re: The 2021 Unofficial Australian Open Thread

Grandma Venus just played great against tricky Flipkens.

LanierSpots' favorite player about to take the court.

Tennys sounds tasty.

Do they not have a camera on the Fritz court??

Giron up7/6

There ya go Fritzy

Giron really pushed Zverev early. Kyrigos looked solid once again and having these crowds back makes this 100x more exciting.

Apparently "challenges" are so engrained in professional tennis that you simply cannot just "get rid of them".

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“If a player is requesting that they would like to see a point-ending shot that has not animated automatically, then play can be stopped if the chair umpire is of the opinion that the request is reasonable, and the chair umpire should announce the replay. Play should not continue until the shot is shown on the big screen.”

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The only time a point ending shot won't we shown on the screen is if it is over 6" away from the line.

So the decision has already been made, but now you get to see it on tv.

From ausopen.com-

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The Australian Open adopts the ‘three-plus-one’ electronic review system. Players will receive three incorrect challenges during each set and a fourth challenge if a set goes to a tiebreaker.

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So as I read it, every single challenge will be wrong. But we are still going to stop play to let the players challenge 3+1 times per set. Too funny.

So how bad does Joker run Bell from BBD tomorrow? I am thinking 3/4/3

The end of Shapovalov and Sinner was great. Shapo pulled Sinner way out wide on a match point and Sinner hit a sick return at Shapo's feet. Shapo DFs at deuce, then battles back to close it out.

OK, need this good ole baw to win me back some money I lost on the Super Bowl.