Hello Everyone.

My name Bob and I newbie. I sport journalist and live in Brazil. I read here many months now but this my first post because my English no very good. Very sorry.

Today I go to ITF Futures here in my city of Natal. It very much fun. I watch lots of men who I not know and who name I not able translate, running around playing tennis. It very exciting.

Tennis very much popular here in Brazil. I know this because both other two spectators tell me so. They like very much too.

I know much peoples here like statistics, especially my very good friends Indiana, RJA and Korriban (please come back Korriban I miss you much xxx) so today I collect interesting statistic.

I count all the peoples playing tennis today. Exactly 50% win their matches and other 50% all lose. Must be coincidence. I wonder if this ever happen before.

Tomorrow I write other report.

Tchau tchau from Brazil.

Bob

In last week's Brazilian Futures, there were 31 Brazilians & 1 Ecuadorean (who retired in R2) in the main draw. In this week's there are 30 Brazilians and in next week's (i.e. this one), there will be at least 30 Brazilians. There have been no non-Brazilians in qualifying for any of these three weeks.

The Futures event in Argentina is similiar.

The other Futures events in South America (Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela) don't have quite so many home players because, you've guessed it, they have quite a few Argentinians and Brazilians making up the numbers.

Bob in Brazil wrote:

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Hello Everyone.

My name Bob and I newbie. I sport journalist and live in Brazil. I read here many months now but this my first post because my English no very good. Very sorry.

Today I go to ITF Futures here in my city of Natal. It very much fun. I watch lots of men who I not know and who name I not able translate, running around playing tennis. It very exciting.

Tennis very much popular here in Brazil. I know this because both other two spectators tell me so. They like very much too.

I know much peoples here like statistics, especially my very good friends Indiana, RJA and Korriban (please come back Korriban I miss you much xxx) so today I collect interesting statistic.

I count all the peoples playing tennis today. Exactly 50% win their matches and other 50% all lose. Must be coincidence. I wonder if this ever happen before.

Tomorrow I write other report.

Tchau tchau from Brazil.

 

Bob

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 Brilliant! Just spent 2 weeks in Corsica, playing tennis every day, so now have come off my high cheval. Too many nice people out there on this forum. Just 1 or 2 pedants who only get rude when their pedantry fails to irritate sufficiently. 

Been following the tennis and the forum.

Wonderful 2 weeks for Dan. Both results and his play. Probably should have won both finals, looking back, but in some ways he could be even more motivated this way round by falling just short. He got away with rushing his serve too much both weeks in the main.....even with all those DFs, but I wish he'd slow it down just a little more. BTW, his excellent play recently in no way exonerates Dan from the justified criticism in the past, particularly his off court antics, but one hopes this is the start of something permanent, rather than a tantalising "blip".

Fantastic result for Kyle. Starting to get excited now. No fuss. No drama. Improving with every match. Now really seeing the value of him playing match after match in tough qualies earlier in the year, even if the points were paltry.

Great weeks for Dan Cox and JoKo too. Can't complain about running out of steam after huge win streaks. 

Shame about Laura's injury although she looks certain to be back for the USO. I'm increasingly convinced she will drop well back down the rankings to 50-100 for quite some time to come until she puts in enough work to turn the big issues in her game into strengths. May be for the best long term. 

Dan E to qualify for the USO? Wouldnt that be fun!?

korriban wrote:

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 Brilliant! Just spent 2 weeks in Corsica, playing tennis every day, so now have come off my high cheval. Too many nice people out there on this forum. Just 1 or 2 pedants who only get rude when their pedantry fails to irritate sufficiently. 

Been following the tennis and the forum.

Wonderful 2 weeks for Dan. Both results and his play. Probably should have won both finals, looking back, but in some ways he could be even more motivated this way round by falling just short. He got away with rushing his serve too much both weeks in the main.....even with all those DFs, but I wish he'd slow it down just a little more. BTW, his excellent play recently in no way exonerates Dan from the justified criticism in the past, particularly his off court antics, but one hopes this is the start of something permanent, rather than a tantalising "blip".

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Other than unsubstantiated rumour, what off court antics are you referring to? Curious to know whether there is any fact behind this. Some people will refer to his own admission about his lack of application, but here is the quote.

"...I know why. It's because I don't train hard enough and don't work hard enough day in and day out. I'm obviously pretty bad at my job. It's up to me, it's not up to anyone else. I want to push on. It's not that I don't want to do it, I obviously want to do it. It's just for whatever reasons, distractions I need to stay there and just play tennis and that's it. It's easier said than done. Thousands of people have told me to do it but I'm yet to do it for a sustained period of time. When I do do it, I obviously play pretty well. I definitely think I will be top 100, and I still think that."

So he's admitting he doesn't train hard enough day in, day out. I've seen this interpreted as "he doesn't train", but clearly he does. Nobody could compete at the level he did in the DC tie without being in very good physical condition.

Like I've said before, Dan doesn't owe us anything. If you don't like him, treat him like he's from Western Australia and pretend he doesn't exist.

 

Hello Peoples

Today I go tennis again. Yippee !! I start by answering Indi question. At first I think Mr Steven is wrong because I only hear 1 person speak funny language. But then I hear another speak my language but with horrible European accent that I no like. 

So in total 30 of my peoples and 2 pesky foreigners. Mr Steven right again as he (nearly) always is. 

I watch very good match today. Two Brazilian peoples play and the winner Brazilian too. OK. That obvious.  Even I not THAT stupid 

Winner name is Joao Pedro Sorgi. He very good player with seeds.  I know he good player before match start because my twin brother tell me.  He say Sorgi play in Spain this year.  He lose 1st round there but win 5 games from big tall ginger kid from Yorkshire.  Not many peoples do that.

Later this week I watch final and write other report.

Tchau Tchau

PS Dear Spectator  Pais mean parents.  País (with accent) mean country.  I teach you the language of my país Natal  By Christmas you understand all. Spot joke ?

Madeline wrote:

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Bob, you're (Brazil) nuts! But very funny.

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Thank you Madeline for very nice compliment xxx