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sad that it had to end like that.. what a mess :/
to me, the 2nd/3rd violations were justified.. but, it's all based on that first violation (coaching instructions), which was absolute bullshit.
first, the chair should have simply warned both sides (& perhaps coaches as well). To give Serena a violation like that at such a critical time, without warning, is absolute garbage. That caused Serena to "lose it". ie, "here we go again".
very unfortunate, especially for Osaka.. she played incredible. She looked really distraught over how it turned out :/
never saw anything like that in tennis.. other than maybe serena being ejected after the "threat".. but this was pretty unique, especially because of the fan/crowd reactions.
was painful to watch.
It was painful to watch. I agree the chair should have gave a warning like it is used to doing, I believe her if she says she didn't receive coaching instructions. I think this may have been the reason to cause her to act out of character and throwing the racket.
Also the warning should help if there is any ambiguity in any violation such as advising no communication be made so as to avoid any future doubtful violations.
3.91 walk
Decided to see where my 1.5 time was
Now i had everything against me
Non running shoes, shitty track, 50 degrees, lots of clothes, shitty diet yesterday etc. I figured with all that this can my worst possible scenario so I figured better do it now.
1.47 in 12:30
Need 1.5 but I still have 3 weeks.
solid fight. very close. but i'd give that to Porter, he just worked more/harder.
Lol when I read solid fight I was thinking it was mcgregor vs khabib fight then I see porter, then I knew you accidentally posted in the wrong section lol.
OMG WHAT a fu**ing amazing fight. Any close rounds which I doubted I gave to danny garcia and I had it 7 rounds to 5 shawn porter. Garcia during the middle rounds didn't really know how to handle the pressure shawn was coming with and would wait and pick his shots, some very good left counter hooks but shawn porter just going in to the body and some interesting counter punches. First few rounds I saw shawn won the majority danny waiting and picking his shots, porter did miss a lot of shots to when swinging but he putting the pressure to garcia, who just freezes. In the middle round it was going both ways, garcia starting to put the pressure but when he gets hit he starts to back off the pedal a bit and counter. I think he gave those rounds away and the last round I gave to garcia and round 11 to shawn porter.
I don't like when shawn goes messy but in this fight I liked it because it wasn't too messy a lot of targeted aggression just chasing him with some mess in there. Shawn got tired a little but he knew that if he put on the pressure he was going to win. some carelessness from porter with wild hits especially when he hits comes low and his head unguarded and giving garcia opportunity, there was one time where it was open a lot that garcia targetted it late and porter leaned back.
great fight of the year candidate.
Highlights of kovalev vs alvarez, I'm sure you saw the garcia vs porter fight.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_RKItWwls" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_RKItWwls</a>
Shawn porter vs Errol spence 2019 - would be interesting to see how errol handles shawn's pressure style fighting.
first, the chair should have simply warned both sides (& perhaps coaches as well). To give Serena a violation like that at such a critical time, without warning, is absolute garbage. That caused Serena to "lose it". ie, "here we go again".
I feel that's excusing Serena's subsequent behaviour,
to blame the umpire for not warning her about a very well-known violation in the game.
I disagree with 'warnings' for offences in general. What's the point of the rule if it's arbitrarily enforced depending on context?
It's a weird rule anyway (coaches are paid to coach IMO) but I understand that tennis has a gladiatorial spirit where the players should be battling their opponent with no outside influence. If she should be mad at anyone, it should be the coach, not the umpire.
Then compounding it by racket-smashing and abusing the ump is just bad situational awareness/brain fade, like not knowing how many fouls you have.
This is the third US Open final where Serena has completely overshadowed the effort of the eventual winner with meltdowns (Clijsters 2009 and Stosur 2011). I think it really sucks to put an asterisk on someone's title like that, i.e. "if the other player hadn't melted down and given a game away, maybe they would have won, but I'll never know etc". This was the worst of the three by a mile though.
khan vs samuel vargas
Disappointed that khan got chin checked again, the glass jaw, he still has not learned his lesson from the previous knockouts. But still won a fight by UD. samuel vargas was not really that good but he is a brawler who can take a lot of shots to the face. like a proper mexican brawler. But lacked the boxing skills and defence.
damn! can't learn chin.Quotewill watch the garcia vs porter fight
You can check out the twitter page for @DAZN_USA they have the entire event uploaded on twitter.
garcia/porter should be good!
tbh i'd like garcia to win. don't enjoy watching porter, he makes fights so messy/mauling/holding style.
garcia has some solid power, hope he catches porter
Definitely agree with you there. porter is definitely a messy fighter and he brawls and hopes on his messy style to bring him out on top. If garcia can be composed and smart and just pick his shots he can get porter out of there, but you have to becareful of headbutts with porter's style. like his fight with brook, bone (or something like that don't remember the name) but he never wins convincingly he gets into a brawl and hopes to come out on top.
hope garcia wins.
did you watch the kovalev vs alvarez fight?
