2018 Tokyo - ATP 500
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NuBas
Legend
Don't know what's up with her, even handshake was bad, maybe bad blood between her and Makarova? Eh she was one of the ones I liked but slowly fading.
Meles
Bionic Poster
Stop watching for 5 minutes and miss another Shapo train wreck?
Meles
Bionic Poster
I don't have WTA, but just replayede Shapo's demise and was serving at 3-4, 40-30 and yada yada and a couple DFs and Chung serving for set at 5-3. Shapo got it to 30 all, but Chung continues to goat this set.
NuBas
Legend
I don't have WTA, but just replayede Shapo's demise and was serving at 3-4, 40-30 and yada yada and a couple DFs and Chung serving for set at 5-3. Shapo got it to 30 all, but Chung continues to goat this set.
I'm just watching a stream but its 12 hour difference where I am so kinda late, which explains @prairiegirl 's absence since she might be from Canada.
Meles
Bionic Poster
Meles
Bionic Poster
Could be watching Boric in Beijing early in the 3rd, but this Wata looks good. Watanuki aggressive and lightning fast. Looks like a scrawny Simon, but small chance at age 20 he might get a touch taller. Just a little taller and he would be the complete package with his speed. Only ranked 250 or so and not a lot of advancement over the last few years so outlook not fantastic, but looks like he could have a career.
prairiegirl
Hall of Fame
I was in bed sleeping! ha ha Nice to see he can still win a match. Shapo v. Wawrinka - hmmmm?Where is @prairiegirl as Shapo serves out the set?
The Green Mile
Bionic Poster
Lol, I can't believe Kontinen and Peers lost to Simon in doubles.
prairiegirl
Hall of Fame
Takeaways from the Shapo-Chung match:
The Good - Denis showed good form except for a poor game in the 2nd set. He did face a few break points [as usual], but his serve stood up very nicely. ROS is really improving. The focus was much better. I love the towel over his head as that says to me he's really trying to stay in the zone. Good energy for the most part, except for a bit of a dip in the 2nd set. He did call out to his box or to himself a couple of times, but nothing that stood as anything unusual.
The Bad - Still hitting too many double faults & unforced errors. Although the latter was balanced by his winners. I think that needs to come down. I also feel he still goes for too much, but I do see an improvement in playing percentage points.
The Future - I don't know if this coach is for him or not. That's for Denis to decide, and I think we'll see with future results how that will work out. In the Wawrinka match, he really needs to have a strong focus, play percentage points, and keep the double faults down as much as he can.
The Good - Denis showed good form except for a poor game in the 2nd set. He did face a few break points [as usual], but his serve stood up very nicely. ROS is really improving. The focus was much better. I love the towel over his head as that says to me he's really trying to stay in the zone. Good energy for the most part, except for a bit of a dip in the 2nd set. He did call out to his box or to himself a couple of times, but nothing that stood as anything unusual.
The Bad - Still hitting too many double faults & unforced errors. Although the latter was balanced by his winners. I think that needs to come down. I also feel he still goes for too much, but I do see an improvement in playing percentage points.
The Future - I don't know if this coach is for him or not. That's for Denis to decide, and I think we'll see with future results how that will work out. In the Wawrinka match, he really needs to have a strong focus, play percentage points, and keep the double faults down as much as he can.
NuBas
Legend
You must be his number 1 fan. Funny your profile says you are 30 but have been watching tennis for 50 years...
SeeingDusk
Hall of Fame
would love to see big rao win it.
prairiegirl
Hall of Fame
It does? Just a typo on my part. And I'm not even close. Apparently, there are some young gals who follow him wherever he goes. Oh, to be young!You must be his number 1 fan. Funny your profile says you are 30 but have been watching tennis for 50 years...
Manute Bol
New User
Is the tournament being played at a different venue? It looks like both courts are side by side and indoors. This used to be an outdoors tournament.
Meles
Bionic Poster
Wawrinka really right now playing about as well as he ever does outside of slams so a huge match to be sure and his serve was very, very good against Fritz. First ever Wawopalov encounter. Really the first time they could have played where both are playing well enough.
prairiegirl
Hall of Fame
Would dearly love to see Denis upset Stan, but on the other hand, I'm so glad to see Stan doing well again. He's a wonderful player. Let's hope it's a great match for both, and may the best man win.Wawrinka really right now playing about as well as he ever does outside of slams so a huge match to be sure and his serve was very, very good against Fritz. First ever Wawopalov encounter. Really the first time they could have played where both are playing well enough.
prairiegirl
Hall of Fame
Luke Jensen of TennisTV calls it a "backhand and a half", LOL.
