2016 Aussie Open

[bksballer89]

Tomic tries Federer smackdown

 

[Old Lion]

Maria beats a chubby Bencic. I wish BB would get fitter as she has everything else in her game.

 

[bksballer89]

Another easy win for Serena. Last match took about 44 minutes. Tonight she needed roughly 55 minutes.

Sharapova is next

 

[bksballer89]

Novak vs Simon next on court.

 

[bksballer89]

Knew that would happen to Simon. Such a long game with 3 chances to break Novak. His failure to break made it almost a lock that Novak would break him on his next service game

 

[cezero]

simon does nothing remotely as well as novak

a lesser version of novak in every way

glorified practice session

of course, that's true for nole against just about everybody

 

[cezero]

hewitt about to lose his doubles match

hope he's not playing mixed, and that would make this his official last match as a pro

 

[bksballer89]

Novak will likely win in straight sets but Simon is not making this easy for him.

 

[cezero]

Novak will likely win in straight sets but Simon is not making this easy for him.

he's a human backboard

so is nole, except nole can go from defense to offense faster than any player in tennis history

 

[bksballer89]

Have no idea how Simon held serve that game. Novak must be kicking himself. Should be serving for the 2nd set now but instead he serving to stay in the 2nd set.

 

[bksballer89]

Simon up 5-1 in the 2nd set tiebreak

 

[bksballer89]

Looking like I'm staying up a little later than I thought I would. Simon takes the 2nd set.

 

[cezero]

simon doing his thing with lulling opponents to sleep

congrats to him for taking a set

 

[bksballer89]

Unlike Jack Sock, Bautista-Agut able to keep up his form from the warm up tournament.

 

[bksballer89]

wow what a shitty game from novak.

back on serve

 

[cezero]

Tomic tries Federer smackdown

love it because what they both said is correct

nole has squashed federer in the 4th set of the last 2 major finals they've played.

and tomic has a lot of work if he ever wants to be top 10. that's a great goal for him considering his movement issues and stiff-armed groundstrokes. he also has a surprisingly weak serve for such a big guy.

 

[cezero]

wow

simon is taking nole to a 5th set

this is crazy. i know he's done this to Fed several times over the years, but i wasn't expecting it against nole.

 

[Old Lion]

wow

simon is taking nole to a 5th set

this is crazy. i know he's done this to Fed several times over the years, but i wasn't expecting it against nole.

Djoker has looked very beatable. He needs to give that drop shot a rest, its off.

Fed has been surgical so far. Dispatched Goffin easily.

 

[bksballer89]

Man I tried my best to stay up but just couldn't. I'm not able to stay up late hours anymore as I was in my early 20's. Sucks man.

I made it to the middle of the 4th set

 

[nuraman00]

I remember he beat Roddick here during the prime of Roddick's career in the 3rd round or R16. He also always beats Isner at the US Open when he faces him. I'll be shocked if that's not a 4 or 5 set match

What's funny about him beating Isner at the USO is that it went from a 5 set match in 2012 to 4 sets in 2013 and 2014.

When I started typing my post, I thought it was 3 sets in 2014. But then I went back and checked, and it was 4 sets in 2014.

So the numerology of 5 to 4 to 3 isn't there.