Talk About Tennis 2.0

Rod Laver Arena

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Doubles • Semifinals
A. Danilina/B. Haddad Maia vs S. Aoyama 2/E. Shibahara 2

Day session - Not before 10:30pm EST

Men's Doubles • Semifinals
T. Kokkinakis WC/N. Kyrgios WC vs M. Granollers 3/H. Zeballos 3

Day session - Not before 11:30pm EST

Quad Wheelchair Singles • Final
D. Alcott 1 vs S. Schroder 2

Night session - From 3:30am EST

Women's Singles • Semifinals
A. Barty 1 vs M. Keys

Women's Singles • Semifinals
D. Collins 27 vs I. Swiatek 7

Margaret Court Arena

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Legends' Doubles • Round 1
C. Black/P. Rafter vs M. Philippoussis/R. Stubbs

Day session - Not before 9:00pm EST

Women's Doubles • Semifinals
B. Krejcikova 1/K. Siniakova 1 vs V. Kudermetova 3/E. Mertens 3

Men's Doubles • Semifinals
M. Ebden/M. Purcell vs R. Ram 2/J. Salisbury 2

Court 3

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Junior Boys' Singles • Quarterfinals
B. Kuzuhara 1 vs E. Butvilas 7

Junior Girls' Singles • Quarterfinals
P. Marcinko 1 vs L. Radivojevic

Junior Boys' Doubles • Semifinals
G. Debru 3/K. Feldbausch 3 vs B. Kuzuhara 2/C. Wong 2

Junior Girls' Doubles • Semifinals
K. Cross/V. Mboko vs P. Marcinko 2/J. Svendsen 2

Court 5

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Junior Boys' Singles • Quarterfinals
A. Vallejo 3 vs R. Pacheco Mendez 9

Junior Girls' Singles • Quarterfinals
S. Costoulas 8 vs D. Shnaider 2

Junior Girls' Singles • Quarterfinals
L. Hovde 13 vs M. Laki 6

Junior Boys' Doubles • Semifinals
T. Nirundorn/J. Weekes vs A. Michelsen/A. Vallejo

Court 6

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Junior Boys' Singles • Quarterfinals
K. Feldbausch 11 vs O. Colak 13

Junior Girls' Singles • Quarterfinals
C. Kuhl vs C. Kempenaers-Pocz

Junior Boys' Singles • Quarterfinals
Y. Demin vs J. Mensik 4

Junior Girls' Doubles • Semifinals
C. Ngounoue 1/D. Shnaider 1 vs C. Kempenaers-Pocz WC/T. Preston WC

Court 8

Day session - From 7:00pm EST

Women's Wheelchair Singles • Final
D. De Groot 1 vs A. Van Koot

Men's Wheelchair Singles • Final
S. Kunieda 1 vs A. Hewett 2

The broadcast I'm getting for the Kokkinakis/Kyrgios doubles match has Robbie Koenig AND Brad Stine commentating. This is the worst possible scenario... I can maybe tolerate the obnoxiousness of Kyrgios and Kokkinakis - and possibly that of Koenig ... but definitely not all of the above together on one broadcast.
Koenig and Stine have no idea how to shut up.
Of the two, Stine is the worst.

Nick lost his sh*t when he lost serve in the 2nd and someone from the crowd was rowdy as he was preparing to serve. He yelled at that person to be quiet during the serve and jawed at the umpire too. Broke his racket after losing the game. He was already pissed because he thought the netcord sensor was making phantom calls. So this crowd that he riles up and feeds off of bites him in the ass. So poetic.

If he were a professional player, he would have kept it together and done his job of holding serve for a set and 5-2 lead.


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meganfernandez wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:28 am Nick lost his sh*t when he lost serve in the 2nd and someone from the crowd was rowdy as he was preparing to serve. He yelled at that person to be quiet during the serve and jawed at the umpire too. Broke his racket after losing the game. He was already pissed because he thought the netcord sensor was making phantom calls. So this crowd that he riles up and feeds off of bites him in the ass. So poetic.

