Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open, Men's Main Draw - Melbourne, Australia - Outdoor, Hard (Singles)

flamingowings · All-time great

RE: Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open, Men's Main Draw - Melbourne, Australia - Outdoor, Hard (Singles)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I do like this

twitter.com/australianopen/status/1483361639550394371

Tweeter underarm serve. Cheeky but brilliant

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

At least Cam isn't the top seed to be knocked out any longer......

Mannarino took care of Hubert Hurkacz, seeded 10, very easily today.

(And Korda, who beat Cam, just managed to squeeze past Moutet, in a fifth set MTB)

Alcaraz v Berretini in R3 could be a corker

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Several 4 to 5 hour matches today. Seeds largely intact though , not missing Djoko at all at this stage .

Rafa looking good so far as well

christ · Futures level

Coup Droit wrote:
Not a stat that Andy will be particularly pleased with but hey....

Jeu, Set et Maths
@JeuSetMaths
· 7h
Plus grands nombres de matchs gagnés dans un Grand Chelem sans jamais le remporter :
Andy Murray - 49 (OA)
Ivan Lendl - 48 (Wim)
Tomas Berdych - 47 (OA)
David Ferrer - 44 (RG)
Tim Henman - 43 (Wim)
Michael Chang - 43 (US)

(greatest number of matches won in a Grand Slam by someone who's never won the event)

If only Mr Djokovic had not got vaccinated earlier, Mr Murray could have won several times.

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Several 4 to 5 hour matches today. Seeds largely intact though , not missing Djoko at all at this stage .

Rafa looking good so far as well

Still a Serbian at first place in the draw.

Though seriously, missing the cleat WR 1 and 9 time AO Open champion IS a very big miss in tennis terms. His fault though

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Evans through after Rinderknech withdrew.

-- Edited by Madadman on Thursday 20th of January 2022 12:20:38 AM

flamingowings · All-time great

Andy is being out-Andy'd by Daniel.

6th deuce on Andy's serve at 1-1

flamingowings · All-time great

Daniel with the break 1-2*

flamingowings · All-time great

Quickly consolidated to 15 (& it was a DF) *1-3

flamingowings · All-time great

Keeps it to the one break of serve, nicely efficient service game and it's 2-3* to Daniel next to serve

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Madadman wrote:
Evans through after Rinderknech withdrew.

-- Edited by Madadman on Thursday 20th of January 2022 12:20:38 AM

His next opponents , FAA or ADF , split 3 tie break sets as FAA leads 2-1 after 3 plus hours. Hopefully they will go 5 hours and help Dan!

flamingowings · All-time great

Andy has a BP at 40-30, a lovely exchange but then comes into the net and the Daniel shot passes him by. Earns another BP as Daniel finds the net and breaks as Daniel goes well wide.

*3-3

flamingowings · All-time great

Poor shot making means Andy faces 2 BP...15-40. lost it on a DF

3-4*

flamingowings · All-time great

Andy 4-5* Daniel serving for the set.