The Gays & Tennis part 47 Australian Open!

No it did not

R47 yes it did

Yastremska has had a lot of chances on Wozniacki's service games but is unable to convert

Yastremska another medical timeout lol

wow hardly anyone picked Wozniacki to beat Yastremska but it just happened 7-5 7-5

Another easy win for cutie Diego.

Gauff wins a close 3 setter against Cirstea

Fucsovics is the #NextGen killa

just straight setted Sinner

I'm watching the battle of the hot calves. Raonic VS Garin.

Djokovic, Barty, Mertens all win in straights

Pella wins in 4

Jabeur upsets Garcia in 3

Garin is so hot to me. Very sexy.

yes agreed Garin is very nice to look at

Dimitrov in trouble down 2 sets to Tommy Paul

Berrettini in trouble down 2 sets to Sandgren

out of nowhere Berrettini breaks at 5-4 to take the match to a 4th set

Why the hell Rublev is playing doubles? Is he not enough tired with all the tennis he has been playing for past three weeks ?

Cilic upsets #21 Paire 6-2 6-7(6) 3-6 6-1 7(10)-6(3)

Raonic in really good form today. Surprised how comfortably he defeated Garin. He's had matches when he couldn't return serve to save his life but he was on it today. Not that Garin has a big serve but he's beaten Isner

Yuck

Sandgren def. Berrettini in 5

Sad day for gay tennis fans. Berrettini and Dimitrov are both out.

DimitFLOP is back. He had Paul on the ropes then oops goodbye

Tommy Paul is kinda hot.

Hot prediction

Big THREE are going to be in semis

One of the big TWO is going to win AO

Serena is going to reach AO final

Serena is going to lose in the final

As much as i dislike big three and Serena , these four are the only ones who deserve to win AO

Rest of the greedy short-sighted wimps should go back to their respective ATP/WTA tour and scrap for ranking points and money

no doubt Federer's section has really opened up with Dimitrov and Berrettini going out

Tennys Sandgren now has 4 Top 10 wins.

Tennys Sandgren now has 4 Top 10 wins at Grand Slams.

Tennys Sandgren now has 4 Top 10 wins.

Tennys Sandgren now has 4 Top 10 wins at Grand Slams.

Dan Evans 15 minutes are over. He lost to some random Japanese

Fortunately Sandgren and Querrey face off (wishful thinking) in the next round so that one of them will be out.

[quote]Serena is going to lose in the final.

I'll show up to help!

R28 Nishioka is not "random". He's very talented and has upset plenty of in-form players over the last few years. He's ultra quick and feisty. He was too much of a backboard for Evans' shotmaking ability

R25, I saw Dimitrov from front-row courtside at the ATP cup a couple of weeks back, and I was surprised at how weird-looking he is IRL. He’s very thin, with broad shoulders, hands so big they look out of proportion to the rest of his frame, and a really tiny head. It all seems to come together on television, but looks really strange IRL.

Millman is going to beat Federer again.

From the other, now paywalled thread:

[quote] Does anyone else think Querrey looks like Buttigieg's unfortunate younger brother?

No, but Q does look like the unfortunate result of an incestuous coupling. He looks slightly inbred, and as if his IQ is dangerously low.

yeah I don't see any resemblance

ESPN- Chris Fouler, performing his usual Fedellatio. I can almost smell his hair gel and cheap after shave from here. He's gross.

I just don't get why espn loves him. He's been on for what 30 years now? Time for someone new

Poor Grigor. I hope he's in his onesy cuddling with some hot Ozzie right now.

Fabio needs to put this match to bed. It will be so embarrassing if he WINS a match from two sets down only to LOSE a match from two sets up in the next round.

Coco plays Osaka next. I wonder if they'll have another cutesy, forced moment at the net together?

Another shameless WC from the AO, Lleyton Hewitt in the doubles (partnering Jordan Thompson). They of course gave him a super cushy draw too, opening against two Korean unknowns.

Hasn't he retired like 5 times? Why can't he just bow out gracefully... He doesn't even play on the tour any more, nor does he even have a ranking. Just gets a free wildcard into a grand slam every year. Why not give one to Pat Rafter or Jelena Dokic?

I normally wouldn't care but it just takes away a spot from a deserving player who works full time, all year long grinding it out in Challengers and smaller events in the hopes of playing the grand slams (without which they might not break even for the year in terms of $$).

[quote]if they'll have another cutesy, forced moment at the net together

please God!! No! No! No!

Great match from the Fog and Thompson. Fog is super fun to watch, such great strokes.

R43 the 6-1 set was incredible. Few players are as entertaining to watch as he is when he's on. The combination of great shotmaking and incredible movement/footspeed.

The match against Nadal at the US Open was one of the best of the decade.

Chris Fowler does not know the difference between a match tie break and a regular tie break. He's been commentating on tennis for over a dozen years. Yeah, he's sleazy. That Chris McHendrick chick is bizarre. She always looks afraid of something.

Mixed Doubles draw is out. Some interesting pairings:

Nick Kyrgios and Amanda Anisimova (didn't they break up? He was cheating on her with Kalinskaya).

