Tennis: Australian Open 2017
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Hadoop
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Don't be. I can't stand her self-absorption.
Her tennis may have turned the corner though.
Soliloquy of a Dogge
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That was a pretty winnable match. Coco brainlessly bashed away and Bouchard simply couldn't take advantage. Play her with pace and she crumbles.
For a very close match, Sock/Tsonga is pretty damn boring.....22 games into the match and there have been a gramd total of three break point opportunities with none converted....finally Tsonga pulls off the break and is serving at 6-5 for a two set lead.
3rd set: Sock immediately gives up the break. Kind of thought he might, 1-0....Tsonga gives it right back. Well, I sure didn't see that one coming, 1-1....then back to normal as both players hold serve until the tiebreaker....Tsonga blows a 4-love lead in the breaker and the match goes to a fourth set. Will find out how this ends tomorrow.
3rd set: Sock immediately gives up the break. Kind of thought he might, 1-0....Tsonga gives it right back. Well, I sure didn't see that one coming, 1-1....then back to normal as both players hold serve until the tiebreaker....Tsonga blows a 4-love lead in the breaker and the match goes to a fourth set. Will find out how this ends tomorrow.
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Novak Djokovic
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Depending on my schedule, I might be able to go to USO this year, but if that doesn't happen, no tennis for the next two years as clerkship is going to take over my life. Maybe some day in residency...
MsMeow
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Ms Meow at the moment;
I'm not that big on her. I've never liked egomaniacs.
Fish on The Sand
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The thing with Nadal is it isn't his knees. I always assumed it would be, but his on court movement and intensity is still there. Its his wrists. He just can't hit those ground strokes like he used to which were devastating, especially since he could hit them after chasing down seemingly impossible shots.
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Cruor
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I must say, that was a very impressive performance by Federer. To come back after a six month layoff and just trash a top 10 player like that is insane. 
https://twitter.com/CarlBialik/status/822415968370589696
https://twitter.com/CarlBialik/status/822415968370589696
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You look at his forehand technique and this is not surprising in the least...
Novak Djokovic
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Damn, Federer crushed Tomas big time. Was it Fed or Tomas' bad play or both? (It appears it was mostly Fed)
EDIT: Fed-Nishikori will be primetime Sunday night (aka Saturday night/Sunday morning for us)??
EDIT: Fed-Nishikori will be primetime Sunday night (aka Saturday night/Sunday morning for us)??
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Hadoop
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Well medically speaking wrist injuries are notoriously slow to heal (properly) because the amount of blood flow to some of the ligaments in the wrist are minimal (because the ligaments are so small, there doesn't need to be much blood). I sprained the TFCC on the wrist of my tennis-playing arm over 2 years ago and though serving is back to 100% I still can't play a backhand with pace like I used to.
All this does not bode well for the likes of Nadal and Del Potro.
I just watched the extended highlights of the Federer/Berdych match, which obviously can be very misleading, but, damn, Roger looked incredibly impressive. To think he has touch like that around the net after that long a layoff, it's mind-boggling. Maybe an extended break was what he needed.
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Loosie
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Just an update on the boys tournament. Benjamin Sigouin is not in the draw, he retired from a 3rd round match in a warmup tournament, so it sounds like he's injured. Not sure what the injury is as of yet right now.
Soliloquy of a Dogge
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That was a vintage performance by Fed last night. Stayed up until he broke in the 3rd set; Berdych had nothing to even bother him. Fed was floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee out there. Beautiful tennis to watch.
Soliloquy of a Dogge
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The movement, the touch and the shots that were coming off of his racket from both wings were ridiculous. Probably the most consistent I've seen him play since that straight set demolishing of Murray at Wimbledon a couple years ago.
His Davis Cup clincher in 2014 against Gasquet was in the same class.
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Right? I got 2007 vibes, the guy was turning the clock back. Beautiful to see. IIRC Berdych had 26 winners to 14 unforced errors, so he wasn't playing bad either.
After an easy first set win by Thiem, Paire evens the match at a set of piece thanks to a lucky net cord, a double fault and an unforced error all in quick, unexpected succession.
3rd set: Funny how fast a match can turn--Thiem gives up a sloppy break and suddenly seems in crisis, 2-0...so of course, Paire, who makes a habit of this sort of thing, immediately double faults his advantage away, 2-1....incredibly low energy level from both players....inattentive to detail, Thiem is lucky not to be broken, 3-3...Thiem picks up his game behind a variety of lovely backhands and gets a well-earned break for 5-4....and holds at love for the set.
4th set: Looking listless yet again, Thiem coughs up the break in a ten minute game in which he had more than his share of opportunities, 3-1....and once again the maddening Paire gives the break right back, 3-2....still dramatically off the boil, Thiem gives it right back with more sloppy groundstrokes. It's like his mind isn't on the game, 4-2....Thiem goes hit and miss, but that's enough to get another break from Benoit, the Bewildered, 4-3....Benoit, the Bonehead hands Thiem another break on a silver platter and now Dominic is serving for the match....and Thiem just manages to hold for the match.
3rd set: Funny how fast a match can turn--Thiem gives up a sloppy break and suddenly seems in crisis, 2-0...so of course, Paire, who makes a habit of this sort of thing, immediately double faults his advantage away, 2-1....incredibly low energy level from both players....inattentive to detail, Thiem is lucky not to be broken, 3-3...Thiem picks up his game behind a variety of lovely backhands and gets a well-earned break for 5-4....and holds at love for the set.
4th set: Looking listless yet again, Thiem coughs up the break in a ten minute game in which he had more than his share of opportunities, 3-1....and once again the maddening Paire gives the break right back, 3-2....still dramatically off the boil, Thiem gives it right back with more sloppy groundstrokes. It's like his mind isn't on the game, 4-2....Thiem goes hit and miss, but that's enough to get another break from Benoit, the Bewildered, 4-3....Benoit, the Bonehead hands Thiem another break on a silver platter and now Dominic is serving for the match....and Thiem just manages to hold for the match.
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Wozniacki/Konta 3-2 on serve. So far it looks like a dandy...fun match as Konta gets the first break for 4-3. She has been finding some very acute angles, especially off her dominant backhand, but Woz has been playing first rate defensive tennis with deep lobs often getting her out of trouble....but a second break allows Johanna to take the set as she now seems to have Caroline's number.
2nd set: A pair of double faults from Woz lead directly to a break, Konta, 2-love....Caroline now in free fall, 4-love....Konta's most obvious weakness tonight is taking lobs in the air rather than letting them bounce, creating easier putaways. She must have miss-hit five or six so far....but she hangs on for a 5-love lead....in the last game, both women's timing seemed to be off thanks to the ball moving out of or into the shadows (can be tricky either way), but Johanna prevailed for the match. Could be a viable dark horse as she is very much in form so far this year. As for Caroline very much the same old same old. Pretty ground strokes the placement of which becomes quickly predictable and a weak first serve and an even weaker second serve that she has never really ever been able to do anything about.
2nd set: A pair of double faults from Woz lead directly to a break, Konta, 2-love....Caroline now in free fall, 4-love....Konta's most obvious weakness tonight is taking lobs in the air rather than letting them bounce, creating easier putaways. She must have miss-hit five or six so far....but she hangs on for a 5-love lead....in the last game, both women's timing seemed to be off thanks to the ball moving out of or into the shadows (can be tricky either way), but Johanna prevailed for the match. Could be a viable dark horse as she is very much in form so far this year. As for Caroline very much the same old same old. Pretty ground strokes the placement of which becomes quickly predictable and a weak first serve and an even weaker second serve that she has never really ever been able to do anything about.
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