AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2015

xp nadal was pretty undercooked on Wednesday night, I'd be surprised if he gets much further

I hope Dimitrov and Murray can do a repeat of their awesome match from Acapulco last year. Similar playing conditions.

that match might have been the best non-slam match of the year

What's Federer doing?

losing?

Impressive mental resilience from Seppi, but lol @ Fed

That Seppi MP!!

Also Wozniacki's lack of any answers to Vika's relentless FF CCs followed by a DTL approach shot was kind of embarrassing.

I mean that was amazing

(Seppi I mean)

Hearing Sascha Bajin commentating on Serena's R2 match was bizarre

And belated lol @ Ivanovic. Last 4 slams: R3 R3 R2 R1

omg Fed. what a way to lose. I swear I've seen a ton more players lose key points via leaving balls that drop in than usual this year.

Tomic/Groth second set TB was pure comedy, both DFing for their lives on SPs. NID that Tomic got it together though.

Zarina not putting up the fight I thought she would vs Ma$ha :((((((

Baby jesus wept wtf

serena's pathetic AO performances lately. i can't. looking so disinterested. i have a dissertation to write and i'll be too depressed to do it if you lose so come the fuck on

feet like lead / no game plan / nonchalantly spun in serves. at least i'mused to it now.

lol at that. svitolina just gave in. muguruza should be interesting. serena should be motivated and hopefully gets off to an energetic start for once.

courier called radwanska "aggie-rod"

i just cant

i wish espn 2 would show lopez/janowicz

im kindof into seeing djoko/verdasco - novak will kill him but verdasco will def hit some sic winners

im really pulling for feliciano lopez this tourney for some unknown to me reason - luv'ed that backhand slice winner after a long fhand rally that he was v defensive on, this is a cool match

dam didnt realize lopez had raonic next if he pulls this out

janovicz is selling out this 4-5 game, p smart prob

so bad that lopez double faulted @ 30-15

lopez is tuff 2 break cuz his ad serve is his best shot

omg this is p sweet play here

16 point game to close out the set

that was a crazy good pt at 40-40 4-4 3rd set

lopez is playing like as well as he is able i like seeing guys get the max out of their talent

vanderwegh handed that 2 brengle

there is def like a fedora meetup or giveaway why

Giorgi played so well against Venus but totally collapsed when she had to serve it out. So frustrating.

gonna b really crushing when johnson lets this slip away

wow

steve is moving well props

jeez
so much choking from azarenka that she shouldn't have been allowed to get away with
azarenka up *3-0 in 2nd, pegged back to 3-3, goes up a break again, loses it, goes from 30-0 to BP down when serving it out and zahlavova strycova misses the eaaaaasiest putaway volley. really wanted that match to go on longer

Verdasco fiasco in the TB. That DF and that shank from a minibreak up...

Bit surprised Venus beat Giorgi. Isner out, yes! Brengle in a Slam R4 is bizarre but I'll be forever indebted to her for ensuring it wasn't Vandeweghe.

Who'd have thought Domi would make the second week given her horrid form and nightmare draw!

Serena, Garbiñe and Aga have scored bagels in each of their matches so far (Garbiñe has still been taken to three sets in two of those).

Keys hits a spectacular pass to break...Kvitova responds with a great volley, a great get of a dropshot and then Keys hits herself out of the rest of the game.

Shira :(

I don't think it's full-on Shitra, both she and Keys have been up and down but not horrifically so. She just looks a lot more stressed than Keys

meanwhile Ferrer failed to serve out the match for a third time

Keys is so bad at consolidating her breaks

Her serve is pretty terrible. She barely wins the first point of any of her service games. This set her first serve % is at 39. That's... no.

I like Keys though. Also her pink outfit is really nice.

Keys was so bad at consolidating her breaks...EXCEPT when serving for the first set then the match!

(1) Serena Williams vs. (24) Garbine Muguruza
(11) Dominika Cibulkova vs. Victoria Azarenka
Madison Keys vs. Madison Brengle
(18) Venus Williams vs. (6) Agnieszka Radwanska
Julia Goerges vs. (10) Ekaterina Makarova
Yanina Wickmayer vs. (3) Simona Halep
(7) Eugenie Bouchard vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
(21) Shuai Peng vs. (2) Maria Sharapova

6/16 is pretty bad. Serena vs. Garbine rematch! Sort of surprising to me that Venus hasn't beaten Aga in five years. Wickmayer actually leads the h2h vs Halep 3-0, all easy but all 2012 or before.

Predicting, safely: S.Williams, Azarenka, Keys, Radwanska, Makarova, Halep, Bouchard, Sharapova

(1) Novak Djokovic vs. Gilles Muller
(12) Feliciano Lopez vs. (8) Milos Raonic
(4) Stan Wawrinka vs. Guillermo Garcia Lopez
(9) David Ferrer vs. (5) Kei Nishikori
(7) Tomas Berdych vs. Bernard Tomic
(14) Kevin Anderson vs. (3) Rafael Nadal
(6) Andy Murray vs. (10) Grigor Dimitrov
Nick Kyrgios vs. Andreas Seppi

Pretty proud of those Muller and Garcia Lopez predictions. 13/16! Just recalled Stan flopping for his life against GGL in the RG R1 last year...

Predicting: Djokovic, Raonic, Wawrinka, Nishikori, Tomic, Nadal, Murray, Kyrgios

lol @ isner destroying his racquet after muller wins 2nd set on that net cord, good fuckin riddance

Begu from 1-6 0-3 to 1-6 7-5. Bouchard DFed on SP :)

seems like it should be an exciting match rn but its kinda boring and terrible

there hasnt been a winner in as long as i can remember

God, yeah, this seems to have been going on forever and nothing is really happening.

Predix:

Serena vs Cibulkova
Keys vs Radwanska
Makarova vs Halep
Bouchard vs Sharapova

Djokovic vs Raonic
Wawrinka vs Nishikori
Berdych vs Nadal
Murray vs Kyrgios

(ok I know Makarova and Bouchard already won theirs but obv they would have been my predix)

Not convinced about Halep/Wickmayer or Keys/Brengle or Serena/Muguruza or Tomic/Berdych or basically any of these

Is Nadal ever just gonna be 100% over
Go Kevin!
Weird that they've only played once before. In 2010.

Nadal rolled past Anderson.

Dimitrov - Murray about to start..