Week 4 - Challenger ($75,000) - Sportmaster Tennis Championships, Maui, HI, USA (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

RE: Week 4 - Challenger ($75,000) - Sportmaster Tennis Championships, Maui, HI, USA (hard)

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Cam wins 6-1 6-3

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

If I've worked this out correctly then Cameron only has about 5 ranking points to come off before French Qualies deadline. So is probably only 1 or two wins away from probably making the cut.

Jared · Social player

Krajicek's a former Texas A&M Aggie, so Cam had extra special motivation to beat him handily! Unlike last night, he only faced 1 break point and saved it. Sarkissian's hot though - he's the one that took the #1 seeded Donaldson out.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Jared wrote:
Krajicek's a former Texas A&M Aggie, so Cam had extra special motivation to beat him handily! Unlike last night, he only faced 1 break point and saved it. Sarkissian's hot though - he's the one that took the #1 seeded Donaldson out.

Translation? confuse

the addict · Tennis legend

Had me puzzled as well, so I googled.
www.tamu.edu/about/faq.html
or in brief
Aggie - student at A&M
A&M - Agricultural and Mechanical University

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

the addict wrote:
Had me puzzled as well, so I googled.
www.tamu.edu/about/faq.html
or in brief
Aggie - student at A&M
A&M - Agricultural and Mechanical University

Cheers. smile Couldn't be @rsed to check further. Lazy, I know, but Yank-isms have that effect on me... Still doesn't explain "handily", either, hence the extra bold... wink I've come across some "lulus" in my time, but never that one & I refuse to dig deeper when the meaning's not obvious! furious

indiana · Tennis legend

I see a meaning of "handily" as "easily" is listed as "US / Canada".

That actually surprised me, must be Scottish as well, because it would never have crossed my mind that that word would be an issue and for as long as I can remember I'd just be accepting of teams, horses whoever, whatever winning "handily" and could imagine saying it myself.

indiana · Tennis legend

Cam now up to 206 ranking points so far, which 'live' is WR 250.

Oakland2002 · All-time great

Well heres hoping another few wins for Cam and his major concern will be dealing with the dirt in Paris and the Aggies a little less relevant. Onwards and upwards!

Jared · Social player

Texas is located in the Southern part of the U.S. - no one there is considered a "Yank" because of the U.S. Civil War when they fought the "Yanks." The South is where the phrase "Yankee Go Home" originated. To continue to refer to Southerners and the South as "Yanks" is about like referring to Andy Murray as "English" - it is considered insulting. "Handily" is an English word - is in the OED and is colloquially neither Southern nor American. Winning a tennis match 6-1, 6-3, while facing only 1 break point, is considered by many to have won "handily."

Texas A&M University (where Austin Krajicek attended and played for) and Texas Christian University (where Cameron Norrie attends and plays for) are close rivals - much like Arsenal and Manchester United. When someone from Texas Christian University plays someone from Texas A&M University, there is extra motivation to win. Do you want to know about Cam, his school, his motivation and what he cares about or do you just want to insult me? Because I think it's the latter, I will not post here anymore. Thanks to the other posters for the welcome. Cheers.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
I see a meaning of "handily" as "easily" is listed as US / Canada.

Must be Scottish as well, because it would never have crossed my mind that that word would be an issue and for as long as I can remember I'd just be accepting of teams, horses whoever, whatever winning "handily".

Clearly never made it south of the border then, Indy! That said, I'm a huge fan of crime fiction (Ian Rankin, Quentin Jardine, Stewart MacBride, James Oswald, Peter May et al) &, if I didn't know better, I'd swear they were Yanks on the basis of their use of words such as "elevator", "sidewalk", "gurney", "upscale" & "first floor" instead of "lift", "pavement", "trolley" (the medical variety), "upmarket" & "ground floor" (to name but a few) & that really grates. Are you people deliberately trying to set yourselves apart from us "south of the border"?

Oakland2002 · All-time great

SC not cool! To coin an Americanism

indiana · Tennis legend

Please continue to post, Jared, since I am sure many people including myself find your background information very interesting.

SC has long had "Yank" ( as she puts it as a USA generality and you did comment on before ) issues for whatever reasons. Please don't take it personally and just flow over the top of it towards the rest of us.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 27th of January 2017 11:56:38 PM

the addict · Tennis legend

Keep posting Jared, I am really interested in learning more about how the system works in the US.