Tennis !

[Toast]

I don't like Med. He's too thin and weedy looking.

And his Barnet looks light.

I’ll give him this one though.

 

[davek]

Oh god - Hope @davek isn't watching

I seen that.

Daft get.

Crying over a sporting event. Unreal.

It's unusual for Djokovic though. I'll forgive him.

 

[davek]

I don't like Med. He's too thin and weedy looking.

He seems like a decent sort.

Looks like he wouldn't have been that arsed if he lost as he wasn't OTT when he won. The right mentality over sports.

Said some nice stuff about Novak too.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Tennis is a Tory sport for Royalist sympathesirs and hangers-on. No wonder he started crying.

 

[RomanReigns]

6tt 6 I swear tennis players are just getting taller and taller

The 2030 us open will be won by Peter crouch at this rate

 

[Acrobat]

Wipe knee with towel, crack on. That's what would usually happen. It was smart use of a medical break by Raducanu.

Davek sorry mate you are way off here. SHE wanted to continue. It was the referee that ordered the injury time out. She explains it all in the press conference/interview. She herself said that she was in a zone, a pivotal moment in the match and didn’t want to break her own momentum/concentration. Wasn’t her call.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Zvarev softened Novak up for his fellow Russian. OK, Zvarev is German, but he’s more of a Russian really.

 

[Jeff Jones]

She didn't fake it, she utilised it.

She didn't need to. It had to be stopped.

 

[Jeff Jones]

The camera went to Medvedev's wife a few times and she wasn't smiling, ever. She looked as though she'd lost her handbag.

Still very pretty, though.

 

[davek]

Davek sorry mate you are way off here. SHE wanted to continue. It was the referee that ordered the injury time out. She explains it all in the press conference/interview. She herself said that she was in a zone, a pivotal moment in the match and didn’t want to break her own momentum/concentration. Wasn’t her call.

Nonsense. She stood there looking down and pointing at the trickle of blood for about 10 seconds. She could easily have stepped to her chair and wiped that off and carried on for the few more seconds required to see the game out. If the umpire "ordered" the stop it was in that context.

As said, it was a savvy bit of gamesmanship.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

Oh god - Hope @davek isn't watching

I'm beginning to think @davek might actually be Piers Morgan.

He gets my sincerest of apologies if he is, or if he isn't

 

[Old Blue 2]

@davek's attitude can best be summed up by a line from John Lennon's song, 'Working class hero':
'They hate you when you're clever and despise a fool'

Sums up davek's attitude to people and events 100%.

 

[donny]

Djokovic wont be stopped. Not over 5 sets.

????

 

[davek]

????

Stopped himself.

We move onto Sydney in January for him to become GOAT.

 

[Martin Alvito]

I seen that.

Daft get.

Crying over a sporting event. Unreal.

It's unusual for Djokovic though. I'll forgive him.

Makes sense. Enormous amount of pent up emotion. The guy's been carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders since Wimbledon. IIRC he was the first to even get a crack at it since Laver.

Laughing would be smarter, but it was obviously just too much. He did well just to get past Zverev, who is staring down the barrel of suspension and was a man on a mission as a result.

I don't know that he'll add three next year, but he will remain extraordinarily difficult to beat in his Melbourne office and should remain just as tough an out everywhere else. Nadal might step up in Paris, Federer could at Wimbledon, and Medvedev could become dangerous everywhere.