Pre-AO events 2013 Discussion Thread

Duncan Bell

Duncan Bell

Hall of Fame
GSM Tomic.

£10 on that would've got you over £100.

Tomic had an astonishing 12 break points to Nole's 1.

I guess we can safely say this won't be Novak's year...:)
 
zagor

zagor

Bionic Poster
Meh match from Novak but inspired performance from Tomic, this guy still may have the most potential out of all young guns if he gets his head out of his *** and commits to the game.

Duncan Bell said:
GSM Tomic.

£10 on that would've got you over £100.

Tomic had an astonishing 12 break points to Nole's 1.

I guess we can safely say this won't be Novak's year...:)
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Yes, you can safely say that, if you're a troll.
 
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Oz_Rocket

Professional
I know the haters are going to hate but my take on the match was that while Novak was definitely not on his game Tomic played some very positive tennis, clearly showed a marked improvement in his serve and aggressive passing shots both sides and didn't look like mentally going off.

As to whether this will carry over to the AO or overseas who can say, but from what I've seen there isn't much more he could be doing right now to demonstrate he has turned his game, and more importantly his head, around for the better.
 
D

dominikk1985

Legend
Is the speed gun in Doha rigged?

I just saw the replay of lopez-kubot and lopez served at 221 kph (137 mph). can he serve that hard or is the decive pimped?
 
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iriraz

Hall of Fame
Homeboy Hotel said:
Predict the last 8 in Australia:
Murray
Djokovic
Federer
Berdych
Tsonga
Tomic
Hewitt
Raonic/Nishikori
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It`s really optimistic to pick 2 guys like Hewitt and Tomic,who won`t be seeded to go this far in the tournament.Unless they have a really good draw i won`t see it.
Usually Hewitt has a bad draw and i won`t be surprised if he draws Djokovic or Federer in the first round.
 
Warmaster

Warmaster

Hall of Fame
Homeboy Hotel said:
Predict the last 8 in Australia:
Murray
Djokovic
Federer
Berdych
Tsonga
Tomic
Hewitt
Raonic/Nishikori
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I'll wait for the draw to come out first, for all we know it's not even possible that these 8 make the QF.

Having said that, I expect Nishikori, Baghdatis and Goffin to make a run, given a favourable draw. Tomic and Dolgopolov could do it as well.
 
underground

underground

G.O.A.T.
Wow the streams were playing some of Djokovic-Tomic highlights, and I must say Tomic was impressive, he's player pretty well in front of the home crowd.
 
tacou

tacou

G.O.A.T.
Doha commentators going off about shot clock again.

TTC and ESPN should do their own on-screen shot clock. That's basically how shot spot got started, right?
 
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bluetrain4

G.O.A.T.
I can't believe tennis is back already. Note sure if I'm alone, but I never miss tennis during the offseason. The season ends relatively shortly before the holidays and with all the end-of-the-year things going on, I just don't have time to miss it. Seems like the YEC and Davis Cup were a week ago, and now we're two weeks from the start of a Slam. :shock:
 
underground

underground

G.O.A.T.
Anyone watched the mixed doubles between Serbia and Australia? Amazing match. The point where Tomic/Barty had to save match point when down 5-6 in the TB was insane. :shock: Djokovic/Ivanovic won in the end 10-6 in the super tiebreak though.
 
tacou

tacou

G.O.A.T.
Wow Monfils just flipped out on the ump for being called for his second time violation. Monfils says he needs more time to reocver. Took more than 2 minutes arguing--should've gotten another point taken!

Only 27 seconds on the next point.
 
underground

underground

G.O.A.T.
So what's the rule again, over 25 seconds then a second serve? What happens if it happens more than once, twice?

I wonder how many points it'll take Nadal before he gets a violation.:twisted:
 
M

merwy

G.O.A.T.
Duncan Bell said:
Every subsequent violation is a point penalty.



Hypothetical question is hypothetical.
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The first violation is a warning. All the violations after that count as a service fault (so they have to play the 2nd serve). If the returner takes too long, then it's a point penalty, but I can't imagine that happening too often.
 
bezs

bezs

G.O.A.T.
Ferrer vs Kamke match just heard a great quote from the commentator about Da veed. "Lions would queue up for his heart"
 
Duncan Bell

Duncan Bell

Hall of Fame
Murray making light work of Millman...

Really hoping for a Murray - Dimitrov final, and interested to see how The Dog vs Nishikori pans out.
 
Duncan Bell

Duncan Bell

Hall of Fame
Millman serving for the set, Murray breaks back, but Millman breaks again and no. 199 takes it at the second time of asking.
 
R

Rob31

Guest
I really don't know why people saying Gasquet is a flashy player...
His backhand is a flashy shot indeed but that's all.
 
Desertman

Desertman

Hall of Fame
TheF1Bob said:
LOL Muzza lost a set against a nobody. :lol: Is this nobody favorite for AO now?
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What's your point? That he lost a set? So what. He won the match. That he's not ready for the AO? No connection between the two.

Djokovic lost a match. Does that make him a rank outsider now?

Mate, if you canot post anything worthy of an IQ greater than 20 then don't post at all.
 
Duncan Bell

Duncan Bell

Hall of Fame
Desertman said:
Djokovic lost a match. Does that make him a rank outsider now?
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Don't forget though, it was decided that was 60% Djokovic and with his pockets full of chocolates.

He'll be back to 'Nole 2.0' and have finished his chocolate charity by the 14th.
 
TheF1Bob

TheF1Bob

Banned
Desertman said:
What's your point? That he lost a set? So what. He won the match. That he's not ready for the AO? No connection between the two.

Djokovic lost a match. Does that make him a rank outsider now?

Mate, if you canot post anything worthy of an IQ greater than 20 then don't post at all.
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I was taking a shot at the peeps who take these exo's so damn serious when they're just a pointless warm up for the AO. ;-)
 
Desertman

Desertman

Hall of Fame
TheF1Bob said:
I was taking a shot at the peeps who take these exo's so damn serious when they're just a pointless warm up for the AO. ;-)
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For the top 3 right now, every tournament is a pointless warm-up to a GS. They don't want to win anything else.
 
underground

underground

G.O.A.T.
Davy played some good tennis, he loves Doha doesn't he? Seems like a return of form (for a bit) to me, ever since Rotterdam last year he disappeared to nowhere, good to see him back and let's see how he'll fare against Ferrer.
 
Homeboy Hotel

Homeboy Hotel

Hall of Fame
Murray heckled today vs local Aussie?

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norbac

norbac

Legend
Nice to have Tennis Channel showing all of the matches from Doha. Hoping for a Gasquet/Davy final.

Also nice to see Brands doing well again, I remember him playing Berdych tough in SW19 some years back. I think he played Hanescu the round before that and that's where the spitting accident occured.
 
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