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What does a perfect Wimbledon final match look like to you?
Andy Roddick beating Roger Federer in the final saving MPs before saying in the speech "there Roger now you know what it really feels like" while in a small box at the bottom the main sports news (Wimbledon is playing second fiddle to the footie) is that The Netherlands finally won the World Cup.


Yes I do wonder why my dreams never come true.
 
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I doubt @tobydawq would have thought that a Dane not named Holger Rune (or Elmer Møller) would make the 3rd round in men’s Wimbledon this year.

Definitely not. But very impressive!

I wonder whether the scoreline of that match is record-setting by having the highest sum of numbers in a match with a deciding set tie break rule, or if there has been one with five tiebreaks?
 
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Definitely not. But very impressive!

I wonder whether the scoreline of that match is record-setting by having the highest sum of numbers in a match with a deciding set tie break rule, or if there has been one with five tiebreaks?
Well by that strict definition, Djokovic and Federer played the 5th set tiebreak at 12-12 in 2019, sooooo.

But 5th set tiebreaks haven't been around for long at 3 of the 4 Slams so it would have to be the USO, and there's none that I recall.
 
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5th Grand Slam in a row where Dimitrov is forced to retire. Super sad for him, tennis had finally gotten so weak he was beating the #1 again and then his body just gives up on him.
 
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5th Grand Slam in a row where Dimitrov is forced to retire. Super sad for him, tennis had finally gotten so weak he was beating the #1 again and then his body just gives up on him.

That's when you start questioning your physical fitness. Yes he's 34 years old now, but c'mon, 5 straight GS's where he's retired.
 
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Djokovic actually has a good record against Alcaraz. I think he would have fared better in the other semi.

But seriously the problem with current year Djokovic is he's incapable of making it to the latter stages of a slam in one piece without his body starting to fall apart in one way or another.

This is how the end happens. Same for Nadal and Federer.