AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2015

Go Muzza

Murray just changing pace on every shot for fun now

Kate stanning for Nastya <3

Q. There was a time when Russian women's tennis was very much in the limelight with Kuznetsova, Myskina, Kournikova. Can you talk about those times.

EKATERINA MAKAROVA: My idol was Anastasia Myskina. I was watching so many matches of her when she won the French Open and when she was playing Olympics. That was a great time, yeah, when Dementieva, Kuznetsova, Safina, they were all -- like we had four girls in the quarterfinal, two of them in the semis. Now it's a little bit less of us. I don't know. I really wanted to be one of them when I was watching them and learning some things from them. I'm so happy that these tournaments I'm quite like they are.

Q. Has Sharapova felt like part of that group? I know she doesn't spend much time in Russia or play Fed Cup very much. Does she feel a little different?

EKATERINA MAKAROVA: Well, that's tough question. I just want to leave it.

Q. Out of all of those women you mentioned, why Myskina?

EKATERINA MAKAROVA: I don't know. She looked so smart on the court. She doesn't have a lot of power, but she was moving the opponent so much. Like it was so enjoyable to watch her game. When I was going on the Kremlin Cup, when I can see her live, that was amazing. They were playing against Dementieva one year in the final, and it was like crushed stadium in Moscow, so it was great feeling to sit and watch it. Now I have a, like, great feeling when I'm there.

Sharapova's camera-drawing message utterly repulsive, heinous. Kerber beating her at Wimbledon probably my favourite tennis match of the last five years (it was a truly great match too)

Wish I could watch more of this but it comes at bad times.Also I don't have my laptop rn so I will just have to imagine the pride of Cyprus crumbling in a heap

Makarova can beat her, right?

I do love watching Andy Murray swear at himself in slow motion. Eurosport are excellent at showing it.

lmao these lobs

Peak Murray lobbing to win the TB

Makarova can beat her, right?

0-5 h2h, I would say no

Kyrgios standing flummoxed at the net as he gets lobbed repeatedly is comedy gold.

^ this. He's just so eminently slappable. The Eurosport commentator (whoever it is that's not Mats Wilander) jizzing himself about how young and exciting he looks with his hair and his eyebrows and his headphones was also comedy gold, like he's never seen a teenager before.

I hope Maria beats Makarova but I was more comfortable and secure faced with Bouchard who half-assed her way to the QF.

Fond of Murray's tricks today

Beautiful BH DTL from Murray

Kyrgios is like a Monfils who cares about winning

Another lob, another break

Kyrgios standing at the net shitting himself at the prospect of Murray blasting him/lobbing him for the zillionth time = lolz galore

Amelie's new-wave hairstyle = awesome

enjoyed that attempted Kyrgios tweener that dribbled into the net earlier

FH winner to win!

why Halep why??

Berdych should beat Murray, his 2nd serve is there to be pummelled.

Serena looking boss, despite battling a cough - she could barely speak during her on-court interview. Serve was clicking.

PeakStan. Nishikori isn't even playing terribly but can't seem to get anything past him.

Gutsy stuff from Stan to seal the second set. Poor Kei. That body serve to his chest on BP was cruel.

Never seen Kei so deflated. Completely outgunned.

Holy shit just when it looked like it was all over, Kei goes from 1-6 down in the TB to 6-6

Noooo Kei why did you do thattt

Jeez... Saves five match points only to lose it through an ill-advised drop shot. Credit to Stan for not choking though.

Kei :(((((

Third year running we have a 19-yr-old in the women's SFs. As I said both last year and the year before, I like Keys' upside way more than Stephens' or Bouchard's.

Congrats to Serena on the title.

Quite like Stan to retain the title. Seems wrong for him to win one slam.

Third straight year of a Nole/Stan AO match, hopefully as good as the past two years...

(1) Serena Williams vs. Madison Keys
(10) Ekaterina Makarova vs. (2) Maria Sharapova

Williams 0-0 Keys
Sharapova 5-0 Makarova

zzz

(1) Novak Djokovic vs. (4) Stan Wawrinka
(7) Tomas Berdych vs. (6) Andy Murray

Djokovic 18-3 Wawrinka
Berdych 6-4 Murray

ive barely seen murray this tourney but if berdych plays as well as he did vs nadal (huge if obv) he'll win. granted, I would NEVER bet on berdych to win

obv early, but makarova looks shook

her serve looks terrible vs maria whereas vs halep it won her the match

Keys hanging tough, saves seven MPs to make Serena serve it out. Wish she had started playing like this, like four games ago.

8th MP saved

Fun match... Second set was way closer than the score suggests. Keys keeps getting better and better.

This final again! Looking at my Saturday morning timings...I'll be in the air again but this could well be nice timing for it to start and finish during my entire stopover in Paris. Pity Paris airport wifi sucked

So...Berdych to win in four, maybe straight sets actually.

I could really with the Beeb showing Djoko - Stan tomorrow but its not high profile enough - I'll worry about that later tho'.

Embarrassing at the net from Berdych but he is already all over Murray's serve: 1-1

LOL DF -- Murray went for a 2nd serve ace.

Murray can't get near Berdych's serve right now..

In the prev Murray game he made an impossible get possible at 0-30. Berdych got him into deuce but Murray held on - great resistance.

Can't find his way into B's serve tho'.

question of when not if and so it proves. Berdych to serve for the set.

Couple of unforced errors from Berdych and Murray made him pay - break back!

Fuck is Berdych doing changing balls, playing games here.

no andy why you had him on the ropes.

This was "nonsense" Andy, yes it was..

Berdych should have made that way more harder for Murray: TB

Murray breaks racquet string to hand the mini-break back

Played great at the net to save the first set point