k-ton Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Tennis continues to be weird. But, despite numerous big name withdrawls, I'm still looking forward to this. Nadal looks to have knocked it off with a cracking draw whilst Djokovic will be having a wee cry. Shame. In the Women's, I would not be surprised if Sharapova completes her comeback from drugs cheat shame to win. Hope not though. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Cameron Norrie and Katie Boulter lost in qualification yesterday (or today). Naomi Broady is through to the next round. Sadly the highlander Isabelle Wallace lost in qualification too. She now represents Australia. For Novak being the 14th seed he got a cracking draw (13th-16th will always meet 1st-4th in the Fourth round). Zverev in the last 16 when it could have been Federer or Nadal. Even then Zverev will have to match his best ever display at a Slam to meet Novak. He could meet his brother Mischa in the 3rd Round, who famously beat Murray last year. Dimitrov has a very nice open quarter with only Kyrgios to look out for. Dimitrov has played some of his best tennis in Australia and his confidence will be sky high. Novak and Wawrinka still have injury doubts. So not sure just how good they will be. Sharapova will not make the quarter finals. She is due to meet Sevastova in the second round (who beat her at the US Open last year), Kerber in the Third ,then Muguruza in the fourth. It will be interesting to see if Wozniacki or Halep can go deep after both have picked up their form, and have relatively open draws.. Both have lost multiple slam finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Off on holiday for the first week. Will no doubt lose a fair whack of cash as I throw money at 22 player accumulators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Stephens and Venus, out you pop in Rnd1 Isner and Anderson, you can go home early too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Kyle Edmund through in 5 sets against Anderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dysart Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Still can't believe Stephens won the US Open, must be a lot of better players kicking themselves for missing a great opportunity to win a Slam there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 16 hours ago, Dysart said: Still can't believe Stephens won the US Open, must be a lot of better players kicking themselves for missing a great opportunity to win a Slam there. She's lost every match since apparently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 17 hours ago, Dysart said: Still can't believe Stephens won the US Open, must be a lot of better players kicking themselves for missing a great opportunity to win a Slam there. She didn't look good enough to be in the top 100 against Camilla Giorgi in Sydney, she was doing well to get to 15 on her own serve after her 1st couple of service games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I see Federer is giving the Slovenian a pumping. Pleasing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Why? Bored of Federer winning all the time. Be nice to have some new talent come through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Why? Bored of Federer winning all the time. Be nice to have some new talent come through. More the person he is playing tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 What's wrong with him? He's gone back to Slovenia cos he wants to play Davis Cup and Olympics. Seems fair enough to me. Not sure if he does anything else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 What's wrong with him? He's gone back to Slovenia cos he wants to play Davis Cup and Olympics. Seems fair enough to me. Not sure if he does anything else? Why change in the first place, he was after the money and quite happy to ditch his home country. When it was obvious that no one in LTA wanted to invest in him he switched back to his country, citing Davis Cup and Olympics(he would have had a fair idea before switching assuming he did the research). Turned his back on Slovenia to chase money then went back. That's why I'm not a fan.. plus I like Fed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I don't see the Olympics and Davis Cup as an excuse. By all accounts he tried very hard to play Davis Cup for GB, was very pissed off about not being able to, and his form suffered as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Impressive win by Kyle Edmund as he dispatches Istomin in straight sets in just under 90 minutes. He's now the highest ranked player in his part of the draw up to the quarter final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Dimitrov mugging it up right now. Just lost a set 6-0 to Mackenzie McDonald. 2-2 in the 5th as things stand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Gavrilova raced into a 5-0 first set lead against Mertens, and managed to lose it 7-5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Djokovic has definitely lost some weight in the arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Konta out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Konta out Muguruza out too. They were saying the other day that you could pick any one from about twenty to win the women's, quite a few of them are already out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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