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Anyone else watching the Alcott Vs Scroder game? 

It's been very close with the score 5-4 after a lengthy battle for the advantage in the last game.

Even though Medvedev was quite lucky to get through against Felix I believe the match against Tsitsipas will be a much more uneven match.
Tsitsipas has already overachieved so far in AO given his current condition and now he is going up against the big favorite. I believe the Felix match was more a off day for Medvedev and he is ready to hit back hard tomorrow. For me its not many factors that point in the direction of Tsitsipas in this game. Before AO kicked off the outright odds on the winner was Medvedev @2.50 vs Tsitsipas @40. I think we get a 3-0 Medvedev in this one.

The match I look the most forward to is Nadal vs Berrettini. I think this will be a very tight match with a lot of points and even games. Berrettini been serving extremely well at times so I give him a small advantage in this match, but he also struggled a lot against both Alcatraz and Monflis after being 2-0 up against both so he need to keep his focus on top here against Nadal. A couple of weeks ago I gave Nadal next to zero chance to get to the final, but Nadal been solid and made it into the semis surprisingly easy. My guess is a 5-setter with Berrettini coming out as the winner in the end.

My pics for the semis are Barty and Collins.

If Keys wins over Barty, then my money's on Keys as I feel she can best Collins as well as Swiatek who I feel will be out this round.

This semi-final is a repeat of last year where Tsitsipas lost 3 straight sets, maybe Medvedev was exhausted from the 5 sets match but I don't think it will greatly affect his performance, and what Medvedev has but Tsitsipas not is the strong mentality that was evident in yesterday's match, not many players can turn things around When it's left behind and also face match point. I would rather see Berrettini vs Medvedev in the final.

Women's semifinals today:
Barty vs Keys and Collins vs Swiatek, I picked overs on these two matches.

Well if Medvedev will start very slow like in the Felix match, then it good be a good five setter.

But if started hot and win at least one of the two sets, then I doubt that this will be extended to five set.

Yeah, one advantage is that Tsitsipas has more rest than Medvedev but we all know that most high level tennis players are not affected by this burn out from previous match. And as much as I love my boy Tsitsipas, with the way Medvedev comes back against Felix AA, I will go with Medvedev here.

Medvedev has a lot of head to head wins against Tsitsipas. The only thing that goes in Tsitsipas favor is that he finished in straight sets while Medvedev struggled and is a little more fit then Medvedev for this match,they also dont have a good history between them so im expect a 5-set match honestly.

Actually i was not surprised that medvedev struggled against aliasime the canadian was playing really good since he faced evans and now medvedev will play against another exceptional player in the tournament which is tsitsipas i think stefanos have a high chance of getting to the final, even nadal will have difficulties against berretini we can see some surprises.

On the part of Medvedev, there was some impressiveness and low energy bordering on apathy in the first two sets. Auger-Aliassim, on the contrary, played well in the first two sets and, most importantly, held his serve quite confidently, almost not giving Medvedev a chance to make a break. But this could not go on indefinitely and Medvedev began to wake up and show the game, thanks to which he is the second racket of the world and the main contender to displace Djokovic from the first place in the ranking. The main watershed occurred in the third set, when Medvedev made a mini-break on the tiebreak and after closing the roof on the court finished the case by successfully winning the tiebreak. Let Medvedev still continued to walk on the edge of the abyss and even got a match point from an opponent on his serve, but the contours of that game were already visible due to which Medvedev could win the match. Evidence of this is the successful and confident playing of break balls on his serve, when they periodically arose. Auger-Aliassim gave chances in the fourth and fifth sets by giving his serve once and Medvedev was able to take advantage of this thanks to his high class.

For me the best potencial of them all is the spanish player Alcaraz. His style and how hood he is playing i see him in top 5 in the next 2-3 years honestly. I think he can make it really fast into the top 10 as well if he wins a few tournaments.

There are a lot of young talents coming up (besides Sinner, you have Alcaraz, Tsitsipas,...) that have a bright future but we need to wait and see how all these talents develop and what they can achieve. I think at this moment Medvedev and Thiem stand the furthest and have already achieved the most.

