennis even in this format. Due to social distancing rule, chair for one player is placed on the opposite side so they don't cross by each other at the net You can see humans here and there, some stay by the court taking photos. Feels like watching a R1 stream of some futures series tournament.

 

[Moxie]

Awesome, TC advertising West Palm Beach exhibitions coming up late May featuring Sandgren, Berrettini

edit: May 8-10 ft. Berrettini, Opelka, Sandgren, Tommy Paul

This seems more appealing than the German one. I tried to watch a bit, but the only guy I knew was Dustin Brown, so my interest level was pretty low. I was pretty "airless." (Sort of like those streaming concerts where all the musicians are in their own homes.) Maybe West Palm will be nice, since it should be outdoors. Plus, the lovely Matteo Berrettini. @kskate2

 

[kskate2]

Matteo makes everything more interesting

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[Moxie]

Djokovic under fire for making some questionable claims about the power of positive thinking to change unhealthy foods healthy and toxic water "healing."
(In blasting him on Tennis Channel for irresponsibility, Mary Carillo said the people of Flint, Michigan would be interested to learn this.)

For example:
"I've seen people and I know some people that, through that energetical [sic] transformation, through the power of prayer, through the power of gratitude, they manage to turn the most toxic food or the most polluted water, into the most healing water," Djokovic said.

 

[mrzz]

Djokovic under fire for making some questionable claims about the power of positive thinking to change unhealthy foods healthy and toxic water "healing."

No problem. Positive thinking can turn fire in to a shower of candy.

 

[Jelenafan]

I’m someone who leans a lot toward holistic treatments, and yes, I do believe that a positive attitude can be an often overlooked integral part of healing. My uncle and cousin are MD’s so we’ve had some back & forth on all this, and while I’m wary of what I feel is alarming overmedication in the States, I’m not anti-Western medicine or vaccination.

Homeopathic, natural & holistic treatments are valid tools I believe in overall well being /health , along with good nutrition and exercise. Plus I think the medical establishment for the most part can be reflexively Dismissive/hostile towards that part of the equation, again here in my neck of the woods.

So I get what Novak is talking about when he touts positive thinking. Now there’s a difference between deliberately drinking contaminated water , or stating positive thinking bY itself is going to heal you if you do, as opposed to Opining it’s part of the arsenal For overall health. Giving Novak the benefit of the doubt on that point that he was making. Poetic license with a little hyperbole.

However, the whole changing the molecular structure of water that that guy was touting is a bridge too far in my book.

More interesting to me would be what Novak would or wouldn’t do in order to meet health/safety standards to travel & play in tournamentsin this New post pandemic World.

 

[Moxie]

I’m someone who leans a lot toward holistic treatments, and yes, I do believe that a positive attitude can be an often overlooked integral part of healing. My uncle and cousin are MD’s so we’ve had some back & forth on all this, and while I’m wary of what I feel is alarming overmedication in the States, I’m not anti-Western medicine or vaccination.

Homeopathic, natural & holistic treatments are valid tools I believe in overall well being /health , along with good nutrition and exercise. Plus I think the medical establishment for the most part can be reflexively Dismissive/hostile towards that part of the equation, again here in my neck of the woods.

So I get what Novak is talking about when he touts positive thinking. Now there’s a difference between deliberately drinking contaminated water , or stating positive thinking bY itself is going to heal you if you do, as opposed to Opining it’s part of the arsenal For overall health. Giving Novak the benefit of the doubt on that point that he was making. Poetic license with a little hyperbole.

However, the whole changing the molecular structure of water that that guy was touting is a bridge too far in my book.

More interesting to me would be what Novak would or wouldn’t do in order to meet health/safety standards to travel & play in tournaments in this New post pandemic World.

I absolutely agree with all of this, particularly the bolded above. And including that a positive attitude *can* be a help. Still, if you have a platform to speak to and influence others, as Novak does, and has used here, you should be careful as to what you're promoting. It's rather like Trump suggesting that internal disinfectants and light might fight COVID. There are susceptible/gullible people that can take these things too far. But yes, I'm rather more put out with him about the anti-vaccine position, and I'm curious to see what he does, if that becomes a condition of going back to the tour. Rafa weighed in on his statement about not wanting a vaccine to say that, just like doping regulations, it might just be part of the deal in being a professional tennis player, going forward.

 

[10isfan]

I had no idea Djoke is such a quack. He seems intelligent during interviews. Since he has revealed himself to be an anti-vaxxer, I’m hoping he retires immediately so that he has less of a platform to spread his crazy notions.

 

[Carol]

I had no idea Djoke is such a quack. He seems intelligent during interviews. Since he has revealed himself to be an anti-vaxxer, I’m hoping he retires immediately so that he has less of a platform to spread his crazy notions.

I wouldn't say he seems intelligent during interviews but very "diplomatic and original", he has learned well his roll. I believe in the natural medicine too but without fanaticism and "gurus"

 

[Moxie]

I had no idea Djoke is such a quack. He seems intelligent during interviews. Since he has revealed himself to be an anti-vaxxer, I’m hoping he retires immediately so that he has less of a platform to spread his crazy notions.

I think he is very intelligent, but it's worth remembering that a lot of tennis players leave off formal education at about 16-17. Novak has an inclination to the New Age-y. Don't forget Pepe Imaz. I'm all for yoga and meditation, and I respect the well-considered choice of a vegan or vegetarian diet, but there are a lot of thought streams, within these cultures, that can lead to some very "out-there" ideas. Djokovic seems to be susceptible to them. I don't think he should quit tennis, but I think he could do with a steadying hand as to what he ought and ought not to say in public. He has too much influence to be putting unsubstantiated, unscientific and rather dangerous claims out there.

 

[Carol]

This is the way Uncle Toni is working as coach in the Rafa's Academy

 

[Carol]

It seems that Kyrgios needs to drink wine to talk stupid things. He has nightmares with Novak and of course with Nadal too. He asked Rafa to chat through Instagram but this one smartly said "no way"

Kyrgios a Murray en un Live de Instagram: 'Tú eres mejor que Djokovic'

Una vez más, Nick Kyrgios y Andy Murray volvieron a demostrar la buena relación que les une a través de un directo de Instagram que reunió a ambos tenistas...

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