2022 In Between Grand Slam Thread

Cheeky , going for the body on both Federer and Nadal, not a nice way to win.

End of an era. Rafa and Novak can't have too much longer left at the top either unfortunately.

A FITTING END

KING FEDERER

Those kids will need counselling after tonight!

The ma, the wife, Rafa all in bits.

And the Da, laughing away - yer grand, lad 🤣

I very much doubt that Federer would have appreciated being patronised by having his final game handed to him.

Ostapenko took the second set 6-3 and raducanu took a medical time out after the fifth game. Third set just underway.

Yeah there’s clearly talent there but since the US open in 2021 she’s not able to string it together.

For sure, but during this match both Nadal and Federer when short of options when midcourt played the ball into space, or over the top, they could have just targeted their opponent and blasted it as hard as they could as their face or body, but they'd not do this, Tiafoe did it to both Nadal and Federer, it's not in the spirit of the game. or the night

Oh I'm not arguing that point at all!

Just the notion/suggestion that the opponents should have "thrown the last few points" (presumably so that Fed could bow out on a win).

That's very much not in the spirit of the game either.

Tsitsipas is just an all round bell end. Seems to have a really superior attitude, and no tennis to justify it.

rune-sinner at business end of first set in sofia sf, fantastic rallies. delighted to see rune competing with sinner, even if he's a horrid sort. be great to get another trio of young guns.

djok sf tel aviv starting now

astana 250 next week has 7 of top 10 i think. tennis.com article wondering is tennis next for a LIV style takeover

Nice to see Murray winning a few matches in Gijon quarter final tomorrow

Yeah Murray just doesn't have the fitness really to play so many matches close together it seems.

In European open - Evans with a win, as well as Draper (absolutely hammered Brooksby)

there always accidents according to the caught out.

I was shocked to hear the news about Halep, however I was just as stunned when she teamed up with Mouratoglou and subsequently sacked all her team including her long term agent.

She can protest her innocence til the cows come home but the onus is on her to prove her innocence, innocent until proven guilty doesn’t apply here, Roxadustat was found in her system, albeit a minuscule amount and that raises questions as to whether it was at the end of a doping period and whomever was responsible for administering it got the timings wrong or they weren’t banking on Halep losing in the first round and thus being tested.

Tennis players have escaped bans with questionable explanations, Gasquet claiming his positive test for cocaine came from kissing and Yastremska’s claim that her contaminated sample was as a result of ingesting bodily fluids from her partner, was(pardon the pun) hard to swallow but they were found to have no cases to answer so I’m sure if Halep can come up with a plausible explanation it will be believed but her reputation won’t recover. She did have a mini renaissance under Mouratoglou reaching the semis of Wimbledon and winning Toronto and finishing the season back in the top ten, those stats don’t go in her favour either, lending credence to advantages gained from a prohibited substance.

If there’s one thing to be learned from the different narratives surrounding Halep and Sharapova’s cases it’s be nice and friendly to your competitors on the way up as you will need their support on the way back down.

Exactly, Halep, for all her success comes across as an insecure, vulnerable young woman. Her marriage break up hasn’t helped the situation. I’ve always felt Mouratoglou has a Svengali like aura. His statement of ‘support’ hasn't been very heartfelt either.