Venus Williams and world #1 Juan Sebastian Cabal (would be nice for him to win something since Farah got a doping ban).

Jelena Ostapenko and Leander Paes.

Bethanie Mattek Sands and Jamie Murray reuniting.

Kirsten Flipkens and Jergen Melzer.

Hsieh Su-wei and Neal Skupski.

Barbora Strycova and Marcelo Melo.

Zhang Shuai and Nicolas Mahut.

Polish duo of young Iga Swiatek with former #1 Lukasz Kubot

Plus the usual suspects (Melichar/Soares, Krejcikova/Mektic, Chan/Dodig, Chan/Venus, Dabrowski/Kontinen).

Both Matteo and Grigor are overranked

My arms do you like?

if Gerasimov is having a consistent day, I expect him to give Zverev a tough time. He started playing better last year, particularly during the second half of the season

Borna Coric OUT

Tommy Paul IN

meeting Todrick!

oops wrong thread

but I'm sure a few of the tennis players would like that

Pliskova vs. Siegemund is going to be 1 of the biggest clashes of styles.

The courts don't seem to be lightning quick IMO

Is Tommy Paul the cutest player on tour? He should be new DL fav.

No...

is Tommy Paul a deplorable?

Vekic demolishes Cornet

Bencic 2 tough sets over Ostapenko. Ostapenko had 5-2 in the 2nd set

Praying that Osaka doles out a vicious smackdown to CoCo.

MAtteo Berrtani is in Tomljanovic Ajla 's box . Are they dating? She dated Nick Krygois . her cousin is dating FAA.

R59 Berrettini and Tomljanovic have been seen together since at least the USO last year

Muguruza was up and down but she won in 3

Never heard of this Spaniard Medvedev is playing, but he is hot hot hot

Medvedev is so unimpressive. H e will lose sooner or later. He is not a contender to reach in the final

R61 I was thinking the same thing. He's objectively very handsome.

Martinez is a 22 year old qualifier. He's on the rise. He's attractive

Domi is so cute

But I can’t deal with the blond highlights, R65.

Is Domi channeling Martina when she went blonde?

Gulbis is through to the third round!

Pliskova, Zverev, Medvedev, Kerber, Bertens, Rublev, Mertens and Isner all win in straights

Thiem had to go 5 sets with Bolt lol

Monfils in 4 over Karlovic who's like 40

Tommy Paul is adorable and his FH is fantastic. He can put it anywhere even on the run, Sampras-like. Excellent serve and he's quick. That's a tough loss for Grigor.

Delbonis has the world's highest ball toss.

CSN is out :-(

Collins defeated Putin 6-1,6-0 in Brisbane just 2 weeks and now today she lost to her in three tough sets. That is why she is never going to be a top player. She is so streaky .

meanwhile so many ups an down matches in men side. Besides big 3 these ATP players can not close sets and matches to save their lives.

As much as I dislike big THREE and Serena, these four only deserve to win this AO open

Collins defeated Putin 6-1,6-0 in Brisbane just 2 weeks and now today she lost to her in three tough sets. That is why she is never going to be a top player. She is so streaky .

meanwhile so many ups an down matches in men side. Besides big 3 these ATP players can not close sets and matches to save their lives.

As much as I dislike big THREE and Serena, these four only deserve to win this AO open

Collins drops SF points from last year. I know Halep is happy Putin beat her because Collins would have been a nightmare opponent for her.

Halep and Bencic's quarter is actually VERY soft. Both of them should really make it to the QF and duke it out for a spot in the semis.

I hope Jabeur finishes Wozniacki's career tomorrow.

Young Grigor is [bold]so[/bold] metrosexual, it hurts. And I bet he likes a bit of spanking after a nice change of nappies.

Svitoina is now being coached by Marcos Baghdatis

Svitoina is now being coached by Marcos Baghdatis

Michael Ymer served for the match at 6-5 against Khachanov and really was the better player for most of it. Hopefully he will have his breakthrough soon, Khachanov probably toast now for the next match against Kyrgios... these tall guys don't recover so well.

Wawrinka also survives a 5 setter against an inspired Seppi (who also served for the match I believe).

Kevin Anderson is out in 5 sets to Taylor Fritz.

Hot daddy Fritz

[quote]daddy Fritz

I'm not sure what was going on here:

Pedro Martinez did a good tournament, maybe this year he'll get into the top 100. In tennis things change fast in a few months, just like year he lost two times against Carlos Alcaraz (the first one when Carlos only had 15), but he seems playing way better this year

Kyrgios mocked Nadal's OCD routine after getting a time violation

And, as per BBC article,

[quote] Asked whose impression was better, Kyrgios replied: "I don't wear underwear, so probably Gilles'."

We’re slipping here on DL—not a single one of us ever noticed Kyrgios doesn’t wear undies???!!!

Sorry, if anyone’s interested, here’s the BBC article:

[quote]not a single one of us ever noticed Kyrgios doesn’t wear undies?

