Shapo or Rublev?

[Sparlingo]

Who you got the Russian with the mad hair or the Canadian with the mad hair for tomorrow's SF?

 

[Sparlingo]

My pick (second guy) :

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1317102581643055105

 

[DSH]

Angry "Bweeeehh" in 3 sets!

 

[romeo8880]

Shapo!

 

[gn]

Luke in 3 sets

 

[Mark-Touch]

Didn't even know they were playing!
For me the year ended with the F.O.

 

[James P]

Rooting for Shapo. Having a hard time with whom I think will win, though. It's probably marginally in Rublev's favor. Should be a fun watch.

 

[gogo]

This should be fun! I hope they both bring their A game. Fireworks and forehands.

Bring it on!

 

[gogo]

Rooting for Shapo. Having a hard time with whom I think will win, though. It's probably marginally in Rublev's favor. Should be a fun watch.

I think Angrey has the slight edge as well. Denis was 'ok' today, but I think Andrey will be pumped.

 

[Meles]

Who you got the Russian with the mad hair or the Canadian with the mad hair for tomorrow's SF?

Shapo will expose the Rublev false dawn tomorrow. This is not some jinx against shapo.

Ive been saying since roland garros rublev has flattered to deceive and later i think shapo will tear him apart.

Shapo does everything bigger here now in 2020 and with rublevs cumbersome movement i can see him getting creamed in straight sets.

@Sysyphus

 

[Meles]

Didn't even know they were playing!
For me the year ended with the F.O.

All sorts of chess moves going on in the tennis world; Nole has dumped Paris from his schedule.

 

[stringertom]

Rubylev is grooved on returning lefties this week...winning over 53% second serve points by Humbert and Norrie. OP pointed out Shapo won only 28% of second ball points in the Stanimal QF.

Leaning towards the home court advantage to help Rubles across the finish line in 3 high quality sets.

 

[Slowtwitcher]

Fake Russian vs Real Russian? Going with Fake Russian

 

[Krish0608]

This is such a good match. But Rublev has been on fire lately, so maybe Rublev in 3? Unless peak Shapo shows up.

 

[Meles]

Rubylev is grooved on returning lefties this week...winning over 53% second serve points by Humbert and Norrie. OP pointed out Shapo won only 28% of second ball points in the Stanimal QF.

Leaning towards the home court advantage to help Rubles across the finish line in 3 high quality sets.

Straight settings creaming incoming for Shapo.

 

[AnOctorokForDinner]

Shapis peaking so far, too goot 4 Rubley.

 

[Sparlingo]

Shapo making sure this is interesting

 

[BGod]

Coming up on another deciding set. Looks like Shap gonna lose since he's won a distance match against a seeded opponent when?

 

[stringertom]

Straight settings creaming incoming for Shapo.

This poast did not age well, Melesreshs. Care to guess again, blind squirrel?

 

[Meles]

Coming up on another deciding set. Looks like Shap gonna lose since he's won a distance match against a seeded opponent when?

Baseline God in the house, no?

 

[AnOctorokForDinner]

lel, roobluesho on course to win yet another match via mental battle, ombillible

 

[AnOctorokForDinner]

This poast did not age well, Melesreshs. Care to guess again, blind squirrel?

well shap was clearly the better player until he fell into the old habits of peak doublefaultery once again, lol.

 

[Meles]

This poast did not age well, Melesreshs. Care to guess again, blind squirrel?

After you.

 

[chrischris]

The crowd is awesome.

 

[Meles]

The crowd is awesome.

Shapo wanting to stop play for a fan that needs to be ejected.

 

[Meles]

MTO. Veteran move by Shapo for shoulder which of course culprit for the DFs.

 

[Sysyphus]

MTO. Veteran move by Shapo for shoulder which of course culprit for the DFs.

lol

the guy is always susceptible to DFs. He is just an erratic guy with a good but somewhat erratic service motion.

 

[Meles]

lol

the guy is always susceptible to DFs. He is just an erratic guy with a good but somewhat erratic service motion.

