2025 Tennis thread

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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

to my eye this actually looks like a mechanically simple forehand, by modern standards. The racquet face flip doesn't seem as extreme as Sinner's. The full body torque and release seems Carlos-like, and I hope for both of them it it doesn't cause durability issues down the road.

What's scary is that the Joao backhand in my opinion is technically ahead of Carlos. Once he bulks up his serve and gets more aggressive about moving forward to build pressure, he will be pretty much unstoppable. That being said, the current edition of Carlos looks insanely dialed in and is done effing around for the entertainment factor.

Yeah, it almost looks like a hybrid of the modern forehand (Novak is a good example) and the NextGen forehand (Tiafoe and Kyrgios are good examples). He doesn't have the tip of his racquet pointing at his opponent, but it's also not pointing straight-up either. How Sinner pulls off the slingshot forehand with his racquet face pointing at the back fence is incredible, but also explains the power in that stroke.

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Did Lehecka make a deal with the devil?

https://twitter.com/user/status/1879575021158637977

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Also, Novak vs. Charlie could be a round 4 match which is pretty crazy. Call me crazy, but I think Machac has a great chance to knock Djoker out of the tourney.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1879537345151832439

[Inglewood Jack]

the top 8 seeds aren't spread out so they can't meet before the quarters? That would be weird

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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

the top 8 seeds aren't spread out so they can't meet before the quarters? That would be weird

Sorry, my bad, you are right, it would be a potential quarter-final match. I jumped the gun.

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By the way, it looks like Gabriel's match and Shapo's match are scheduled at the same time so it could be a case of one on the big screen and one on the laptop.

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Pretty big upset already today as Hubi Hurkacz loses to Kecmanovic 6-4 6-2 6-2.

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As far as our Canadians are concerned, both Gabriel and Shapo lost their opening set in tie-breaks. Shapo kicked an advertising board and got a warning.

[jg13]

Diallo gets a break in the second set up 4-3.

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Originally Posted by jg13

Diallo gets a break in the second set up 4-3.

And then proceeds to win set 2 to level the match.

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Musetti just double-faulted serving for set 2 at 6-5 in the tie-break. He followed it up with a great point though. And then Shapo double-faults to give Musetti the 2nd set. You can't make this stuff up.

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Denis imploding here in set 3, this match is going to be over in the next 15 minutes.

[CedarMeter]

And that’s that.

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Come on Diallo.

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And that’s it too.

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Originally Posted by CedarMeter

And that’s that.

It's too bad because Musetti wasn't even playing all that great today and Shapo actually had more winners (37 to 26). However, it's the unforced errors that tell the story (26 for Musetti, 62 for Shapo).

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Gabriel just lost to Silent K as well, but he played a very good match today, Khachanov always seems to raise his game at grand slams and was just more solid.

[Karl]

Holy smokes everybody! Learner Tien is so close to pulling off the unthinkable...

[Karl]

Well, we're going at least 4 sets now.

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Originally Posted by Karl

Holy smokes everybody! Learner Tien is so close to pulling off the unthinkable...

He played an incredible third set tie-break but Meddy was just a little bit better.