He probably wears compression shorts

omg I hope Kyrgios wins his next round so he can face Nadal in rd16. I want to see how Nadal, almost always the fan favorite, reacts to a heavily 1-sided Aussie crowd witih a few drunk bogans yelling and applauding any errors and double faults he makes

^Yes! With Bernardes in the chair!

lmfao at Putintseva and Collins

I’m strangely hypnotized by that GIF of Taylor...

R87 I think Twitter videos only work if you turn off link previews

Lil' Diego and Lajovic are wearing the exact same outfit

I watched that Theim match last night. He was lucky to escape with a win there. Bolt was coming up with some incredible shots.

That Fritz win was very impressive, dang. Maybe some shifting of the favorites this year, finally.

Serena in trouble agains Wang!!!

Wang.

Have they done the Margaret Court tribute yet?

Woz retired.

R95, the rueful way she said that it was fitting for her career to end with a forehand error . . .

Serena out. Lesbian.

It was so satisfying to see her "loose"

we just heard the stat that this AO was the 1st slam since Wimbledon 2009 in which all women's top 10 seeds reached the 3rd round then boom Serena and Keys both lose

Wang played very well. She was rock solid, absorbed Serena's power a lot of the time and went for her shots when she could. There were some great hard-hitting rallies. Yes Serena overpowered Wang at times but Serena also made plenty of mistakes. Whoever said these courts are playing fast was incorrect. They're definitely slower than at the USO.

Jabeur has a real unique shotmaking game. She's short, fat but powerful. She was hitting great angles off the puffy Wozniacki forehand and it was a fitting way to send her into retirement

Fucsovics continues to be the #NextGen killa. Shapovalov, Sinner and now Paul.

I am so happy Serena lost! Retire already!

Novak looks good. He isn't that skeletal skinny now but he's nice and thin.

R99, Reger Fedex analysis on court

1)It is fast during day time under sunlight

2)Is is slow during indoor

3)It get slower in the night

4)It is very fast with new balls (compare to new balls in other tournament )

5)But after six seven games it is is very slow(compare to older balls in other tournament s)

6)With passing of each day court is becoming faster

These are things said by Roger and not me. I don't know scientific reason for that . I know how heat and sunlight affect speed of clay and grass court . I also know how density and length of clay and grass court affect the speed of the court . But I have no clear idea how it affects hard court.

I was under impression that under extreme heat and sun, hard court gets slower but this is not always true. My impression was based on commentary during 1999 AO semifinal between Lindsay Davenport and Mursemo

commentators were saying that there was so much that court almost became slow like a sand court

This guys predicted it hours ago

It's unfortunate that little Diego has to face Djokovic next round. He is having a good tournament.

How many more years does Madison Keys have to be on the tour before she learns how to string together more than 3 shots in a rally? Given her natural ball-striking talent, she has to be the biggest flop on the WTA.

Keys is just a dumb player and some days she just has no accuracy. Sakkari is a hard-working scrapper in tip top shape but she doesn't have nearly the amount of power of Keys.

I was shocked to see Keys NOT run around her backhand in the second set when she had the chance. Her backhand was missing today

Serena Williams-Caro Wozniacki potential Rd4 is a Wang-Jabeur match i

so right now we could have and were supposed to have Berrettini vs. Coric

instead we get Sandgren vs. Querrey sigh

just when we thought Sandgren was about to fall off the tennis map...he's back into the rd16 at a slam. ugh

Cilic def. RBA in 5 sets

R109, don't blame him. blame Sam. He can loose to anyone.

R110, Crying Cilic totally exposed RBA

Gauff takes 1st set 6-3 over Osaka! Naomi's backhand is nowhere to found. Hitting the net in consecutive points

The No.1 seeds in doubles are OUT in 1st Round

By Benoit Paire and Simon bolleeli

Raonic playing very well at the moment and takes the 1st set over Tsitsipas 7-5

he's not just serving well he's even hitting his worst shot, the backhand, decently. Tsitsipas hasn't figured out how to handle him yet

Pliskobot is ruthless.

Q. What do you make of Serena winning her first title in three years in Ausckland ?

KAROLINA PLISKOVA: I think she had a couple chances already last two years. I think this time, especially there was no really opponent which would have the game to beat her

R115 well if not for Serena's ankle injury last year, Pliskova would have lost 6-1 in the third set. She has no room to shade anyone

Osaka played as stupidly and carelessly as Keys did earlier. Flailing about, missing shots by several feet, well the ones that didn't hit the net and fall back onto her own side.

Gauff has amazing composure far beyond her years. She was solid tonight. Nothing too special but she kept her cool and let Osaka self-destruct. A lot of other players her age and older would have simply choked. She's so steady. Champion's mindset

crazy that Serena, Key,s Wozniacki and Osaka all lost on the same day in matches in which they were all heavily favored.

Was there a joint post match interview? Did Cori forced Naomi to face that annoying interviewer after her defeat?

R118, And just yesterday they were bragging about all women's Top 10 seeds marching through the draw

Raonic up 2 sets on Tsitsipas!

Millman takes the 1st set off Federer!

What!!?? Roger F lost the first set to Millman, the man with the sexiest walk ever???

so now we know Patrick Mouratoglou's priority list. Obviously Serena is #1 but with her out he had the horrible luck of Tsitsipas and Gauff playing their matches at the same time! What's an opportunist to do?

