Andy Murray Latest and General Tennis Chat

[cameron2000]

It appears the Australian Open crowd have aggressively adopted the Ronaldo “Siuuu”. Fairly cringy stuff as plenty of the players not into football will just take it as boos.

[Lex]

Fantastic win for Andy, he’s certainly got the Georgians number.
He will rightly be the big favourite in the next round against the Japanese qualifier Taro Daniel, who’s 28 and never been past the second round of a major.
He’s got a great chance of making the second week.

[TheGreenElves]

45 minutes ago, cameron2000 said:

It appears the Australian Open crowd have aggressively adopted the Ronaldo “Siuuu”. Fairly cringy stuff as plenty of the players not into football will just take it as boos.

Wondered what was happening, as I thought it was boos when it happened to Andy, then it happened as Kyrgios came on to the court v Broady, and I thought maybe not 

[Donathan]

Good start by Emma Raducanu 

[John Lambies Doos]

Raducanu, starting how she finished at us open

[Loki]

3 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:

All the Grand Slams are 5th set tie break aren't they?

Andy with the classic Andy roller coaster here

Almost, three of the four have a tie break of some sort. In Australia it’s a champions tie break (first to 10) after 6-6 in the fifth.  French Open is still play until your two games clear.  Wimbledon is normal tie breaker after 12-12 in the fifth.  The US Open is tie breaker as normal in the fifth at 6-6.

Kyrgios looked pretty impressive today and will be absolutely relishing playing Medvedev.  That Aussie crowd cheering Kyrgios and annoying Medvedev should be comedy gold.   That could be extremely interesting.

Taro Daniel is decent but doesn’t have the weapons that Basilashvili has, not the defensive skill of Murray so it should be a good match up for him.  Daniel will serve well though or at least he has been through qualies.

[Donathan]

Raducanu serves up a bagel. She just seems to rise to the occasion at slams. 

[peasy23]

Stephens takes the second set 6-2, momentum all with her now.

[peasy23]

Raducanu breaks to go 2-0 in the third.

[peasy23]

Double break to go 4-0. Error count from both players is high.

[peasy23]

Wins the third set 6-1, some flashes of her best tennis but a lot of errors too.

[Bully Wee Villa]

Easy enough in the end. Bit of a wobble but showed character to get it won fairly comfortably. Needs to work on her serves.

[jaggyness]

Lot of things to work on but that's a really good win for Raducanu. A really tough round one opponent.

[TheGreenElves]

On 11/01/2022 at 14:57, cdhafc1874 said:

Raducanu to get papped out in the 1st round of the AO is an absolute NAP

Novak playing, getting booed to f**k & losing in the 1st round would be the best result at this point - or him testing + the day before the tournament starts.

Maybe not 

[cdhafc1874]

Maybe not [emoji38]

And?
Her form coming in was poor & Stephens is an experienced Grand Slam player so wasn't an outlandish prediction.

Raducanu obviously upped her level back in front of a decent crowd & from what I saw played very well.

[MONKMAN]

3 hours ago, cameron2000 said:

It appears the Australian Open crowd have aggressively adopted the Ronaldo “Siuuu”.

Any grown man doing this regardless of the situation, should immediately surrender all their electronic devices for forensic examination. 

[Mark Connolly]

2 hours ago, Loki said:

Almost, three of the four have a tie break of some sort. In Australia it’s a champions tie break (first to 10) after 6-6 in the fifth.  French Open is still play until your two games clear.  Wimbledon is normal tie breaker after 12-12 in the fifth.  The US Open is tie breaker as normal in the fifth at 6-6.

Kyrgios looked pretty impressive today and will be absolutely relishing playing Medvedev.  That Aussie crowd cheering Kyrgios and annoying Medvedev should be comedy gold.   That could be extremely interesting.

Taro Daniel is decent but doesn’t have the weapons that Basilashvili has, not the defensive skill of Murray so it should be a good match up for him.  Daniel will serve well though or at least he has been through qualies.

Cheers.

I knew there were odd tie breaks now, I was more concerned that Andy might not be up to a 47-45er in the 5th set if required!

Felt a wee bit sorry for Broady against Kyrgios, he seemed to play fine, but Kyrgios was almost unplayable at times.

Delighted for Radacanu, I know she is a GS champion, but facing Sloane Stephens on your AO debut is pretty challenging. Amazing that match was her first ever to go to 3 sets in a GD. Be hilarious if she became a GS animal, never winning a match outside them and strolling deep into the big ones

[TheGreenElves]

29 minutes ago, cdhafc1874 said:

And?
Her form coming in was poor & Stephens is an experienced Grand Slam player so wasn't an outlandish prediction.

Raducanu obviously upped her level back in front of a decent crowd & from what I saw played very well.

Just found it funny that an absolute NAP didn't happen. But aye, was expecting it to be a very tight match(the second set was more like what I expected going into the match). 3rd set seemed comfortable for raducanu

[Loki]

If it’s any consolation I also thought Sloane would win.  Raducanu loves a crowd, and just elevates her game.  Fernandez didn’t have such a good time in her first round though.   
 

Liam Broady is an excellent example of where hard work gets you,  didn’t have a world ranking during the pandemic.  But helped Murray train for the Battle of the Brits meets and has kicked on from there.  I thought he’d have a shot at Kyrgios, but even a man just out of isolation and little training can just turn it on.  
 

Third prediction (third time lucky) Kyrgios to beat Medvedev.  Cue a 6-2 6-2 6-1 win for the pantomime villain.

[peasy23]

It appears the Australian Open crowd have aggressively adopted the Ronaldo “Siuuu”. Fairly cringy stuff as plenty of the players not into football will just take it as boos.