re: The Unofficial 2018 Australian Open Thread

Yeah, that half of the draw is tomorrow night. Tsonga/Shapo is tonight.

I think Djoker's elbow thing is just kind of preventative, but we'll see if the arm holds up in a tough match. He has an interesting team with Agassi and Radek Stepanek coaching him. The Worm was a tricky attacking player in his own right, but almost did even better off the court bagging some hot women despite looking like an ape. They must have liked his $$$$ or he has a monster.

Thiem hit the shot of the tournament yesterday
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But I think Busta topped that today, on set point
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To put it bluntly, he [Stepanek] has a big dick. No joke. A buddy of mine briefly played on the ATP men's tour, and told me about how Stepanek was known to sometimes sit naked in the men's locker room before a match to intimidate his opponent. It became a not so secret that got around to the women's side that Stepanek was seriously "packing". His subsequent success with the ladies on tour speaks for itself.

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From tennis forum

He didn’t “arrive” until mid 2017. He spent the early part of the year losing in the first round of Challengers.

Shapo is the kind of tennis I love
Serve Volley is GOAT

I better stop or I’ll break my promise I made earlier

Jo has to hold to stay in match
6-5 4th
Shapo to serve to send to breaker
Going to the breaker
JWT mini break up 3-1
JWT holds now up 5-1

Tsonga 62% first serves. Kinda surprising he is still in this match. Looks like he’s controlling points now though. He should win the 5th if he can serve like normal.

Unfortunately 5 sets is bad news for both guys, with the winner having to go through Kyrgios and Dimitrov just to make the quarters.

Shapo is toast.


Crazy that Tsonga made the final here 10 years ago. Has pretty much stayed a top 10-15 player ever since.

if Caroline doesn't win this major, i just don't know that she ever will win one

I want her to get one so badly. Just don't think it will ever happen.