The Tennis Thread

[Blackpuddin]

jbudgie said:

Blackpuddin said:

Women's tennis is getting slightly more watchable these days but the fact that there were only about eight people in the stadium for the Konta quarter-final makes you wonder about the equal prize money thing.

Looked quite full to me from the TV clips.

Are you thinking of her previous match where there weren't many there because an Aussie was playing on the other court?

Check the 5 best shots vid here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35416399

[Justices]

Call the police! Someone is getting murdered on Rod Laver. Absolutely brutal.

[ajprice]

22 minute and 32 minute sets. From the BBC feed Djokovic has it covered, more of a surgical job than a murder .

Edit: Federer's woken up, might be a match on now

Edited by ajprice on Thursday 28th January 10:03

[BlackLabel]

Fed has upped his game here - would be nice to see this go into a 5th set.

[Justices]

I think the crowd backing the other guy gets to Novak. I saw something similar in the French final last year when he seems to lose focus instead of staying on top of the guy he is handling perfectly. It's like he can't play well enough to ever have the crowd on his side. His attitude before he turned into the ultimate tennis robot has a lot to do with it I think.

Either way, hope it goes to a long 5th set and Andy comes through in straights to be fresh for the final.

[eps]

Jamie Murray in the Doubles Final as well http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/35426153

[Babw]

From what we've seen there's only two ways of having a chance at beating Djokovic. Just slog it out from the baseline for 5+ hours and hope for the best - remember what happened last year in the final where he had his apparent injury.

Otherwise Raonic could possibly out serve and out forehand him from the back of the court and get it done in 3/4 sets. I don't really know if he has the consistency to be able to do that in his first final and overcome the pressure just yet.

Murray just doesn't have the ability to hold his serve well enough against Djokovic to be able to make the breaks count, I think he definitely has the ability to break the serve more than any others.

[stephen300o]

Change ends

[hornetrider]

Raonic takes the breaker to go 2-1 up in sets.

Place your bets. Murray a) fightback, or b) defeat due to mental breakdown.

[Leithen]

hornetrider said:

Raonic takes the breaker to go 2-1 up in sets.

Place your bets. Murray a) fightback, or b) defeat due to mental breakdown.

That seems a tad harsh on Raonic? He might simply be the better player on the day?

[DocJock]

Superb break by Andy.

[Charlie1986]

Is kim in labour? looks like he could be going out as if he plays like this if he gets through its game set match before the start for YD

[hornetrider]

Novak sat with his feet up rubbing his hands watching this five setter.

[FourWheelDrift]

Stop messing about now.

[spikeyhead]

It's done. Murray will need to step it up another level for the final.

[Vocal Minority]

Hell of an open for the brits

Finalists for mens singles, mens double, mens wheelchair, mens wheelchair doubles, and a semi finalist in the female singles.

brilliant stuff

[chippy17]

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[FourWheelDrift]

Castle always sounds as if he is selling accident protection insurance.

[jbudgie]

FourWheelDrift said:

Castle always sounds as if he is selling accident protection insurance.

[Robbo66]

anonymous said:

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I'd don't know who wrote that, but it's superb.

Come on Kerber....but I feel the worst.