*Official* Tennis Thread

[vogue]

A British woman in the quarters... Born in Australia though
..still not since Jo Durie have we had a British woman in the quarter finals of a grand slam and she played a young Steffi Graf to get there...

 

[vcs]

Serena's record against her main rivals is incredible.

 

[Anil]

she doesn't have rivals, not really...justine henin was the last one who gave her a fight and actually outplayed her on clay...kvitova has the talent but she is too fragile emotionally to be a rival and now with the mono, she is more or less out of the equation...

 

[Jono]

I'm kind of indifferent on Zhang Shuai's constant "c'mon"s after Keys made an unforced error. what I'm not stoked about is her hitting the ****ing thing straight to her every rally with no subtlety, far out

Zhang had never won a match at a Slam before this tournament, lol. She gets some leeway I reckon.

 

[vcs]

she doesn't have rivals, not really...justine henin was the last one who gave her a fight and actually outplayed her on clay...kvitova has the talent but she is too fragile emotionally to be a rival and now with the mono, she is more or less out of the equation...

That's partly down to her greatness. She beats excellent players like Azarenka consistently at Majors. As for Sharapova... at this point, she may as well give her a W/O. Williams-Sharapova "rivalry" makes Federer-Roddick look like a titanic struggle..

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Serena-Azarenka in the final could be fun, but it's probably my heart speaking. Just please don't mess up that bottom half even more Vika.

What'll be a fair price on RF on Thursday? $6?

 

[vcs]

How can a professional tennis player be as poor at hitting overheads as Nishikori is?

 

[vcs]

Federer-Djokovic meet for the third straight Slam. Like Nadal-Djokovic in 2011-12... I suspect the outcome will be the same. Djokovic just has a knack of making his opponents miss because he puts an insane amount of pressure on them to hit the perfect shot. Nishikori had so many poor unforced errors today.

 

[Anil]

Federer-Djokovic meet for the third straight Slam. Like Nadal-Djokovic in 2011-12... I suspect the outcome will be the same.

Yep...it will be the same...

 

[Anil]

That's partly down to her greatness. She beats excellent players like Azarenka consistently at Majors. As for Sharapova... at this point, she may as well give her a W/O. Williams-Sharapova "rivalry" makes Federer-Roddick look like a titanic struggle..

Agreed

 

[Jono]

Even if Serena beats Aza, that is still set up for a good final narrative. Aza pushes her the most, like the 2012 US Open Final where really she had her but Serena managed to just be clutch as ****. Plus she's on her come back.

Anyway let's see what Rada can do first. She needs Serena off her game first obviously, which can happen. I just hope she doesn't get absolutely dominated, because I'm a big fan of Rada. Hope she can sneak a Slam one day.

 

[vcs]

Even if Serena beats Aza, that is still set up for a good final narrative. Aza pushes her the most, like the 2012 US Open Final where really she had her but Serena managed to just be clutch as ****. Plus she's on her come back.

Anyway let's see what Rada can do first. She needs Serena off her game first obviously, which can happen. I just hope she doesn't get absolutely dominated, because I'm a big fan of Rada. Hope she can sneak a Slam one day.

Blah.. Azarenka lost to Kerber. BTW, she also played great against Serena in the French Open and Wimbledon last year. Really pushed her hard.

Yeah, I think Radwanska will push her a bit and force her into some errors. 7-5, 7-6 Serena.

 

[cpr]

Cheers Australia, we need a decent womens player

 

[Jono]

Even if Serena beats Aza, that is still set up for a good final narrative. Aza pushes her the most, like the 2012 US Open Final where really she had her but Serena managed to just be clutch as ****. Plus she's on her come back.

Anyway let's see what Rada can do first. She needs Serena off her game first obviously, which can happen. I just hope she doesn't get absolutely dominated, because I'm a big fan of Rada. Hope she can sneak a Slam one day.

Haha so much for that, well done Kerber, Picked a good time to stop her losing streak to Aza.

After watching the Brisbane final, couldn't see how Kerber was winning this one. But there you go!

 

[vcs]

She's one of those dull defensive players I can't stand watching. Well done to her and all that, but I can't help feeling annoyed that she's deprived us of a possibly excellent final.

 

[vcs]

Murray will come through this one, but he is putting miles on his clock that will cost him later in the tournament. Especially if he plays Djokovic in the final (which is highly likely).

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Kerber is a pretty good watch when she's playing against an attacking player, imo.

Doesn't make me less pissed waking up to Vika bottling that, mind. The gloating Sharapova fans make it ten times worse.

 

[vogue]

Playing catch up with the Australian open is annoying...think I am going to have to stay up one night and watch some matches first hand...

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Ffffs Gaël.

At least I've put money on Novak winning the SF so this AO won't be totally annoying

 

[NUFAN]

Didnt expect Kerber to win. Was thinking of cashing out after the azarenka semi / before Murray Raonic semi but not to be.