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Just Ducky Tours resuming Pittsburgh operations in April

Quack, quack — duck boat tours are coming back.

Just Ducky Tours, which operates eight World War II-era amphibious craft out of Pittsburgh’s Station Square, announced on its website that it will be resuming its land and water tours in mid- to late April.

The company ended its 2018 season in September, canceling tours that had been scheduled through November.

That came after duck boat companies across the nation grappled with declining ticket sales following the July 19 sinking of a duck-style tour boat during a heavy storm on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Mo. Seventeen of the 31 people aboard the Ride the Ducks vessel died.

Just Ducky is not related to the Missouri company. Co-owner Christopher D’Addario said its vessels are safe .

Safety protocols are posted on its website.

Just Ducky is hiring for its upcoming season. Applications are available on its website .

Ticket costs for 2019 are $25 for adults, $15 for children ages 3 to 12, and $5 for infants ages 2 and younger.

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I'm pretty sure Cincinnati has something like this - I'd love to check it out someday! That's great Lily got to drive the boat a bit, and that Liam was so good during the tour! It sounds like such fun!!! :) -Lauren www.shootingstarsmag.net

So fun! I was in Pittsburgh once when a friend of mine was in school there and we visited him. So long ago! It looks like a lovely city. We did a duck tour in WI also and it was a lot of fun!

What great pictures you go of Pittsburgh! My family loves the ducky tour!!! SOOO much fun! I LOVE our city so very much and your pictures captured it beautifully!!

Looks like so much fun! Great pictures. Have a great weekend!

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Your post really educated me on Pittsburgh! And you are right about river tours - they are a wonderful, calm way to see a city. Plus it was quite a testament that your troop of kids of all ages enjoyed it so much! You really are always on the go - what is your secret? Have a great week-end - Joanne x

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Pittsburgh's Just Ducky Tour Company Will Sell Boats, Online Auction

August 16, 2019 / 1:14 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (KDKA)-- After 22 years, the Pittsburgh Just Ducky Tours have been permanently canceled.

The company stopped operating after 17 people died during a tour on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri.

Michael Cohen, a co-founder of the business, told our partners at the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette that, "our insurance company would not renew us. We had a very clean loss-run history. It didn't matter. The insurance companies got spooked."

Reportedly no one was interested in taking over the business, so Cohn, along with his fellow co-found Chris D'Addario, have planned to sell the entire business-- including eight of the boats.

On September 23-25 All of the assets and boasts will be sold in an online auction.  Each duck boat is estimated to sell for between $25,000 and $100,000.

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Tennis Briefing: Default problems, Bublik’s underarm serves, and superstition

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Elsewhere, Alexander Bublik went underarm serve mad, a press conference question caused consternation, and American women showed the men how to do it on clay.

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Does tennis have a default settings problem?

The ball flew across the night sky on court 12 at Roland Garros, and the spectator didn’t see it coming.

Terence Atmane, the world No 121 and French wildcard, was steaming — he’d coughed up a two-set lead against Austrian world No 45 Sebastian Ofner, and at 1-4 down in the fourth, was on the verge of having to play a decider. After missing a ball long, he smashed it away in frustration and hit someone in the crowd.

A supervisor came out and spoke to the spectator. After a protracted discussion, Atmane received a warning.

Descalificación? #atmane #rolandgarros #eurosport pic.twitter.com/Vg4FdyTjK5 — Carlos C. (@Crlos9) May 26, 2024

He went on to lose the match, but should he have been disqualified then and there?

It’s hard to argue anything other than, ‘Yes, he should have been disqualified’, but tennis has a bewildering malleability in these situations.

At last year’s tournament, Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi were defaulted from the women’s doubles after Kato returned a ball to an unaware ballgirl, who cried after it struck her. Their opponents, Sara Sorribes Tormo and Marie Bouzkova, pushed for them to be disqualified. Nonsensically, they were.

Novak Djokovic was correctly defaulted from the 2020 US Open after accidentally striking a lineswoman in the throat with a ball, hit in frustration, but not before pleading the case for context as a world No 1 in a Grand Slam. Atmane did exactly the same thing but didn’t see his tournament end.

Whether or not home advantage played a part is up for debate. What seems clearer is that tennis officials have an outcome bias problem when it comes to defaults: if someone is visibly hurt, it’s a default; if not, it’s fine. The problem is that the reason for the rule is to discourage balls from being struck dangerously in the first place, regardless of whether or not they end up hitting somebody, and whether they do or don’t find a target can be complete chance.

Stefanos Tsitsipas avoided lashing a ball into a spectator’s head by millimetres (and good luck) during his tempestuous clash with Nick Kyrgios at Wimbledon in 2022; he should have been defaulted there. Atmane should have gone here. Until there are some checks and balances on consistency, either through video replays or less tolerance, these debates will recur.

Rublev's default in Dubai is exactly why tennis needs electronic line calling

Why was Clara Burel trying to avoid her own draw?

There was a classic press conference moment in Strasbourg on Thursday, when Clara Burel was told by an English journalist about her French Open draw. Sounds normal?

Well, she’d just said in French that she didn’t want to know her opponent.

When you reveal Clara Burel’s French Open draw… pic.twitter.com/kHDfKXOry2 — Talking Tennis (@TalkingTennisTT) May 23, 2024

There followed a withering look from Burel, the world No 43 from France, and an awkward silence as everyone tried to work out what to say next. It might seem like an odd superstition, but Burel is not alone in not wanting to know days out who she is going to be playing. Compatriot Adrian Mannarino is the same.

