Good Canadian Kid

[Cornuck]

Nice to see, thanks for the updates!

[donlever]

Unsurprisingly Alvaraz rolled Felix 4 and 2.

He will play Janik Sinner in the finals with the top ranking in the world on the line.

Those 2 are head and shoulders above the rest of the world currently.

A good run by Auger-Aliassime nonetheless.

[donlever]

.....and there it is.

Felix Auger-Aliassime is poised for a significant rankings breakthrough

Felix Auger-Aliassime is projected to reach a new career-high ranking of world No 5 after beating Alexander Zverev to reach the ATP Finals semi-finals

The Canadian’s stellar form in recent months has seen him surge over 20 places in the rankings since late August

Milos Raonic reached #3 a decade ago.

Biana Andreescu achieved #4 for women (and won a US Open, over Serena Williams no less - the only Canadian ever to in a major event in singles play - Daniel Nestor achieved a career Grand Slam and an Olympic Gold in doubles).

Those are the 2 highest ever singles rankings for Canadian players.

With Alcaraz and Sinner around #3 and a major would be a big accomplishment for Felix.

[2Fingers]

Hey Donny how big is Tennis now? Do they still get the same TV ratings? I used to always hear the top players names in tennis and golf but not as much as before. I think there used to be players that are dominant in the sport and has gone away.

When Woods was in the top of his game I would watch his highlights but now I barely know any names in golf. Same with tennis.

[donlever]

So I just spent 20 minutes penning a huge response to this Reef and the fucking site shut it down on me and I lost it all.

I may rewrite it but not today.

Apologies.

[Cornuck]

When Woods was in the top of his game I would watch his highlights but now I barely know any names in golf. Same with tennis.

I wonder if this has anything to do with how we view 'TV' and sports in general? "Back in the day", a lazy Sunday would involve watching pretty much any sport and channel surfing between football, golf, whatever. Without much else to watch, finding the major tennis tournaments was a lot easier.

Even Nebraska Football - when I first moved here, the games were on one the big networks, I had a Dish and watched most of the games for a few years, then they went to a few more networks, and then Big10 Network (no, I'm not going to subscribe) - and I lost interest.

[donlever]

Plus the Huskers have lost their National lustre so don't hit big networks.

[5thhorseman]

When Woods was in the top of his game I would watch his highlights but now I barely know any names in golf. Same with tennis.

I wonder if this has anything to do with how we view 'TV' and sports in general? "Back in the day", a lazy Sunday would involve watching pretty much any sport and channel surfing between football, golf, whatever. Without much else to watch, finding the major tennis tournaments was a lot easier.

^ This

So true, back then there were limited options and one just watched what was 'on'. Wide World of Sports gave us exposure to lots of sports. Watched a lot of alpine downhill during the days of the Crazy Canucks. CFL of course (how do they even get viewers now with the slow demise of cable?). Curling, Tournament of Hearts, I think it was called. There may even have been some equestrian coverage.

I kind of miss the days of channel surfing. Nowadays, if you stream only, you need to watch TV with intention. Which service will I subscribe to? What series will I binge on next. It's hard to just browse. I miss being fed like a coma patient.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Back then we had hot tennis babes like Sharapova. Now it's all uggers like Penis Williams

[donlever]

If you care even a smidgen about Canadian Sports success stories start paying more attention to this girl.

She may just turn into the best female swimmer of all time.

A Canadian Michael Phelps story.

She is legit!!!

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summ ... -9.7006419

[Carl Yagro]

What happened to Penny?

Did she deliberately avoid drug testing?

[rats19]

Summer and some arn’t … but she is!

[donlever]

What happened to Penny?

Did she deliberately avoid drug testing?

Yeah she fucked up.

It's called the whereabouts rule and she was no where about when up for testing.

Edit...here ya go...

Athlete whereabouts is part of the World Anti Doping Agency's (WADA) drug testing program. Selected athletes must provide a daily 60-minute availability window, 90 days in advance, to be tested, no matter where in the world they might be. If an athlete submits "late, inaccurate or incomplete whereabouts that lead to them being unavailable for testing, [they] may receive a Filing Failure," according to World Aquatics.

[donlever]

With the first major of the year upcoming January in Oz and Auger-Aliassime hoping to continue with his 2025 year end form into 2026 in an effort to win a major it is clear, reviewing the under the hood stats, where he needs to improve his game...

With so many of these players close in talent, preparation, fitness and skill breaking serve is a massive winning opportunity as well as an indicator of overall success...


Top 10 players Break Point Conversion Rate
Jannik Sinner 45%
Carlos Alcaraz 44%
Alex de Minaur 43%
Novak Djokovic 42%
Ben Shelton 41%
Alexander Zverev 40%
Taylor Fritz 40%
Lorenzo Musetti 39%
Jack Draper 39%
Auger-Aliassime 33%