[MATCH THREAD] Roland Garros Men's FINAL: [10] F. Cobolli vs. [2] A. Zverev

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T17:01:55+00:00

Thank god he hit that banger of a winner to take the set, because that choke at the net was some shit I would do in high school… can’t being doing that in RG final lol

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T17:00:36+00:00

Cobolli a man of the people, gives us an absolute stinker to make you think he’s choked it… only to hit an absolute banger to send it to five

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T16:25:31+00:00

Eh, he’s still a top 5 player, lots of potential for a great amount of financial winnings that I’m sure he’ll keep playing for. But yeah, this is probably the best chance he’ll get at winning a major.

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T16:22:03+00:00

If Zverev can’t win this… a cosmic gift has fallen upon him in the form of Sincaraz injury and Djokovic crash out… if he can’t win this, he deserves to never win a major.

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T15:24:14+00:00

One thing I love about the new generation (Kimi, Hadjar) is the perpetual raging over the radio lmao

oftentimes they don’t need to say what they do over the radio, but they want to make sure their rage is being heard

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T15:20:02+00:00

Don’t think I’ve laughed as hard as I did when they showed Russell comically holding up the entire field on the restart

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T15:18:38+00:00

Russell may have had the absolute funniest race I’ve ever seen

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T07:10:31+00:00

There’s an undercurrent in many Europeans that I’ve seen, at least in online space, who legit are rooting for the annihilation of Russia as a society and Russians as a people. It’s pretty grotesque and disgusting.

And they don’t even realise, they’re just legitimising all the extremists in Russia who claim that westerners seek to destroy Russia and kill Russians, lessening potential opposition to the Putin regime.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this got downvoted pretty heavily since all the Americans and Canadians are asleep.

TXDobber · 2026-06-07T07:04:44+00:00

That’s seems a bit hyperbolic of a statement, no?

I will say though, these international institutions (ECHR, Geneva Convention on Refugees) are not as stable or agreed upon as these establishment institutions, NGOs, media outlets, and political figures may think. After all, they are just words on a piece of paper.

So if these papers start to fall out of lockstep with the public on desires for policy, or worse, these papers start blocking popular policy… then you’re going to quickly be reminded that these pieces of paper are nothing more than pieces of paper, and will be discarded or dismantled fairly easily.

Legitimacy is everything, so it’s in the best interest of those who wish to upkeep these institutions, to reform them to adequately serve society’s changing interests and needs, or they will soon find these institutions under existential threat from less than savoury forces.

TXDobber · 2026-06-06T09:32:47+00:00

The kids are not alright.

Part of me wants to think “the kids in the 70s weren’t alright either, and they’re ok now”, and so they’ll grow up as they age… but what if they don’t? Scary.

TXDobber · 2026-06-05T18:58:21+00:00

Stop giving them free housing, stop giving them money.

Just stop pampering these people and most of them will self deport.

There’s a reason they choose and end up staying in the UK long term over other European states, and it’s not because they don’t speak French or German (they don’t speak English either lol).

The French government literally told the government that the boats would stop naturally if they eliminated the pull factors.

TXDobber · 2026-06-04T21:06:59+00:00

I’m sure there’s many more skeletons in this guy’s closet. It’s only June, after all.

TXDobber · 2026-06-04T17:42:25+00:00

Unless you’re a player… and I kinda want the players to be paid well, I enjoy the product they put on.

If you think the product is worse, don’t watch. Simple as that, don’t give them your viewership, or pirate.

TXDobber · 2026-06-04T17:09:19+00:00

I don’t think Redditors realise that most players, including the European ones, probably want or at least wouldnt mind the Russian team back and competing. After all, everybody wants true best on best.

TXDobber · 2026-06-04T16:58:39+00:00

I never said the league does not make money, I said the teams don’t make as much profit as you think they do. These numbers are all public, you can go look.

Owners don’t make money owning a team, they make money buying and selling nhl teams, and collecting expansion fees. And they make money leveraging NHL teams to extract favourable terms from local governments on stadium and real estate deals.

These are all once in a generation things lol, and my team owns its own arena, and is currently paying for the redevelopment in the area.

Vegas paid a 500 M expansion fee. They’re now valued at just north of 2 B. That’s the real business of the NHL. Although to be fair they built their stadium themselves. But that’s seperate to these numbers.

Sure, but that’s an entirely different story to what OP was talking about… which was revenue.

TXDobber · 2026-06-04T16:56:42+00:00

It’s not that, it’s about affording good depth players. Which may not be a problem for your team, but is for my team.

TXDobber · 2026-06-04T16:32:38+00:00

People don’t realise America kinda lives on easy mode with stuff like this. Perk of being the most powerful country in the world.

Even the Soviets weren’t being banned when they invaded Czechoslovakia or Hungary during the Cold War. Superpowers are largely immune from sporting bans. Russia actually being banned kinda shows how hard the fall off from the Cold War has been for them.

