2021 A Great Year for ABZ

[The Guru]

This thread has become an annual tradition and I'm bringing it back for the 3rd straight year. Last year was a wild ride for us. With Zverev getting just two points away from destroying the Zvirginity of slams we had some stressful moments. Thankfully he choked gloriously and we have another thing to make fun of him for because of it. While I don't think we'll see anything as glorious as the 2020 ATP Cup from Zed this year hopefully we will get lots of opportunities to continue to laugh at Zverev as a community. ABZ forever!

 

[Tennis_Hands]

It is a kind of cowardly to do it right after he lost, but that is expected from some.

 

[sredna42]

This thread has become an annual tradition and I'm bringing it back for the 3rd straight year. Last year was a wild ride for us. With Zverev getting just two points away from destroying the Zvirginity of slams we had some stressful moments. Thankfully he choked gloriously and we have another thing to make fun of him for because of it. While I don't think we'll see anything as glorious as the 2020 ATP Cup from Zed this year hopefully we will get lots of opportunities to continue to laugh at Zverev as a community. ABZ forever!

The zverevectomy has been dispensed
things are how they should be, all is well in the cosmos

 

[Deleted member 748597]

 

[Poisoned Slice]

 

[Third Serve]

Pretty terrible loss, this match.

 

[GhostOfNKDM]

Comment of the day for me from the Djoko match -

The medical tape on Zverevs abdomen - dunno what for but looks like he just got a caesarean section.. I he looses today he can just blame that

 

[Krish0608]

ABZ forever. What a brat.

 

[Tennis_Freak99]

Bublik DESTROYS Zverev in Rotterdam LOL

#ABZ
#SaschaBeatsSascha

 

[Third Serve]

ROFLMAO

 

[Villain]

Poor Zverev destroyed once again...

Spoiler

ABZ

 

[Shaolin]

Not sure if another thread is needed. The whole world is ABZ at this point.

Sascha himself is his only real fan. Possibly his brother and dad also.

 

[Deleted member 629564]

Zverev will be 6th in the ATP ranking soon as Federer is going to lose 1000 pts for 2019 Miami win.

 

[James P]

20XX, a great year for ABZ

 

[The Guru]

Oh it’s starting to get good gentlemen

 

[The Guru]

While Acapulco was a terrible failure we can take some solace in what was one of the most embarrassing points I've ever seen on a tennis court. Zverev's whiff smash and awful FH into the net shall live on immortalized in ABZ's most cherished memories.

 

[Third Serve]

Lads.

 

[Federer and Del Potro]

Sumptuous effort today! Proved the ranking system is indeed biased against him.

If he was properly ranked, this never would have happened.

 

[mike danny]

This thread will get bumped a lot this year. I can feel it.

 

[Deleted member 771911]

Wait, did I just watch Sascha Zverev wearing a dirty looking cream wifebeater (doesn't he know the nickname for those things?) losing to next next Gen?
Gross.

 

[NoleIsBoat]

Wait, did I just watch Sascha Zverev wearing a dirty looking cream wifebeater (doesn't he know the nickname for those things?) losing to next next Gen?
Gross.

He’s like a peacock. Some truly awful outfits, especially for his build.

 

[King No1e]

This thread has become an annual tradition and I'm bringing it back for the 3rd straight year. Last year was a wild ride for us. With Zverev getting just two points away from destroying the Zvirginity of slams we had some stressful moments. Thankfully he choked gloriously and we have another thing to make fun of him for because of it. While I don't think we'll see anything as glorious as the 2020 ATP Cup from Zed this year hopefully we will get lots of opportunities to continue to laugh at Zverev as a community. ABZ forever!

This deserves to be Oxford Dictionary's 2021 word of the year.

 

[James P]

Wait, did I just watch Sascha Zverev wearing a dirty looking cream wifebeater (doesn't he know the nickname for those things?) losing to next next Gen?
Gross.

They're the same generation. Two years apart. One was precocious, the other a later bloomer.

 

[MeatTornado]

This deserves to be Oxford Dictionary's 2021 word of the year.

the Big Word lobby controls everything, so it'll never happen.

But we all know what the moral winner of 2021 is.

 

[King No1e]

the Big Word lobby controls everything, so it'll never happen.

But we all know what the moral winner of 2021 is.

The Big Word lobby are just sophistical rhetoricians inebriated by the exuberance of their own verbosity.

 

[Villain]

But, I thought it was his f....n time now?

 

[Dolgopolov85]

But, I thought it was his f....n time now?

His f...n time to f....n LOSE!!!

 

[King No1e]

His f...n time to f....n LOSE!!!

LETSGOOOOOOOOOOO home

 

[duaneeo]

The decline of a once-promising NextGen. Hurray! It's so great for men's tennis.

 

[The Guru]

We're back on schedule boys. Kinda crazy to think he's won nothing of note since 2018.

 

[Tennis_Freak99]

We're back on schedule boys. Kinda crazy to think he's won nothing of note since 2018.

WTF win curse?