He has been at Tsitsipas/Raonic the 3rd time. We can be assured however that should Stefanos lose tonight, he will be in Gauff's box for the rest of the tournament

*Tsitsipas/Raonic the whole time

Raonic straight sets Tsitsipas wow. Last year's SF points gone

I'm sure somewhere Zverev is smiling that his recent conquerors and younger blond banger challengers Shapovalov and Tsitsipas lost before him

Djokovic has a free run to the final now that RBA and Tsitsipas are out.

Fognini def. Pella in straight sets

Novak will so win this. He's like Rafa at the French. Unbeatable.

Simone Bolelli is hot.

He is rumored to be gay

So, Raonic straightsetted the 2018 YEC champion at 2019 Australian Open and the 2019 YEC champion at 2020 Australian Open.

Grand Slam matches won in the past 12 months:

Tsitsipas 4

Sandgren 8 (and counting)

By whom, R130? I agree he's a feast for the eyes.

Sofia the loser. I am excited about her

Not in Italy, he isn’t r130. There used to be rumours about Gaudenzio back in the day, but not Bolelli.

Millman forces a fifth set!

Big choke from Millman. Embarrassing. I guess we will see Djokovic destroy Federer in the semi.

Oh geesh, Millman was up 8-5 in the 5th-set tie breaker and then he didn't win another point.

I doubt Federer will get to the semis. He will be exhausted after tonight.

Roger really escaped tonight. What a shame for Millman, this win would have vindicated him for all the people who said him beating Federer at the USO was a fluke. Roger was stressed and GRUMPY tonight, and Mirka must have gone through 3 packets of Maltesers. At least this match will take the legs out of him a bit.

It is frustrating watching these top players being thoroughly outplayed and yet still coming through in the end, based mostly on their reputation. Thiem is another one the other day.

Ugh. These draws are TRULY falling apart. Can Fabio Fognini just have another random great run and beat them all? He and Ons Jabeur should win the whole thing... i'm here for great shotmaking!

I don't think tonight great play will do any favor for Milliman. Now he will Knowns as great choker like PCB. People are saying he can learn so much from this loss. thta is bullshit. He will have a permanent monkey on his back from now on

There is ATP is called Association of Tennis Pussies

One of the most tragic flops in the history of Grand Slams.

They are hall of fame legends of the sport for a reason. They can dig out wins when needed. Though Serena didnt.

R143 Did Roger really dig out a win? or did Millman dig out a loss?

Looked more like the latter to me.

R144, I just took a look at Millman's twitter account and I got answer about his loss

I thought this was real lol, but apparently it's from a commercial for Uber Eats

Coco routined Osaka with a 6W 17UE performance? The WTA is a mess.

R147 that's more Osakas problem than the WTA still a lot of great players left.

[quote] It is frustrating watching these top players being thoroughly outplayed and yet still coming through in the end, based mostly on their reputation.

It’s part of the game. Players’ reputations (either positive or negative) precede them onto the court. If you’re up against a player with Federer’s reputation, you’re bound to get really tight at the most important moments, even if he’s having a totally off day. I remember Hingis once came back from a couple of match points down on a day she was playing like a mere club player and said that “Being number one counts for something”. The same is true in reverse for current Serena Williams: she’s now got a reputation for “freezing” in tight matches, and players know that they *can* beat her if she’s off and they’re on.

typical ATP of the last 10 years when the big 3 are in trouble they still prevail. sigh

R150 this will probably continue for like the next 5 years unfortunately.

Fucsovics has really shown great form this tournament. I wonder what he'll be able to do against Federer after that 5 set marathon

I wonder why Kyrgios v. Khachanov wasn't scheduled on Rod Laver Arena or Margaret Court Arena. That's the match that I'm most interested in watching tomorrow.

Kyrgios doesn't like being on the biggest courts at the AO. He requests to be on the next level down

Tsitsipas is a big dissapointment, big mouth but when he has to deliver he fails.

I know Milos served really well, but the truth is Tsitsipas was winning easily his serve games till the first set was on the deciding games, and then he lost his first serve on the second and of course he played like crap the tie break of the third. It's not that he lose, it's that he failed at every important moment of the match.

Osaka is a nobody without Bajin. She can say whatever she wants but she was playing amazing and now she is just another brainless ballbasher.

Thanks, R154, I did not know that.

The Margaret Court tribute is scheduled for Monday, which is a public holiday for Australia Day.

it's funny about Kyrgios. He seems to love the big stages around the world except in his own country. I guess that's his way of conceding he feels home pressure. I'd like to see a Nadal vs. Kyrgios match in Australia but it won't surprise me if Kyrgios flops to Khachanov

I hope Karen Hemsworth makes Kyrgios cry like the bitch he is.

Pavlyuchenkova looks to be moving better than she used to. I've always thought she was a bit too hefty to be successful enough to really breakthrough.

ha!