If he were a professional player, he would have kept it together and done his job of holding serve for a set and 5-2 lead.


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And he would be holding one or two slams by now
Having said that. The racquet smashing was like the rest of his game. The economy of motion was superb, just a simple flick of the wrist, the destruction was assured. A minimalistic jewel of racquet demise.

ponchi101 wrote:

meganfernandez wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:28 am Nick lost his sh*t when he lost serve in the 2nd and someone from the crowd was rowdy as he was preparing to serve. He yelled at that person to be quiet during the serve and jawed at the umpire too. Broke his racket after losing the game. He was already pissed because he thought the netcord sensor was making phantom calls. So this crowd that he riles up and feeds off of bites him in the ass. So poetic.

If he were a professional player, he would have kept it together and done his job of holding serve for a set and 5-2 lead.


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And he would be holding one or two slams by now
Having said that. The racquet smashing was like the rest of his game. The economy of motion was superb, just a simple flick of the wrist, the destruction was assured. A minimalistic jewel of racquet demise.

Racquet smash as self portrait


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Krejcikova and Siniakova will be playing for their fifth doubles GS together against Danilina and Haddad Maia. I think they're heavy favorites to win that match.

Oooops, I posted in the wrong place.
4 Aussies in the men's doubles final, right? And two in the mixed final.

Kevin

Suliso wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:37 am Krejcikova and Siniakova will be playing for their fifth doubles GS together against Danilina and Haddad Maia. I think they're heavy favorites to win that match.

Well, the Japanese team of Aoyama & Shibahara were the 2nd seeds and heavy favourites against Danilina & Haddad Maia, as well. That's 2 consecutive tournaments where they beat the Japanese pair - they also beat them in the Semis at Sydney a couple of weeks ago, on their way to winning the tournament.

Danilina & Haddad Maia have an impressive streak going - and they apparently had never played together before Sydney! It's very rare that such chemistry is found immediately.
Although Krejcikova & Siniakova are a formidable pair, I wouldn't bet against Danilina & Haddad Maia at this point.

Nothing is for sure definitely, but in my opinion the Japanese pair were kind of a fake #2. Neither partner has reached a GS final before.

Suliso wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 7:13 am Nothing is for sure definitely, but in my opinion the Japanese pair were kind of a fake #2. Neither partner has reached a GS final before.

Well... they got to the Semis of the WTA Finals and Indian Wells. They're one of the top teams currently. I don't know how long they've been playing together.
They were seeded #2 here because Mertens and Hsieh broke up. Is there any other team who could have/would have been seeded #2, but aren't playing the Aussie Open?
If not, then the Japanese team deserve their seeding.

These wheelchair players are impressive.
We don't get much chance to watch them on TV... because they're not often on TV. But this one is, because it's Dylan Alcott's final match, and it's in Australia...

It's not looking good for Alcott at this point, though - he lost the 1st set, and is down 0-3 in the 2nd.
Sam Schroder is hitting some great shots - and ruining the party for the Aussies...

They probably do deserve the seeding. Just wanted to say that they are light years away in accomplishments from Krejcikova/Siniakova.

One could argue that Mertens/Kudermetova is a stronger team, but time will tell if that is actually the case.

Suliso wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 7:29 am They probably do deserve the seeding. Just wanted to say that they are light years away in accomplishments from Krejcikova/Siniakova.

One could argue that Mertens/Kudermetova is a stronger team, but time will tell if that is actually the case.

Mertens/Kudermetova are an unknown team, as they've just begun to play together. Whatever each may have done in doubles previously is largely irrelevant to their strength as a team, because doubles is so much about team chemistry.

I expect Barty will beat Keys something like 3 and 0, and Collins will beat Swiatek in a tight, close, not so great match..Collins is greatly improved, her serve and consistency..Swiatek didn't impress me in her win over Kanepi

So far Barty is having a far easier time than I expected...