2025 Australian Open - General Discussion for Men's Singles

[roysid]

Kinda crazy that there is this open discussion in India (apparently) about a perceived genetic inferiority in therms of athleticism. I think it's quite interesting, but I know many people are scared to talk about things like that. It's also pretty amazing that a country with a population in the billions cannot find at least a few players that put it all together.

Tennis has a very small following in India. It was not a widespread discussion, just a few ex players. And they had this complex that no Indian in recent memory has done it in singles. So they are going ga ga over Nishesh Basavareddy.
He is Indian origin and hence all those Indian genes talk.

General population is not bothered about tennis. So a minuscule proportion has heard this comments to generate any outrage.
Cricket is the overwhelming sport. So its cricket where we have world beaters though its mainly beating on skill, not so much on physical strength or athletism. We are now the strongest nation in chess too.

And way behind in physical sport viz. Soccer, sprint, swimming etc.

 

[Winner Sinner]

Djoker looks very dangerous. If he can keep serving like that, then he will be extremely tough to beat. He played a better match than Sinner did today.

Winners/unforced errors ratio 24/12, never lost serve in 16 games played on serve, and you want to insinuate that it was an unconvincing performance?

I didn't watch Djokovic's match in full, so I refuse to make a comparison, but I watched Sinner's and I say that he showed his usual shocking solidity.
Let's also give credit to his opponent who played at a very high level for two sets.

If we want, the only flaw in Sinner's match was the low percentage of first serves in the first set.
But even here it is always justified by the fact that in the fundamental in question they are still working on finding the best possible compromise.
In the off season they tried to further shorten the service movement, it's reasonable that he still has to implement it during the match, and that therefore it is subject to ups and downs in terms of percentages of first serves in the court.

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

Just caught the highlights and all I can say is Alcaraz and Sinner both look damn good. I will be surprised if it’s not the final.

 

[Move]

Great start of the AO2025, also the comments in this thread during the matches. Learned some interesting stuff & nice insights. Way better convos than some time ago when captital letters and other toxic stuff went around on this forum

 

[Aabye5]

Fallen Seeds Report:

[10] Dimitrov, r1
[11] Tsitsipas, r1
[23] Tabilo, r1
[28] Baez, r1

We salute the one-handers who gave up their spot in the draw to make this report shine

 

[Down_the_line]

Nice to see FAA get by comfortably, despite the hiccup in the 3rd set. I figured Struff would provide a bit more of a challenge for him.

 

[Winner Sinner]

Those who were able to attend the first Monday of the Australian Open live were immersed in a warm, colorful and fun atmosphere, classic of the so-called “Happy Slam”, but… also a fair amount of commotion. As many fans (and some colleagues) have shown on social media, access to the secondary courts was very difficult due to the huge number of spectators present. The numbers confirm that it was a record-breaking first Monday in terms of attendance at Melbourne Park. As reported by Australian colleague Todd Scoullar, 59,621 spectators attended the daytime session of the second day of the AO25, to which must be added the 35,669 of the evening session, for a nice 95,290 spectators. It is a daily record, for the daytime and night sessions, and an overall record for the single day of the Australian Slam. It narrowly beat the record set in 2023, when there were 94,854 spectators on the most crowded day of the event. Clear sign of the great passion for tennis "down under".

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1878767279003025438

 

[Down_the_line]

Those who were able to attend the first Monday of the Australian Open live were immersed in a warm, colorful and fun atmosphere, classic of the so-called “Happy Slam”, but… also a fair amount of commotion. As many fans (and some colleagues) have shown on social media, access to the secondary courts was very difficult due to the huge number of spectators present. The numbers confirm that it was a record-breaking first Monday in terms of attendance at Melbourne Park. As reported by Australian colleague Todd Scoullar, 59,621 spectators attended the daytime session of the second day of the AO25, to which must be added the 35,669 of the evening session, for a nice 95,290 spectators. It is a daily record, for the daytime and night sessions, and an overall record for the single day of the Australian Slam. It narrowly beat the record set in 2023, when there were 94,854 spectators on the most crowded day of the event. Clear sign of the great passion for tennis "down under".

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1878767279003025438

That's great news!