[quote]I've always thought she was a bit too hefty

the word you are actually trying to say is FATTY

[quote]I've always thought she was a bit too hefty

the word you are actually trying to say is FATTY

Pavlyuchenkova is a solid ballstriker but yeah her fitness and movement have hindered her. She has good footwork but sometimes she's too slow to set up in time. When you're not in position then you can end up just bashing the ball making a litany of errors but she seems be timing everything well so far against Pliskova.

Pliskova hates to play defense and she seems bothered by how consistent Pavlyuchenkova has been so far

I love Giorgi she's crazy as hell. Plays a horrible 1st set against Kerber then scraps out a 2nd set tiebreak lol top players HATE playing her when she's on

Team Gulbis

BYE Pliskbot! slamless again!

And Serena continues to have 23 Grand Slam titles more than big mouth Pliskova. So sad for her.

Pliskova should have kept her fat whore mouth shut!

Vamos, Rafa.

I know it’s been discussed already but Serena really screwed the pooch. I didn’t see her game, either.

was Bencic injured or just awful? She only got a single game against Kontaveit

Monfils straight sets Gulbis

last round

Serena will never match Mzrgaret Court's record, Court was about 35 years of age, mother of 3 when she retired. Serena is 38 mother of one still trying to best Court's record. Serena lost that when she turned 36.

R173, True, also MSC never used her kids to score media points

Rublev def. Goffin in 4

Theim after victory

TIU: Lifetime ban for Brazilian João Souza, former top 70.

i am ok with banning player for match fixing or not reporting fixing approach. However what about players's safety ? You can not expect lower ranked journeymen to risk their lives and defy betting mafia boss.

TIU: Lifetime ban for Brazilian João Souza, former top 70.

i am ok with banning player for match fixing or not reporting fixing approach. However what about players's safety ? You can not expect lower ranked journeymen to risk their lives and defy betting mafia boss.

Marat Safin was in Rublev's box. Thomas Johansson was in Goffin's.

2002 Australian Open final rematch channeled through Rublev and Goffin on 1573 Arena.

Now it's Marat in Khachanov's box, and Hewitt in Kyrgios'. 2005 AO final anyone?

Wawrinka def. Isner 6-4 4-1 ret. what happened?

R181, He always does this. Whenever someone is about to hand his ass to him ,he becomes handicapped. He is long lost brother of Kerber.

Remember last year Miami final against Roger?. And how he was not sure which body part of him was injured

ok apparently it's a foot issue that he had in the past

interesting-it's not just Safin in Khachanov's box. Former players Andreev and Kunitsyn are also there with him

Muguruza put a beatdown on Svitolina 6-1 6-2 saved her only 2 break points when serving for the match. Best match she's played in a couple years

Svitolina has had a slow start to the season and seemed helpless today

Garbage won 6-1, 6-2. She totally exposed Pusholina.

Barty also out in doubles

Tennys Sandgren being absolutely realistic about tennis economics. Refreshing to hear it from a player, especially when some of his colleagues demand being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars just because

The third round has been carnage for the women's Top 10.

#1 Barty - in

#2 Pliskova - OUT IN R3

#3 Osaka - OUT IN R3

#4 Halep - in

#5 Svitolina - OUT IN R3

#6 Bencic - OUT IN R3

#7 Kvitova - in

#8 Serena - OUT IN R3

#9 Bertens - (yet to play R3)

#10 Keys - OUT IN R3

I'd love to see Kvitova win the whole thing.

Zverev just straight setted Verdasco to set up an interesting date with Rublev in the next round. Also Thiem vs. Monfils

I can't stand Zverev. Hopefully Rublev will destroy him.

Where's the love for Marton, gurls? Dude is RIPPED!

R173: That record is all Margaret had. Once someone matched it she'll be forgotten, she was irrelevant to make women's tennis the sport it is today, and most of her Australian open titles were more a national championship than a real GS. She was a great player but nobody cares about her right now.

Garbiñe is back, bitches. Conchita must feel vindicated with her win and Pliskova tanking once again.

Medvedev seems solid as a rock. I want him to reach at least semis to show youngsters that you can be regular at GS.

Zverev is doing well, and in my opinion it's because he doesn't feel the pressure. His last crisis was weird, he was destroying De MIñaur (and Alex played really well that tournament) and suddenly he couldn't sever to save his life. I'm curious to watch his match against Rublev, in my opinion Zverev is more talented and he won in the past, but right now Rublev is solid and with a lot of confidence and could make Zverev's game wobble

And Kyrgios defeated Khachanov in a very long and tight match.

It'll be interesting his match against Nadal, it'll be Nadal's first real test

Test?? Nadal will eat Nick for breakfast. Nick could not properly put away Karen Hemsworth who was completely out of form, not to mention out of gas. Do you think he can do some damage to Nadal

Dominic Thiem tells Barbara Schett on Eurosports he already split with Thomas Muster after... two weeks.

"No personal problems, but profissionally the things didn't connect".

Domi will stay with Massu and dad Wolfgang (at times)

Kyrgios has a shot against Nadal. Nadal doesn't like to play him. Nadal leads their H2H 4 matches to 3, so it's not like Nick hasn't beaten him before or Nadal dominates him. Nick didn't play all that great at Wimbledon last year and although he lost to Nadal in the 4th Round, it was in four tight sets.

