2020 Australian open final :- [5] Dominic Thiem v/s [2] Novak Djokovic

[James P]

Another beautiful FH winner! 101 mph for Thiem.

 

[Breakpointerer]

Couple of cricketers in the house

 

[The Green Mile]

What a monster of a forehand jfc

 

[Rafa.the.Magnificent]

Nice!

 

[The Guru]

This making me really nervous

 

[TripleATeam]

Should I heat up chicken or mac n cheese?

Mac.

 

[swordtennis]

Djokovic has to lock in the ROS if he is going to win this.

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

Great movement from Novak!

 

[NatF]

Good strategy Thiem, short slice in the middle of the court lol

 

[Breakpointerer]

BP

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

Should I heat up chicken or mac n cheese?

None. Eat veggies.

 

[James P]

Thiem giving up break points again.

 

[OrangeOne]

Couple of cricketers in the house

Indeed. If there's a few we haven't seen yet probably enough for a reasonable test team.

 

[Hitman]

Both playing well right now.

 

[Breakpointerer]

Good save from Thiem.

 

[NatF]

Nice move in from Thiem, that last return from Djokovic was dirty as well.

 

[MichaelNadal]

None. Eat veggies.

I just had a salad

 

[Lleytonstation]

At least Thiem is no going for it.

 

[DRII]

Remember when he beat Murray in 5 hours, came back 2 days later and beat Nadal in 6 hours? Natural athlete.

yea, but Nadal and Murray aren't any more offensive than Djokovic on avg. Thiem and Wawrinka are more off the ground, as long as they are consistent, their heavy strokes wear Djokovic down.

 

[weakera]

Pressure shifts more on Djokovic now on serve at 4-4

 

[Halba]

djokovic hitting lots of unforced errors.

 

[Breakpointerer]

Credit to Novak, every service game is a war for Thiem. 4-4.

 

[James P]

Nice hold there for Thiem. Settling into this match well now.

 

[Deleted member 763691]

Sensing a beatdown already. My impression is that Thiem's inner clay-player is showing through. Djokovic is hitting flat and Thiem is not getting under the ball at all to hit his signature topspin shots. I don't think that he is beaten mentally already, I just think Thiem is not suited to beating someone who can hit the ball flat.

On the contrary, Thiem loves play Djokovic, and has won 4 of their last 5 meetings, including their most recent on hardcourt

 

[megamind]

that Thiem volley was Fedr inspired

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

Credit to Thiem to get this to 4-4. A real battle on our hands!

 

[RaulRamirez]

Great hold by Thiem... this is high-level stuff!

 

[Hitman]

Massive credit to Thiem to wrestle the score back to 4-4. He will need to continue to zone if he wants to win this. Anything less will not do.

 

[powerangle]

Level at 4-all. Thiem's heating up at Djokovic's cooling off. This was expected.

 

[weakera]

At least Thiem is no going for it.

Love to see it, he's going to miss long not short on these groundstrokes.

 

[The Guru]

This is giving me nightmares of Stan

 

[Lleytonstation]

Pressure shifts more on Djokovic now on serve at 4-4

Starting to get exciting now, hopefully it stays this way.

 

[Fedinkum]

This crowd will definitely get to Novak...heheheeeee...

 

[Meles]

Well, well, well 4 all

 

[The_Order]

Thiem showing some great resolve so far. More than I expected from him tbh, keep it up!

 

[MichaelNadal]

Make him feel 32

 

[Josh Lyman]

None. Eat veggies.

I don't have veggies but you've inspired me to eat an apple.

I'll do mac n cheese after the 1st set.

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

What a match!

 

[Fedinkum]

Great smash from Djoke. Thiem needs a banana soon.

 

[weakera]

Great overhead Nole

 

[RaulRamirez]

Awesome OH from the baseline... wow!

 

[Otacon]

Watching Thiem making the necessary adjustments to get back on track is why coaching should never be allowed in men's tennis.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Where is my favorite Djoker smash these days?

 

[The Green Mile]

lol Djokovic "@#$% up!" Crowd are getting vocal and excited during points

 

[megamind]

Massu has won an Olympic Gold, Fedr and Novak have not!

 

[Fedinkum]

Is OK Novak...the crowd will never cheer for you... ahahahaaa

 

[Hitman]

Djokovic unleashing on the crowd for calling out during the point.

 

[Azure]

Couple of cricketers in the house

I only saw Warne. Who else?

 

[roysid]

Why Thiem is trying that stupid backhand slice. That won't cause any harm.
Only the backhand dtl rocket speed does damage to novak

 

[D.Nalby12]

Passive play cost Thiem early break. Now recovered, with his groundstrokes has started firing, Djokovic gonna find it tough.