The Tennis Thread

Monfils is playing like a teenager again lol.

It was one amazing match, albeit topsy turvy.

Just watching the replay now. He still has moments of brilliance, but very inconsistent. Maybe a blip, maybe a sign of things to come?

Pretty grim news tonight from Andy Murray - after those good matches in Miami, looks like he’s properly mangled the ligaments in his ankle - reckons he’s out for an ‘extended’ time. From the tone of his post it’s going to be a struggle for the grass season. A great pity.

Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise. He's 36, achieved more than most expected, has a great family, all sorts of opportunities to do other things.

I just watched Sinner lose against Tsitsipas.

However the match was stolen from Sinner.

He was leading 4-2 in the final set and had break point to make it 5-2. Tsitsipas served a double fault but it wasn’t called. It wasn’t even close. They showed the replay and it was long by several centimetres. Neither the linesman nor umpire called it out. Yes Sinner should have stopped the point but he was probably confused that it hadn’t been called out. A proper player (like Federer or Nadal) would have conceded the point as it was so clearly long. Tsitsipas is not that sort of person.

I don’t understand why some tournaments use the technology available, whilst others continue to use linesmen that make mistakes. In this case it almost certainly changed the outcome of the match and tournament (Tsitsipas will get beaten easily by Djokovic).

No need to be snide. I don’t think Casper had even taken a set off Djokovic before so that was a very unexpected result.

I don't like Tsit much but he played well there, backhand was really firing.

All the Brits out of RG before the end of R1.

Yes, just when a few in both male and female draws seemed to be getting better. Suppose they’ll say clay isn’t their natural surface, better to be back on grass etc. Needn’t bother sending any to the Olympics then.