A Writerly Serve & Volley
By Roland Garros 2016, Djokovic winning a significant tennis tournament was a foregone conclusion. He won everything, had been basically doing so since 2014. 2015 and 2016 were arguably peak Djoker. Fedal were no where to be found. Murray and Stan made little cameos here and there. The tour belonged to Novak Djokovic. Then Djokollapse, …
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Djokovic had to work a bit to get by a charming Raonic. I almost titled this post "I was Raonic" since that seems to confess my error in overlooking the Canadian as much as I generally do. He played a nice brand of tennis yesterday, mixing-in the slice quite well. The FH broke-down, partly because …
Federer v Wawrinka Roger looked great in the first set, but really beatable in the second set. Mayer held the offensive advantage in many rallies there down-the-stretch. Roger needs to step-up the offense, S&V more, try to finish these points on his terms. Looked a little like Halle and Wimbledon where he just didn't have …
2nd set TB, Kyrgios serving for the set at 6-4. Double fault. He's kept his wits about him for the most part, partly, as I suggested in an earlier post, because his competition here would probably call-him-out (embarrass him) if he acted his usual fool. But a bit of miss there on SP. Del Potro's …
I need to come clean: I have not really followed that closely the restructuring of the Davis Cup. I do exist on Twitter in very limited capacity, so reading tweets from certain tennis folk who either clarify developments themselves or "retweet" those who cover these stories none the less does keep me more or less …
We'll see how much tennis they can get in this evening. Play has been suspended as the rain has returned with a fury. I've been watching Djokovic v Dimitrov. Dimitrov looked solid in the first set, Djokovic not so much (like his first set v Mannarino), Grigor prevailing pretty easily 6-2. In the second set, …
Here is a discussion of the Bo5 between Annacone, Davenport and Weissman (of TC). Consider Annacone as another traitor or diseased mind. I don't get this bizarre mutiny. Click the twitter link to listen to the short discussion. https://twitter.com/TennisChannel/status/1030054088463937537 So, to keep tabs on this roughly: Novak and Andy are for Bo3. Roger and Rafa …
https://twitter.com/TennisChannel/status/1029823793823240193 Click on the twitter link to hear the short interview Novak gave at the Tennis Channel desk. His thoughts on the Bo5 format are deplorable and weak. I am surprised he actually thinks even MAJORS should be Bo3. He did note that he disagreed with Federer, with a chuckle, so maybe he's saying this …
Whether the quickness of the courts got to the big German, or his strong start to the summer hard courts is just on the wane, or his karma is catching-up with him, having made some ill-advised, snotty little comments about Tsitsipas after his loss to the Greek in Toronto. . . or Haase showed how …
More quality matches on the schedule today in Cincinnati. Copil and Cilic are off and running, Copil taking the first set in a TB (the one-hander tribe grows in strength). Haase and Zverev are at it, Zverev taking the first set 7-5, but the Dutchman up a break in the second. Still to come: Djokovic …
