2024 Tennis Thread

[jg13]

Anyone staying up for the Medvedev / FAA match? Should be a banger especially since Felix should be a little fresher than Daniil.

[CedarMeter]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1748633487379136710

Our 2nd last night in Melbourne. Had to watch Felix.

[jg13]

This is an embarrassing performance from Felix. Medvedev has been far from his best and Felix is handing him this match with almost no fight. At least I’ll be getting to bed earlier than expected.

[CedarMeter]

Med destroyed Felix. It was disappointing to watch.

[dash_pinched]

Meddy is just a terrible matchup for FAA which likely explains why the H2H is now 7-0 in favour of the Russian. Daniil neutralizes Felix's two biggest weapons (the serve and the forehand) which then leads to Felix trying to go for too much and then the unforced errors creep in. First serve percentage for Felix was 61% and while that's not terrible, it likely needs to be 70% or a tad higher. 25 unforced errors on the forehand is just way too many for his bread and butter shot.

[Erick Estrada]

Yeah Felix needs to have his best service day to have a chance. Also I consider Felix one of the ball basher type of players on tour and Medvedev with his court coverage can easily neutralize big forehands (he also owns Rublev) and simply out wait them forcing them into making errors by going for too much.

[dash_pinched]

Linda Noskova knocks out Iga 3-6 6-3 6-4 - Wowza, what a win for the 19 year old.

[dash_pinched]

This was a fantastic match...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1748751655594586173

[Inglewood Jack]

Li Na sneak attack on Qinwen. Maybe that grand slam mojo will transfer?

https://twitter.com/user/status/1748619365019226381

[Nadal Fan]

Originally Posted by dash_pinched

This was a fantastic match...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1748751655594586173

Great match, and an excellent final as that was the last match of the AO that year

[dash_pinched]

Novak almost sent a tripletequilabagel to Adrian.

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by dash_pinched

Novak almost sent a tripletequilabagel to Adrian.

If only Mannarino didn’t have that rule about not checking who he’s playing, surely the result would have been reversed.

[Nadal Fan]

Let's stop wasting everyone's time and just fast forward to a Sinner vs Djokovic and Alcaraz vs Medvedev semi finals please

[dash_pinched]

Originally Posted by Nadal Fan

Let's stop wasting everyone's time and just fast forward to a Sinner vs Djokovic and Alcaraz vs Medvedev semi finals please

Sinner tipping his cap to Bweh for taking out the Demon. It will be a ginger battle next

[dash_pinched]

Meanwhile, Gaby is still alive in both women's doubles and mixed doubles.

[dash_pinched]

Also, pleased to see Fritz take out Oikos. Pretty bad form on match point waving his arms in that manner, I wonder if the umpire would have called hindrance if Fritz doesn't win the point.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1748954090413957598

[dash_pinched]

One of the following will be in the women's final:

Yastremska
Noskova
Zheng
Dodin
Paolini
Kalinskaya

[Erick Estrada]

I was looking at the stats of the Alcaraz match and Kecmanovic went 0/0 on break points. Not often you see a player not face a single break point in a best of five match.

[dash_pinched]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I was looking at the stats of the Alcaraz match and Kecmanovic went 0/0 on break points. Not often you see a player not face a single break point in a best of five match.

Good to see Charlie playing well...Talk about your good vs. evil matchup next though as Carlitos takes on Zverev.

[cam_calderon]

I don't think Sascha will trouble Carlitos much. Four sets at most. For what it's worth, a couple of journalists have been asking Zverev about the trial.