Tennis: All Purpose Tennis Thread XII

[Tuggy]

DelPo pulled out of doubles and has now pulled out of singles.

Near the end of his match with Denis, Juan Martin came to the net, slipped a little, and seemed to tweak something. I thought, "Oh, oh."

And it's not good news...

 

[Tuggy]

And Felix breaks to open the second and with a tough hold, consolidates the break. 2-0.

The winner of this match will have to play their second round match later today...

 

[MsMeow]

And it's not good news...

Whyyyyy? He has to be the nicest guy out there and continually has crap luck.

He hurt it when he slipped during play when it was spitting. Grass courts are so soft to play on yet so dangerous.

 

[Tuggy]

Whyyyyy? He has to be the nicest guy out there and continually has crap luck.

He hurt it when he slipped during play when it was spitting. Grass courts are so soft to play on yet so dangerous.

Seems to be cursed really...

The slip:



Andy Murray still scheduled to play doubles today with Lopez.

 

[Tuggy]

Straight forward win for Felix over Dimitrov 6-4 6-4.

Will face Kyrgios later today.

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

Felix vs. Kyrgios should be an interesting test!

 

[Tuggy]

They are underway.

 

[discostu]

Straight forward win for Felix over Dimitrov 6-4 6-4.

Will face Kyrgios later today.

I didn't watch the match, but am looking at the match stats.

Felix won just 11 points on return over 2 sets, but managed 2 service breaks. Talk about being efficient with your points.

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

Kyrgios looks like he doesn’t give a flying f*** but is hitting his first serve in so often it doesn’t matter lol.

 

[kihei]

Contrasting aura, or what.

 

[Tuggy]

First set to Nick in a TB.

 

[kihei]

Some guy named Federer is also playing right now. He won a breaker and is back to even at 3-all in the second set, having just gotten broken by Tsonga.

 

[kihei]

Tsonga takes the second set, 6-4, from an increasingly creaky-looking Federer.

 

[kihei]

Though 3-all in the deciding set, Roger (and the crowd), looking uncharacteristically glum, is just hanging on by the skin of his teeth.

 

[Tuggy]

Felix takes the second set TB to force a third set!

 

[kihei]

At 5-all, Roger ekes out a break and holds serve for the match, an occurrence that has the most beautiful blonde in the world entering uncharted states of ecstasy in the grandstands. Tsonga didn't deserve to lose that match as he played extremely well, but, somehow against Roger, this is a familiar result.

 

[kihei]

Next match for Roger is against Bautista-Agut who is a very underrated grass court player.

 

[kihei]

So Nick is either hurt or playing possum or being a dick. Maybe all three.

 

[Tuggy]

Felix gets the first break of the match at 6-5 and takes the match!

Tsitsipas next.

 

[kihei]

Strange denouement, but a very fine win for Felix.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

So Nick is either hurt or playing possum or being a dick. Maybe all three.

He hit a between-the-legs shot, so...

 

[kihei]

Tsitsipas next for Felix? What a punishing draw.

 

[kihei]

He hit a between-the-legs shot, so...

...in lieu of moving. So jury's still out for me.

 

[Uncle Rotter]

...in lieu of moving. So jury's still out for me.

From the way he was moving around, I expected him to have a cigarette in his mouth and a beer in one hand.

 

[JetsWillFly4Ever]

Nick is such a headcase I almost feel bad for him.