 

[Slowtwitcher]

I approve of this thread #ABZ

 

[BeatlesFan]

Last year was a wild ride for us. With Zverev getting just two points away from destroying the Zvirginity of slams we had some stressful moments.

He didn't get within two points, Thiem broke him when the Ziraffe was serving at 30-40. So Zedrot got within three points of a slam victory.

 

[BeatlesFan]

Wait, did I just watch Sascha Zverev wearing a dirty looking cream wifebeater (doesn't he know the nickname for those things?) losing to next next Gen?
Gross.

Uh oh.... this innocuous post will be removed by a certain controlling curmudgeon WTA fanatic from Australia. You see, "wifebeater" is pejorative and "offensive to the female mindset." When I used the term, it was nuked within minutes. Talk about pathetic whining to mods.

 

[mike danny]

Wait, did I just watch Sascha Zverev wearing a dirty looking cream wifebeater (doesn't he know the nickname for those things?) losing to next next Gen?
Gross.

Not quite Next Next Gen. Ruusuvuori is only 1 year younger than Zverev.

 

[The Guru]

He didn't get within two points, Thiem broke him when the Ziraffe was serving at 30-40. So Zedrot got within three points of a slam victory.

6-6 in the fifth set breaker

 

[zipplock]

We're back on schedule boys. Kinda crazy to think he's won nothing of note since 2018.

Would likely win a paternity test. That's got to at least like a Challenger title ....

 

[mike danny]

6-6 in the fifth set breaker

Even if Thiem never wins another slam (though that would be unfortunate), at least he did us all a favor by not allowing Z to win one.

And not because of the memes necessarily, but because Z's level was one of the poorest I've seen for a slam finalist.

 

[The Guru]

Even if Thiem never wins another slam (though that would be unfortunate), at least he did us all a favor by not allowing Z to win one.

And not because of the memes necessarily, but because Z's level was one of the poorest I've seen for a slam finalist.

Zverev was actually balling in the first two sets. People forget that he was genuinely good at the start but he did ruin that by being absolutely atrocious the whole rest of the way. Thiem was at least a semi-deserving winner as he played well up to the final and he had paid his dues losing 3 slam finals prior. We will never forget what Brother Thiem did for us to be sure.

 

[mike danny]

Zverev was actually balling in the first two sets. People forget that he was genuinely good at the start but he did ruin that by being absolutely atrocious the whole rest of the way. Thiem was at least a semi-deserving winner as he played well up to the final and he had paid his dues losing 3 slam finals prior. We will never forget what Brother Thiem did for us to be sure.

Well, I was thinking more like Z had a cupcake draw to reach the final and still dropped 6 sets on the way.

 

[Third Serve]

Well, I was thinking more like Z had a cupcake draw to reach the final and still dropped 6 sets on the way.

How do you have that bad of a draw and still drop six sets along the way?

 

[mike danny]

How do you have that bad of a draw and still drop six sets along the way?

Just Z things.

 

[adil1972]

what will you do differently if you were professional tennis player

i for example, would give one grand slam trophy to my coach and other one to my parents for their efforts

 

[Third Serve]

Just Z things.

I mean, it was gifted to him on a dinner platter with Fed and Ned out, Tsitsipas blowing MPs against Coric, Djokovic getting DQ’d, PCB blowing a two-set lead in the SF, and Thiem sucking in the final.

He was much better at the AO that year.

 

[mike danny]

I mean, it was gifted to him on a dinner platter with Fed and Ned out, Tsitsipas blowing MPs against Coric, Djokovic getting DQ’d, PCB blowing a two-set lead in the SF, and Thiem sucking in the final.

He was much better at the AO that year.

Honestly, both Z and Thiem were better at the AO.

 

[Third Serve]

Honestly, both Z and Thiem were better at the AO.

Thiem was great at the USO pre-final. But that final brings it down a whole lot.

 

[adil1972]

by December of that year, he (agassi) had surpassed US$1 million in career prize money after playing in just 43 tournaments—the fastest anyone in history had reached that level.

He then became the first man to capture the US Open as an unseeded player, beating Michael Stich in the final. Along the way, he beat 5 seeded players.

In 1998, Agassi won five titles and leapt from No. 110 to No. 6, the highest jump into the top 10 made by any player during a calendar year

Andre Agassi - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[The Guru]

How do you have that bad of a draw and still drop six sets along the way?

Kinda hilarious that you can make Z sound super good by saying hist last few HC slams like this: Made the SFs beating a former champ and went even with the guy who gave the AO GOAT his second biggest scare. Two points away from winning the USO. Gave the AO GOAT and eventual champion his toughest match. One point from taking it 5 and probably winning.

 

[mike danny]

Kinda hilarious that you can make Z sound super good by saying hist last few HC slams like this: Made the SFs beating a former champ and went even with the guy who gave the AO GOAT his second biggest scare. Two points away from winning the USO. Gave the AO GOAT and eventual champion his toughest match. One point from taking it 5 and probably winning.

Even if Z had taken it to 5, he wouldn't have won.

 

[Villain]

It is 5:47 Eastern Standard Time on Saturday the 27th of March, in the year of our Lord 2021 and I just wanted to say:

ABZ