Talk About Tennis 2.0

The best match at Wimbledon, on the men's side, was Carlos/Fabio in the first round. A fine 5 setter.

My call for substitution in case of injury to a finalist...prophetic, eh,?

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 18, 2025 3:55 pm The best match at Wimbledon, on the men's side, was Carlos/Fabio in the first round. A fine 5 setter.

Exception proves the rule! what about the other 63 matches?!

ashkor87 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 1:33 am My call for substitution in case of injury to a finalist...prophetic, eh,?

Yes. But, how do you implement it? We are not saying that this is not a bummer. What would you have done yesterday? Call Atmane and tell him to play, starting at 0-5?
Sometimes you kick. Sometimes you get kicked.

That is for the tour to figure out...but this situation would not have arisen if Sinner had pulled out before the match began. If there had been a plan B of the kind i described, he might have stood down, to give the fans a match. Might not, of course ..if it were me running through tour, i would make the plan B known in advance and asked the losing semifinalists to stay ready, for a fee. Thfetour finals does pay the alternate for doing nothing, so not unprecedented.

Remember the year that Rafa beat Fritz in the Wimby quarters, and then had to W/O the semi? Even Fritz said that he would have not deserved to play the semi; he had lost.
A tough situation. And yesterday was pretty much an exception. The last MS1000 final that was not completed was (coincidence) the 2011 Cincy final, when Novak retired against Andy, trailing 6-4, 3-0. 14 years of nothing like this happening. You need a more frequent occurrence before you decide to start changing the rules.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 9:53 pm

Lucky shots...