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The Tennis Thread (5 Viewers)

Trebla

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She blew it again...*sigh*
 

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Damn, Duckworth put up a good effort even though he lost. Kavcic won 3-6 6-3 6-4 6-7(3) 10-8

Tomic's through. Glad, but can't wait for him to play Fed.
 

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can't wait for federer to crush tomic

hopefully he wins against d-something-something-ov tnight (dogolpov?)
 

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laughing so hard whilst seeing Monfils fuck up his match points with a double fault like 3-4 consecutive times
 

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laughing so hard whilst seeing Monfils fuck up his match points with a double fault like 3-4 consecutive times
lol omg, my dad stopped to see the match point thinking it wasn't going to take that long hahahahhahahahahaha. Eventually, he was like "fuck this" and left.
 

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Did anyone watch Robson last night/this morning?
 

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Janowicz is out :(

Alright, time to cheer for ANDERSON!
 

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Did anyone watch Robson last night/this morning?
She beat Kvitova in 3 sets, but the game lasted for 3.5 hours! I think the third set was 11-9 hahaha

Williams seemed a little down today :/ (I was going for Maria anyway)
But hopefully I can watch the Federer-Tomic one tomorrow!!

Also, dumb question, but can someone tell me what determines if a match goes for 2 or 3 sets? I haven't been able to figure it out!
 

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She beat Kvitova in 3 sets, but the game lasted for 3.5 hours! I think the third set was 11-9 hahaha

Williams seemed a little down today :/ (I was going for Maria anyway)
But hopefully I can watch the Federer-Tomic one tomorrow!!

Also, dumb question, but can someone tell me what determines if a match goes for 2 or 3 sets? I haven't been able to figure it out!
Girls play three-set max matches so it's the first person to win two sets.

Guys play five-set max matches so it's the first person to win three sets.


Is that the answer you're looking for...?
 

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Wow really? Why can't girls play 5-setters?
They're definitely tough enough, otherwise Kvitova and Robson would have been dead after their 20 game 3rd set.

Mathematically it makes sense though
 

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Best match of the tournament!
Djokovic vs Wawrinka was amazing tennis
12-10 in the fifth - it could have went either way
Fed, Murray, Ferrer and everyone else would have paid close attention to this match
 

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Best match of the tournament!
Djokovic vs Wawrinka was amazing tennis
12-10 in the fifth - it could have went either way
Fed, Murray, Ferrer and everyone else would have paid close attention to this match
certainly was. top match. would have preferred the upset though.
 

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Best match of the tournament!
Djokovic vs Wawrinka was amazing tennis
12-10 in the fifth - it could have went either way
Fed, Murray, Ferrer and everyone else would have paid close attention to this match
tomas berdych would have been paying the most attention i think.
 

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Best match of the tournament!
Djokovic vs Wawrinka was amazing tennis
12-10 in the fifth - it could have went either way
Fed, Murray, Ferrer and everyone else would have paid close attention to this match
Best match of the year probs. Still too early to say but this WAS AMAZING. Heck, it was better than last year's final...

Wawrinka the underdog:
- Was close to being 2 sets up. But dipped in form. He did amazingly well to win the 4th set and force the 5th.
- Stan produced like 95% of the best winners imho.... All the shotmaking came from Stan... He played offensive tennis, dictating play... Oh don't get me started on his graceful yet venomous backhand.... That thing was on fire.

IMHO, Stan played the better tennis.

Djokovic just has the physical advantage.... he pushes the ball back in more... hoping for Stan to commit and do an unforced error.... Way less winners coming from Novak....

I wished Stan had won. But the AO surface favours people who push the ball back in/defensive grinding and doesn't reward pure-striking tennis....

Another example = Monfils vs Simon. Simon just pushed and pushed, waiting for the Monfil errors.
 

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so that raonic match
 

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cya tsonga...

Fed vs Murray - who wins?
 

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