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I didn’t know that Goffin is a male tennis players’ body connoisseur.
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📸 ATP Challenger Livestream
Topping the day in the Danderyd Challenger was the singles second-round match between fourth seed David Goffin, who yesterday defeated qualifier Marvin Moeller 6-3, 6-2 in the first round, and qualifier Alibek Kachmazov, who stunned Leandro Riedi 7-6(2), 2-6, 6-4 earlier that day. Considering Goffin's solid play when he is on, it could be interesting to see how A. Kachmazov's current form fare, especially since Goffin appeared more experienced. This match ended up boiling down to several moments, which went on and off as the match went by.
Three games in, A. Kachmazov's forehand error in response to Goffin's preceding backhand started his error spree for that game, where his forehand/backhand errors there caused Goffin to break early to 2-1. Goffin proceeded to consolidate that lead to 3-1, but Goffin's forehand errors several moments later resulted in A. Kachmazov breaking back to 4-4, where he also had his game points fumbled at that time.
Subsequently, after A. Kachmazov double-faulted, Goffin had a forehand pass that converted the said break point to 5-4, but his following unforced errors did not help anything, with a double fault resulted in the break-back to 5-5. Goffin fought back for his following break by trying to get through the lines, which resulted in A. Kachmazov's forehand error, and broke back to 6-5 thanks to his backhand return ace. Consequently, Goffin had his opportunity to serve for the match, where despite having to survive a break point at the cost of his +1 forehand error, he still took the first set 7-5 thanks to his forehand winner.
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Tennis-Defiant Djokovic storms back to beat Sinner and reach semi-finals
Tennis-Defiant Djokovic storms back to beat Sinner and reach semi-finals
Just when Novak Djokovic’s troubling year looked like hitting another low he salvaged his bid for a fourth successive Wimbledon title by coming back from two sets down to beat Italian Jannik Sinner on Tuesday. The Serbian top seed had looked in all kinds of trouble against the inspired 20-year-old after being outplayed for two sets but stormed back to win 5-7 2-6 6-3 6-2 6-2.
In the end there…
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Another marathon loss for Frances.. I really feel bad for him, hopefully one will finally go his way in the near future..
Good for David Goffin though.. After struggling for so long, he's finally back and will certainly have a chance to make the semis.
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what is this caption…
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Goffin is really serious, huh?
in other words: CARLITOS! WHAT IS THIS?!
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360: Dusty Springfield // Dusty Springfield's Golden Hits
Dusty Springfield's Golden Hits
Dusty Springfield
1966, Philips
These early Dusty Springfield singles really get the “Wall of Sound” production treatment, despite Mr. Spector’s absence from the credits: mixed loud as hell like the kids liked it, screaming string charts, backing vocals en regalia, and a big beat knocking around underneath. Folks love to cite her as the second artist of the British Invasion to hit the U.S. charts, and for cultural reasons that may be significant, but her early sound was indistinguishable from American acts like Lesley Gore and the Shirelles. I don’t know many of the details about her career, but it seems like whoever was managing her was hell-bent on breaking her in the States. Call it a credit to English ingenuity (and specifically arranger Ivor Raymonde) that they were able to give Springfield a knock-out sound that passes for the contemporary Hollywood (or Detroit) product.
Dusty Springfield’s Golden Hits, her first major compilation, is Brill Building / girl group-style music par excellence, with a murderer’s row of hitwriters from both sides of the pond (Bacharach/David, Goffin/King, Beatrice Verdi/Buddy Kaye, etc.). Practically anyone could’ve had chart success with these songs and this packaging (and a number of these were subsequently hits for others), but Springfield had a cannon of a voice on her that makes the best of these numbers undeniable. Those who place her voice with the Arethas and Dionne Warwicks wish she’d been guided towards soul or sophisticated torch songs from the start, but I personally love it when someone vocally overqualified for bubblegum is made to tear into a good bop. “I Only Want to Be With You” is buffeted along by the force of her voice, the violins shrieking like a 33rpm record dragged up to 45; “Little By Little” could’ve been written for a Motown powerhouse like Darlene Love (but scarcely improved on by her); “I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself” moves from the sound of a girl sadly combing her hair before her vanity to Sampson bringing down the temple.
There’s plenty of treacle here, and “Wishin’ and Hopin’” probably set feminism further back than “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss),” but this is a worthy addition to any ‘60s pop library.
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