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

I changed my vote to alcaraz to win. As I have a feeling it will be sinner-alcaraz final. If so then right now alcaraz is sinner’s bogey player and I can see him stopping him again.

 

[RS]

As long as Novak and Sinner lose, it's a win for the sport

Djokovic will lose but I get the feeling Sinner will be around for a while

 

[nolefam_2024]

I changed my vote to alcaraz to win. As I have a feeling it will be sinner-alcaraz final. If so then right now alcaraz is sinner’s bogey player and I can see him stopping him again.

Look at court speed where Raz has won before deciding he is boogeyman first.

Sinner like Djokovic makes deep rounds of almost all tournaments.

Raz at least till now like Nadal has failed to make up to Sinner in fast or even HC tournaments. AO QF, Miami QF, Cincy R1, USO R2, Shanghai QF, Paris R2, Turin RR.

 

[albatros_forehand]

So is it gonna be Rublev or Fonseca ???

 

[Zodd]

He says he is lacking spin and his flat hitting is not making as much damage as he did back then. Newer players are hitting with higher topspin.

 

[nolefam_2024]

Nadal is overkill. Tsitsipas taught him a lesson on RLA before retiring.

 

[Mainad]

What was up with Dimitrov?

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

Look at court speed where Raz has won before deciding he is boogeyman first.

Sinner like Djokovic makes deep rounds of almost all tournaments.

Raz at least till now like Nadal has failed to make up to Sinner in fast or even HC tournaments. AO QF, Miami QF, Cincy R1, USO R2, Shanghai QF, Paris R2, Turin RR.

Let’s see. I might be wrong but it’s my gut feeling.

 

[Aabye5]

What was up with Dimitrov?

Hip injury

 

[Purestriker]

Hip injury

Not good for someone his age.

 

[robyrolfo]

Those who were able to attend the first Monday of the Australian Open live were immersed in a warm, colorful and fun atmosphere, classic of the so-called “Happy Slam”, but… also a fair amount of commotion. As many fans (and some colleagues) have shown on social media, access to the secondary courts was very difficult due to the huge number of spectators present. The numbers confirm that it was a record-breaking first Monday in terms of attendance at Melbourne Park. As reported by Australian colleague Todd Scoullar, 59,621 spectators attended the daytime session of the second day of the AO25, to which must be added the 35,669 of the evening session, for a nice 95,290 spectators. It is a daily record, for the daytime and night sessions, and an overall record for the single day of the Australian Slam. It narrowly beat the record set in 2023, when there were 94,854 spectators on the most crowded day of the event. Clear sign of the great passion for tennis "down under".

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1878767279003025438

That's pretty interesting, and it has been an issue at the US Open too. Just too crowded to enjoy the event, even on outside courts where it should be a little less hectic. Organizers are just too greedy and/or myopic.

I'm pretty lucky that I'm just 20 minutes from Flushing Meadows, but me and my GF really only go at night these days. The matches I enjoy most are last ones to finish in the early rounds on the outside courts. Around 10pm there really aren't many people left, and any match still going on is usually pretty epic.

 

[ark_28]

Berrentini should be way too strong for Norris

 

[Nostradamus]

Do you guys know where i can watch the matches now Live ???? ESPN thinks for some reason NFL playoff game is more important than Aussie open.............??

 

[ibbi]

Diallo way too good for Nardi right now in battle of the kids.

 

[GRASScaraz]

I have cleaner groundstrokes than Norrie's powderpuff shots

 

[Bill Lobsalot]

Do you guys know where i can watch the matches now Live ???? ESPN thinks for some reason NFL playoff game is more important than Aussie open.............??

Every match is on ESPN+. 12 dollars, cancel when AO is over.

 

[gogo]

The Lebanese qualifier Habib ranked #219 has just scored a huge win over #65 Bu of China.

Habib is the first player male or female from Lebanon to qualify for the main draw of a slam. So to get this big win is massive. Well done!

I only saw the highlights from this match, but the crowd was wild, particularly the Lebanese fans. Lebanon deserves some good news stories right about now. I'm so happy that Habib won. (Nothing against Bu, of course.)

 

[Rosstour]

Did he blame his strings? Maybe it’s time he switched to a power racket. Ha.

