Rate the 2021 Australian Open

6/10. Several injuries and poor semis and final.

Tsitsipas-Nadal is the only thing that saves it.

Couodn't watch Karatsev's matches due to the time zone so can't comment on him.
 
of course i'm glad that the event took place at all, but the limitations can still only count as deductions in such a scoring.
deductions for the atmosphere (though better than last year, hehe).
deductions for Thiem's injury exit.
deductions for faker's injury fake (it's getting old).
deductions for the time zone.

an upside was that no servebot won the event, so overall in the positive, 6/10.
 
Hitman said:
The event as a whole? Wasn't anything special.
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Yeah....Maybe a bit like FO - nothing great...Semi’s and final nothing to get excited about - final huge disappointment....Both favourites won....Thinking about it I think it might be fair to say Thiem, Z, Tsitsipas, Med all a bit disappointing in the end....People can point to Tsitsipas beating Rafa but really Rafa should have wrapped it up quite easily in 3 sets...
 
I rate it a 6 especially as many rounds were played in empty stadiums. I think the only memorable matches for me were Djokovic-Zverev and Nadal-Tsitsipas. The Djokovic-Zverev match was closer than the 4-set score as Zverev was outplaying Djokovic in long baseline rallies, but Novak won with clutch serving every time he needed it. Tsitsipas of course had a great comeback against Nadal from 2 sets down. On the women’s side, the only match that I will remember after a few years is Osaka saving match points late in the third set to outclass Muguruza.

I have to admit though that I really enjoyed the level of Novak’s game in the final when he administered a spanking to another young pretender. It was nice to see him start out so offensively out-hitting Medvedev to the FH side, then out-rallying him with consistency to the BH/middle before outserving him and leaving him mentally wrecked. His returns were on point as always as Med won less than 70% of 1st serve points serving >125mph after Med had won more than 80% of first serve points in the previous rounds. All hail Novak!
 
socallefty said:
I rate it a 6 especially as many rounds were played in empty stadiums. I think the only memorable matches for me were Djokovic-Zverev and Nadal-Tsitsipas. The Djokovic-Zverev match was closer than the 4-set score as Zverev was outplaying Djokovic in long baseline rallies, but Novak won with clutch serving every time he needed it. Tsitsipas of course had a great comeback against Nadal from 2 sets down. On the women’s side, the only match that I will remember after a few years is Osaka saving match points late in the third set to outclass Muguruza.

I have to admit though that I really enjoyed the level of Novak’s game in the final when he administered a spanking to another young pretender. It was nice to see him start out so offensively out-hitting Medvedev to the FH side, then out-rallying him with consistency to the BH/middle before outserving him and leaving him mentally wrecked. His returns were on point as always as Med won less than 70% of 1st serve points serving >125mph after Med had won more than 80% of first serve points in the previous rounds. All hail Novak!
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I've come to really love Djokovic' return. To me there's nothing that drops my jaw as much as Djokovic returning big servers with such intensity.
 
Not a djoker fan but Really unappreciative people on here calling Djokovic a pusher. He was anything but that. Adjusted brilliantly to the faster courts and did his homework before med.
 
Some great performances (e.g. Tsitsipas, Osaka, Djoko). Some not-so-great:

- the dickbag Aussie fans booing during the men's awards ceremony.
- Tennis Australia's smug, affronted executive Jayne "Karen" Hrdlicka unable to resist the urge to mock the dickbags in return with her "you are an opinionated group.." swipe.
- Both were total assholes.
 
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You should never even hint at politics at an award ceremony. It's basic common sense.

And, as for you, you do realise that your golden rule seems to be that foreigners should never talk about matters American from their splendid isolation?

Tad hypocritical here, obviously, but not a surprise.

Dedans Penthouse said:
Some great performances (e.g. Tsitsipas, Osaka, Djoko). Some not-so-great:

- the dickbag Aussie fans booing during the men's awards ceremony.
- Tennis Australia's smug, affronted executive Jayne "Karen" Hrdlicka unable to resist the urge to mock the dickbags in return with her "you are an opinionated group.." swipe.
- Both were total assholes.
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Dedans Penthouse said:
Some great performances (e.g. Tsitsipas, Osaka, Djoko). Some not-so-great:

- the dickbag Aussie fans booing during the men's awards ceremony.
- Tennis Australia's smug, affronted executive Jayne "Karen" Hrdlicka unable to resist the urge to mock the dickbags in return with her "you are an opinionated group.." swipe.
- Both were total assholes.
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She was absolutely correct!

She was also correct in stating that Djokovic is the hardest worker on tour, now that Andy Murray doesn't really play.

Djokovic has sacrificed far more than Federer or Nadal has.
 
Bartelby said:
You should never even hint at politics at an award ceremony. It's basic common sense.

And, as for you, you do realise that your golden rule seems to be that foreigners should never talk about matters American from their splendid isolation?

Tad hypocritical here, obviously, but not a surprise.
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She didn't hint at politics, she told the truth!
 
Bartelby said:
You should never even hint at politics at an award ceremony. It's basic common sense.

And, as for you, you do realise that your golden rule seems to be that

foreigners should never talk about matters American from their splendid isolation?

Tad hypocritical here, obviously, but not a surprise.
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And as for you, GFY

An oversimplified lie Bottlefed. You get called out when you baselessly pontificate with no grasp of the "local landscape." But that point is moot because a pearl-clutching sanctimonious prig such as yourself is going to prattle on no matter what. It's what the self-absorbed do. And you are self-absorbed; very self-absorbed. Chronically self-absorbed.
 
DRII said:
She was absolutely correct!

