Australian Open 2017

walshb

runnerholic wrote: »

Should both Roger and Rafa make the final. Would it be fair to suggest that the winner is rubber stamping their claim to be the greatest of all time?

The Fed-Nadal thread has disappeared. A win for either would be unreal, but not as unreal as Venus winning a slam. Almost ten years after her last win.

walshb

Fed a set up and 3-2 up in set 2....

runnerholic

walshb wrote: »

The Fed-Nadal thread has disappeared. A win for either would be unreal, but not as unreal as Venus winning a slam. Almost ten years after her last win.

Can't see Venus beating Serena should she make the final.

walshb

runnerholic wrote: »

Can't see Venus beating Serena should she make the final.

Serena is 5 to 1 on....Heavy enough favorite.

Fed is making bits of Stan. I am not watching it. Is Stan playing well, and just Federer playing better?

Anyone?

EagererBeaver

runnerholic wrote: »

Can't see Venus beating Serena should she make the final.

She's already there.

Jan_de_Bakker

Federer up 2-0 against Stan ... handing the title to Nadal basically..

Floppybits

Stan is injured.

walshb

Floppybits wrote: »

Stan is injured.

Legit or playing up?

Jan_de_Bakker

Maybe ... I would love to see Federer win, but Stan has a much better chance v Nadal .. so hope he wins this ..


2-1

Floppybits

walshb wrote: »

Floppybits wrote: »

Stan is injured.

Legit or playing up?

Well he went off for treatment at the end of the second set practically in tears. Comes back and is now 5-1 up in the third. Mats is saying on commentary that it is a knee injury.  Seems to be a combination of Wawrinka just going for everything because of the injury and Federer losing concentration.

walshb

Stan wins the 3rd set!

Jan_de_Bakker

I wonder, could Federer be thinking ahead to the final, and the fear is kicking in ... and now showing itself here in this match ?

could be ..

RosyLily

RobertKK wrote: »

I was not happy with the message underneath that Sky customers face losing all Discovery channels which include Eurosport due to Sky not wanting to pay Discovery what they want.

They pay ridiculous amounts for the Premier League and leave other sports fans in the lurch. I'll definitely be playing for Eurosport player if that happens.

Happy to see Venus in another Grand Slam final. I'd love it if she won...but Serena looks like breaking Steffi's record.

Floppybits

Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »

I wonder, could Federer be thinking ahead to the final, and the fear is kicking in ... and now showing itself here in this match ?

could be ..

Probably a bit put off by Wawrinka's injury. A lot of players lose focus when an oppenent is injured because they think they have the match won and also the injured player then plays with a bit of freedom.
Federer serve broken in the first game of the 4th set.

Jan_de_Bakker

Floppybits

Hopefully that waster Kyrgios is watching this to see the behavior of real tennis players.

walshb

Stan's on the way back..serving to take this into a decider!

Floppybits

Wawrinka breaks for a 5-4 lead in the 4th. Unreal stuff from Wawrinka.

SlickRic

It's Stan's now. It'd take something special from Fed to stop this now.

Jan_de_Bakker

W0w !!!!

IF Stan wins this , he will have a real shot at the title on sunday

EagererBeaver

Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »

W0w !!!!

IF Stan wins this , he will have a real shot at the title on sunday

Lol, cracking insight there

Floppybits

Federer having a medical time out now.

Floppybits

They are playing at some speed here. 4 sets in 2 and half hours. How long was Nadal's 3 sets yesterday, 3 hours?

walshb

Bit of an advantage for Fed to be serving first in the decider.

walshb

Floppybits wrote: »

Federer having a medical time out now.

Returning the gamesmanship that Stan brought.

NoviGlitzko

Finally up to speed with the match having to do an errand earlier so had to record. Wow, bloody heart is in my mouth here. Love Stan be I'd be devastated if he doesn't get it done after winning the first two sets. 😥

Break point to Stan here now again...

Jan_de_Bakker

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Lol, cracking insight there

No need for sarcasm - as in if Fed wins its basically 100% guaranteed Nadal will win, he owns Federer in slam finals..

walshb

Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »

No need for sarcasm - as in if Fed wins its basically 100% guaranteed Nadal will win, he owns Federer in slam finals..

He owns Federer in general...

walshb

Very good hold from Stan to level it 2-2...

Paddy now has him slight favourite.

SlickRic

Of course Stan is favourite. I've no idea why Fed was ever favourite.

walshb

SlickRic wrote: »

Of course Stan is favourite. I've no idea why Fed was ever favourite.

Past form/H2H results and the fact that Federer has been playing well this tournament. I have no real issue with him as favourite. I would have chosen Stan, but by the slimmest of margins.

NoviGlitzko

Match is actually going exactly how I predicted. Stan to win in 5 because Federers physicality will deteriorate in the final set. Hope he can still do it though. Cmon Fed!

walshb

NoviGlitzko wrote: »

Match is actually going exactly how I predicted. Stan to win in 5 because Federers physicality will deteriorate in the final set. Hope he can still do it though. Cmon Fed!

Fed has two break points now...

Leads 4-2 now....

Fed is 9-1 on!

Jan_de_Bakker

Fed has the vital break ....

Stan double faults to hand Fed the break - that could be it...
He cracked.

NoviGlitzko

What a crazy match!

walshb

9-7 Stan to win it....

Shane St.

Wow. Swingy match. That injury break for Stan gave him new lease of life. Hoping Rafa can do the business 2mrw and give everyone the final we want! And the Williams sisters too. Like we'v gone back in time

Jan_de_Bakker

And now Fed will practice some black magic or vodoo to get Dmitrov to beat Nadal ...

NoviGlitzko

Just January and already one of the matches of the year. Match kept swinging momentum towards either player. Feel sorry for Stan he tightened up on that break when I felt the match was on his racquet. Federer was clutch though.

Nice words from Roger there.

SlickRic

I'm so glad I was wrong. Fed, you god.

Incredible he's doing this at 35 after a good while out with injury.

NoviGlitzko

Forgot to mention I'm ****ing delighted

5 sets and all but 50 unforced errors by Fed I see. If it's him and Nadal in the final that sort of statistic could prove costly. Especially where Nadal is likely to force you into "unforced" errors with his competitiveness and the likely length of rallies.
Haven't watched any of Dimitrov in the tournament -although he has beaten a few top 10 recently so is in form. He has always been a bit mentally fragile - Nadal will test that.

Royale with Cheese

I just bet the (admittedly small) contents of my PaddyPower account on Nadal to win the tournament so it can ease the pain of Federer getting beat on Sunday.

runnerholic

EagererBeaver wrote: »

She's already there.

Should Serena make the final!

Chivito550

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

I just bet the (admittedly small) contents of my PaddyPower account on Nadal to win the tournament so it can ease the pain of Federer getting beat on Sunday.

Haha, I did the same, but got on board when Rafa was 7/2. You won't get much value now.

runnerholic

runnerholic wrote: »

Should Serena make the final!

Apologies, I stand corrected.

EagererBeaver

runnerholic wrote: »

Apologies, I stand corrected.

I was about to be snarky too!

Jan_de_Bakker

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

I just bet the (admittedly small) contents of my PaddyPower account on Nadal to win the tournament so it can ease the pain of Federer getting beat on Sunday.

What odds you get ?

Royale with Cheese

Not great odds. I had €8 in there and stand to get €19 back, as much as I love Federer he has a terrible record against Nadal. But I guess it's a good while since these players were competing against each other at this level so who knows???

Dimitrov to win now so.