The Dancevic line is definitely my favorite part of this whole thing. I can just imagine him saying "stop play! Don't hurt Snoopy!"
As Yisman pointed out earlier, at least from me in EST, the Aussie Open is almost impossible to follow. On my schedule it's sleep or the open. I choose sleep until the quarters/semis/finals. I try to watch those, but if I'm not interested enough, I'll sleep through them. I'm sure the same thing happens to Australians during the US Open though.
It's even worse if you live on the West Coast, most of the early matches for Wimbledon/French start at 4 AM. I can remember watching the men's Wimbledon final last year at about 7 AM. The Hewitt match I was talking about was in teh 3rd set at about 12:30 AM for me and went another 2 7-5 sets. Probably didn't end till about 2 or 3 AM. I just don't have the ability to stay up that late.
I guess the West Coast is worse for the European tournaments and the East is worse for "Oceanic" tournaments. With the Australian Open, the premier matches start at the absolute worst possible time for someone in the Eastern time zone. 2 AM or so start time means you can't stay up late OR get up early. It means you either don't sleep at all or sleep during the day if you want to watch it live. Or you can sleep from 9 PM to 2 AM, lol. 5 hours.
Yeah I bet. I think the French/Wimbledon fit perfectly for EST, well as perfect as a time difference can. There's nothing too bad about it, you don't lose any sleep really and can plan for it. As Yisman point out, AUS open, you either choose not to sleep that night or miss everything. That's what you get with an international sport though. I'm sure it's tough being out of the US and trying to keep up with something like NBA or NFL or NHL.
That was me in World Cup when it was in Japan/Korea , terrible 2AM wakeups.... and summer session of college at 9AM.
Gilles Simon has been ridiculous this tournament, with the wild matches I say he loses the next round
As someone who has been posting here a long time , your post finally hit a home run. Been sleep deprived due following international sport for over 30 years and particulrly since we in oz got cable 17 years ago and the internet too. At beijing they had the heats for swimming and athletes at night local time and finals in the morning ( when i was at work) to suite Nbc . The world cup in brazil will be 2am and 4am starts . The masters last year was seen on feedon my pc at 930 am monday . The web and now those phone apps make it easy following a spurs or warriors game so easy at 2pm . Just cant see games live , such first world problems
hey listen, when you choose to live upside down, that's what happens it's always been hard to non-Americans to follow American sports, but Americans get used to being able to follow sports live, so it sucks when the Olympics, World Cup, or a tennis major are in a place where you can't (or when they refuse to air it live because they want to put it on tape delay in primetime). I've read plenty from our intentional posters here talking about watching American football at 2 AM.
When they tape delay on purpose but don't give an option to watch live like the Olympics in the summer, terrible.
Ever since I've started watching Chardy/Ferrer, every Chardy first serve has resulted in a fault, but he hasn't double faulted. I can't remember seeing a men's player miss this many first serves, let alone miss so many without double faulting.
She's so inconsistent. Never really know which Ana is going to come and play. Huge upset though, the women's draw is now WIDE open
