Week 1 - WTA International ($500K) - Shenzhen, China - Hard

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 1 - WTA International ($500K) - Shenzhen, China - Hard

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

Helen40 wrote:
I'm on IE8, so that would explain it. Which browser would you recommend and why? (Sorry I'm abit of an old fart stuck in my ways for browsers!)

Chrome; it is already ahead of the others on features, but more importantly, the rate of improvement is faster than any of the other browsers. It also runs Flash & shows PDF files natively so you can throw away the bloated Adobe Reader/Flash. Automatic transalation is also handy when looking at the pages for foreign tournaments.

From a web developer's perspective, this table shows the set of features supported by each browser - as an end user, you don't need to know what they all are, just compare the number of green boxes.

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

Bet365 have a stream of Anne v Shuai Peng but the camera position is high up in one of the stands so it is almost impossible to see the ball.

It appears to be fairly cold. Shuai Peng has leggings on under her skirt and a long sleeved top as she holds to love for *0-1

Anne with a green sleeveless top and matching skirt but also wearing leggings in the sunshine as she holds to 15 with one df for 1-1

Silence as Anne breaks thanks to a couple of Shuai Peng's groundstrokes finding the net after an earlier bp was saved after a lengthy rally *2-1

Big serving from Anne as she holds to love 3-1*

Bp chance for Anne but she fires wide then has the chance to put away another bp but hits it straight back to SP and sees a passing shot fly past her. *3-2

-- Edited by kundalini on Monday 31st of December 2012 05:14:37 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

Anne breaks back *4-5

-- Edited by Peter too on Monday 31st of December 2012 05:35:20 AM

Peter too · Tennis legend

Anne is on 2nd on Monday 12.30 local time, at about the worst possible time from a UK point of view about 4.30 am.

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

blob wrote:
just my 2¢, but anything other than IE, cos it's slow, inefficient, cluttered, unstable and a bigger security threat than the others .......... for starters!!!!
i use chrome or firefox about evenly

just an example of one thing and IE performance
from cold ie9 takes 42 seconds to start up ready for use on my laptop (with no add ins installed!)
chrome 7 seconds, firefox 8

other users experiences may vary!!!

Thanks blob, are both of these free, easily downloadable, not too system demanding, easy to use?

(Spot the non computer geek)

SMC1809 · All-time great

Helen, the answers to your questions are Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes.

Chrome - https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/chrome/browser/?installdataindex=nosearch&hl=en-GB&brand=CHMB&utm_campaign=en-GB&utm_source=en-GB-ha-emea-ie-sk&utm_medium=ha

Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

SMC1809 wrote:
Helen, the answers to your questions are Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes.
Chrome - https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/chrome/browser/?installdataindex=nosearch&hl=en-GB&brand=CHMB&utm_campaign=en-GB&utm_source=en-GB-ha-emea-ie-sk&utm_medium=ha
Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US

Thanks all for your help, I will try chrome.... (Scared emoticon!!!)

Peter too · Tennis legend

If there are any insomniacs or early risers around Anne's match is about to start.

blob · All-time great

spot on SMC. ^^

First chance to watch a match in the real new season.
Woke up just in time to see anne come on to court to mambo italiano?

blob · All-time great

Brightness down contrast up on my screen makes seeing the ball better stream position is weird though

Peter too · Tennis legend

Anne achieves the first breakthrough on her 2nd break point.

Anne *2-1

Peter too · Tennis legend

And then holds to love with two aces.

Anne 3-1*

Peter too · Tennis legend

Anne earns two more break points but can't take either.

Anne *3-2

Peter too · Tennis legend

Anne saves two break points but not the 3rd.

Anne 3-3*