Tennis Random, Random (On Court)

[ti-amie]

Eurosport posted the video. I hope you guys can see it.

https://www.eurosport.com/tennis/roland ... tory.shtml

[ti-amie]

No one has said he isn't her psychologist so I guess this isn't a joke of some kind?

[Deuce]

Regarding Musetti retiring...
While I don't like this kind of thing, and feel it should be strongly discouraged, I will also cut him some slack because he's a young kid and each experience like this is new to him.
Someone should talk with him about this, and tell him why it's wrong - but I don't feel any punishment is warranted at this point.

I'm more disturbed by Federer quitting - because he knows the ropes, and should have more respect for the sport, the fans, and his peers than that. Yes, Federer has given a lot to tennis - but tennis has given just as much - maybe more - to Federer.

[dmforever]

Someone should have asked him that if he had been up 4-0 in the 5th, would he have finished? I bet he would have said that he would have, which just means that he pulled the ultimate tank. If Kygrios gets rightfully fined for not putting in 100% effort, surely Musetti should as well.

Also, Becker said that he gave Berrettini the advantage in the quarters because Nole had a 5-set match and Berrettini had the day off. Does anyone else here give Matteo much of a chance? Or is Becker just saying that because of sour grapes? I actually never heard about how or why Nole fired Boris. In the press they both gave the prerequisite answers of respect and mutual admirations blah blah blah. If anyone has the inside scoop, I'm all ears.

Kevin

[ponchi101]

Musetti took two sets from Novak, with a less mature game than Mateo. Sure, I give him a 30% chance of beating Novak; it would not be earth shattering.
Then again, it is Novak at a slam. It takes dumb errand balls to get him out, or Rafa on clay.

[ti-amie]

Eurosport posted the video. I hope you guys can see it.

https://www.eurosport.com/tennis/roland ... tory.shtml

I hope some of you could watch the video of Musetti's post match presser because the narrative has changed...

[dmforever]

I've never seen a match where you couldn't see that the player who was cramping was cramping. It's impossible to cramp and not show that externally. I think he meant he was brain cramping.

Kevin

[JazzNU]

I hope some of you could watch the video of Musetti's post match presser because the narrative has changed...

To all of it.

[ponchi101]

"In comes the PR guys, sit down with the guilty part, and clearly tell him: you just F. Up. Let us help".

[dmforever]

During the Nole-Matteo match 2 days ago Jim Courier, who is one of the few commentators I actually like, said something that really surprised me. He said that he thought it was likely that both Nole and Rafa would win each major twice. Is that what most experts think? I would be shocked if Nole wins the French again and equally shocked if Rafa wins the AO. What do y'all think?

Kevin

[Suliso]

Possible, but I think rather unlikely, especially for Rafa. For Nole the best chance would be to win today.

[ponchi101]

I think Nole has a second RG sometime soon. Rafa is one year older.
Rafa winning at Melbourne I find harder to see. He has a great track record there, but it is one slam where the new crop may start shining soon. Medvedev specially.

[ti-amie]

[ponchi101]

Skipping WImbledon will be admitting he no longer has it outside of clay.

[Suliso]

Skipping WImbledon will be admitting he no longer has it outside of clay.

Or preparing for USO, his second best GS surprisingly.