The real Tennis thread.

[QueenStagiaire]

Medical Timeout for both, wow

 

[Red Rick]

yea this could get interesting.
Also Monfils is involved in another marathon which will leave him on a stretcher for 3 days afterwards most likely.
up 5-2 in 5th
edit: Monfis won. Great stuff for the fans.

It's really the old timers playing random 5 setters that make the 1st weeks of Grand Slams honestly.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

It's really the old timers playing random 5 setters that make the 1st weeks of Grand Slams honestly.

What does a perfect Wimbledon final match look like to you?

 

[Red Rick]

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.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

we could have a match with Norrie vs Tiafoe:
Currently 1-1 in sets, 3rd about to start.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Norrie in 4. Lacked intensity and drama, but a good win for the Brit.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

And old timer Cilic just removed Draper, probably the best british hope.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

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.

 

[tobydawq]

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?

 

[Red Rick]

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.

 

[Red Rick]

Grigolo could do the funniest of all the things.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Yea, this could be a major upset. Looking ahead, I don't recall Dimitrov having ever troubled the Djoker?

 

[Red Rick]

Yea, this could be a major upset. Looking ahead, I don't recall Dimitrov having ever troubled the Djoker?

Beat him all the way back in Madrid 2013, then never again IIRC.

They played the Wimbledon semi in 2014 and it was actually a really close 4 sets.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Oh no, what‘s he done now?

 

[Red Rick]

Jannik Sinner is so *** lucky Pogacar keeps hounding him for lottery numbers

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Sinner wins 0-2

 

[Flamin]

Feeling heartbroken for Dimitrov, goddamn.

 

[Red Rick]

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.

 

[Rackham]

Sinner with that Oh no what happened that's terrible energy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPQFF0oqsto

 

[BullsFan22]

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.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The Djoker needs to beat Sinner and Alcaraz to take the Wimbledon trophy. First test coming up shortly.

 

[Red Rick]

Djokovic clearly injured. I've seen Kyrgios try harder in matches he was tanking.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Djokovic clearly injured. I've seen Kyrgios try harder in matches he was tanking.

Looked like Roglič out there at times.

 

[Red Rick]

Looked like Roglič out there at times.

He would follow Alcaraz around cause he speaks Spanish, leaving the latter very confounded before calling security.

 

[Rackham]

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.