Tennis Talk vol 3 (Australian Open)

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the place is dead for this one too then

DEY TOOWK OUERR STREM?

i'm watching a cool HD stream on me tv

morrillo

Nadal in

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Jan 29, 2017 -- 2:33AM, caramba wrote:

found a picture of DStyle and a mate of his:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3UqUEVUoAQx7Oo.jpg

Is that genuine? Great that he is there to see the magic.

sadly not. (he was hating on that shirt Mirka wore during the Stan match)

woohoo, Nando's finally got a working stream back up. only missed a set because of this muggery.

Argh! Would have been great!

*** petition for Roger to learn how to volley ***

this Nadal guy sucks

When is the final? They're showing some repeat

oh heyyyyyyyy noffy

hola aaron! - heil Drumpf - how are you doing?

not bad, u?

everyone else hiding in the match thread or edy is in the spam one

peachy, feel 8 years younger since i woke up

yeah you have multiple spam threads now very cool

this one seemed least like footbal forum

which one seemed most like tinnis

no idea really too early to tell

damn

Jan 29, 2017 -- 4:54AM, nofx wrote:

yeah you have multiple spam threads now very cool

this one is not a spam thread. only tennis talk in here.

could've fooled me

heya caramba :)

Jan 29, 2017 -- 2:36AM, edy wrote:

Hope James Keothavong has the balls and integrity to prevent Federer from taking one of his famous tactical medical timeouts.

for fook's sake James. No balls

imagine Roger is having his buttocks massaged right now

I applaud you thread effort but it is making me schism

cool catch in the main thread though. in a fed nadal match no less. nostalgia rules

it's quite easy:
tennis talk thread: only tennis talk
spam/ot thread: same as old megafreds, everything goes including tennis

match freds are kind of dead these days, but are done for big matches, so for these you get the rare occurence of tennis discussion being divided into multiple threads.

since this phorum is not moderated, it's hard to get it to work perfectly, but I think it's an improvement over what it was like before.

Still angling for the moderator job caramba. Don't worry, you get my vote

not quite the segregation i intended, but not bad ;p

Moderating this place would be a nightmare.

So very "injured". What a dirty and disgusting player Federer is. It's a dirty victory.

rulebook here allows for easy moderating. could have half of it banned in a day if ruled with iron authoritarian fist

some class this mountain people

oh no Petko is doing a thing

It's a tarnished victory. Not something to be proud about for Federer.

So so injured

So injured

this damn servebot

The linejudges are in on it to by purposefully calling that out to give Federer a new first serve

too

cheat

double bp.. disappointing as far as finals goes

why are we in Chinese?

18 slams, not bad for a flat track bully huh johnny?

Rafa the comedian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw7FhU-G1_Q      putting your ignorance into perspective dori ... you are definitely the woos in the sky blu Tshirt

so final thoughts on the Aussie Open? For me men's was GOAT (several 5 set thrillers including both SF's and Final and my fave player winning the whole thing) and women's was dissappointing with Venus's and MLB's runs the only highlights.

I suppose CoCo was a bright spot too, but I'm sure she'll be back to mugging soon.

CoCo will do nothing. Just go back to usual level.

coco seems like quite an arrongant person

The men's events was very good. The women's event not so much. And as you know I'm not someone to blindly say that. But there was nothing in the women's side really. It was obvious Serena would stroll to the title after the semi's, and there were no good match ups and few good matches in the end.

Men's event benefited from Nadal and Federer making final and constantly involved in 5 setters. Quality doesn't even necessarily have to be top notch for it to be interesting. Eg. I wouldn't say today was anywhere near highest quality, was it interesting though? Yes. And that's a quality Murray vs Djoko finals often lack. They can go 5, but you aren't really enthralled into the match.

Even Venus run, fairytale as it was, she played pretty much nobody to do it. If she'd been knocking off top players might have been more fairytale, but I didn't think her level was really that high, just she had the right draw to make the run.

hard to knock off top players with WTA at the muggy state it is in now

Great tournament and Roger immense today. The real story was Dimitrov, very consistent and seems to have added the focus and tenacity now to be a multiple slam winner, and soon.

Yer that's true. But the problem is it turns into like who is the lucky dip that ends up in the section this draw.

