Aussie Open

[booboo]

It was harmlessly lame, and rather unfunny, but to my mind Serbia and Setbians have made themselves look stoopid.

But the coverage is how "offensive" the "joke" was.

Jones should have just told them to get over it.

Enough of that distraction now.

[canefan]

Both viewpoints can be true. It was clumsy and lacked humour, the Serbs and Djokovic have overreacted

[canefan]

@Bovidae said in Aussie Open:

@1kiwi said in Aussie Open:

Kiwi Erin Routliffe and her Canadian doubles partner are through to the Women's Doubles quarter-finals after a 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 win

They need to stop losing the 1st set. That will come back to bite them sooner or later.

No such issues in the QF. Routliffe and Dabrowski win their QF in straight sets

[canefan]

Coco Gauff is on the verge of losing to Paula Badosa. She's playing terrible, with so many unforced errors, Coco has been far too tentative and hit tons of groundstrokes into the middle of the net. It's 5-2 in the second with Badosa serving for the match. Gauff is running out of time to save herself. Having said that Badosa has dropped her serve, Badosa will have one more service game to try and serve the match out

[canefan]

Badosa wins. Great match from her, her first GS semi I believe

[dogmeat]

Gauff probably unable to focus what with her TikTok withdrawl

[canefan]

Nice for Badosa after a bad run with injuries. She's easy on the eye too, a bit of an Amazon at 5'11".

[1kiwi]

Routliffe and Venus through to the mixed doubles semi finals after a win in the quarters

[canefan]

@1kiwi said in Aussie Open:

Routliffe and Venus through to the mixed doubles semi finals after a win in the quarters

Not sure if Venus is still in the doubles. But Routliffe is a double semi-finalist.

[canefan]

Sabylenka is playing her QF now, the crowd is pretty poor from the looks of it, lots of empty seats

[Bovidae]

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

Sabylenka is playing her QF now, the crowd is pretty poor from the looks of it, lots of empty seats

I'd have to take earmuffs to watch her play. I can't stand the grunters in the modern era.

[canefan]

@Bovidae said in Aussie Open:

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

Sabylenka is playing her QF now, the crowd is pretty poor from the looks of it, lots of empty seats

I'd have to take earmuffs to watch her play. I can't stand the grunters in the modern era.

She's not as bad as Azarenka in her prime

[Bovidae]

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

@Bovidae said in Aussie Open:

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

Sabylenka is playing her QF now, the crowd is pretty poor from the looks of it, lots of empty seats

I'd have to take earmuffs to watch her play. I can't stand the grunters in the modern era.

She's not as bad as Azarenka in her prime

From the same country. It's mainly an Eastern European thing.

[canefan]

Aryna Sabalenka went 22 sets at the AO without losing one, finally had the streak broken but she escaped just, winning in 3

[canefan]

Novak turns back the clock in an epic 4 set come from behind win vs Alcaraz. I'm still sceptical he can win it all but this was a big statement game and he's more of a chance than I gave him credit for

[ACT Crusader]

And kiwi Erin Routliffe is into the women’s doubles semi. She and Dabrowski should be favourites to win their semi against Hsieh/Ostapenko

Unfortunately Routliffe and Venus lost their mixed doubles semi against the Aussies.

[canefan]

Great women's SF between Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek, Keys coming from behind to win a third set super tie breaker. She's gonna have to raise her level to beat Sabalenka who despatched her mate Paula Badosa in the other SF

[bayimports]

Novak pulls out injured and crowd boos.. that's pretty low from Melbourne

[canefan]

@bayimports said in Aussie Open:

Novak pulls out injured and crowd boos.. that's pretty low from Melbourne

So much for the happy slam. The crowds have been quite boorish at times, disrespectful of the players, and some of the media have been acting like dickheads with some of the players starting to call them out about it. Despite that the tennis has been very good.

Zverev told the crowd off for booing Djoker

[KiwiMurph]

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

Zverev told the crowd off for booing Djoker

I'm surprised Zverev didn't try to assault the women in the crowd