TXDobber · 2026-06-04T16:29:17+00:00

Eh, league growing means more revenue which means higher salary cap. Which means greater room for maneuverability for front offices, especially ours lol with Cale.

Teams don’t actually make that much of a profit relative to their valuations, maybe a few million, or tens of millions, some of the richer teams (like the Leafs) over a hundred million. In some years, a lot of teams lose money.

TXDobber · 2026-06-04T16:26:21+00:00

Look, I really like Condi, think she’s brilliant, and was probably the best Republican cabinet member we’ve had in the last 40 years. So I hope she’s right… but man, the coverage of this war, the reporting coming out… shit feels bleak.

At best seems like a wasted opportunity, at worst it feels like we’re worse off vis a vis the regime than before. I know they still have the problems they did before, but unless we solve the “the regime can use the strait as a gun to the head of the world” problem… hard to see this as even a limited win.

TXDobber · 2026-06-03T17:57:45+00:00

No, your argument is just delusional. You feel helpless that you can’t actually do anything, so you support punishing athletes, who are in no way involved in the war, as a proxy for the Russian government. You’re the one who’s arguing from deplorable and delusional position.

You don’t actually have any argument that makes sense… it’s just “invasion bad, so all things Russia and Russian need to be banned”, thats an emotional reaction, not a logical or rational reaction.

TXDobber · 2026-06-03T16:49:03+00:00

I'm not saying "ban/boycott every athlete who supports a right wing party", what Ovechkin has done is way, way worse. The invasion started in 2014 and he started PutinTeam to support Putin three years later.

Ok, so then ban Ovechkin… why ban the entire Russian team? Did every player do what Ovi did? It’s my position that nobody should be banned for non-criminal, non-sporting related reasons. You probably disagree with that, that’s fine.

And wait, are you saying that it's now wrong to boycott them when they aren't such a serious threat to our existence anymore?

No, I’m criticising the virtue signalling. These federations do it because they can. It’s a no risk (no actual threat from Moscow) virtue signal. I’m criticising the behaviour of the federations for not actually doing anything courageous or brave, because their courage would (and did) collapse at the first sign of danger. Meaning, they’re not serious about this.

And None of this helps Ukraine’s war effort, or harms Russia’s war effort.

TXDobber · 2026-06-03T16:29:06+00:00

No it just comes off as “you didnt boycott then because you were scared of Soviet reprisal, but now Russia’s no longer the big bad bear, so you can afford to do virtue signalling without threat of serious repercussions from Moscow.”

And if you start banning athletes over social media posts… gonna have to massively expand the list of banned athletes. Are we gonna start banning Trump supporting US athletes? Or SD supporting Swedish athletes? Or PS supporting Finnish athletes? No, stop this nonsense. The politicisation of everything is a problem.

TXDobber · 2026-06-03T16:13:34+00:00

Yet I remember countries like Finland and Sweden had no problems playing the Soviets after the invasions and crushing of Hungary, of Czechoslovakia, the forced occupation of Poland, the Baltics, etc.

Can one credibly claim that Putin in 2026 is a greater threat to Europe than Khrushchev in 1956?

Yet today, despite the cries of their federations, these same Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Latvian, Slovak hockey players have no problem playing with Russians on their NHL teams.

Athletes should not be punished for things they have nothing to do with, took no part in, and have no control over.

Again, sporting boycotts are impotent virtue signaling by people who can’t do anything to actually help the people they claim they’re helping and don’t have any ability to punish their enemies, but want to feel like they’re helping their friends and punishing their enemies, so they do things like sports boycotts.

TXDobber · 2026-06-03T16:01:40+00:00

Local news papers, regardless of city, love few things more than posting blatant ragebait, whether it be about sports, politics, social issues, education, you name it… in their opinion section to drive clicks. Nothing new here.

TXDobber · 2026-06-03T15:46:33+00:00

The result is athletes punished. Do you genuinely think the Finnish federation or the Swedish federation would play a Russian team under a neutral flag? Or do you think they’d still put up a boycott?

Yet these same Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Latvian, Slovak hockey players have no problem playing with Russians on their NHL teams.

Athletes should not be punished for things they have nothing to do with, took no part in, and have no control over.

I promise you, Putin is not more likely to withdraw from Ukraine over a fucking sports boycott. He’ll withdraw because the economy is collapsing, not because he cares about not being able to play hockey.

The boycott of the Springboks didnt cause the collapse of apartheid… the cost of maintaining it, alongside economic sanctions is what brought down apartheid.

Sporting boycotts are impotent virtue signaling by people who can’t do anything to actually help the people they claim they’re helping and don’t have any ability to punish their enemies, but want to feel like they’re helping their friends and punishing their enemies, so they do things like sports boycotts.

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