I fucking hate Nadal. I'll cheer like the home crowd in favor of Nick. Anything but another Nadal Slam win please.

There is no way Nadal will win this year. His draw is too brutal. Djokovic has it in the bag.

....

And who would defeat him before the finals, R199,? I am sorry, I am not purposely trying to be argumentive or pessimistic but there is no one who can stop him before the final.

Nick is toast after today's match.

Domi has been very inconsistent in this tournament and has trouble closing out sets. And even if somehow manage to defeat Monfils and give a tough 5 set fight to Nadal I don't think he will be to finish the job. (Remember 2019 US open Quater final?)

Medvedev has still not recovered from his injury and has to face Stan and Sasha/Rublev before the semis. I don't think he would have enough left in his tank to defeat Nadal

At this this time only Nole can defeat him and that is why I am rooting for Nole

Gee, how surprising. Roger faces yet another unseeded player in a night match, giving him the maximum rest possible after his 5-setter.

Team Kvitova or Mugu, and I'd love to see Monfils take it all as the ultimate dark horse.

Kyrgios, as unlikable as he often is, was impressive over Karen. I didn't think he had it in him.

I'm the biggest Nadal fan ever. But Nick will beat him.

You make good points, R201, but I still hope to God you're wrong.

Borna is so hot. It's a shame he's a flop lately so we don't see more of him.

[quote]Gee, how surprising. Roger faces yet another unseeded player in a night match, giving him the maximum rest possible after his 5-setter.

You might not like it, but when Federer is playing at the AO, and the match is being shown on telly in Australia, that is ratings gold for the broadcaster. Literally, millions of people tune in, and ads for the match cost millions upon millions. Do you think any of these business people, whose existence is predicated exclusively on generating moolah, really care that a sarcastic little troll like you thinks that the decision to put Federer on the main court for the night match might be—gasp!—rigged? I get that you don't like Federer (like I don't like Serena or her brand of tennis), but we're in a very small minority—when these players are playing, they sell tickets and they max the ratings on television.

And why he spends so much time with his twin sister? His twin sister Bruna, well she is a peach. They strangely still live together and what exactly they do? Play house??

One thing I know that twin siblings are ofter very dependent on each other. While I have not followed Borna and Bruna Instagram very closely , they seem very close

Disturbing close!

So, R208, the Coric twins = Cersei and Jamie Lannister.

Yeah Borna and Bruna are fucking for sure.

I just wonder about Kyrgios' physical state. Yeah he'll have a day to rest but he blew a chance to finish off Khachanov in straight sets. Then the next 2 sets both were long. He took an injury timeout up 5-2 in the 1st set. I'm hoping for a tough match but it seems like Nadal will get lucky again

R11, Kyrgios did take the time to gaslight Rafa by calling him the GOAT, so he (Nick) may really believe that he has a chance to win.

R201: It's not a question of who could win against him, it's a question that he has a good bunch of tough matches ahead and all the GS he won recently he defeated his rivals quite easily till reach the finals.

I think it's very difficult to defeat Kyrgios, Thiem and Medvedev without being on court hours and hours and he has enough trouble against Nole on hard courts to have a chance if he reach the final after long and tight matches in the previous rounds.

Curiously Nole had the toughest draw but the ones who can give him trouble lost in third round.

Lil Diego will give him some trouble, he is a fighter but Nole seems to be in top form right now. A ver inspired Raonic could have a chance (but he never won against Nole in 9 matches so the chances are very low) and Federer doesn't have a chance after his match against Millman (even with that i think he'll be in semis because his draw is not the most demanding).

ON the woman's i'm very interested in the Gauff-Kenin. Kenin is a totally different kind of player who won't give Coco free points, on the other hand Coco seems mentally stronger and that could give her the edge

R207 Maybe they don't care about his complain, but they don't want Nole to complain again. No matter if Roger is ratings gold you can't rig the tournament and when you put one player to play at night again and again that's exactly what you are doing.

Anyway, after his match against MIllman, Roger chances to win are close to zero

Schwartzman can run with Djokovic and hit with him off the ground but he's not as consistent and due to his height he doesn't have much of a serve.

what's with the bold print pattern the clothing sponsors are going for this tournament? It's like they splashed paint on outfits after making them

Nike can always be counted on to create court eyesores, R216.

Sakkari is an intelligent player. She know exactly what has to do to win this match. She is putting her best effort and tactics.

Kvitova on the other hand can make Tiafoe like an intelligent player.

R218 But compared to Keys, she's Stephen Hawking.

Cilic vs. Raonic almost feels old school now. They both rose up a few years ago at the same time then fell into slumps/injuries

Barty and Kvitova are the only slam champs left in what was a heavily loaded half of the draw. Serena, Venus, Osaka, Stosur, Stephens and Wozniacki were all there as well. If Barty and Kvitova both win they'll face off in the QF. So the other SF from this half will be completely new to the big stage of a slam

Did anyone catch what the guy yelled in the crowd (during Gauff/Kenin) when Chrissie said she couldn't repeat it, but she was sure security would be on their way to him, or something along those lines?

When in the match did that happen, R222?

