Tennis

[The Horse's Mouth]

she's alright, Stosur's arms had me distracted all game though. She's surely on the juice.

[The Horse's Mouth]

Serena is proper bottling

[leicsmac]

Murray with the first set vs Stan, played about as well as I've ever seen him on clay as Wawrinka was throwing the kitchen sink at him. Needs to keep it up.

[IOWFOX]

Some game this! Could be in for one hell of an afternoon.

[leicsmac]

That was one of the best return games I've seen Murray play. And he's played plenty of damned good ones.

[foxes_rule1978]

cant watch it but, it seems like Murray is having a great game

[IOWFOX]

This is ridiculous from murray. Stan looks completely blown away.

[leicsmac]

cant watch it but, it seems like Murray is having a great game

 

Trying to think of when he dealt with a dangerous opponent in a big match as well as this. Only coming up with the Madrid 2015 final v Nadal, the Wimby final v Djokovic or the Olympic final v Fed. This is up there with any of them.

 

But there's still plenty of time for shit to go wrong.

[leicsmac]

Two sets up. First French Open final in the offing.

 

Murray has only lost once from a two set advantage in his career, and that was at Wimbledon 2005.

[The Horse's Mouth]

it would be pretty hilarious if Murray gets a French Open before Novak

[Super_horns]

^{So can Murray repeat his recent wins or will Novak complete the Grand Slam?}

Edited 3 June 2016 by Super_horns

[Facecloth]

Playing the era he has, to reach all four Slam final is a brilliant achievement by Murray. He might have always had one or two players ahead of him over the years in Federer, Nadal and then Djokovic, but he's certainly a level about all the others. Could be an Australian Open away from completing the Slam after the weekend.

 

As far as I can work out he's the 10th man in the open era to reach all 4 finals, after Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Lendl, Agassi, Edberg, Rosewell, Courier and Laver. Not sure if I missed anyone.

Edited 3 June 2016 by Facecloth

[hatasi]

Hingis completed her 4 mixed doubles grand slam now

[Manwell Pablo]

Interesting final, I fancy Murray more than usual, Murray may not be at his best on clay but think the same could be said of Novak.

Will be utter hilarious and ridiculous for a Brit to win the French there's about 5 clay courts in the country.

[The Horse's Mouth]

Garbine did it <3 , a victory for tennis

[Manwell Pablo]

Garbine did it <3 , a victory for tennis

So happy, I have been resigned to the fact serena will beat grafs record at some point but starting to hold out a bit of hope now.

[kingfox]

Nice to see Garbiñe pull through, if she was to beat Serena in a Slam final then you'd definitely pick Roland Garros as the likeliest destination and thankfully she delivered.

Serena seems very vulnerable recently, a lot of erratic performances in slams where quite a few players have had chances to beat her, beginning of her decline perhaps?

[Facecloth]

Serena seems very vulnerable recently, a lot of erratic performances in slams where quite a few players have had chances to beat her, beginning of her decline perhaps?

Exactly what I said back in January and you said I was talking crap

[foxes_rule1978]

I have a good feeling Murray will win tomorrow...

[kingfox]

Exactly what I said back in January and you said I was talking crap

Was that before or after she lost to Kerber?

I see it was after, I did say she puts in the odd weird performances in Slams nowadays. Honestly that loss to Vinci was a shock but I'm sure many thought it would be a blip, then that loss to Kerber came and because of the year she had last year I didn't think a full decline was on the cards, she's lost Grand Slam Finals before and played far worse than she did in the Kerber match.

Now though I admit these performances are way more frequent, beaten by Azarenka & Kuznetsova as well this season. This French Open, Mladenovic, Putintseva & Bertens all had chances against her, Muguruza ended up being the one to capitalise on her chances.

Let's see how she does at Wimbledon, another title to defend; however with your statement in January I'm starting to agree with you.

Edited 4 June 2016 by kingfox

[Facecloth]

Was that before or after she lost to Kerber?

After I think but you still called it crap so I don't see you point?

[foxes_rule1978]

3 consecutive major finals she has lost in now, it is evident for all to see that cracks have started to appear. In today's final she actually never was in it, she was well beaten

[kingfox]

3 consecutive major finals she has lost in now, it is evident for all to see that cracks have started to appear. In today's final she actually never was in it, she was well beaten

2 mate, US Final was contested by Pennetta & Vinci

[kingfox]

After I think but you still called it crap so I don't see you point?

Edited my post for you.

Don't shoot me down, I've been reasonable & nice.

[foxes_rule1978]

2 mate, US Final was contested by Pennetta & Vinci

Indeed it was... 3 consecutive majors*