Meles
Bionic Poster
This great even is wide open. Tsitsi's serve was clicking today so he's my man to win Tokyo.
Meles
Bionic Poster
They are redoing outdoor venue for 2020 Olympics; allegedly only just this one year in the temporary indoor setup.
Meles
Bionic Poster
Gotta say this even is unfolding beautifully! Bunch of great matches so far:
1. Struff Enuf broke back in 2nd and 3rd sets with Cilic serving for match and then annihilated him in TB with aggression including net play.
2. Chardy in fine form found his best to come through against Dzumhur
3. Stanimal appears back on the prowl with stellar 97% first serve points won against Fritz
4. Shapo righting the ship on serve and beat a Chung who was playing well enough to look like he had the match in hand entering the 3rd set.
5. Medvedev v Schwartzman was simply scintillating tennis - old Meddy is on fire and can't miss from the ground.
6. Klizan cruising and through on heals of St. Petersburg final (took out Johnson, Winston-Salem finalist)
7. Watanuki was a thrilling surprise winner over Haase and just playing red hot with more power and better movement than Nishikori
8. Tsitsipas out of the blocks nicely with some great serving
9. Paire (former finalist) came up with goods over a very game Jarry
10. Gasquet got through against an in form, if chokey Kudla.
11. Tiafoe built some nice form with win over Marterer
The draw is shaping up tremendously with nearly every player in excellent form. (The two favorites at ultimate tennis statistics are Raonic and Nishikori who enter this event in shaky form with Raonic getting quite a few MTOs in his opening match.) We still have three first round matches kicking things off today followed by 4 great 2nd round matches:
{Sorry these times are EST which is five hours after UK time and the estimates are bollox as in way too early}
Round of 32·Arena 1
11:00 PM (great first round match with Shenzhen champion, the dimunitive Nishioka)
N. Kyrgios
Y. Nishioka
Round of 32·Arena 2
11:00 PM (crazy this is on at the same time with Kyrgios match, but a packed schedule today. @The Green Mile wants Simon to teach NextGen a lesson)
G. Simon
A. De Minaur
Round of 32·Arena 1
12:20 AM · Estimated
M. Ebden
2 K. Anderson
Round of 16·Arena 2
1:40 AM · Estimated (both players at the top of their game and those who've not seen Medvedev lately have not seen THIS MEDVEDEV)
D. Medvedev
M. Kližan
Round of 16·Arena 1
1:40 AM · Estimated (previous finalist in form and Nishikori in off lackluster Metz SF)
B. Paire
3 K. Nishikori
Round of 16·Arena 1
3:00 AM · Estimated (will Watanuki be quick enough to handle the Raonic serve, rabid home support)
Y. Watanuki
6 M. Raonic
Round of 16·Arena 1
4:20 AM · Estimated (pure one-handed backhand eye candy
)
S. Wawrinka
D. Shapovalov
1. Struff Enuf broke back in 2nd and 3rd sets with Cilic serving for match and then annihilated him in TB with aggression including net play.
2. Chardy in fine form found his best to come through against Dzumhur
3. Stanimal appears back on the prowl with stellar 97% first serve points won against Fritz
4. Shapo righting the ship on serve and beat a Chung who was playing well enough to look like he had the match in hand entering the 3rd set.
5. Medvedev v Schwartzman was simply scintillating tennis - old Meddy is on fire and can't miss from the ground.
6. Klizan cruising and through on heals of St. Petersburg final (took out Johnson, Winston-Salem finalist)
7. Watanuki was a thrilling surprise winner over Haase and just playing red hot with more power and better movement than Nishikori
8. Tsitsipas out of the blocks nicely with some great serving
9. Paire (former finalist) came up with goods over a very game Jarry
10. Gasquet got through against an in form, if chokey Kudla.
11. Tiafoe built some nice form with win over Marterer
The draw is shaping up tremendously with nearly every player in excellent form. (The two favorites at ultimate tennis statistics are Raonic and Nishikori who enter this event in shaky form with Raonic getting quite a few MTOs in his opening match.) We still have three first round matches kicking things off today followed by 4 great 2nd round matches:
{Sorry these times are EST which is five hours after UK time and the estimates are bollox as in way too early}
Round of 32·Arena 1
11:00 PM (great first round match with Shenzhen champion, the dimunitive Nishioka)
Round of 32·Arena 2
11:00 PM (crazy this is on at the same time with Kyrgios match, but a packed schedule today. @The Green Mile wants Simon to teach NextGen a lesson
)
Round of 32·Arena 1
12:20 AM · Estimated
Round of 16·Arena 2
1:40 AM · Estimated (both players at the top of their game and those who've not seen Medvedev lately have not seen THIS MEDVEDEV)
Round of 16·Arena 1
1:40 AM · Estimated (previous finalist in form and Nishikori in off lackluster Metz SF)
Round of 16·Arena 1
3:00 AM · Estimated (will Watanuki be quick enough to handle the Raonic serve, rabid home support
)
Round of 16·Arena 1
4:20 AM · Estimated (pure one-handed backhand eye candy
The Green Mile
Bionic Poster
Tsitsipas looked really convincing against the local favourite today, 1 & 3 dispatching over Taro Daniel. Difference is serve quality was far too significant, hardly any free points on serve for Taro, whilst Stefanos won the majority of points between 4-7 shots.
