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Tennis Talk 2018: vol 3 (Australian Open)
Tennis Talk 2018: vol 3 (Australian Open)
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1.26 £1,127
1.27 £621 1.28 £908 1.29 £482 1.30 £0 £2,133 1.31 £771 1.32 £5,481 1.33 £0 £1,370 Makarova/Vesnina BUSTED ! (also odds on again after breaking first game in the second set) |
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kiki putting food on ze table ...
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Mladenovic in tears of joy !
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Vesnina internally raging at Makarova who had a shocker.
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yep ....and peculiarly both sets of players ellecting for the " Forza " yell out when securing a point ...
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Looks like rain is due in Melbourne and will be played under the roof, maybe not to start with.
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not another walk in the park
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anxious of Fed showing his superiority?
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Like the early days.
Cake walk draws and cheap slams against a sub standard field without the three bes players in the world to contend with. Chung in years to come will be a top player though. |
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bb66 26 Jan 18 08:50
anxious of Fed showing his superiority? nope defines flat track bully  |
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your mom's hairy Chung ...
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perhaps Chung using the possum game plan ...
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looking at the full draw at the start, Nadull had a much easier draw than Fed with a cake walk into the QF, but he even wasted energy not able to beat Schwartzmann in 3 quick sets
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Sereiously did the commentator say a few points ago Hyeon Chung is a dead ringer for Michael Mcintrye
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Have a look at fed's head to head against Nadal while you are there hth
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looking easy for The GOAT so far.
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Chung seems nervous. THats why hes loosing. Not playing at his best I think.
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Let's assume Nadal would have made it through to have played Edmund
Federer has played players ranked #51 #55 #31 #80 #20 #58 - average rank of #49.2 Nadal had played players ranked #79 #52 #30 #26 #6 (#49) - average rank of 40.3 |
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Yeah, Chung is nervous, didn't think he would be.
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what was Rafa's numbers at USO? ATP slams have been muggy after last year's AO.
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Is chung back. Did he do some korean medidating thingy on the bench.
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ffs Chung, what a coward.
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pathetic
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PATHETIC
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my 3-0 bet up in smoke ...
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first ret. in an ATP slam semi in forever.
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FFS could this really get any easier for Federer, how much luck does this guy need
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but he's had a MUCH tougher draw than Nadal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Roger had Novak, Delpo, Sascha, Thiem etc in his half. And here he is, another final for the GOAT
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He won his last slam against an injured player and now makes his next final against one.
Just give him the title, it's what the sponsors want. |
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Novak is barely playing top500 level. Thiem...I mean...c'mon...Thiem...on a hard court.
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Roger had Novak, Delpo, Sascha, Thiem etc in his half. And here he is, another final for the GOAT Happy
Thiem Novak's been on a downward slope for 18 months and just come back from a 6 month injury break. Delpo has not been the same since his long lay off. And Zverev, an overhyped, slightly more dynamic servebot. |
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Unless he plays Nadal / Novak / Murray these slams just don't carry as much weight.
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Nobody analyses the draws post slam.
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It's now down to Cilic to save Tennis. Dođi Hrvatska!
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He has a better chance than odds suggests. |
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Hopp Schwyz!
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Federer proving time after time that Switzerland is the only other cool German speaking country besides Germany.
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i think this is like poker tournaments for many players. What I mean? Well:
I remember the first time, of the few occasions i got to the final table in a poker tournament. I just froze. I was number 9 but stopped playing. 1st prize was 250 dollars. After a while I was sixth and about to fall out of game due to blinds rasing. Well I was forced to play a card and well got a winning pair and won and in the end i was fourth and got a nice 120 dollars or something. After a week i got to go a second time to a final table in poker, this time I played actually a little more and was not so frozen but i was maybe sixth in my final position. I dont play poker but a year ago I tested a couple hundred tournaments and it was fun but well I guess not for me. So the same seems to be true for tennis. Semi finalists get a whopping 1.2 million australian dollars, about 1 million Us dollars in Australian open 2018. If you get to third round, you win 150,000 australian dollars. Chung might have felt like a winner already at the third round. According to internet stats, Chungs career earnings are 1.7 million us dollars. Well now he almost doubled that in one tournament. Even if he would have wanted to play, he has now done something that financially is almost his whole career, in just 10 days. Im pretty sure next time Chung goes to a high level tournament, it can be easier for him mentally. A part of him already felt like a winner after getting to be a semi-finalist. Also, first time Federer got to be in a semi-final in a Grand Slam tournament was Australian open 2011 and he lost to Djokovic. Second grandslam game was Paris open 2011 and he lost in final to Nadal. It took several grand slam tournaments for Federer to finally in Wimbledon 2012 get to the final and win vs Andy Murray. So this was actually quite good for Chung, his highest level so far in a Grand Slam tournament. In the future, we might see Chung more often in high positions at Grand Slam tournaments, who knows. |
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It's a tragedy for Tennis, because if Nadal and Novak run out of time, or injury succumbs them as it has during their careers, it means it's highly unlikely that before I die I would see the someone over take Fruaderer's inflated slam total, still, true connoisseurs of the sport, such as myself, understand his legacy is built around deception, smoke, mirrors, timing and a good PR machine, kind regards.
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