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The qualifier Ilya Ivashka upsets the top seed Zverev 6-7, 7-5, 6-3 At the BMW Open in Munich.

Were the serving yips present? Answer: Zverev had 14 doublefaults....
I watched some of this match before they switched to Coco Gauff. Some good tennis in there. Hard hitting. Ivashka is another 27-year-old coming from obscurity to some notable tennis. He pushed Nadal to 3 in Barcelona last week.
 

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The qualifier Ilya Ivashka upsets the top seed Zverev 6-7, 7-5, 6-3 At the BMW Open in Munich.

Were the serving yips present? Answer: Zverev had 14 doublefaults....
Sacha gave away the match..I wish Rafa would reach out to Feli Lopez to work with him on his service..
 
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Sacha gave away the match..I wish Rafa would reach out to Feli Lopez to work with him on his service..
Sasha just turned 24, not over the hill but a tad beyond being a prodigious wonderkind.. Physically he has all the tools and that serve when it’s on lifts his whole game to an impressive level. It’s a natural motion for Sasha , mechanically very sound.

Rafa on the other hand has always tinkered/tweaked with his serve and while it’s been very effective at times, the serve was IMO never a nice fluid motion , as a youngster it was almost an afterthought. He’s “willed” himself into being a better server , but it’s not natural so it can and will breakdown at times, to which Rafa trudges on and goes back to the drawing board. The anti-Feliciano Lopez So to speak.

In contrast, with his height and feel Zeverev should have an ease with his serve, it’s not an “add on”.
The difference is all mental, Rafa even while struggling with the serve has never developed full blown yips, and for someone as relatively young as Zverev, it’s hard to shake that mental albatross he’s hung on himself.
 

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Darn it..I really liked his game.very entertaining..too bad. I wish him well in his future endeavors.
I also liked his game,if my memory serves me well,he also had a blood disorder which he had to manage during his tennis career.
 

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I also liked his game,if my memory serves me well,he also had a blood disorder which he had to manage during his tennis career.
Yeah almost, not exactly a blood disorder, it’s a metabolic disorder called Icterus intermittens juvenilis.
 

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Yeah almost, not exactly a blood disorder, it’s a metabolic disorder called Icterus intermittens juvenilis.
That sounds more like jaundice to me,I am in the medical profession by the way.I will look it up.
 

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That sounds more like jaundice to me,I am in the medical profession by the way.I will look it up.
It is called Gilberts Syndrome- which is a liver disorder,when the liver cannot process properly.Episodes of jaundice,triggered by stress,eg,exercise.
 

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That sounds more like jaundice to me,I am in the medical profession by the way.I will look it up.
Yeah mostly harmless for patients. It’s a genetic based metabolic liver disorder. Can cause nonhemolytic jaundice.
 

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Yeah mostly harmless for patients. It’s a genetic based metabolic liver disorder. Can cause nonhemolytic jaundice.
I am aware of that I am in the medical profession okay.,and have treated people with jaundice.
 
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I have a beef with the Madrid Open....why can't the women and men start the tournament together not at split times.They have enough courts at the Magic Box.
 

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I have a beef with the Madrid Open....why can't the women and men start the tournament together not at split times.They have enough courts at the Magic Box.
Interesting question, but wondering what would be the benefit? On my TV, the women's Madrid matches get pride of place this weekend, because it's a 1000. If it's simultaneous, don't you risk pushing the women's matches down?
 

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Interesting question, but wondering what would be the benefit? On my TV, the women's Madrid matches get pride of place this weekend, because it's a 1000. If it's simultaneous, don't you risk pushing the women's matches down?
Well both women and men are playing on the main court as of tomorrow and court 1 which are the main 2 courts.I will just have to do what women do best is multi skill and split two matches at once:)
 
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Well both women and men are playing on the main court as of tomorrow and court 1 which are the main 2 courts.I will just have to do what women do best is multi skill and split two matches at once:)
But, if the women are farther into the draw, won't they get more air time? I would think. I'm just wondering how it would benefit the women to start later in Madrid?
 

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But, if the women are farther into the draw, won't they get more air time? I would think. I'm just wondering how it would benefit the women to start later in Madrid?
I just prefer both starting at the same time,like GS tournaments.
 

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I just prefer both starting at the same time,like GS tournaments.
But it's not a GS. And I still think that the women's event has a better chance of getting featured by virtue of being in later rounds, by the way it is currently structured.
 

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But it's not a GS. And I still think that the women's event has a better chance of getting featured by virtue of being in later rounds, by the way it is currently structured.
Well all up this tournament does go for 2 weeks. ( so it is like a mini GS).It also depends what woman get to the later rounds,in this tournament,people will watch.
 
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Grigor really played a horrible tbr.. sounds like Paul Anacone is a big fan of his game too bad
 

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Pablo Andújar finally shaved off that beard and back to looking very handsome again. And up a break on Giron in the first.
 
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