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Tennis Talk 2026: Vol 3 (Australian Open)
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Market not impressed with Sinner outright, same odds as prematch.
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WTA has a really cool QF line-up
Sabalenka vs Jovic Gauff vs Svitolina Pegula vs Anisimova Rybakina vs Swiatek |
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ATP not bad either:
Alcaraz vs De Minaur Zverev vs Tien Djokovic vs Musetti Sinner vs Shelton/Ruud |
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good luck JM, tennis accas always look easy but they're hard to land. I had 2/4 from my last go
I came close again. Got the Rybakina handicap win, the Jpeg win, the Ruud match both to get a set win but Fritz ruined it by not winning a set against Lorenzo. So I've got 3/4 from both mugtiples but the reality is it may as well have been 0/4! I'll leave it at that. Fun to try at a slam but they seem to leak |
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Those QF lineups do look pretty competitive. There should be a few that go all the way but a couple look straightforward.
Can Demon make any impact at all in front of his home crowd |
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I've one from 5 so far, possibly 2/5 if Shelton, rubbish either way.
Without knowing historic stats, it feels like this slam has had more straight sets victories then any I remember from years gone by. |
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Shelton currently doing his best to land my 66/1 alt pick to reach the final predication
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Shelton would be good for you, Jovic would be even better. Do you think she has a chance against Aryna?
Mboko was turning her match with Saba completely and was dominating for almost half an hour. She's Jovic's doubles partner so may have given her some advice |
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Jovic definitely has a chance, read the other day Novak was giving her some good advice about her game when they met recently telling her to open up the court more to create width so as not to rush her shots, she's more direct though then than Mboko which may unsettle Ayrna for a while who doesn't like running. Gun to the head decision, my brain would revert to safety and pick Saba, but I would sweat a bit.
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I saw Novak mention that and he laughed that she should have kept his advice to herself. Sabalenka's unbelievable tie break winning streak is giving her a confidence that if her opponent is dragging her ito a tb then she's going to win anyway. The flip side is that if Jovic was to win a tiebreak it would feel like a double body blow. I'm looking forward to it anyway
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Journeyman • January 26, 2026 12:35 PM GMT
I saw Novak mention that and he laughed that she should have kept his advice to herself. indeed. Reminds me of the 2014 French Open final when Halep, when was asked about what would be important going into the final, instead of giving the normal fluff answer she pretty much gave away all her tactics. Mats almost had to stop her  |
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Hopefully Jovic can deliver her normal game today and not be all nervous. This is bigger than something she's ever been a part of before.
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I possibly haven't watched her as much as you two but I've honestly never seen her looking nervous
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I haven't either. She has the potential to be a big star btw. Market, looks, game. It's all there.
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Hanging with Saba so far :)
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In the Putintseva game Yulia had chances to win the first two games. When she didn't take her chances it seemed to rapidly settle Jovic.
Aryna has just had one chance to break in the first two games and she took it so that sends Iva a different message |
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Aryna did miss the chance to get a double break
However, twenty minutes in it's clear that Iva's going to need quite a bit of help from Sabalenka here |
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Sabalenka misses three more chances to get a double break. Jovic claws it back from *15-40
This is a set where Aryna has had everything going for her and I'm not quite ready to give it to her |
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Breakpoint Iva to get back on serve!
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BP number 3
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Aryna servebotting her way out of a mess she should never have been in. HTEHB
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Instantly breaks Jovic in set 2. At this point Vicky adopted a higher risk strategy and it paid dividends until the tiebreak.
I think the next sabalenka Mboko match will be a proper fight from the start what can Iva do to shake things up |
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Pray
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The same BBC tennis correspondent that did a hype piece on Fery just before he got thrashed in straight sets decided to do a hype piece on Jovic today.
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not a bagel ffs
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Saba really wants to teach these kids a lesson
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Just had a brainwave, why doesn't the LTA try and nationalise Ayrna
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another case of woman vs girl. Let's hope things can change over the next years, but no guarantees. Aryna is climbing on the list of all time greats and is just 27.
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damn only just seen Shelton's 1-8 h2h record v Sinner, only match Ben won was a third set tie breaker in their first meeting.
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I'm sure we've had this debate before about Ayrna being an all time great, don't think she can just by winnings slams on one surface, has to do something at the French or Wimbledon at least, Iga's a genuine all time great already.
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When either of them have got even half of Evert and Martina's haul (18) then you can start inducting them
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Don't know what Shelton can come up with that's different to beat Jannick
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Harder to win Slams these days when there are more than 3 good players.
For me Aryna is already an all-time great, as is Iga, but she needs do go an a tear to climb to another stratsophere. Winning just 1 out of 4 Slams like last year isn't gonna cut it. |
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The perception of Sabalenka is that she's just a big, 6ft tall Eastern European ball basher who just blasts her way through draws on hard courts, and there the only 4 slams she's won, 2 US, 2 AUS. She will probably go down as one simple on numbers alone, will end up with 7 or 8 hard court slams like Venus. But if she wants to be seen as more dynamic player, has to win the French or Wimbledon. Clijsters the same, probably an all time great but couldn't do it on the tricker surfaces.
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not 7-8 hard courts slams venus just 7-8 slams.
I think she has a great chance of winning Wimbledon for the same reason Iga did, if the sun shines for prolonged periods to harden the grass it'll give her a better chance, alot of players last year were saying it was playing different for that reason |
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Will win both eventually imo. In her last three appearances at both tournaments, she's SF, QF (was ill), F (after beating Iga) at RG and three SF's at Wimbledon. Unless she gets injured, she'll have at least five cracks at both while still in her prime.
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I just think it's okay for players to be the most successful players of their era without having to be seen as all time greats etc
Womens tennis has had the luxury of a sequence of players that chalked up exceptional numbers and a player that would have done so if she hadn't been stabbed. In time a player or players of that calibre will come again but for now there's nothing wrong with this being an in between period. |
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Like Leyton Hewitt sandwiched in between the Agass-Samprass and Big 3 era
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Exactly. That era even had my favourite ever mens final, the Goran Rafter clash
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