2024 Tennis
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Sinner really took command back pretty quickly. And yeah, very bad for these huge matches to be on at the same time.
Update: Medvedev took control back and won the tie break. Hope this goes 5 sets.
Update: Medvedev took control back and won the tie break. Hope this goes 5 sets.
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I'm watching one on TV and one on my laptop. However, I'll have to leave in 15 minutes to take one of my sons to the dentist so boo.
I love watching Djokovic play. I just happen to like it more when he loses (im disappointed a lot).
He took a medical time out in the second set. By all accounts, he looked pale (well, paler than usual), and had his heart rate and blood pressure checked on the court. He was battling something for sure.
Turns out that De Minaur did hurt himself on match point the other day. He withdraws, giving Djokovic the walkover. He'll play the winner of Musetti/Fritz in the semis.
Absolutely brutal for fans who paid probably around $3,000-$4,000/ticket in centre court today.
Fritz - down 2 sets to 1 and serving down 0-40 at 2-2 in the 4th - climbs out of that hole and about 15 minutes later serves out a 6-3 set. Onto the 5th we go.
What's crazy is that on the men's side it's already broken a record for most 5-set matches at wimbledon (or possibly all slams), but I completely agree that it still feels pretty dud-ish.
This Vekic/Paolini match is high drama. Vekic was up a break twice in the 3rd and lost them. Paolini had match point and lost it. Both battling hard, but Vekic looks like she’s laboring more.
She had a 2nd match point and got way conservative on every ground stroke.
And now it's 6-6, going to the T Breaker.
yeah i thought the games leading up to the tiebreaker were dramatic AND relatively well played. Now it's just dramatic...pretty ugly tennis.
I was rooting for Paolini and I’m happy she won, but man, did Vekic ever show a ton of heart and fight when she was pretty obviously exhausted.
I will state once again, futilely, that there shouldn't be match tiebreakers at 6-6 in the 3rd. They should go on at least to 12-12 before doing that. And TV scheduling constraints (which is also the given reason why the Grand Slam Committee hasn't changed to have the women play best-of-5 sets) are much less of an issue at/after the R16, so surely they could have people play a bit longer at least starting then, to see if it can be decided the old fashioned way.
I would guess the majority of the players would disagree? It's about trying to stay healthy through two weeks of matches, your idea would only make that that much harder and we have so many players dropping out already.
I'm not sure. A majority of the top-20 women's players at one point favored going to best-of-5 sets in slams, so I don't think the players likeliest to go deep in these events were focused on that, as much as the additional opportunities for their better talent to win out. Basically the reasoning from this article.
The match-tiebreak rule applies to both men's and women's, of course, so I do wonder if the men's players would agree or not. But it didn't exist at most of the slams up until a few years ago, and I don't remember complaints about it. After the Isner-Mahut marathon, Wimbledon changed to exactly what I'm suggesting - a tiebreak at 12-12 in the final set - which of course was used to decide the Djokovic-Federer Final in 2019. It's not some outrageous novelty or something.
"Novak Djokovic has won 23 of the last 26 tiebreakers in Majors"
JFC. And soon to be 24 of 27, at the rate Musetti is going.
JFC. And soon to be 24 of 27, at the rate Musetti is going.
An absolute wild statistic. He just puts so much pressure on you to be perfect in general, and then that gets exacerbated in breakers.
And that's by-definition going up against someone who is playing well enough that he just won 6 out of 12 games against Djokovic. Just plain nuts.
Most times that's true. But in some cases it goes to a breaker because Djokovic is playing down, or off. and even still he manages to tighten things up and win. Not trying to refute your point, but build on it.
Yup…just talked to my old boss who takes people to big tourneys, 10-14k depending on location.
Was kind of ugly, but high drama. Loved BKs reaction after winning - I’m very over dramatically flopping on the ground.
