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Off topic: the tennis season thread

Australia is going to the Davis Cup finals!

What does everyone think of the new Davis Cup format this year? A bit more "world cup ish". I like it

Can the joker surpass Federer's 20 slams?

Missed McEnroe commentary, Hewit and Courier to bias towards Nadal, fancy telling us that Nadal jumping up and down in the tunnel was playing mind games with Djokovic. The joker played the mind games on the court. McEnroe would’ve told wake up to themselves.

Well done the joker, far to good.

Novak has all the answers

Quick start by the joker

Novak will be the GOAT by the time he retires

Agree that Osaka was quite modest but that tool Tony Jones had a really silly tone to his post match interview

It was a great women’s final, good tennis and tense right to the end. Osaka has lots of improvements yet, will be a great champion, very humble as well.

Well done Osaka the new #1

Wonder if the haters of the 3 import rule are salty that having courier and McEnroe has squeezed Sam Groth out of the box

I thought Roger played pretty poorly against tsitsipas. Too much hype for the young kid, although he was very good himself. Tonight showed he's got a ways to go

So much for McEnroe’s big statements about the new generation coming through.

Roger reminded him that one win doesn’t make someone a champion, then Rafa showed the class that the ‘older generation’ have and put McEnroe back in his box

Having said that, I do love the commentary that McEnroe and especially Courier bring as both have been great champions and deserve respect (just not get carried away)

The three commentators were fantastic, really enjoyable.

Nadal is just to good, won’t drop a set to win, will overtake Federer in majors.

Pathetic effort from Tsitsipas tonight

Courier AND McEnroe in the commentary booth tonight

Serena Williams has been eliminated!

Roger Federer has been knocked out by a man they're calling the Greek freak!!

Kyrigos is a piece of shit.

Each to their own:):)

McEnroe >> Courier

McEnroe is jovial, makes it fun.

Lol my bad, they did. Awesome.

Kyrigos, tomic, kokkinakis. Hopefully all 3 go out first round.

Loving John McEnroe commentary, Kyrgios has to grow up, the mans a pratt

I guess some people have a really weak definition of great

definitely not a 'great' with 3 grand slam wins and 2 of those handed to him on a platter (i.e. never had to beat anyone good because the top players were either out injured at the time or upset out by someone else)
will be known as a great talent who wasted it by choking a lot

Well Vardy just couldn't guts it out as well as her opponent and came in a tough second but De Maneaur did a great job winning his first major, well done to both!

LOL

you will love it if every team is allowed to have 3 import players

What? I don't mind Davis Cup but don't see the point of all these new team based tournaments especially since it's become political and a way to defend perceived turf.

World Tour Cup LOL... more garbage team based tournaments yay. ATP only set it up to counter the privately run Laver Cup.

Perthworld, your tone about January will surely change next year with the World Tour Cup. Players are getting happier with the Aus Open every year, and it's becoming as prestigious as the other slams

James Harvey liked grass, clay... pretty much everything.

James Harvey too

Pat Cash used to love playing on grass.

Can't say I've ever paid detailed attention to Queen's being a minor tournament. I follow tennis but not *that* closely. Re: Wimbledon - probably just a sucker for the history and the club's charm. They should play more grass during the season.

Wimbledon is crap for quality because people don't play grass 11 months of the year. Surely you will look to any of the other three majors if quality is so imperative.

Monte Carlo, yeah that's another. Admit it, you can't beat Queen's Day 1... pristine grass with the brick clubhouse right beside the court. Gorgeous

Aus Open is the most well-run and accommodating-to-players slam on the calender. We have the most impressive tournament on the tour, it's a real feat. Not something that can be dismissed

Wimbledon for a major.

Monte Carlo for a smaller tournament purely due to the scenery.

Well shit, you're an anonymous poster.

All you pricks are the same to me.

PW, can't go past Gstaad and Queen's for spectacle and Aus Open for overall excitement level

look at that all 3 of the multiple personalities talking to each other what are the odds

Perthworld, what's your favourite tournament?

European summer i.e. French Open clay, Wimbledon grass, even Masters tournaments such as historic Monte Carlo are the best. Although I am in Perth so our timezone suits it better than the east.

I follow tennis but all year round, really don't understand why people only follow it during the most boring month of the year since the players are starting their season so aren't 100%. Oh wait, since it's in our country it means it's good - then forgotten about. Sheep. Give me a break, the rest of the season especially May-June onwards is the best when things really heat up.