She was also correct in stating that Djokovic is the hardest worker on tour, now that Andy Murray doesn't really play.

Djokovic has sacrificed far more than Federer or Nadal has.
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She's a Bartelby-esque queynte. And her miffed, snot-nosed "you're an opinionated group" swipe confirmed that.
 
3 or 4 outta 10.
Zero pulse, fake crowd noise. unhappy players, alot of listless matches,

They should have just played in in QLD or somewhere else rather than Melbourne, which is a broken city now. Like how they moved the Grand Final in QLD.
 
The pontificating Potty House likes to soil other nests, but defends his own with near fanatical devotion.

Dedans Penthouse said:
And as for you, GFY

An oversimplified lie Bottlefed. You get called out when you baselessly pontificate with no grasp of the "local landscape." But that point is moot because a pearl-clutching sanctimonious prig such as yourself is going to prattle on no matter what. It's what the self-absorbed do. And you are self-absorbed; very self-absorbed. Chronically self-absorbed.
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Thanks for that Sky News interlude, but you do realise that Queensland has but one 5,000 seat tennis stadium. Sydney might just have worked. But none of this was realistic.

sredna42 said:
3 or 4 outta 10.
Zero pulse, fake crowd noise. unhappy players, alot of listless matches,

They should have just played in in QLD or somewhere else rather than Melbourne, which is a broken city now. Like how they moved the Grand Final in QLD.
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Best of the post-COVID slams to date, but not as good as the AO usually is. The USO was dire and the FO didn't have any really memorable matches for me.

  • Tsitsipas-Nadal was high quality and the best match of the tournament. Tsitsipas-Kokkinakis, Kyrgios-Thiem, and Popyrin-Goffin were also very good.
  • Karatsev's run was great to watch, especially in the earlier rounds
 
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Bartelby said:
The pontificating Potty House likes to soil other nests, but defends his own with near fanatical devotion.
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Hardly, you provincial, finger-pointing twit. Me, I've had the pleasure of experiencing a myriad of cultures--travel broadens the mind you sniveling mistake of nature.

No, more like you arbitrarily establishing your first-person-insufferable perspective as the be all/end all last word. Ah yes, the world revolves around you, a self-absorbed, sanctimonious prig wallowing in the middle of nowhere convinced that your own, LIMITED personal experiences should be considered ordained knowledge. The problem is you're too much of a self-absorbed narcissist that you can't see anything beyond you, you, and you. You: a bag of wind. Or as the Japanese would put it:

. . . . . . . . . . . . "Kaze no fumure"

From_this_bag_the_Night_Wind_begged_a_dream_for_the_Little_Tree..jpg
 
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It was quite boring, really.

2017 was the last one I enjoyed quite a bit.
 
I never talk about my personal experiences, Sean, so you must have me confused. I didn't know you were in Japan for the occupation, old-timer. We thank you for your service.

Dedans Penthouse said:
No, more like you arbitrarily establishing your first-person-insufferable perspective as the be all/end all last word. Ah yes, the world revolves around you, a self-absorbed, sanctimonious prig wallowing in the middle of nowhere convinced that your own, LIMITED personal experiences should be considered ordained knowledge. The problem is you're too much of a self-absorbed narcissist that you can't see anything beyond you, you, and you. Or as the Japanese would put it:

. . . . . . . . . . . . "Kaze no fumure"
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This seems like one of the few good summaries of this issue I've seen. You do really have to compare the slams as they are now, post-covid.

McGradey said:
Best of the post-COVID slams to date, but not as good as the AO usually is. The USO was dire and the FO didn't have any really memorable matches for me.

  • Tsitsipas-Nadal was high quality and the best match of the tournament. Tsitsipas-Kokkinakis, Kyrgios-Thiem, and Popyrin-Goffin were also very good.
  • Karatsev's run was great to watch, especially in the earlier rounds
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First week was one of the best first weeks I've ever seen at a slam. Second week was pretty lame. Tsitsipas and Nadal, Garbi and Osaka, maybe Sabalenka and Serena if you want to be really, really generous, and that's basically it.

It's better when it's the other way around. I'd give it maybe a 6. Better than average.
 
Bartelby said:
I never talk about my personal experiences, Sean, so you must have me confused. I didn't know you were in Japan for the occupation, old-timer. We thank you for your service.
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Lance you bitter old queen, you've never traveled to Nippon? Well here's one thing that we sort of have in common.

My sojourn in Nippon was vacation-related and had nothing to do with any occupation.
And you? You have no occupation. Get a job Lance ya crusty old bum. :)
 
You are such a homophobe, old chum, you need to get out and see more of the world!

Dedans Penthouse said:
Lance you bitter old queen, you've never traveled to Nippon? Well here's one thing that we sort of have in common.

My sojourn in Nippon was vacation-related and had nothing to do with any occupation.
And you? You have no occupation. Get a job Lance ya crusty old bum. :)
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The main reason the AO could be given a lower ranking is simply because the overwhelming victories of Djokovic and Osaka seem inevitable and undramatic in hindsight.
 
Enjoyed Kyrgios - Humbert/Thiem, Aslan's pummeling of Schwartzman and men's final. Missed a lot of tennis actually. Watched zero women's matches. 7,5?
 
5.5 rounded up to 6 for Tsisty Vs Nadal.
6 is not very good. Even USO 2017 got a 7 from me.
 
Bartelby said:
The main reason the AO could be given a lower ranking is simply because the overwhelming victories of Djokovic and Osaka seem inevitable and undramatic in hindsight.
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I was rooting for them so their winning was like warm, comfort food. If say Karatsev came out of the blue and won it all, that would not have been satisfying, especially if he never did anything again.
 
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