This is a screenshot from an espn.com webstreaming replay of the French Open match between Maria Sharapova and Klara Zakapalova. As you can see Sharapova won the first set and now they are locked in a tight second set. But hmmm… something tells me that Zakapalova will be able to push it to three sets…
Courtesy of Emir Kamenica.
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June 7, 2012 at 3:12 am
tps
Am I the only one who doesn’t get it?
June 7, 2012 at 4:29 am
Anonymous
I don’t get it either.
June 7, 2012 at 3:17 am
wellplacedadjective
ah, nice.
(almost) a universally bad default.
June 7, 2012 at 4:37 am
Anonymous
Or an extremely long commercial?
June 7, 2012 at 7:18 am
PLW
Really long celebration?
June 7, 2012 at 9:13 am
k
her fingers’ on the racket?
June 7, 2012 at 9:43 am
anonymous
That’s the good thing of Kindle, you don’t know how many pages you have ahead…
June 7, 2012 at 10:07 am
oscar
The still frame is 2/3 of the video (which is the whole game)?
June 7, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Zach
I think it has something to do with the score box in the lower left, but I have no idea how to interpret it.
June 7, 2012 at 1:23 pm
jamesoswald
In tennis, the game is scored in groups call “sets”, where one player serves a bunch of times, and then they switch. Serving is advantageous, sinec you hit the ball first and serves tend to be harder hits than volleys. Sharapova is winning 6 sets to 5, and I think the dot means she’s serving. Within the set, the players are tied 1 to 1. Tennis, for some totally bizarre reason counts 15, 30, 40, (win), not 1, 2, 3, win. You need 4 points to win a set, but you have to be ahead by 2.
Honestly, I don’t know what Jeff is getting at. Sharapova needs to win 3 serves to win the game, although it’s close.
June 7, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Anonymous
Look at the time left in the video, people. He’s insinuating that this could be an exciting game ending scenario, but since there’s an hour left in the video, the game most definitely does not end in the short term.
June 8, 2012 at 9:42 am
k
totally missed that
June 7, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Anonymous
huh is that it?
June 8, 2012 at 9:55 am
tps
Oh yes, of course. I get it now.
The reverse thing happened to me during the last AFC championship game (BAL@NE). I watched the day after, and I saw Baltimore drive down the field trailing by 3, and only one minute of video left, so I was sure BAL had scored a TD (very likely) or turned the ball over. Only after the failed 3rd down did I realise that the kicker was going to miss it, which he promptly did
June 8, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Anonymous
What? That’s it? Was this meant to be clever?
Any sports fan who regularly watches recorded games knows to hide the length of the recorded video from himself. Therefore anyone who watches a replay without hiding this information is either not a sports fan or not too clever.
June 8, 2012 at 2:28 pm
jeff
on espn3 you cannot hide it