What Medvedev has accomplished today shows why he is the number 2 in the world. match point and he has also trailed 2-0 in sets. Then you see the class of such players. if he wins the tournament, he would become the new number 1 in the world. It's strange that he is then above Djokovic, but he may not try to defend his title for the next 3 years. I'm curious how that ends. that guy should just get vaccinated and stop making excuses and think he's an exception because he's Djokovic.

I love see Sinner playing. He is a very young talent that will compete at higher and higher level year by year.
 He has not enough experience but Is just matter of time he will " litterally explode". I have placed a lot of winning bets thanks to his performances.

I think we will see Sinner develop more this year and even as the year progresses,
he is still young and ranked 11, he should definitely break into the the top 10 this year.


Couldnt believe what I was seeing when I checked in the 3rd set, Felix AA up the
first 2 sets. I like Felix but I have Medvedev to win the title!

That's a really interesting image, particularly for someone like me who likes digging into the data. Thanks for sharing.

It's interesting how the last few years 2017-18 onwards have really seen a lot of newcomers break through. We were aware that the Federer/Nadal/Djokovic era was ending on the men's side, and we can see that a bit here.

This is maybe a little counterintuitive from 2020 onwards, where the tour has been hampered by the pandemic, so you'd maybe think it's harder for new players to break through in slams as they just haven't gained the experience of going deep in a big tournament. But of course the last women's US Open really showed that it's possible.

Man but Medvedev just made it as hard as possible on himself, didn't he? For a moment 3:4 on final set, thought Aliassime would get the tiebreak and smash his way on but Russian too good, then showed him how to do it. Almost forced another epic late on, but lost his composure already.

Tsitsi v Medvedev it is! I can't wait!

Anyway, didn't read until recently about Special Ks on-field antics. I mean, I do think there's a reason why some players are friends with others, but surely opponents know Aussies can be quite "cruel" with the support, but I'd love getting the crowd against me for no reason. Moral high ground right?

Anyway, first time in 33 GSs that all semifinalists in men's and women's aren't virgins Proper good, huh? Image from Ben Rothenberg Twitter



Haha, well it's on topic since it relates to our ability to watch sports. I have a full-time "domestic engineering" job, from or at home or on the road 18 hours a day since 2016 so the pandemic way of life IS my way of life haha.

On regular days I am up very early, before 6 am, but chores and cooking and then I have to then commute once or twice throughout the day to send/fetch a kid to school that's unfortunately quite far away, to be home in time to make food and clean etc. So I'm really only free to start work by 830-930 once back home. I've been freelancing all these years so I manage my work in short spouts of hours in between the entire day.

I actually post on this forum about 25% from my phone while on bus/train? I never really calculate but I do post 1/2/3 daily from my phone.

The past 2 weeks though, we have all been on lockdown and personal situation and when I get precious days like these I stay up late and wake up late;) So no need to wake up too early, as the day becomes so gruelling once everyone is up!

Medvedev looking the likelier winner now, a break up in the fifth set (3-1) ... of course this means whoever wins, they will be tired when they play the semi against Tsitsipas... so maybe we will see Tsitsipas in the final against Nadal?

TBH I'm surprised this has gone to a fifth, I'd have thought Medvedev would win fairly comfortably... but my tennis betting record is not great

Wow, F. Auger-Aliassime won the first set mate, 7-6, was really very close match indeed.
Odds though still favors Medvedev at around 1.60 and Felix at 2.30.
So I guess it's a good odds you got early, you can still go and bet for Felix because the odds are still very good. So good luck with that.

hey, good luck today

not following much AO this year, due to karma
Sinner was fast to lose, but Medvedev and Felix could see much longer match (not watching, just following results)
women tennis seems more interesting at the moment, since there is a few good players, that could all win the any tournament, though Barty is seen as a winner here

The match had ended and Nadal won the match. Shapovalov did good but it was not enough against the experience Nadal. He took every advantage he could take from Shapovalov's mistakes and in the last set, he won 6-3

And Tsitsipas got a clean sweep against Sinner as he won 3 straight sets and eventually the game. He won 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. A great show match from Tsitsipas. Looking forward to his more matches.

Experience does play a huge role but also the physical situation also plays a big part in terms of Tennis. He may be able to clutch out pressure situations with the help of his experience, but in terms of pace, he will fall behind other younger players.

And also if we talk about endurance, he will also be behind other players. So I think it's a 50-50 chance.