Or at least a 16/19

 

[Aussie Darcy]

I only saw the highlights from this match, but the crowd was wild, particularly the Lebanese fans. Lebanon deserves some good news stories right about now. I'm so happy that Habib won. (Nothing against Bu, of course.)

Melbourne is fantastic with it's multicultural community (as is a lot of Australia). A lot of Lebanese people in Melbourne as well as Turkish fans who came along to watch Sonmez yesterday in the ladies singles!

Also a favourite fun fact is that Melbourne as a city has the largest population of Greek people in the world, outside of Greece.

 

[Rosstour]

I only saw the highlights from this match, but the crowd was wild, particularly the Lebanese fans. Lebanon deserves some good news stories right about now. I'm so happy that Habib won. (Nothing against Bu, of course.)

What will Habib do if he draws Shapovalov?

 

[flyingboris]

Mannarino with the classic Roddick-approved racket throw.

 

[dking68]

Let’s see. I might be wrong but it’s my gut feeling.

I dont think Carlos is making the final. Sinner will win #3 in Melbourne. If they meet in the final, I favor Sinner. The pressure will be on Alcaraz to win the career slam. And I do think Sinner is due to beat him in a bo5. I think it will be 3-4 at the end of AO. Really dont see it being 2-5

 

[nolefam_2024]

Zhang is pulling the pants down right now . One way show

 

[ibbi]

Nardi RACES through first set breaker 7-1 to go up on Diallo.

 

[fedfan24]

Norrie is just awful.

 

[fedfan24]

Tennis has a very small following in India. It was not a widespread discussion, just a few ex players. And they had this complex that no Indian in recent memory has done it in singles. So they are going ga ga over Nishesh Basavareddy.
He is Indian origin and hence all those Indian genes talk.

General population is not bothered about tennis. So a minuscule proportion has heard this comments to generate any outrage.
Cricket is the overwhelming sport. So its cricket where we have world beaters though its mainly beating on skill, not so much on physical strength or athletism. We are now the strongest nation in chess too.

And way behind in physical sport viz. Soccer, sprint, swimming etc.

USA is still #1 overall at chess having 2 of the top 5 players. Number 1 being Norway of course.

 

[ibbi]

Khachanov SNATCHES the first set from Mannarino on the breaker after 2 breaks apiece.

 

[Alcawrath]

Anyone else think Norrie looks like he's about to strike up a 'will they?' 'won't they?' relationship with his kids' live in nanny who has an especially nasally voice?

 

[MaluTapiMau]

Rune hits back, leads 4-1 second set

 

[tx10is]

brooksby sighting lol fritz should roll

 

[JMR]

Mannarino with the classic Roddick-approved racket throw.

I can't remember seeing a totally bald guy playing on an outdoor court before. First, because male tennis pros are generally too young for pattern baldness to have fully set in, and second, because a hat is an easy form of protection. Who wants a sunburned scalp? This is Australia in the summer. Didn't Agassi wear a cap in his later years? And he still had a little hair left.

 

[DropWideShot]

Is Brooksby playing with that new 10-JX!??? Looks like he switched.... anyone have any details??

 

[Znak]

Have you guys seen the live animated AO?

 

[ibbi]

Diallo serves for second set against Nardi and CHOKES. 5-5.

 

[ibbi]

Khachanov leads 2-0 over Mannarino. Seems too easy.

 

[ibbi]

Diallo takes second set breaker against Nardi. This one could take all day if they can both stand it.

 

[Aabye5]

Let's go, Brandon (Nakashima)!

 

[Down_the_line]

Fritz wins the 1st set against Brooksby comfortably 6-2.

I have to say, I'm really digging the bright neon Radical! As a former Radical guy, if I wasn't so committed to my Blade I'd definitely want one!

 

[MaluTapiMau]

Rune takes 3rd set, 6-4

 

[fullofexcuses]

Do we know which string brooksby switched to? He still has a solinco stencil but no longer the red outlast

 

[ibbi]

Khachanov dispatches trickster god Mannarino in straight sets. Nicely done.

 

[time_fly]

Poor Brooksby. People thought he had potential if he could improve his serve. Today it looks like every part of his game has degraded, even --somehow -- his serve.