x2

she came so close to an amazing sporting achievement

and djokovic and federer are on court after a long rain delay

the thing is, federer might have the mental edge over everyone ranked outside the top 4, but hes mentally brittle in the mind games department when he has to face them head to head

Edited by condemned666: 14/9/2015 09:57:56 AM

Davis Cup tie this weekend. GB vs Aus. Should be really decent. Can't see us beating the Brits this time around. Murray's too consistent and they should win the doubles. We'd need a team featuring Kyrgios in good form to have a shot.

It should be fun though. Murray gets on really well with the Australian players. He has basically taken Kokkinakis under his wing, Kyrgios too (even though he won't be there). Also, blokes like Lleyton Hewitt live for the Davis Cup. They seem to rate it higher than Grand Slams. They seem to love the team part of it and representing their country. Plus, Brits versus Australians is usually good value.

And Bernard tomic has reached the top 20 for the first time

Mind you, 'some guy' like David Goffin is 4 places below Rafael Nadal in the rankings, even though hes achieved jack and Nadal's achieved pretty much everything in tennis. So there's that

New season of tennis in Australia starting today in Perth (the Hopman Cup) and Brisbane , tennis season in Australia is pretty short

Theres 2 teams representing Australia in the Hopman Cup, its become more and more challenging to get the best players to play out there in Perth

And this is Nick Kyrgios's outfit that he will be wearing to this year's Australian Open

Edited by condemned666: 3/1/2016 04:38:15 PM

Looks like it will be a short summer for Ivanovic. :(

The Hopman cup is an invitational and has no rankings or head to head bearing on the event, it's possibly time to just make it a tournament like the Brisbane international? Or Kooyong?

Perhaps its time to move the Hopman Cup to Sydney to get a better field.

The supposed appeal of the hopman cup for players is a guaranteed number of matches in preparation for the Aus open.

The issue is, there are a heap of tournaments which have sprung up that have undermined the tournament, it's not because there's tournaments in doha, but more tournaments such as the one in Auckland, the Brisbane international has grown (because of the presence of Federer) and just how unappealing it is to go to WA

What about this new format of Tennis called Fast4, which is supposedly a faster match with fewer sets.
Is this similar to the BBL to suffice the needs of the short attention spanned spectator?

http://www.foxsports.com.au/tennis/fast4-tennis-what-is-it-what-are-the-rules-and-how-is-it-played/story-e6frf4mu-1227705067747

Tennis matchfixing scandal

On an unrelated matter, the Australian Open tennis began today in Melbourne...

Updated the title. Tsonga v Baghdatis is on right now, should be an epic.

:lol: Stosur

Another great Round 1 match Nadal v Verdasco. :shock:

Downhill from here

Great match so far. I sense a 5 setter

Tomic's first round match suspended for nearly 20 minutes due to a fan suffering a diabetic attack in the stands :shock:

Hewitt playing on centre court against a player with a low ranking, a match with no consequence to who wins the tournament

Doubtless it was scheduled on Centre Court because of Channel 7 fanboys

And... Hes got the whole southern cross thing on his shirt.

Edited by condemned666: 19/1/2016 08:22:31 PM

Could be his last ever match of course it would be on Centre Court.

Female tennis right now. :x

Kyrgios v Berdych

A bitter match this is shaping up to be...

Kyrgios in trouble.

Berdych is quite underrated.

Cool calm and collected

this is mrs berdych

Was just about to post how magical his missus is.

Theres no histrionics about him - the exact opposite of Kyrgios

If he had a bit of nasty about him he probably would have achieved more than 1 grand slam final

kyrgios trying to play games with the chair umpire?

STFU Nik!

number of words uttered by Nick 7 zillion

number of words by Berdych 0 (who's winning)

Yep, gets a shred of respect back from the Aussie public and then loses it all in 5 minutes lol.

Twat.

-PB

11-9 in the end. Unreal final set, good on her

Look forward to Kyrgios' meltdowns as much as his tennis.