It’s not clear when Burel would have wanted to find out — the assumption is that she would have wanted a decent amount of notice to prepare for her opponent — but a few days out, she didn’t want to think about it.

Naomi Osaka was similar in a press conference earlier in the week, asking not to be told any information about her possible second-round opponent. She later told The Athletic ’s Matthew Futterman (in another press conference) that she had found out she would likely be facing Iga Swiatek anyway, after jokingly saying, “It’s not like I’m playing Iga, right?” to her team.

Players’ reasons for an “ignorance is bliss” policy are varied. A common one is that they want to focus on (to us) boring but important things like process, and not be preoccupied by who they are playing. Another is that if a player is still in another tournament, even if in this case Burel had actually been knocked out of Strasbourg, they don’t want to be distracted thinking about their next event.

It all plays into a wider debate in sport about how much you should focus on yourself and how much you should think about the opposition. There’s a fine line between admirable confidence and naivety.

Burel, incidentally, will be playing the Russian world No 25 Anna Kalinskaya. A tough draw but, well, at least she’ll have ample time to prepare.

A sports psychologist explains the competitive value of superstition

How many underarm serves are too many?

The ATP Tour’s underarm server-in-chief Bublik took things to extremes on Friday in Lyon, when he produced six (SIX) in a single game against Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.

The first three were on consecutive break points when down 0-40 — and Bublik won all three of them against his frazzled opponent.

Mpetshi Perricard won the next couple, but the last went Bublik’s way to secure him an unlikely service hold.

Just the SIX @BublikAlexander underarm serves in one game 🤯 #OpenParc pic.twitter.com/G4h1ZJ2cMX — Tennis TV (@TennisTV) May 24, 2024

Mpetshi Perricard ultimately won the match though to advance to the Lyon Open final.

As ever with an underarm serve, especially when there are this many, it raises the question of how sporting or otherwise it is. Ultimately, it’s completely fair game and, in this case, it worked for Bublik so there was clearly some method in the madness. What’s so unusual about this instance is that generally, an underarm serve works because of the element of surprise. For someone, even Bublik, to use them repeatedly is a big departure from the norm. But he’s pretty used to that.

Something to look out for at Roland Garros.

Davidovich Fokina loses to Rune after hitting underarm serve at 8-8 in tie-break

Are the American women going to show the men how to win on clay?

Danielle Collins gets back into action Monday, with a first-round match against fellow American Caroline Dolehide. Collins, who is retiring at the end of the year, has been on a roll the past couple months, winning the Miami Open and keeping her form as tennis shifted to clay.

She was part of a troika of American women who had a great week leading into the French Open. Collins lost in the final of Strasbourg to Madison Keys, while Peyton Stearns won the Morocco Open. Granted, Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff all took the week off, but wins are wins, especially when Americans are playing on courts that turn their white shoes rusty.

And especially when you do it like Stearns, who was 0-5 and match point down against Lucia Bronzetti in the quarter-finals before rallying to win 7-5.

At Roland Garros, Keys gets Renata Zarazua, a 26-year-old from Mexico who will be playing just her fourth Grand Slam match. Stearns gets Lucija Ciric Bagaric, a 20-year-old Croatian who survived qualifying.

Danielle Collins is on fire. She's quitting tennis at the end of the year anyway.

Sporting crossover of the week

Bia Haddad Maia: Camisa 10 🤹‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/ReP96FyBfL — wta (@WTA) May 23, 2024

Recommended reading:

• How tears and a telephone in Toronto changed Aryna Sabalenka’s tennis life
• Why the French Open draw is a nightmare for Nadal — and for the tournament
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🏆 The winners of the week

🎾  ATP: 

🏆 Casper Ruud def. Tomas Machac 7-5, 6-3 to win the Gonet Geneva Open (250) in Switzerland. It is Ruud’s 12th ATP Tour title. 🏆 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard  def. Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-4, 1-6, 7-6(7) to win the Open Parc (250) in Lyon, France. It is Mpetshi Perricard’s first ATP Tour title.

🏆 Madison Keys def.  Danielle Collins 6-1, 6-2 to win the Internationaux de Strasbourg (500) in Strasbourg, France. It is Keys’ eighth WTA Tour title. 🏆 Peyton Stearns def. Mayar Sherif 6-2, 6-1 to win the Grand Prix De Son Altesse Royale La Princesse Lalla Meryem (250) in Rabat, Morocco. It is Stearns’ first WTA Tour title.

📈📉 On the rise / Down the line

📈 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard moves up 51 places from No 117 to No 66. It is the Frenchman’s highest career ranking to date. 📈 Danielle Collins returns to the top 10, rising two places from No 12 to No 10. She displaces Jelena Ostapenko. 📈 Mayar Sherif rises 13 places from No 66 to No 53. Sherif has reached three WTA finals this year, but is yet to take home a trophy.

📉 Anna Blinkova falls 10 places (and out of the top 50) from No 45 to No 55. 📉 Arthur Fils drops eight places from No 30 to No 38. 📉 Lucia Bronzetti tumbles 19 places from No 48 to No 67.

📅 Coming up

📍Paris, French Open, featuring Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner 📺 UK: Discovery+; U.S.: Tennis Channel

📍Paris, French Open, featuring Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina 📺 UK: Discovery+; U.S.: Tennis Channel

Tell us what you noticed this week in the comments as the tours continue.

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