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I would say Wimbledon 2014 lots of dull matches
I would say Wimbledon 2014 lots of dull matches
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This year's Wimbledon was awful. Very few close matches except maybe SF with Aryna/Mandy. No new stars and two convicted dopers as winners. Normally Carlos can be relied on to save a tournament but not this time. Others that spring to mind are the WTA finals hit by gale force winds and recently the endless rain in Seoul although the tournament picked up towards the end.
I had even forgotten it before you mentioned it, haha, it's true, that USO was truly hideous. The winner was great but everything else - matches, draws falling apart, all was horrible. I even remember delusional teen me creating a Facebook group called "US OPEN 2009 SUCKS", I must have been so outraged.
Madrid 2016. 
We had the spectacle of Gavrilova, Chirico and Tig all making the QF and the semifinals being 62 60 and 61 61 blowouts.
It looked more like a ropey post-Wimbledon 250 than a 1000.
It looked more like a ropey post-Wimbledon 250 than a 1000.
Is it my imagination or were the Finals held in Fort Worth in front of a handful of Texans looking like they'd been forced at gunpoint to attend 😄
Can'tcun Fyre Festival was the worst top event I can remember, it was like a slapstick comedy.
Otherwise, events where there are so many walkovers and retirements in the final stages that the tournament becomes a complete joke. I once went to Eastbourne and it was semis, and one semi involving La Woz was a walkover and the other was a retirement, so they had to put on a scratch exhibition doubles to give people something to see. That is probably the worst that I have seen live, also seven games of Seles v Schultz McCarthy before rain stopped play all day.
The night matches at RG this year were a low, many were feeble and one sided. One was over so quick, there was still a non night match on Lenglen or Simonne Mathieu that was still going on when it finished.
Otherwise, events where there are so many walkovers and retirements in the final stages that the tournament becomes a complete joke. I once went to Eastbourne and it was semis, and one semi involving La Woz was a walkover and the other was a retirement, so they had to put on a scratch exhibition doubles to give people something to see. That is probably the worst that I have seen live, also seven games of Seles v Schultz McCarthy before rain stopped play all day.
The night matches at RG this year were a low, many were feeble and one sided. One was over so quick, there was still a non night match on Lenglen or Simonne Mathieu that was still going on when it finished.
First week of Wimbledon 2007 takes the laurels.
At one point we were judging the relative skills of the ground staff on the different courts based on their ability to get the rain covers on and then off and back on, then off and so on ad infinitum!!
As can be imagined, the tennis was poor, to put it mildly. We actually got a partial refund on the Friday.
At one point we were judging the relative skills of the ground staff on the different courts based on their ability to get the rain covers on and then off and back on, then off and so on ad infinitum!!
As can be imagined, the tennis was poor, to put it mildly. We actually got a partial refund on the Friday.
Ningbo last year. 28 player draw: 7 LL’s and 6 qualifiers. Krej retired in the QF, then both Badosa & Muchova did likewise in their SF matches.
The whole of Asia swing was weird last year. Never seen so many withdrawals from tournaments. If I remember correctly, there was exactly 20 from Beijing.
The whole of Asia swing was weird last year. Never seen so many withdrawals from tournaments. If I remember correctly, there was exactly 20 from Beijing.
One of the strangest tournaments (at the time) has to be RG 2020. Played in October, empty stands, big names either pulling out or flopping early on. And of course Iga has backed up that win very well in the last 5 years, but at the time she was a completely random champion. Didn’t she lose to Rus the week before?
Actually all COVID slams felt..wrong. 
USO 2020 literally had the #8 in the draw as #16 in the actual ranking and AO the year after was the whole gate with specific time for the bubble and all IIRC. RG was taking the cherry on top with the combination with the rainy weather. And, of course, Azarenka for the infamous quote in the lines of "we are not going to wait like ducks in the rain" and then she left before even the umpire annouced interruption of the match.
USO 2020 literally had the #8 in the draw as #16 in the actual ranking and AO the year after was the whole gate with specific time for the bubble and all IIRC. RG was taking the cherry on top with the combination with the rainy weather. And, of course, Azarenka for the infamous quote in the lines of "we are not going to wait like ducks in the rain" and then she left before even the umpire annouced interruption of the match.
Can’t name one but it surely has to be some from the transition era (post 2016 and before the rise of Iga and Sabalenka) when WTA draws were falling apart more often than not, when you’d have like 6 of the top 8 seeds losing by R3.
Australian Open 2018 should be erased from the history books
That pusher had no business getting her hands in that trophy
@QINWEN-GOAT
That pusher had no business getting her hands in that trophy
@QINWEN-GOAT
One of the worst tournament was Tokyo 2009 IMO. The Top 8 had a bye in the first round and the Top 6 lost their first match.
Back in 2009, Tokyo was a TIER I tournament but hadn‘t a Hawk-Eye system. That felt embarrassing.
In the end of the tournament, the draw “recovered” and we had the semifinals between Sharapova/Radwanska and Jankovic/Li. But in the final Jankovic retired at 2:5 down in the first set.
For me this tournament will be remembered as the final tournament from Sugiyama (who retired in the first round) and the first victory from Sharapova since her comeback. But overall, how most the top seeds performed, was just poor.
I‘m happy we still have the tournament in Tokyo, because overall it‘s a lovely tournament with a nice Center Court. In the next years we had better matches in Tokyo again. 2009 was probably an exception.
Back in 2009, Tokyo was a TIER I tournament but hadn‘t a Hawk-Eye system. That felt embarrassing.
In the end of the tournament, the draw “recovered” and we had the semifinals between Sharapova/Radwanska and Jankovic/Li. But in the final Jankovic retired at 2:5 down in the first set.
For me this tournament will be remembered as the final tournament from Sugiyama (who retired in the first round) and the first victory from Sharapova since her comeback. But overall, how most the top seeds performed, was just poor.
I‘m happy we still have the tournament in Tokyo, because overall it‘s a lovely tournament with a nice Center Court. In the next years we had better matches in Tokyo again. 2009 was probably an exception.
Quite a bit of recency bias here as expected, but the one that stands out for off-the-court reasons is Cancun, followed by Wimbledon 2022 for reasons of discrimination.
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