'22 AO Day 14. OoP and Discussion
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'22 AO Day 14. OoP and Discussion
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Women's Doubles • Final
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Twilight session - Not before 1:30am MST
Men's Singles • Final
r. nadal 6
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Men's Singles • Final
r. nadal 6
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Medvedev in 3. I feel he will win a tight first set, then Rafa will start missing by putting too much on his shots and overthinking things. Maybe 7-5 6-3 6-2. Nadals level hasn’t been 100% and it’s his will to win that has gotten him this far, but he can’t expect any let offs from Medvedev like he got against Shapo
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Only chance I see for Rafa is for the crowd to really get behind him and help him with energy. It might affect Medvedev but, he has shown in the past that he can feed from that too.
Still, the Aussies would like for #21 to be set at home. And Rafa has had bad luck at the Aussie in the past (the Wawrinka/back injury final) so maybe there might be some poetic justice in the end.
Although I doubt it.
Still, the Aussies would like for #21 to be set at home. And Rafa has had bad luck at the Aussie in the past (the Wawrinka/back injury final) so maybe there might be some poetic justice in the end.
Although I doubt it.
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I already made my prediction and will stick to it. There is a reason that nobody since 1967 won his second slam immediately after the first. It is just too hard. Something will get in a way: injury, unexpectedly high quality of Nadal's game, audience, etc.
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Of all the things that might happen, I would put Nadal overthinking things - or showing mental weakness in any other area - at the very, very bottom of the list.Liamvalid wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 7:10 pm Medvedev in 3. I feel he will win a tight first set, then Rafa will start missing by putting too much on his shots and overthinking things. Maybe 7-5 6-3 6-2. Nadals level hasn’t been 100% and it’s his will to win that has gotten him this far, but he can’t expect any let offs from Medvedev like he got against Shapo
Very likely not even on the list of things that might happen...
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Hard to go against stats like that, but... these are different times. No one had ever won a slam coming from the qualies. And last year, Emma happened.
Needless to say, I hope you will be 100% right.
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I would make it 55 to 45 Medvedev..he should win but Nadal is Nadal ..
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There is a lot of superstition around stats..there was a stat that nobody had EVER won Queens and then Wimbledon..that jinx stood for almost a hundred years..till McEnroe and then Becker showed it was just a superstition..
So I tend to disregard all these jinxes (what IS the plural of jinx?!)
So I tend to disregard all these jinxes (what IS the plural of jinx?!)
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Jinxes. The spell checker did not get youashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:54 am There is a lot of superstition around stats..there was a stat that nobody had EVER won Queens and then Wimbledon..that jinx stood for almost a hundred years..till McEnroe and then Becker showed it was just a superstition..
So I tend to disregard all these jinxes (what IS the plural of jinx?!)
Unless there is a physical reason why something cannot happen, it is just weird coincidences.
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How about Nadal exploiting Medvedev's position like Tstitsipas did so well for a while? I don't know why more people don't serve and volley against him with a really wide serve, or look to come in on the next ball. Tsitsipas made it look easy at times. He's a good volleyer, so that helps, but so is Nadal.ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 7:30 pm Only chance I see for Rafa is for the crowd to really get behind him and help him with energy. It might affect Medvedev but, he has shown in the past that he can feed from that too.
Still, the Aussies would like for #21 to be set at home. And Rafa has had bad luck at the Aussie in the past (the Wawrinka/back injury final) so maybe there might be some poetic justice in the end.
Although I doubt it.
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I know that us oldies like to romanticize our faves from the past, but I remember one match between Muster and Sampras at the Aussie. Muster, at the time, was one of the players that would stand way back when receiving serve. Sampras served slice after slice to Muster's backhand (on the deuce side) and volleyed the few returns Muster could get back into a completely open court.meganfernandez wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:32 am ...
How about Nadal exploiting Medvedev's position like Tstitsipas did so well for a while? I don't know why more people don't serve and volley against him with a really wide serve, or look to come in on the next ball. Tsitsipas made it look easy at times. He's a good volleyer, so that helps, but so is Nadal.
Of course, that was Sampras. But if Nadal does not serve at least 50% of all his serves in the ad-court out wide, I gather I know nothing about this sport.
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I am looking forward to the women's doubles..can relate to them much better than to the men, we club players can play like them..the men play a game 'with which I am not familiar' as Palmer said of Nicklaus, (I think)
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Correction..Bobby Jones said this, it seems..I know nothing of golf anyway but I like the subtle understatement
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Heat is getting to the Czechs again...they are visibly wilting..they should train in Florida I guess, if they want to win the AO
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