How about car threads Steve? 
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Haha, thatās just standard Hawkeye that came out nearly 20 years ago as a sticking plaster for line call problems. Remember McEnroe - he was right some of the timeā¦
It puts the burden of playing the match and calling the close line calls, on the player. Thatās wrong.
Sometimes at the other end of the court!
The state of some of the line judges too!
Where do they get them from? Certainly not people in their prime with sharp eyes.
Are they tested even. The Wimbledon lot just look like random free volunteers.
Umpires are at least trained and monitored but they leave a lot to be desired at times. Yes Cedrid, you in the Nadal v Goffin match on clay a few years agoā¦!
Auto line calling does away with all that.
The majors and most big ATP and WTA tournaments have Hawkeye or equivalent anyway.
Just use it to the full
Pro travelling line judges = CO2 emissions, Travel, housing, feeding them etc. All for nought - they are not good enoughš
Rant overš
Unless elec / fully eco, all races and crotch rocketing should be banned!
Same for aircraft. Essential travel only - maybe?
Wars - huge CO2 issues.
Gonna happen but too late because of wet fish politians / denighers the world over.
There said itš
And class a amps.
They will be nextā¦
Hang on. Back to sportā¦
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Definitelyš
Seems to speed the game up no end. The other thing I love about Raducano is the refreshing lack of affectations before the serve.
Get 5 balls, have a look.
Choose one, knock the others back.
Bounce it a bit
Adjust shirt and headgear.
Fuck about with sweat bands
Grunt through point.
Fuck all that.
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So, hard to like Djok, the I want everyone to love me semi pusher return bot,
OR Madlad Medvedev (nicknamed the Octopus, due to his gangly stroke production).
Me? Come on Octopus everytime - stop the narcissistic, tries so hard to be liked Djokobotš
Nice summary of Nadal.
Mr Bouncy ball Djok was as bad.
At least the shot clock has cut it back a bit.
He taught Tsitsipussy to take such long toilet breaks btw.
Yeah I guess he is the distillation of but there are so many of them doing it to a greater or lesser extent. It takes the piss
Also not having the ball kid as towel servants due to covid is great. That needs to stay permanent.
Player primadonnas!
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The black air snake was fun. Shisha for tennis.
Great match, but will someone please explain to the Yanks how to do a winners ceremony, for fuck sake, that was awful. As for interviewing the loser like thatā¦jeezā¦
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Loved this quote from Emma Raducanu today
: āI still havenāt checked my phone. I have absolutely no idea whatās going on outside of the little world that weāre in here. Weāve just been in the quiet room, just enjoying the moment, taking it all in. I think today we just really need to shut out from everything, just enjoy it as a team, because it was a team effort.
āI have no idea when Iām going home. I have no idea what Iām doing tomorrow. I definitely think itās the time to just switch off from any future thoughts or any plans, any schedule. Iāve got absolutely no clue. Right now, no care in the world, Iām just loving life.ā
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Brilliant. I hope she gets to enjoy it for a good while yet. Amazing win.
Bless her xxx
I bet at some point she looked at all the names of tennis royalty on that trophy and had to pinch herself that hers was on there with them!
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Be funny if she just retired. Got enough money for a reasonably comfortable life, how better to troll the nation 
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I donāt think she will do that.
Sheās played tennis at a high level for a long time.
Competitive people who do things well need to compete.
You just donāt get that kind of buzz from playing friendly games down the local clubš¤£
With the killer, block the moment out capability she has, Emma is not like other people though.
Anything is possibleš
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Octopus 2 sets up!
Come on Med, bury himā:tennis: