mars

(mostly) a tennis blog🎾 | she/her

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Hello! 👋

♡ About me → Mars | she/her | lesbian

♡ Languages I speak → 🇬🇧 | 🇮🇹

♡ Tennis faves → Jannik Sinner, Elena Rybakina, Aryna Sabalenka, Zheng Qinwen, Carlos Alcaraz, João Fonseca, Jasmine Paolini, Matteo Berrettini, Flavio Cobolli and surely someone else I'm forgetting

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FLAVIO

MATTEO SACRIFICED HIMSELF

PLEASE

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all this talk about the fairytale slam the unpredictable slam and it will be won by the world n.3 and n.2 seed who should be in prison it's bleak

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flopnik will lose to a qualifier mars don’t you know

he’ll have no match rhythm and the other player will be just too well adapted to grass

scenes when he accidentally hits his pinky toe on the bench and fixates on it for the rest of the match

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Remember when a story inspired by Jannik was published on the Mickey Mouse comics in Italy. And his name was Quacknik Spinner

"It's normal, I get nervous too sometimes!" "Well, we're not robots, Quacknik" (jesus even Duffy Duck understood it before every tennis journalist in the world😭)

"After seeing TWO tennis matches on TV I wrote 'Champion in one afternoon' to help Quacknik!" (drag them💀)

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GUYS QUACKNIK IS BACK!!!

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who knows what pinner is cooking for wimbledon, maybe a r1 loss against pablo carreno busta from 6-1 6-0 5-0 40-0 up

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when we go down, we go down together

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janlena wimbledon dance 2026!

Preach. I mean, let's say spiritual dance, idk if Lena would want to ACTUALLY dance with anyone💀 She didn't with Novak. Although, tbf, that might have just been because he was DJOKOVIC...😭

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mars what do you think about the haters (men obviously) saying that the wta tour level is ‘so low’ because a qualifier got to a grand slam final or rather because the top players are ‘not consistent enough’?

we have arnaldi in a slam semi today when one month ago he was playing challengers and dropped out of the top 100. he never even reached a final on the main tour

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You will never guess what Jannik Sinner and Venus Williams have in common

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it's jannik's fault for not giving information. when you do that you invite the speculations

Okay, look, normally I would agree but everyone is ignoring the informations that he did give to bring their agenda forward, so... I don't think that's the case.

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wait, it wasn’t a mto? sry I’m not familiar w these parts of tennis rules. but i think most ppl r taking it as mto, i’ve seen gill gross said the time he went backstage amounted to what’s the usual time allowed for mto, so it prolly is a mto. I’m not sure what aurelie did was correct or not also?? is that how usual procedure goes?

abt the heat thing, unfortunately, it’ll be hard to shake that off in short term, bc there’s no other opp consistently beating him aside from his own body. also bc it’s always spectacle and drama whenever stuff like this happened, not helped by some conspiracy theorists in media box either 😑

even tho what jannik said makes sense to me logically like there’s no way his body would go out at 2hr mark by heat alone (lest we forget, rg, the most physically grueling slam, is his main goal 😓), it IS a combination of things. and given his personality, when it comes to stuff like why he lost a match or tennis in general, i’d figure like 90% of the time u can trust he’ll say what he actually thinks. Yet there’re some interpreting it as oh he wouldn’t want the fans and media to associate this w heat likee bruhhh...

i’ve been sitting w this thought that it all goes back to the contamination case and how it somehow just ended up being like either u believe him or u don’t despite the itia ruling & wada chief saying it’s not doping. If sth, anything really, happens, ppl r consciously or unconsciously looking for “unfair” or “bad” whatever to latch onto as if it’s proof that “he’s a cheater” let’s go burn that wada building down once the rule change comes into effect mars ☺️

i thought what agassi said is very constructive tho. we don’t know what the illness is and i’m sure he’s figuring it out how to eliminate it. but this is not the first time he comes on court feeling sick, isn’t it? so his team should have contigency plan a, plan b for his recovery process during the changeovers for times like these. until he can stop the recurring illness ofc. It’s heartbreaking and shocking for fans (like just fking 4 more points godddd) but it would be unacceptable for most who’ve been/are high-performing athletes. i’m sure he’ll learn from this and this might be bit of a hot take, i’m now kinda glad he played till the end and not retire.

