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Re: ATP Tennis/Non-India Davis Cup
Federer is done.
Nadal is almost done, with the flare up of his 2005 career threatening injury.
Nadal is almost done, with the flare up of his 2005 career threatening injury.
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Thiem and Rublev to add to the other 3 I mentioned. Djokovic seems odds-on favorite at the USO.
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Sasha Zverev has to be the odds-on favourite based on current form. Olympic gold followed by the Cincinnati Masters title.
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On form, yes. But, with the young ones, once they win a few, I will make them my odds-on favorite. That said, Zverev has been in two slam semis and was the finalist in the USO last year. So, he is a very strong and deserving candidate. But, my heart says that it is possibly Djokovic who will pull this out in the last minute. Zverev will win a slam soon though.
Djokovic just played the Wimbledon and then Tokyo. He did badly in Tokyo in the last two matches. But, back on tour, he is possibly the most formidable foe.
BTW, I am not a Djokovic or Tsitsipas fan. I want them to lose. Rooting for the Russian origins and Thiem.
Djokovic just played the Wimbledon and then Tokyo. He did badly in Tokyo in the last two matches. But, back on tour, he is possibly the most formidable foe.
BTW, I am not a Djokovic or Tsitsipas fan. I want them to lose. Rooting for the Russian origins and Thiem.
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There was a terrific match between Andy Murray and Tsitsipas in R1 yesterday. Murray won the first and third sets easily, and narrowly lost the second set tiebreak. He couldn't sustain that form in the end, and Tsitsipas managed to squeak through. Tsitsipas and Medvedev are drawn to play each other in the SF, while Djokovic is drawn to face Sasha at that stage.
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And Tsitsipas was accused of using 7-8 minute medical breaks, bathroom breaks, etc. at opportune times.
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Wow! Thanks, PKB! I hope your post gets some traction and ultimately catches Andy’s attention. The level of ambiguity wrt to these rules is ludicrous at such a grand level.
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I thought Andy took the toilet break at match-point (6-3 in the tiebreaker), but I went back to our thread and checked. We don't know for sure if the break was 10 minutes, but we waited for about 23 minutes without any information from there (Harsh's fiancee was courtside, and sending us regular updates); initially we thought that, after the second set TB ended 12-10 in favour of Andy that the final set would be played the next day, but it went on that evening itself... Painful memory, actually, and not one that I like to recall (Harsh feels uncomfortable about it too, but several people wrote to me to remind me after the Murray-Tsitsipas episode, so I tweeted about it).
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Unfair to say it only happens to our players. Gamesmanship happens in every sport in every country and impacts all players. Players from other countries are perhaps better at it because they play more competitive matches from an earlier age (IMHO).
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I also think we only note these things when our players disintegrate and lose. But, maybe many times they do not and we take it in stride and don't even notice it or think of it. Do we really lose more often due to bathroom breaks than not? I don't think so.