Hooray for Jabeur! Nice to see her come through.

And Wang goes down after she was supposed to be the next great thing. Alas.

It was early in the match, the first 3-4 games. R223

Djokovic vs Raonic in the QF. Their H2H record is 9-0.

Sandgren only plays well at this tournament.

And Auckland

Good grief, that Sandgren fellow looks like he just stepped out of the double-wide to go play this game.

That Italian is a complete douche. 😳

Fognini really acting like an entitled jerk tonight. He was mad that he fucked up chances to win the opening set. Then he argued with the umpire for a few minutes before then deciding to take a bathroom break. I can't stand Sandgren but I don't fault him for complaining to the umpire.

Fognini got a point penalty in the 2nd set and then called the trainer for a blister. He seems to be tanking now

Earlier there was a rule that you can call trainers for blisters but can not take medical timeout for that . Though you can have treatment during changeover. i don;t know when the rules has changed

Fog gonna Fog.

Fog gonna Fog.

WHY in the hell did they switch away from Fogs to show Cabbage Patch Doll Ash Barty vs Riske?

lmfao Fognini is such a troll! Acting like he was finished then he fights super hard at the end of the 3rd to take it and now they're headed to a 4th. Sandgren seems like his hip is starting to bother him and he's pissed at Fognini. The handshake will be something no matter the winner

This Riske girls' shriek is fucking heinous!

sigh...Sandgren is back, y'all. Into the QF. To be fair he played well but ugh

sigh...Sandgren is back, y'all. Into the QF. To be fair he played well but ugh

Tennis is weird, Part 383244:

#100 Tennys Sandgren just got his fifth top-20 win at a Slam (5-2);

#1 Ash Barty just got her second top-20 win at a Slam (2-10).

Sandgren, ranked 100, will climb at least into the 50s with his latest run here.

Women's Singles QFs - Top Half

[1] Ash Barty vs [7] Petra Kvitova

Ons Jabeur vs. [14] Sofia Kenin

Who is reaching the final in this half?

The only satisfaction to be gotten out of the Fog-Sand match was that one of them would be ousted.

Fucsovics and Federer look like they are being forced to play at gunpoint.

Poor lil Diego. He's a Jack Russell terrier in a world of Weimaraners.

R244, but he did in fact keep fighting to end. There was a lot of good hitting in that match.

As expected Coco struggled against a girl who don't give her tons of free points

Yes, that's a great thing about Diego. He's got a huge heart.

Stan/Daniil is a very interesting match. And the Rafa/Nick grudge match could be fantastic if Nick isn't too gassed.

Looks like Djokovic is gonna extend his h2h against Federer.

Thomas Muster in an interview with Boris Becker about Domi: Thiem

„I saw myself fully involved for the next two years. [...] Frankly spoken, there are houses that look nice from the outside, but you rarely know who lives inside.“

Well, it were two weeks instead two years, but at least he guess the number correctly

R249 Luka Mladenovic "lives" inside that "house."

McEnroe bashed Margaret Court, said he hopes Serena wins two more GS and leave Margaret Court in the past were she belongs

PANDERING

I love John for expressing a strong opinion. TC played the Martina story the other night. In 1990, the day after Martina won her 9th Wimbledon, and more importantly felt 100 pct. love and acceptance from the crowd, Court came out with this:

Kenin is not a good matchup for Gauff. Kenin doesn't wilt and she has enough smarts to go after a weakness like she did the Gauff forehand.

I am expecting a lot of public statements in the coming days about Margaret Court and homophobia. All players will be asked in their press conferences about the issue, and whether it was right to honour her. Hopefully Rennae Stubbs, Casey Dellacqua, Nicole Pratt, Louise Pleming, Monique Adamczak, etc. and the other brigade of outspoken Aussie lesbians come up with some sort of protest or open letter.

I don't even know why she demanded this ceremony, she's not even involved in tennis any more really. She never shows up to watch the matches, doesn't do commentary, doesn't have an academy, doesn't mentor young players, doesn't participate in documentaries about tennis. She left it all behind for her homophobic cult and now she wants back in just so she and her hatred can be the centre of attention? Bye.

Sandgren at least learned his lesson. He no longer tweets or likes conspiracy theories or alt-right stuff on twitter anymore.

My arms do you like?

Doesn't make Sandgren any less of a deplorable piece of shit.

Is he really a deplorable or just a dumb jock, because some of his tweets were very very dumb.

Most tennis players are conservative, is a sport for rich people after all. Of course conservative and homophobic are two different things, and we have some conservative players, i'm thinking in Juan Carlos Ferrero, for example, who are clearly not homophobic.

But if my memory doesn't fail, apart of the homophobia were some racist tweets too.

At least he is smart enough to not make the same mistake agains

R260 = ESL

R261: Ummm No. Wasn't ESL russian? i'm spanish

Wasn't ESL a white supremacist?

I don't think Sandgren grew up rich. So he's just a deplorable, not a rich conservative who wants to protect his wealth

[quote] Wasn't ESL a white supremacist?

Yes.

He was Bulgarian or something. He went all white power on some non-tennis threads and got greyed out and banned apparently.

