*Official* Tennis Thread

[SirBloody Idiot]

Yeeeehhahaha~!

 

[pasag]

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

 

[GIMH]

So it goes to a 5th, seems apt

 

[Jono]

Wow. Just wow. Mother ****ing wow.

 

[duffer]

****

 

[archie mac]

Yesssssssssssssssss

Eidt= not as excited as Pasag

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Amazing.

And no tie-break in the fifth. This could go on for a couple centuries.

 

[social]

Win or lose, he's a great champion - to pull that set out was unbelievable

 

[Jono]

Samuel, have a look at Nadal 5-2 up, and tell me that wasn't a clutch point which he stuffed up on the serve.

Served a brilliant 1st serve percentage the whole match, so why on that point? Luck? No. Pressure.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Samuel, have a look at Nadal 5-2 up, and tell me that wasn't a clutch point which he stuffed up on the serve.

Served a brilliant 1st serve percentage the whole match, so why on that point? Luck? No. Pressure.

Not having a feed now so can't comment. I will say double faults happen though

 

[GIMH]

So, how many games will we see here? As people have said, could be a long night.

I should definitely watch more tennis.

 

[irfan]

How Federer won that tie-break from 5-2 is beyond belief, that backhand pass championship pt (9-8 down) was simply amazing. What a genius! Unbelievable stuff

 

[social]

BTW, watching this with Arabic commentary

Commentators are obviously soocer lovers and also love Federer as they greeted his last winner with Rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Funny stuff although I can only understand the odd word

 

[Jono]

10-8 Federer is my prediction.

Me crying is my prediction as well.

 

[ohtani's jacket]

Borg looked about as pleased as Sanz.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Haha, best tiebreak. Hate you England. Want sleeeeep.

Don't believe in skill to win clutch points tbh. Might do if I watched more tennis, but it seems like a story to make sense of a random, small sample of a bigger game. Every match I've watched with Federer before keeps pointing out "how good he is on clutch points", then suddnely he isn't.

Words of a man who doesn't play enough sport imo.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Words of a man who doesn't play enough sport imo.

But I'm rubbish, these guys aren't.

 

[Jono]

Borg looked about as pleased as Sanz.

Borg's face is how I imagine Sanz' face is every time he posts actually

 

[BoyBrumby]

Samuel, have a look at Nadal 5-2 up, and tell me that wasn't a clutch point which he stuffed up on the serve.

Served a brilliant 1st serve percentage the whole match, so why on that point? Luck? No. Pressure.

Ha, yep. Nadal was tight as a drum when he served for the championship as well. Thought he'd won it with that passing shot the point before, but Fed dredged up its equal from somewhere. This is some game, it must be said. I'm not the greatest tennis fan in the world, but as a spectacle this is up there with anything.

 

[stumpski]

I never really watch tennis but have had this game on today and it's blown me away.

Likewise. Can't help thinking Nadal's choked though.