As hard as this is to believe, I don't have much to say. Federer should win this match v Cilic for a number of reasons. His level, variety, history, career confidence, H2H with the Croatian, the players' friendship (it's genuine), the night match conditions, his staying power helped by his reduced draw rigor, possibility of …
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Federer v Chung SF Preview
The second SF lifts off for us on the U.S. west coast at around 12:30am. Do you know how many times I've been up at 3 and even 4am watching these ATP blokes slug-it-out down-under? Too many. We have another one tonight. If we take a more basic approach to this match, Federer should win. …
AO QF: Nadal’s Loss and Federer’s Win
The Nadal loss is. . . stunning for some, predictable for others, symptomatic of the plague of injury, somehow an injustice . . . My crap detector condemned the premature ejaculation over Nadal's championship form against this or that also-ran (I sound pretty disrespectful in these over-generalizations of ATP talent, but I think my point …
Federer v Berdych Preview
This is late. Didn't have time to write this preview, but have started thinking about my Nadal Melbourne eulogy and will post that tomorrow along with reaction to this last QF. Like Nadal, we're having a tough time reading Federer, but from what I've seen the tennis hasn't been lights-out; but neither have his opponents, …
Dimitrov Falls to Kyle Edmund
We said this yesterday: "But as we said in our preview, I’m not necessarily sold on [Dimitrov] vs. Nadal. And would it shock you if he lost to a surging Edmund, who, as I said in my draw analysis, has a very solid (big) game." We also just argued how the power game is really …
Djokovic v Chung 2018 AO R16
Ваy, 와우, wow. . . Would love to have live blogged this match. So many thoughts racing through my imagination while these two genius' raced along the baseline to-and-fro, chasing their dreams, running from their nightmares. There's a bit of context to a match like this. Penetration. The man with the most violent ground stroke …
AO R16: Dimitrov Outclasses Kyrgios
I was wrong on this one, on the pick to win the match. Kyrgios was awful and Dimitrov was steady enough to take care of business, which is no small task in the heat of R16 play at a major. He played and acted like a top seed. Very good to see this Dimitrov, which …
AO R16
An interesting couple of days, which is really par for the course. Some upsets (on paper) and a few guys seemingly finding some form for the second week of tennis in Melbourne. Top-down, we have Nadal facing the ever resilient Schwartzman in R16. I have made clear my cynicism about Nadal's little Australian summer vacation; …
AO R32 (Update Draw Analysis)
A quick post as the R32 is underway. Federer's QF match with Del Potro looks wicked; if Del Potro somehow doesn't survive his R16, Federer's route becomes pretty enviable. I watched a bit his R2 match and #2 looked sharper, more efficient against a big attacking German no less. Fun tennis match to watch, for …
Federer Bedene Translation and Novak is Back
If you didn't watch the Federer v Bedene match, here's your take-away, according to the ATP website and probably a bunch of tweets and other media. As I write this post, that's the main page story, which sounds just delightful. The match was not a masterclass. Bedene resisted once the first set was in the …
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