Tennis 2025

MattofManchester said:
Safe to say Sinner is close to, if not 100% again.
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Certainly reflects as much in the score. De Minaur needed him to be a zombie if he had any chance of winning. Despite the result, still good tournament for De Minaur.
 
Desert Eagle said:
Cheating is a bit harsh. Emma should have challenged it. Still she showed zero sportsmanship.
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She did, didn't she?

Umpire said she couldn't because she hit the ball after. I could be wrong here.

Anyways, a simple replay rights this nonsense. I can't understand having technology that does this, then letting bad calls stand.
 
MattofManchester said:
She did, didn't she?

Umpire said she couldn't because she hit the ball after. I could be wrong here.

Anyways, a simple replay rights this nonsense. I can't understand having technology that does this, then letting bad calls stand.
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I had the Iga double bounce on mute at the time but I'm sure a commentator in the Sonego Shelton match said she didn't challenge it when a similar situation came up in that match.
 
Desert Eagle said:
I had the Iga double bounce on mute at the time but I'm sure a commentator in the Sonego Shelton match said she didn't challenge it when a similar situation came up in that match.
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Somego did stop and challenge, eventually Shelton just gave him the point rather than wait anymore for the decision(it looked like it was a double bounce)

Anyways, the rule is dumb and should be changed, Iga not admitting to the double bounce was fine, that umpire is terrible
 
Brilliant brilliant win by Madison Keys

Now she gets to try and take revenge on Aryna for USO 2023

Aryna was in beast mode against Badosa though, don't see how anyone could beat her in that form on hard courts
 
Still no Sabalenka vs Swiatek Grand Sam final.

I didn't see all of the match between Keys and Iga but from what I saw in the third set, it looked a cracker.
 
That is a hell of an accomplishment by Keys.
 
Nole showed up looking like an injured 37 year old. He nearly psyched Zverev into dropping the first set, but then there was no point going on, he couldn't win anymore

Booed off what might have been his last appearance on RLA
 
Carlos lost to an injured 37 year old Novak. Zverev needed a tie breaker to beat an even more injured Novak.
 
wr8_utd said:
Carlos lost to an injured 37 year old Novak. Zverev needed a tie breaker to beat an even more injured Novak.
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HIs ability to hypnotize those two into losing or nearly losing sets is fascinating. Think Sinner would have made short work of him though
 
Booing an injured legend walking off is a really poor look on Australian people. No class.
 
Rajma said:
Booing an injured legend walking off is a really poor look on Australian people. No class.
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Absolutely. Whatever one might think of Novak, there's no way he'd quit after a set of a semi without good reason. Very very poor crowd reaction.
 
Rajma said:
Booing an injured legend walking off is a really poor look on Australian people. No class.
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Whole tournament has been a horrible look on the australian people. Media in particular have been shocking, happy Shelton called them out on it
 
Sinner vs Shelton has the potential to be fairly entertaining!
 
Rajma said:
You’re allowed not to be a fond of a certain player but to boo an injured player walking off the court is an awful look on the Australian people no matter what.
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Do you think he was injured against Carlos?
 
Bondi77 said:
Do you think he was injured against Carlos?
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Of course why would he compromise himself in terms of movement (quite clearly) for the reminder of the 1st set and during the 2nd set? Basically to sabotage himself for no good reason against an opponent like Carlos? As evident by his withdrawal today it absolutely has bothered him, and he didn’t practice for the last two days. Do you think otherwise?
 
Rajma said:
Of course why would he compromise himself in terms of movement (quite clearly) for the reminder of the 1st set and during the 2nd set? Basically to sabotage himself for no good reason against an opponent like Carlos? As evident by his withdrawal today it absolutely has bothered him, and he didn’t practice for the last two days. Do you think otherwise?
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Might have had a tweak but it is funny how he seemed to get better as the match went on.
People don't like him in Oz and that has things to do with stuff outside tennis which I cannot be bothered to talk about but you can research it if you like.
 
Double break point now for Shelton at 5-5.

PS. He breaks and will now serve for the set. Wow. He's not been intimated by Sinner at all.
 
Two set points missed by Shelton, really needs to get this first set wrapped up...
 
saivet said:
Two set points missed by Shelton, really needs to get this first set wrapped up...
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Sinner did well on the first one but Shelton really shouldn't have made the error on that second serve. And now Sinner with a poor miss on break point. This game has been a lot of poor errors.
 
Sinner breaks back. You feel like that's that for Shelton if Sinner now takes this tiebreak.
 
Bondi77 said:
Might have had a tweak but it is funny how he seemed to get better as the match went on.
People don't like him in Oz and that has things to do with stuff outside tennis which I cannot be bothered to talk about but you can research it if you like.
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Don't underestimate how painkillers and adrenaline can mask the true extent of an injury. Especially in a game as hyped as the one against alcaraz was, it's only afterwards the true extent of an injury shows.

The fact he didn't train between the alcaraz and zverev matches shows it was more than just a "tweak". Same thing happened last year at roland garros, took a mto against cerundolo. To which everyone accused him of either faking or exaggerating only for him to withdraw from the next round against ruud.

But as others as said completely classless to boo him off like that.
 
Novak getting as far as he did this tournament at his age/current condition speaks volumes of his quality and the standard of those now playing the men's game compared to the past generation.
 
Sinner comfortably takes the tiebreak. Shelton might really rue that awful error when he had set point.
 
CraftySoAndSo said:
Don't underestimate how painkillers and adrenaline can mask the true extent of an injury. Especially in a game as hyped as the one against alcaraz was, it's only afterwards the true extent of an injury shows.

The fact he didn't train between the alcaraz and zverev matches shows it was more than just a "tweak". Same thing happened last year at roland garros, took a mto against cerundolo. To which everyone accused him of either faking or exaggerating only for him to withdraw from the next round against ruud.

But as others as said completely classless to boo him off like that.
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If he needs painkillers to get him through matches he is better off calling it a day to save him any problems in later life.
I would have thought it would be horrendous for him to go through any form of injection anyway but personal gain can be a powerful drug to some.
 
Bondi77 said:
If he needs painkillers to get him through matches he is better off calling it a day to save him any problems in later life.
I would have thought it would be horrendous for him to go through any form of injection anyway but personal gain can be a powerful drug to some.
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I would've thought the painkillers would've come in pill/tablet form but not sure.

Agree about playing through injuries but tbh pretty much every pro athlete will play through them at some point.

Think I saw a quote from Nadal saying he played through pain for most of his career. Also said he played while taking painkillers for quite a while as well so probably happens more than we know.
 
Completely meltdown from Shelton since 6-5 and serving for the set. Lost that game, won two points in the tiebreaker and now he's a double break down at 0-3 in the second. The mental side of tennis is just so so important.
 
Shelton starting to red line a bit.

Sinner has been a bit passive, but solid. Probably gotta bide his time to swing momentum here..
 
Playing Sinner has to be fecking with your head though

So demoralizing

Here Shelton faces the additional problem that Sinner figured out his serve patterns so he's returning everything, he just can't get free points off his serve
 
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