Sandgren played amazing tennis against Fognini, who wanted to win. The match was fantastic. Can't you just enjoy the tennis and leave the political cunting out of it R259? On ONE thread, FFS?

Sandgren himself made political statements. I will comment on his politics if I like. And if YOU don't like it you can go fuck yourself after you jack off to your Trump poster.

You're the type of fanatical, unhinged cunt the block function is made for. Bye!

I won't miss you. Kisses!

am I the only one who really doesn't find Mertens that impressive?

The AO was looking disappointing for American tennis fans due to early loss of Serena Williams, Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens, Francis Tiafoe. Good for them that at least Sofia Kenin and Tennys Sandgren are keeping American hopes alive

The AO was looking disappointing for American tennis fans due to early loss of Serena Williams, Madison Keys, Sloane Stephens, Francis Tiafoe. Good for them that at least Sofia Kenin and Tennys Sandgren are keeping American hopes alive

Not really, R273--that's scraping the bottom of the ATP American barrel...

Halep vs.Mertens scrappy as expected

Tonight we will be able to post because of Grammy awards and Kobe Bryant's death not to mention the fact most of us are poor

We will NOT*

really looking forward to Thiem vs. Monfils but the level will be inconsistent

Djokovic and Halep will be the winners of AO 2020.

Zzzzzz if so, R279.

muting the tribute to Nipsey Hussle who wasn't even fucking famous before he died. Yes he did some good things for his community but he was very ignorant

disappointed John Legend is participating but whatever

Swiatek impressive this tournament

The Thiem/Monfils match is not as exciting as I expected.

Thiem is more consistent than I expected. Monfils needs to go bigger if he wants to break Thiem right now

R283, Don't worry. I started watching this match with Domi leading 6-2,6-4.3-1. Now watch either Gael playing amazing tennis or Domi starts playing like shit

[quote] Tennys Sandgren

Alt-right, neonazi, Trump loving piece of shit.

very surprising how easily Thiem won

at least he'll be well rested for (likely) Nadal

Good for McEnroe. "There's only one thing longer than the list of Margaret Court's tennis achievements," McEnroe said on The Commissioner of Tennis.

"It's her list of offensive and homophobic statements.

"Tennis Australia is facing a dilemma: What do they do with their crazy aunt?"

yaaaaas Johnny drag her for filth!

So happy for Domi. He really deserved that easy win . i love his new gay hair style also . I like my men fem and flamboyant

Anett Kontaveit mot much Kaia Kanepi when it comes to closing out the match

now that Serena, Tsitsipas, Coco and former proteges like Dimitrov and Chardy are all out, Patrick Mouratoglou is staying on camera by doing commentary. He just won't fucking go away

[quote] I like my men fem and flamboyant

So do I.

Muguruza is back! 6-3 6-3 over Bertens

Chris Evert still being a shady ass bitch lmao Pam mentioned how Garbine's new coach Conchita Martinez upset Navratilova in 1994 Wimbledon final. Chris adds "yeah upset Martina in more ways than one"

Team Daniil. He's up two sets to one over Wawrinka.

Kontaveit won. . She will play Simona Halep

Hopefully Kontaveit hits Halep off the court. If we can't have a fun winner like Jabeur having a dream run, or Pavlyuchenkova finally harnessing the talent she's had for years, then i'd rather see Petra K add to her slam haul than the other three.

Unlike Muguruza or Kerber she doesn't tank throughout the entire year, tries to keep tennis interesting even in the smaller events, and actually gives the illusion that she WANTS it. It would also be a nice story after her stabbing, and how she came so close last year. It really is odd to me that Kerber has more slams than her, and i'd rather die than watch Screamona push and grind for 3 hours in the final while shrieking her head off and crying to Darren.

I'm glad McEnroe is dragging Marge Court and I hope others follow his lead! What are you afraid of, Evert and Davenport and co?

I just knew Wawrinka and Medvedev would go 5 lol

Medvedev will have to learn to improve his volleys and stop being so passive if he wants to make his life easier. Nadal, Djokovic and Murray all did it.

Medvedev is like Murray in that he's not the hardest hitter on tour but is capable of hitting harder than he usually does. Like Murray he picks when he wants to try to end points. Sometimes he's just content to get the ball back which can cause numerous long rallies and in slams, very long matches.

R298 I agree. The commentators often talk about how Medvedev 'bores' his opponents into making an error. I get what they mean, it's those long, slow, deep rallies that you will be stuck in forever with him if you don't 'go for it'.

But with Stan in Stanimal form like he is right now in this set, playing like Wozniacki with a big serve is not going to cut it. Medvedrug has the length and strength to hit WAY bigger (in fact he used to, like in his AO match against Djokovic 2 years ago). But being passive is what brought him these career best results, so...

Pavlyuchenkova served at 5-2 in the 1st set only to lose it 6(5)-7

Kerber has great defense as always but her usual rally balls seem to be in Pavlyuchenkova's strike zone

Nadal and Kyrgios at the least are going 4 sets

Pavs hit 28 winners and 12 unforced errors in the first set only to lose it.

given their current form I'm surprised that Zverev is controlling the match against Rublev so far

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