Isner won't make the quarters. You heard it here first.
John said he's probably not going to play AO and if he does he will win 1-2 matches at most.
Sad...his Hopman Cup match was ugly but he showed some nice touch and ground strokes against Harrison, you should just tell his movement wasn't there...and when John's "movement" is hampered he really has no chance.
Isner seemed to pick up a slight niggle at the Hopman Cup but thankfully he seems to be on course for the Australian Open!
This is a player that at 6ft 9 has a sporting idol who was in the NBA and not tennis but has ferocious power off the serve and forehand!
The proof is in the pudding that on his day he is the most devastating player in the world! Last year he took the racket out of Federer's hand to beat him in Switzerland in the Davis Cup before beating Djokovic in Indian Wells!
Isner also has the record for the most aces in a match (113). The ferocious power plus enormous serve from such a height mean that if John gets it all together he is going to be unstoppable come the Australian Open which gets underway on January 14th in Melbourne.
seeing how the courts are playing faster this year it appears there is no doubt that this tounrmanent is missing the American number 1 John Isner, the bounce he generates and the potential he has to fire in a serve at 148 mph would have made him a real handful over these two weeks!
Except he wouldn't have made it to week two anyway.
That is a very weird think to say about a guy who has the ability to terroirse opponents with a brutal serve and has the 2nd best conversion stats of all times on some of the slowest courts ever, on a faster pacier court like we have here in Melbourne he would be very hard to beat indeed.
Isner seemed to pick up a slight niggle at the Hopman Cup but thankfully he seems to be on course for the Australian Open!
This is a player that at 6ft 9 has a sporting idol who was in the NBA and not tennis but has ferocious power off the serve and forehand!
The proof is in the pudding that on his day he is the most devastating player in the world! Last year he took the racket out of Federer's hand to beat him in Switzerland in the Davis Cup before beating Djokovic in Indian Wells!
Isner also has the record for the most aces in a match (113). The ferocious power plus enormous serve from such a height mean that if John gets it all together he is going to be unstoppable come the Australian Open which gets underway on January 14th in Melbourne.
He has no movement, a backhand that barely finds its way into the court, no volleying skill, and a forehand that's completely hit-or-miss. If he gets hot, then he can go far in a tournament, but riding on a serve alone gets you nowhere. Karlovic is as good of a server as Isner, so why didn't he win his match today?
I hope you are not comparing Karlovic to Isner! He has a big serve too sure but he does not use it as well as John hence why has has not come clsoe to achieveing as much in the game as John has, beating Federer and Novak, taking Nadal to 5 sets at the French Open and reaching a masters series final.
If it's any consolation Ark, I like John Isner too and disappointed he's out.
He gets a lot of unfair stick.
Who took his place?
Tim Smyczek got his spot as a lucky loser.
OK thanks.
Edit: So we would have had a possible Karlovic vs Isner match in round 2.
The mind boggles.
I am, because Karlovic is as good, if not a better server than Isner. John has a few good wins but so does Ivo. You talk up Isner's game as if he's a world beater who'll go down as a GOAT yet he has failed to make it past the quarters of a slam. At 27 he's certainly not getting any younger. His window of opportunity is closing, though it's not like it was ever really there.
I disagree with this, no arguement Ivo has a great serve, and sure he has had one or two good wins, but tell me a great run he has had at a masters or his highest ranking?
Isner is a more complete player who uses the serve forehand combo better than Ivo by far!
I wonder what Ark would have said if Karlovic had beaten Isner.
Isner's ground shots are superior to Ivos it would have been a pretty convincing win for John you would imagine.
If John won it would be a boring 5 setter that was ace after ace because they're arguably the worst returners in the top 100.
Isner has way more ability off the ground and ROS than ivo! He's a confidence player check out his returning v Fed last year 4th set Davis Cup that was almost unplayable
His ROS is terrible. He's played at a high level, what, two, maybe three matches during his career. If he's so good than why did he lose first round of Wimbledon last year? That's a tourney that he should go far in, right?
how healthy/fit is he? he's not old enough to be missing slams, this is the time in his career that he should be making his mark.
You just compared Nadal being hurt to Isner being hurt? lol Isner has not, nor will be ever accomplish anything close to what Nadal has.
I did because the poster said Isner is too young to miss Slams! The fact that Nadal is younger and missing slams shows that age isn't a factor when it comes to injuries! Nadals accomplishments are not really a factor in this argument!
Nadal has had a FAR longer career than Isner already. In fact I would say that given Isner is already 27 and has not done anything of note at the Slams, his window is narrowing.
Isner took up tennis late and is therefore a late developer.
You have to give a lot of credit to someone having that disadvantage going into a very difficult and competitive sport.
He's still reached a very high level.
You just compared Nadal being hurt to Isner being hurt? lol Isner has not, nor will be ever accomplish anything close to what Nadal has.
Yet, they are both human, they are both tennis players and they can actually both get injured, which is what is relevant in this comparison...
Spot on
at what age did he start with tennis?
Run out of BS to come up with as to why Isner's great?