this basically becomes an essay 😭😭😭 i’m so sorry, i hope u don’t mind 😔👉👈 I have no one to talk abt tennis. hoping jakub wins tdy 🤞missing sinnerball alrdy tho a monthhh ughhh

Hi anon! No, I don't mind the long asks. Okay so the rules are: you, as a player, can call the physio at any time during a game if you and the umpire suspect you are developing an acute condition (for example, dehydration, but not only that). At that point, the physio will come out and do a medical evaluation, which is NOT an mto, and determine if you can receive an mto or not. Some rules from the ITF rules and procedures for officials.

Now IF the physio decides that you have an acute condition, then the MTO starts, with its usual time limit. I just rematched the moment Jannik went off court and I can confirm what I remembered: at no point the usual mto timer was started, and the chair umpire specifically said "ladies and gentlemen, Jannik Sinner is leaving the court to receive an off-court medical evaluation".

I see a lot of talk about these "MTOs", I remember there was a lot of talk about them in Australia in 2025 or even Wimbledon in 2024. Why do they last more than the regular 3 minutes MTO? And the answer is that there is a medical evaluation to have first (where they usually take the players blood pressure, the temperature, etc.) and THEN they start the treatment. That's what happens with every mto, even the ones because of muscle strain et similia: before the mto timer starts, the player usually informs the physio of what is hurting, THEN the 3 minutes count down starts. That's a medical evaluation too, even if they obviously are shorter because you don't have testing to do. It's honestly always a bit surprising to see media people not being aware of this.

About his body, idk, he has struggled with those illnesses, but I think he completely deserved his last 2 slam losses before this one, his opponents played better, and it had nothing to do with physical condition. Of course this one hurts because it was so close. I'm hopeful they will do anything to find out what the problem was.

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i think of his heat endurance the same way i think of others players fh or movement or defensive skills etc. everyone wants them to do better, they practice and maybe improve a bit over time but there's a ceiling and that might be his in this particular area

I mean yeah everything has a ceiling, perfection wouldn't exist otherwise we would be talking about robots not human beings. I mean, probably heat resistance has less margin of improvement than fh and movement, but still. I get it. I am not even sure "heat resistance" training is really a thing beside training in the heat and hoping your body adjusts a bit and having a good hydration plan

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Anyway, I want to say (even if it wasn't the problem this time) that you can only train heat resistance to a certain level. Jannik did train it, and he won all the hottest tournaments on tour, he won in hot temperatures multiple times, but heat is probably always going to be a problem for him and it's not his fault. It's a limit, of course it is, but it's not his responsibility and it's not completely fixable, unfortunately. "Every other player is fine in the heat": 1. untrue; 2. each body reacts differently to things!

I never see shit like "Rafa should've just trained his foot to get better" and honestly idk why this is different💀 sometimes it is what it is and there's nothing we can do about that. simple genetics

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wondering if carlos did something to his teeth or I'm just not used to seeing him anymore 😭

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But everybody is going on and on talking about the temperatures and it was not that the problem

Yeah it was obviously not the problem lol the physio visited him, if it was heat exhaustion they would've stopped play and started the mto and they didn't

It's crazy that they're still going considering Jannik himself explicitly said the heat WAS NOT the problem😭😭

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think this is what anons talking about

https://x.com/i/status/2062600382472134722

Ah. Well he is right in some ways. Unless it's really some unfixable chronic problem they really need to understand why he is having these symptoms in 90% of the tournaments he plays. From what Jannik said in presscon (we will never know if it was true or not) it doesn't seem like it was tied to the hard schedule beforehand tho. It was an illness

The match itself was managed poorly in my opinion, but I think we still have to give him a little grace. He couldn't move his legs. He couldn't serve properly, he couldn't run... his head was probably a mess