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Sinner just stuck a dagger in Rublev. Ruvlev was up 5-1 in 2nd set tiebreaker, after losing 1st set. Sinner then won the next 6 points to take it 7-5. It was all Sinner just winning the points, not Rublev making errors.
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Sinner v Rublev
Devastating blow for Rublev, losing the second set tie-break after being 5-1 up and having the best four points of the match to take that lead. You can't fault Sinner though. He dug in and remained assertive. Shame...one set all would have been interesting.
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Via Oleg S.Originally posted by stotty View PostSinner v Rublev
Devastating blow for Rublev, losing the second set tie-break after being 5-1 up and having the best four points of the match to take that lead. You can't fault Sinner though. He dug in and remained assertive. Shame...one set all would have been interesting.
Rublev is 0-10 in Grand Slam quarterfinals. The rank of his opponents: 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 23, 26
Sabalenka is 8-0 in Grand Slam quarterfinals. The rank of her opponents: 9, 11, 18, 22, 23, 24, 64, 192Comment
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Bizarre match with Coco finally winning in 3 over Kostyuk. Painful match of who is going to be able to control their nerves and/ or emotions long enough to win 3 points in a row.
Best way I can summarize this: Mid second set Kostyuk had multiple break points on Coco's serve and turned to her coach, screaming about how bad she (Kostyuk) was serving.
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Per The Telegraph:
About late ending match after Fritz/Djokovic and Saby/Kreik
“I pray for those guys,” Taylor Fritz, who had lost to Djokovic earlier in the evening, said in relation to Sinner and Rublev. “I don’t think people really fully understand how much time we have to spend doing stuff after we finish playing, like ice bath, treatment with physios, massage.
“If you finish at 2am, there is no chance I’m going to sleep until 5am or 6am. It just screws up your whole clock.”
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I felt a little sorry for Rublev. He played a stunning four points to take a 5-1 lead in the tiebreak. He then did all the right things and locked down to protect his lead, but Sinner just doubled down and made no errors himself and as soon any angles opened up he seized on them and hit great shots. Nothing Rublev could have done. Sinner is in terrific form and is the one player who might be able to take it to Novak.Originally posted by jimlosaltos View PostStottyComment
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Emilio S?nchez, former doubles world No. 1 tennis player, older brother of Arantxa S?nchez Vicario, captained Spain to Davis Cup victory in 2008 opines in his blog comparing Sinner, Alcaraz and Djokovic. Lots of detail there, comparing the 3 stroke by stroke, short excerpts here via very crude machine translation from Spanish:
Carlos and Jannik are at the door of having this dominance, but there is still room to improve with the serve. On the other hand, with the returns they are at the level of Novak.
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We ended {entered?} 2023 with a mentally enriched Carlos, a promising Jannik but slowly Nole took their place, starting with Australia, Paris; in London, Carlos recovered, but the match that changed everything was in Cincinnati, Carlos changed and discouraged, maybe the year was too long, but from there it was not the same, neither in the US Open, nor in China, nor on the covered track he returned with the same strength and determination. Nole maintained competitiveness with his best season, and Jannik grew and grew to place himself in the agony of the favorites.
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Yup. Waiting for their semi since the draw was announced.. Glad the quarterfinal wasn't 5 sets. Ending at 1:24 AM Melbourne is absurd enough.Originally posted by stotty View Post
It's almost like Craig Tiley's master plan at work. {Sorry, reading too much politics makes me see conpsiracies everywhere. But it is absurd. Simply absurd. }
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The Telegraph calls it:
Australian Open’s lucky escape cannot cover up its absurd late-night habit
Excerpt:
But will tennis learn its lesson? This is what the sport has become, at the request and enjoyment of no one. No other sport continues to play past the point of public transport ceasing to run, forcing paying spectators to leave their seats before the last train home. There are others, though, who don’t have a choice, from the ball-kids to the grounds staff, from the medical emergency teams through to the players. There were four men’s and women’s singles matches scheduled to be played on Tuesday, on the first of the quarter-final days, and yet the Australian Open still couldn’t find a way to finish its play at a reasonable time in the evening. “It’s definitely not fun for us,” Djokovic said.Comment
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And it would be such an easy fix. We are way past the ol "a couple of matches ran longer than expected ".Originally posted by jimlosaltos View PostThe Telegraph calls it:
Australian Open’s lucky escape cannot cover up its absurd late-night habit
Excerpt:
But will tennis learn its lesson? This is what the sport has become, at the request and enjoyment of no one. No other sport continues to play past the point of public transport ceasing to run, forcing paying spectators to leave their seats before the last train home. There are others, though, who don’t have a choice, from the ball-kids to the grounds staff, from the medical emergency teams through to the players. There were four men’s and women’s singles matches scheduled to be played on Tuesday, on the first of the quarter-final days, and yet the Australian Open still couldn’t find a way to finish its play at a reasonable time in the evening. “It’s definitely not fun for us,” Djokovic said.Comment
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I am not able to watch this Zverev Alcaraz mstch, as I am leaving town, but Alcaraz has pulled out the 3rd set in a tiebreaker after evidently being thoroughly beaten for most of the match. Who knows what will happen now?Comment
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I was unable to watch also. I was checking the score here and there on my mobile phone and kind of assumed Alcaraz was injured or impaired to be getting beaten so easily. The last time I checked he was 2 sets down and 5-2. I stopped checking after that and was amazed at the scoreline when I checked later in the day.Originally posted by stroke View Post
It was a shame to lose Alcaraz. He's easily the most colourful player in the world to watch at the moment. I was really hoping he'd make the final.StottyComment
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A bit of a peak behind the scenes. For anyone that didn't see it, Medvedev (wait for it) returned from a normal-ish position vs Hubi. No, Really
ATP site:
"After giving a "masterclass" on his deep returning position in his previous on-court interview with Jim Courier, Medvedev surprised Hurkacz by returning from close to the baseline for much of the match. The strategy paid immediate dividends with an opening break, but Hurkacz was almost untouchable on first serve early on with a 94 per cent win rate (34/36) across the first two sets.
"In my mind I knew that against Hubert, amazing serve-and-volley... His ball, he's probably the only one where the ball, even if I stay really far back, it continues to go up, it never really goes down. So it doesn't really work to stay there.
"So talking to Jim, talking in the press conference, I was like, 'I know next match I'm going to stay close, but I'm not going to tell it you right now!' So a little surprise here and there, and I'm happy that it kind of worked."
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