Should Sinner give Shelton a walkover in the QF even if fit?

[geromino]

Sinner had no business winning today. Should he give Shelton the walkover to make things right? Might as well call it quits and avoid the heavy asterisks beyond clostebol.

 

[helterskelter]

Yes. But Kartal should have conceded the point against Pavlyuchenkova.

Tennis players these days seem to be playing Luis Suarez rules.

 

[Mustard]

Are you serious? LOL.

 

[madhavan]

no, of course not, it's not like Grigor was up 40-0 matchpoint and got injured. It was early in the third, so the result was not a foregone conclusion by any means.

 

[CyBorg]

I'm sure he'll get right on that.

 

[norcal]

LOL give Shelton the walkover. Lemme guess, OP is a Djokovic fan.

 

[rigged]

He should also stop playing for 1 year and 9 months to please the ones who think he should have been banned for 2 years.

 

[paolo2143]

100% no. Yes he definitely got lucky today and while it was not 100% certain he would have lost it definitely was on the cards.

However, sometimes in sport as in life you have to ride your luck so he should try 100% to win title and he will.

 

[smoledman]

OP is a Djokovic fan.

 

[Poisoned Slice]

no

 

[Mainad]

Sinner had no business winning today. Should he give Shelton the walkover to make things right? Might as well call it quits and avoid the heavy asterisks beyond clostebol.

But why would Shelton want to go through on a walkover and be asterisked as well??

 

[Mustard]

no, of course not, it's not like Grigor was up 40-0 matchpoint and got injured. It was early in the third, so the result was not a foregone conclusion by any means.

But the below apparently happened:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1942316153453568091

 

[Humphrey20133]

Dumb post after dumb post about what happened today. No, he should not. It is not his fault that his opponent got injured. These posts are just getting more and more laughable.

 

[Pheasant]

All wins count. Yes, it was unfortunate that Dimitrov blew out his pec muscle. But that doesn’t mean that we get to subtract slam titles if a certain somebody wins instead of him.

Similarly, we can’t subtract any slam titles from Graf, even though a 19 year old had gotten stabbed after winning 7 out of the previous 9 slam titles. All of Graf’s 22 slam titles count.

Once we start adding asterisks, or subtracting slam titles due to alleged luck, then counting becomes irrelevant, which makes stats irrelevant.

 

[Jonas78]

Injuries are part of the game. Should they just erase FO16 because Rafa got injured and noone would beat Rafa if he was healthy anyway?

 

[Purestriker]

Sinner had no business winning today. Should he give Shelton the walkover to make things right? Might as well call it quits and avoid the heavy asterisks beyond clostebol.

No. Match wasn’t over. You know how many souls Novak crushed down two sets to love?

 

[cha cha]

What a properly dumb*ss thing to say.

 

[Better_Call_Raul]

Did not see the match. But if Sinner played poorly, this opens the door for Shelton.
Shelton does not need nor expect a walkover.

 

[Mainad]

Injuries are part of the game. Should they just erase FO16 because Rafa got injured and noone would beat Rafa if he was healthy anyway?

Rafa was always injured though (according to Uncle Toni).

 

[Jonas78]

Rafa was always injured though (according to Uncle Toni).

At least they should just cancel tennis after sir Andrew needed to replace his hip . Every title after that comes with a big asterisk!

 

[nolefam_2024]

This type of attitude only works online. Go in front of jannik and say this and if he hits you, be ready. Very easy to be brave online.

 

[Tano]

Sinner had no business winning today. Should he give Shelton the walkover to make things right? Might as well call it quits and avoid the heavy asterisks beyond clostebol.

No, what happened to Dimitrov is regrettable, but what is Sinner's fault that his opponent left the match injured?
His next goal is to play better if he wants to continue advancing rounds.

 

[Fairhit]

no, of course not, it's not like Grigor was up 40-0 matchpoint and got injured. It was early in the third, so the result was not a foregone conclusion by any means.

Sinner knows up two sets doesn't mean anything.

 

[messiahrobins]

Sinner had no business winning today. Should he give Shelton the walkover to make things right? Might as well call it quits and avoid the heavy asterisks beyond clostebol.

What utter nonsense. That's not how professional sport works

 

[Better_Call_Raul]

Sinner had no business winning today. Should he give Shelton the walkover to make things right? Might as well call it quits and avoid the heavy asterisks beyond clostebol.

Sinner said Grigor deserves to advance. Sinner would have no problem defaulting to Grigor and allowing him to play on.
But it is a moot point as Grigor looks incapable of playing the next round. It is best that Sinner give Shelton a legit match.

 

[socallefty]

No need for a walkover. Dimitrov already gave a blueprint for other players to beat Sinner on grass and it is basically the same playbook as Bublik followed at Halle. Serve big and slice him to death with a lot to junk/variety to screw up his rhythm.

Hope Shelton, Djokovic, Cobolli, Fritz, Khachanov and Norrie were taking notes. Alcaraz already knows how to beat him at Slams and doesn’t have to change how he plays.

 

[gamelovergold]

It is not Sinner fault that Dimitrov got injured. The best tribute to give is go and win QF SF F and remember Dimi in all of them.

 

[bostontennis]

djoker deserve 1more slam. sinner should retire by now.

 

[Fairhit]

Why would Sinner wo? I don't get it, not even on a troll level.

 

[Berrettini_Fan]

No, bc the only thing worse than watching Robo-Sinner on court is watching Cringe-Shelton.

 

[thrust]

Sinner had no business winning today. Should he give Shelton the walkover to make things right? Might as well call it quits and avoid the heavy asterisks beyond clostebol.

A match is never over until it IS over. Who is to say for sure, Sinner could not have come back and win"

 

[jl809]

Looks like he will anyway lol

 

[TennisLBC]

Ideally in sports nothing is given, everything is earned.

 

[TMF]

But why would Shelton want to go through on a walkover and be asterisked as well??

The OP and Djoker fans have use to see Djokovic won asterisk slams

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

The OP and Djoker fans have use to see Djokovic won asterisk slams

Why are you so bothered?

 

[TMF]

Why are you so bothered?

Everyone is bothered by the OP's nonsense

 

[doninva]

Sinner had no business winning today. Should he give Shelton the walkover to make things right? Might as well call it quits and avoid the heavy asterisks beyond clostebol.

WHY, he didn't cause the walk over, makes zero sense?