AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2015

Fucking DF...tie break it is.

pulling my hair out @ this.

Good challenge Dimitrov, then wins points after an excellent rally, on serve: 2-1

that pass!!!!

siiick passing backhand

Dimitrov to serve for the set

sigh

That Murray game where he failed to serve out the 2nd set was such a failure. Like, that drop-shot was nearly as tragic as the DF.

Two more BPs Murray

Two decent 1st serves..

Murray does break - and here we go again.

No dramas. 2-1

No way he is winning another slam playing like this but really should be more than enough for Dim.

ffs 3-0 Dimitrov

Although there appeared to be something going on with Murray's left wrist, not sure if that was a factor.

I got distracted by something else: Murray one point away, seems Dim acted like the shitty player he is.

lmao Murray you lucky bastard

And comes though, listening on radio...net cord or something. Why didn't this end an hour ago? Goran is 'happy'.

xp

Dimitrov really unimpressive - some flashy patches of play as ever but he didn't make Murray pay for any of those missed opportunities and the final choke was hilarious. Peak racquet smash though, best I've seen since Zvonareva.

Murray's purple patch at the end was welcome and Kyrgios is a nice match-up in the next round.

Peak racquet smash though

That was proper mega-tantrum lolz.

great pt by cibu to get to 5-3 3d set

serenas in srs trouble

that key second game of third set. <3 better serving in the 2nd half of that match than i've seen from her in like 2 years. muguruza was dictating like the whole match, but serena did a better job of moving her around and hitting with controlled power as the match went on and just generally BSing her way through the match and staying mentally strong despite woeful BP %/comical approach shots. PROUD.

the scheduling is just the worst. this is the second year in a row i've missed domi blowing up the draw

wow a straightforward win for Kei. I hope he can repeat his USO win over Stan now.

Domi! Finding form out of nowhere.

raonic has such a punchable face

wow, Lopez saves two MPs in the fourth set TB (after saving two MPs in R1 and one MP in R2) to take it into a fifth. Saved one with a s&v and the second on Raonic's serve with a brilliant BH pass

Aga approaches off a mid-pace short ball down the middle, Venus buries the pass in the bottom of the net

12-deuce game and Venus breaks...

Venus losing it. That smash into the back fence...

Radwanska is so useless, I love it. So close, Venus! Please not yet another close 3 set slam loss.

That smash triggered her getting it together to an extent. From a break down to 4-1 up but this is patchy tennis.

Only just got home at 1-0 in the third but if Radwanska has been playing like this how did she even win games let alone a set. My god, she has no kill shots as ever but she doesn't even have touch. Keys would just annihilate her, so might as well lose to Venus.

Aga's timing is all over the place now

Aga's approaches and volleys were terrible all night, really. Venus stemmed her UEs impressively...

amazing win for Venus! although radwanska literally was just unbelievably bad.

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

15/16. could not be more ecstatic about the one i got wrong!!

Women's QFs set.

(1) Serena Williams vs. (11) Dominika Cibulkova
Madison Keys vs. (18) Venus Williams
(10) Ekaterina Makarova vs. (3) Simona Halep
(7) Eugenie Bouchard vs. (2) Maria Sharapova

H2Hs

Serena 4-0 Domi
Venus 1-0 Madison
Simona 1-0 Kate
Maria 3-0 Eugenie

Venus/Keys seems like the only one that could potentially go the other way but even then I'm backing Venus. I changed my mind and put some money on her before this match - realised that she'd been physically done when she played Aga the last few times, but the day off would have helped her here. Never looked in danger of tiring.

oh wait djokovic didn't play yet lol

makarova/halep doesn't seem very set in stone to me!

I think Makarova might need to really peak to win though, Halep will expose her movement

Garbiñe gives some advice:

Q. Maria Sharapova has not beaten Serena in 10 years. If you could give Maria any advice from your experience, what would you tell her?

GARBINE MUGURUZA: [...] I think maybe improve more the way she plays to beat her. I think the way she plays is not the way to beat Serena. That's what I saw in the 10 years.

So happy Domi has managed to hold on to some of those finalist points from last year after flopping the entire rest of the year. The massive free-fall predicted has not come.

Now pulling for her or Kate Mak to win the whole thing even though this will not occur.

Garbi :D

Men's QF set. Only Fed failed to make it out of the top 8 seeds.

(1) Novak Djokovic vs. (8) Milos Raonic
(4) Stan Wawrinka vs. (5) Kei Nishikori
(7) Tomas Berdych vs. (3) Rafael Nadal
(6) Andy Murray vs. Nick Kyrgios

Novak 4-0 Milos
Stan 2-1 Kei
Rafa 18-3 Tomas
Andy 1-0 Nick

yea & they commented that berdych hasn't beaten rafa since before iphones existed

stan/kei shd be a great match

wow halep is reaally off rn

i like halep but i get suckered into rooting for lefties p often

halep is struggling w/ the eKatMak serve

these girls have like the exact same game