Even when Azarenka, Screamer and BIg Foot are back, Serena will still dominate them, Only when she retires will it return to being competitive, which will probably make it look better.

It's already competitive beyond Serena, problem is it's too competitive.

Serena won't dominate for much longer. Serena wasn't even that outstanding here. She didn't have to be, none of her opposition really tested her. You don't know if she had another gear to go to (something she definitely lacked through most of last year) because it was never needed. This is because players aren't performing.

I mean Kerber looked an upset waiting to happen from R1.

Muguruza's fold was pretty disappointing.

And most the other top seeds the less said the better.

Serena won't dominate for much longer

Im sure you said this years ago.

but I'm talking about what matters, winning the slams, that's not really competitive.

Serena won 1 last year? That's not dominating the slams is it.

Well last few years as a whole, there is nobody that has dominated her

Yer but she's clearly waning now. It's just she was that much better than everybody in the first place.

Serena wasn't even tested this AO, but she was there to be tested a number of times, her opponents just didn't bring it to the court. It's hard to say if any of her opponents really thought they could win. She basically front run every match. Konta went up a break in the 2nd, but it was more Serena mugging than Konta doing anything special.

Jan 29, 2017 -- 7:21AM, Journeyman wrote:

Great tournament and Roger immense today. The real story was Dimitrov, very consistent and seems to have added the focus and tenacity now to be a multiple slam winner, and soon.

Agreed about Grigor. Hope he can keep it up. Even in the defeat against Rafa, he showed qualities I hadn't seen from him before.

What is clear about her waning, she's only winning in 3rd gear because none of the players in her way can even get past that, that doesn't mean she's on the way down it means she doesn't even need to step up, which players are going to start dominating her, I can only see Muguruza in the long term and that's if they play a few times on clay.

Pliskova destroyed her impressively at USO.

Pliskova

desstroyed her in a second set tie break?

You can't think long term Pliskova is the answer to stopping her domination

If Pliskova is the answer I don't know what the question is

Pat Cash was seething when Federer took the mto about mto's in general

said a lot of the older guys dislike the thought of them and they are mainly used for cheating or to help with tiredness rather than injury

I'm still enraged

Jan 29, 2017 -- 7:33AM, mesmerised wrote:

Pliskovadesstroyed her in a second set tie break?You can't think long term Pliskova is the answer to stopping her domination

How many years can Serena keep up her level though?

Jan 29, 2017 -- 7:54AM, edy wrote:

I'm still enraged

co?

how did that bird get DQ'd

No Idea must of been unsportsmanlike conduct

weird

one of my friends had her in a bet and was settled as a loser, he thught he would get a void

hes seething haha

Who was DQ'd?

oh, Martincova

edy ur a genius, find out why

Tennis traders in betfair won't settle the market. FFs

Jan 29, 2017 -- 9:13AM, n88uk wrote:

Jan 29, 2017 --  1:33PM, mesmerised wrote:Pliskovadesstroyed her in a second set tie break?You can't think long term Pliskova is the answer to stopping her dominationHow many years can Serena keep up her level though?

that's been asked for about 5 years, I think her next goal will be to win 25, surpass Margeret Court, not that that record is meaningful in real terms, but it's probably her goal.

No idea how her body actually feels but she is moving well enough so who knows.

Jan 29, 2017 -- 9:37AM, GRANTCKING wrote:

edy ur a genius, find out why

From tennisforum

Mertens signalled to the chair that she wanted a MTO, Martincova panicked, thought French Open qualifying was up next and threw her racquet at the umpire to be defaulted before Mertens could retire. Then Mertens said works every time, which started a brawl between the respective teams. True story.

gotta see footage of that

it was probably just a normal racquet smash that nearly hit someone

How did that Ignatik mug get to the final?

ve put up footage in the other thread mes

Jan 29, 2017 -- 10:19AM, mesmerised wrote:

it was probably just a normal racquet smash that nearly hit someone

official reason is given as verbal abuse of an official. Maybe she threatened to shove a ****g ball down a linejudge's throat.

always wanted to see someone knock over that umpire stairs with an umpire on it

probably wanted to be DQ'd, have you seen how many retirements she's had, probably becoming suspicious so went for a different option.