 

[Sysyphus]

Shapo will expose the Rublev false dawn tomorrow. This is not some jinx against shapo.

Ive been saying since roland garros rublev has flattered to deceive and later i think shapo will tear him apart.

Shapo does everything bigger here now in 2020 and with rublevs cumbersome movement i can see him getting creamed in straight sets.

@Sysyphus

Straight settings creaming incoming for Shapo.

I thank you greatly for absolutely *not* jinxing Shapo.

davai

 

[stringertom]

After you.

Awesome of you to share your self-caricature! Do you use a Braille keyboard or are you set up with voice command technology to share all your pearls of wisdom?

 

[stringertom]

lol

the guy is always susceptible to DFs. He is just an erratic guy with a good but somewhat erratic service motion.

And mastery of the Heimlich maneuver.

 

[chrischris]

MTO. Veteran move by Shapo for shoulder which of course culprit for the DFs.

And mastery of the Heimlich maneuver.

Shhhhh...

 

[Yugram]

Shapo will expose the Rublev false dawn tomorrow. This is not some jinx against shapo.

Ive been saying since roland garros rublev has flattered to deceive and later i think shapo will tear him apart.

Shapo does everything bigger here now in 2020 and with rublevs cumbersome movement i can see him getting creamed in straight sets.

@Sysyphus

Yayaya

 

[Yugram]

Shapovalov’s false dawn exposed again

 

[Meles]

Shapovalov’s false dawn exposed again

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Luke Shapovalov The Foolish? I thought not. It's not a story Sparlingo would tell you. It's a Sith legend. Luke Shapovalov was a Ballbasher of the ATP, so powerful yet so foolish he could use his groundstrokes to influence the midichlorians to create unforced errors… He had such a knowledge of unforced errors that he could even keep the shots he cared about from landing in. The knowledge of unforced errors is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing a match, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his opponent all his weaknesses, then his opponent defeated him in the third set. Ironic. He could save others from losing matches, but not himself.

 

[Yugram]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Luke Shapovalov The Foolish?

No.

I’ve heard the story of Fluke Kitzbuhelwalker the Flukish.

 

[stringertom]

Shapo will expose the Rublev false dawn tomorrow. This is not some jinx against shapo.

Ive been saying since roland garros rublev has flattered to deceive and later i think shapo will tear him apart.

Shapo does everything bigger here now in 2020 and with rublevs cumbersome movement i can see him getting creamed in straight sets.

@Sysyphus

This is one of your better gems, meeting the 4 C’s of cut, color, clarity and carat count.

 

[Meles]

This is one of your better gems, meeting the 4 C’s of cut, color, clarity and carat count.

Its a meme that I've merely popularized from the inimitable drlexus and Sock to Expose Nadal False Dawn thread. I did work extra hard to blend it in for this match. (Sadly drlexus was a returning banned user and quickly departed once his meme was popularized.) I was recently reminded of it with seperate posters rolling out false dawn in posts and flattered to deceive. Just saw a poster who I'm pretty sure does not post here using the term Diamond Gen over on MTF.

You must be a pig in mud these days. Sinner, Musetti, and Alcaraz all still teenage talent. With this covid break I feel a bit blind since simply looking at the rankings and filtering for age while only watching only ATP level matches just does not cut it whatsoever. I'm hatching evil schemes to intrude into your space with statistics. Sometimes Challenger mixed in with ATP level stats can give an early boost to numbers due to the lesserer competition, so that's stopped me from quoting early numbers on players. The covid break is particularly vexing for Sinner who I expected to have numbers on at the ATP level by this point. Since we just have too few data points until we get to the end of this year, it may be time for Melesian statistics to try to tackle the challenge. I'm curious to see what the players on the list youngest to win their first two challengers looked like in their early days. Gasquet leads the list, then Nadal, and it must then be Musetti since the broadcasters have been mentioning this. Recent Elo is starting to be bullievable and Sinner has checked in at 28, RUBLEV 6, SHAPO 15, and no rating on the two youngerer sadly.