Board 8 > Australian Open 2018 [tennis][#RF20]

(+) Yeah! (+)

I thought this started next week

Murray is out, Djokovic and Nadal are feeble and injured. Get ready for number 20.
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every single seeded US player that played yesterday lost

Querrey and Keys are the only two left. good job US tennis.
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Where's Roger
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BK_Sheikah00 posted...

Where's Roger

getting ready to win the tournament without dropping a set
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Hype for the GOAT
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I wouldn't call 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 feeble

I welcome another final between the two
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Raonic looked like he packed on the pounds in his time off, and it showed with a round 1 loss.

I believe in Shapovalov.
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Wozniacki was getting killed in the 3rd set, then her random nobody opponent totally gagged under the pressure

Meanwhile the US is just getting butchered "oh"
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Fett was up 40-15 and 5-1 in the third before the comeback. Insane.

Tsonga might be coming back as well.
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Shapo choked :(
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So like everyone who wasn't playing a US player choked

"lol"
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I dont understand how Wozniacki somehow got back to #2 in the world. And shes actually pretty close to #1.
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Nadal's gonna win this one fairly easily I reckon, so long as his injury doesn't get worse.

muguruza out

lol
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Djokovic looking like ass. Not that I trust Monfils to capitalize on this opportunity.
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Whoo, Simona Halep wins a marathon match. Because I didn't realize it was on so I wasn't watching. If I was watching, she would've lost.
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dont worry she still has 4 more matches left in which she can lose spectacularly
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I want Wozniacki to win so badly. It's not even funny.
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That Nadal/Schwartzman match was pretty great.
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rip novak
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although we did somehow manage to get an American in the quarterfinals
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Really surprised the random scrub won after losing the 4th set to Thiem

Also as awful as most of the US has been, Keys is murdering her opponents so far

Wonder how high her rank could go in this one event
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If she wins, she'll be 9th.
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In Kyle Edmund we trust!
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rip Nadal

no one can stop the Fed train now
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Go Edmund/Federer final

Win/Win situation
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The Mana Sword posted...

BK_Sheikah00 posted...

Where's Roger

getting ready to win the tournament without dropping a set

still possible given the quality of opponents he has left to face!
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Where you at now @Bane_Of_Despair >:D
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Save us Tennys Sandgren

You're our only hope

(Keys got destroyed)
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keys is not actually that good so

Im glad kerber seems to be back in form again though
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The Mana Sword posted...

keys is not actually that good so

Im glad kerber seems to be back in form again though

Keys went from giving up the fewest games of anyone in the tournament to getting massacred 6-1 6-2

That was quite the dropoff!
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much like all US players, once they run into someone who can return their serves, they crumble
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Speaking of crumbling, after 3 consecutive errors to lose the second set tiebreaker, Sandgren is falling apart in the 3rd and is going to lose in straights

The US is destroyed
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yo go my Chung
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One match point saved!

Two saved

Hype?

Three saved!

Of course he's still at match point now

lol four saved if this Chung guy blows this from serving 40-0 for the match

Unforced error lost him the break to get it back on serve, then a 5th match point also failed

I just want to see how many match points this guy stops at this point

And a terrible return sets up a 6th match point, which.... he also has a terrible return in, and it's over

"Oh"
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Fed still looking good. Two more to go.
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go go go go go federer
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A bunch of random upsets happen

And Federer wins

So basically it all ends as normal
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Yeaaah! Go my Caroline! <3
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Oh my God, this amazing Halep wins need to stop happening when I'm sleeping. Now watch, I'll make it a point to watch the final, and she'll lose yet again.
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An actual good final on the womens side. Im shocked! Both of these two probably should have a major years ago so Im glad one of them will finally get it.
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Fucking 3:30 a.m. women's final. I'm gonna have to set an alarm and completely screw up my sleep for the weekend. Fuck you, Australia.
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Federer so good hes going to win the tournament in 20 sets instead of 21.
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DpObliVion posted...

Fucking 3:30 a.m. women's final. I'm gonna have to set an alarm and completely screw up my sleep for the weekend. Fuck you, Australia.

Couldn't you just catch a replay at like 9
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The Australian Open finals weekend being terrible for my sleep is a proud tradition!

I have a hard time watching sports anything but live. It just loses something when I know that I can look up the results. I guess it's no different than watching a movie but my brain handles it differently for some reason.

Also: I only caught the final set of Kerber vs. Halep but it was pretty damn great. Definitely a finals-tier match IMO. That's the kind of match Halep needs to win to be a grand slam champ (a nail-biter after both blowing two match points and being down two match points, against an opponent playing quality tennis), and I'm pleasantly surprised she pulled it off.

I certainly think she's better than Wozniacki on paper but quite ready to be proven wrong if that's the way it goes. And if Halep does lose, it'll be to one of the few players who's as due for a GS title as she is.
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Why Caroline lets people back into a match is beyond me. Halep is basically clutching her leg now.
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This has been a hell of a match. Uncharacteristic from Halep with all the errors, but she's been so tenacious.
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No one wants to hold serve.
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Woz never winning. Unreal she's let a wheezing Halep back in.
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gg my love.
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