How many people does Kyrgios need to beat to face off against Federer? That's the game I'm most excited to see happen.

Forgot to say - well done Kyrgios on a great performance.

Especially:

http://youtu.be/7DJgHwseiDI

=d> =d> =d>

Edited by lastbroadcast: 2/7/2014 10:47:39 AM

An entitled, vain whinger who focuses more on his social life than Tennis, and rarely plays to his potential... wait, which young Aussie are we talking about?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-02/five-greatest-wimbledon-shocks/5564678?section=sport

^ And whatever happened to all those players that made the upset? :-k

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new Mark Phillipoussis

Legendary.

-PB

You can say a lot about Hewitt, but he is certainly one of the best 'competitors' in tennis, and Australian sports history. The career he has achieved given the limited weapons he has compared to most on tour is remarkable. If only Tomic had a attitude more like his.

Hewitt on.

Wow Bartoli has certainly put on some weight in retirement.

Hewitt on at the moment.

Wimbledon is always the last week in June. Always has been AFAIK.

Edited by afromanGT: 24/6/2014 02:38:28 AM

They should really schedule this after the world cup, theres just too much sport on at the moment, if one checks out the cricket between sri lanka and england "somewhere", the effect of spectator fatigue is obvious (although Sri Lanka is not a strong drawing test cricket team) :-k

But on the tennis, Rafa lost earlier on at Wimbledon 4 years ago, and his excuse was he wanted to watch Spain play and win the world cup

He hasnt got that excuse this time around though :-"

Stosur gone in opening round. :lol:

You know a tournament's not great when a plodder like David Ferrer is made to look like a superstar*

* watch the stream and you'll see what I mean

Theres that, along with a load of other shit you can think of watching on channel wiziwig

[/condescending attitude]

It's literally just a matter of who can hit the ball hardest and flattest.

Li Na and Wawrinka both got knocked out in the first round which underlines what a shit tournament roland garros is sometimes

Sometimes its just glorified bullfighting

There's a French Open now?

You haven't seen Episode 201 have you?

No, it's perceived to be the least popular of the four grand slams because clay court requires a very different approach to your game and fucking SUCKS to play on.

Thread title updated :)

^ What? Are you plagiarising me? I did that for Natarsha Belling's tears when The Sleep In, I mean the Wake Up got cancelled

PS Scott Tenorman seemed like a nice guy, likes radiohead, takes care of stupid punk kids

French open started tonight

Its perceived to be the least popular of the four grand slams as everyone is an Anglophilic snob in their approach to the world

Having said that, Roland Garros arguably has the best looking crowd with the assortment of Laetitia Casta and Melanie Laurents (and their lookalikes and aspiring to be them) sitting in the crowd

Flushing Meadows could be argued to have Hollywood actors and sports stars from other sports, but the US Open definitely has an unfriendly time zone to Australia, except the night sessions ->

Nadal's been struggling with injuries and blisters all tournament. If he can make it that far carrying injuries I don't think there's any reason to detract from Wawrinka's achievement.

Injured or not

Well done to wawrinka for gunning down nadal

Even before he threw out his back, wawrinka was bossing the points- djokovic style!

Not to take anything away from Stan, absolutely delighted for him and he's played brilliantly this tournament, taking out Djokovic, Berdych and now Nadal tells it's own story, but the guy's been lucky to have two walkovers and now Nadal at well below 100%.

Also, fucking poor form from the crowd to boo Nadal when they had absolutely no clue what Stan's problem actually was.

Edited by gooner4life_8: 26/1/2014 10:38:55 PM

I hate watching tennis players with a conscience. Just wipe the floor with the injured. If they want to stay out their its their fault they got injured more.

This is disappointing.

Stan with the early break.

Federer constantly hitting it to set up passing shots for nadal suggests federer is not as smart a player as djokovic

At least when djokovic plays nadal he makes nadal play a chip backhand and look for shots that arent there

Federer's rivalry vs nadal is pretty much braindead as we speak

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/bumper-summer-of-cricket-dents-australian-open-ratings-20140121-316my.html

^ For what its worth:

With The Colonist's and Toffies sport the top, and tennis second, hopefully it will kill off the a-league once and for all!

Muahahhahaa