Tennis
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@victor-meldrew said in Tennis:
It was a refreshing change to see these two girls play with passion and really enjoy the match. Both spoke very well
Yep. Not a huge tennis fan, but it was a joy to watch them. Both reminded me of the likes of Nadal, Federer etc. Doing their talking on the court and acting with grace and good friends off it.
It was a quality match. Both girls brought it big time
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@mikethesnow said in Tennis:
Who’s going to be the Director of this movie?
What a story
Qualifier to Champion
Call it The Fairytale of New York. 3 months ago she was an A Level student. Never won a WTA tounament before. Only her second major tournament. Never played a top ten player before. Had to go through qualifying. Said her goal at the start of qualifying was to win enough money to replace her lost Air Pods. 4,000-1 outsider. Won the US Open without dropping a set. Last person to do that was Serena Williams in 2014. Unbelievable.
Much better story than that Wimbledon film they made about Peter Holt.
At apple prices those AirPods remain but a dream I’d say.
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Amazingly Raducanu could win the US Open next year and yet lose ranking points. This year she got 50 points for getting through US Open Qualifying, then 2000 points for winning the US Open. Next year there will only be the 2000 points for winning the tournament available to her.
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Watching the mens final and the domestic racquet violence it would be nice to see the roles reversed and a racquet leap up and pound Novak Djokovic into the dirt. He's the one making those tired, lazy mistakes, leave the graphene Head out of it..
Or maybe I'm just jealous I can't break half a k on a whim..
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The Joker is looking outclassed and frustrated at the moment. Medvedev is playing really well.
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Djoker looking totally out of sorts. Not playing well and not getting angry either. I wonder if he's injured? Certainly don't want to take away from Medvedev who is playing great
Pressure of history, I think.
In 2016, after he won the French, he'd won five of the previous six slam tournaments and was looking invincible - and then somehow managed to lose to Sam Querry at Wimbledon.
A couple of months ago, the Golden Slam was there for the taking, but he got toppled by Zverev (a bit of a head case) in Tokyo and now gets thumped by Medvedev.
If this headline "As Novak Djokovic Faces History, He Tries to Block It Out" is correct, that's kind of the opposite to what the All Blacks discovered worked for them in 2011, when they decided they needed to embrace the pressure of the World Cup.
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Amazing how Medvedev never blinked to match point then he baulked twice and reset because he saw Joker facing him. The mental pressure is so interesting to watch as his service composure crumbled. Well done Medvedev.
Yeah - I love watching that stuff.
You've worked all your life to get to the point where you need one more point to validate it all - and somehow you've got to try to trick yourself that it's just another point.
Lots of people can't do it. Simon Hughes wrote a book called "A lot of hard yakka" quite a few years ago, about his county cricket career. He was a fast medium bowler - but as his career went on he went from being a blithe kid on the fringes of England selection - to mentally scarred and eventually with a dose of the yips - so bad that when he was running into bowl he was pretty much praying that he'd be able to hit the pitch, let alone bowl something decent.
Whisper it quietly but BB's goal-kicking is looking a bit yippish to me right now.
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Laver, true gent.
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@chris-b there was a golfer, pretty sure Australian, who did the same thing. Was flying, got the yips, and barely ever played again. And i think they started when he was chipping in his hallway and dinked a couple, and just grew from there.
The mental side of all elite sport, but most especially these individual sports is just incredible.