You gotta love watching Stefanos play his brand of tennis, so disciplined out there and tactically brilliant. Aggressive court positioning, controlled and precise play with astute shot selection seemingly always. Neutralizes points far better than say Shapovalov, and can call upon this sort of marginal play especially on the bigger points, far more frequently than the Canadian. I like both young guys and it's going to be very interesting to watch their career paths side by side. People are lumping these two guys together, for good reason I suppose, they are both young and exciting to watch.
Anyway, didn't he snap a three match losing streak as well? Heard him say mental and physical fatigue is playing a bit of a factor in this last couple of months after all he's achieved this year. Jumping from mid 90s to 15 in the rankings is great to see, will certainly win the most improved player award.
You gotta love watching Stefanos play his brand of tennis, so disciplined out there and tactically brilliant. Aggressive court positioning, controlled and precise play with astute shot selection seemingly always. Neutralizes points far better than say Shapovalov, and can call upon this sort of marginal play especially on the bigger points, far more frequently than the Canadian. I like both young guys and it's going to be very interesting to watch their career paths side by side. People are lumping these two guys together, for good reason I suppose, they are both young and exciting to watch.
Anyway, didn't he snap a three match losing streak as well? Heard him say mental and physical fatigue is playing a bit of a factor in this last couple of months after all he's achieved this year. Jumping from mid 90s to 15 in the rankings is great to see, will certainly win the most improved player award.
gogo
Legend
Gotta say this even is unfolding beautifully! Bunch of great matches so far:
1. Struff Enuf broke back in 2nd and 3rd sets with Cilic serving for match and then annihilated him in TB with aggression including net play.
2. Chardy in fine form found his best to come through against Dzumhur
3. Stanimal appears back on the prowl with stellar 97% first serve points won against Fritz
4. Shapo righting the ship on serve and beat a Chung who was playing well enough to look like he had the match in hand entering the 3rd set.
5. Medvedev v Schwartzman was simply scintillating tennis - old Meddy is on fire and can't miss from the ground.
6. Klizan cruising and through on heals of St. Petersburg final (took out Johnson, Winston-Salem finalist)
7. Watanuki was a thrilling surprise winner over Haase and just playing red hot with more power and better movement than Nishikori
8. Tsitsipas out of the blocks nicely with some great serving
9. Paire (former finalist) came up with goods over a very game Jarry
10. Gasquet got through against an in form, if chokey Kudla.
11. Tiafoe built some nice form with win over Marterer
The draw is shaping up tremendously with nearly every player in excellent form. (The two favorites at ultimate tennis statistics are Raonic and Nishikori who enter this event in shaky form with Raonic getting quite a few MTOs in his opening match.) We still have three first round matches kicking things off today followed by 4 great 2nd round matches:
{Sorry these times are EST which is five hours after UK time and the estimates are bollox as in way too early}
Round of 32·Arena 1
11:00 PM (great first round match with Shenzhen champion, the dimunitive Nishioka)
N. Kyrgios
Y. Nishioka
Round of 32·Arena 2
11:00 PM (crazy this is on at the same time with Kyrgios match, but a packed schedule today. @The Green Mile wants Simon to teach NextGen a lesson
G. Simon
A. De Minaur
Round of 32·Arena 1
12:20 AM · Estimated
M. Ebden
2 K. Anderson
Round of 16·Arena 2
1:40 AM · Estimated (both players at the top of their game and those who've not seen Medvedev lately have not seen THIS MEDVEDEV)
D. Medvedev
M. Kližan
Round of 16·Arena 1
1:40 AM · Estimated (previous finalist in form and Nishikori in off lackluster Metz SF)
B. Paire
3 K. Nishikori
Round of 16·Arena 1
3:00 AM · Estimated (will Watanuki be quick enough to handle the Raonic serve, rabid home support
Y. Watanuki
6 M. Raonic
Round of 16·Arena 1
4:20 AM · Estimated (pure one-handed backhand eye candy)
S. Wawrinka
D. Shapovalov
Meles, head of ATP PR!
Thanks for getting us pumped up @Meles .
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