Tennis Thread: Australian Open 2019 & onwards..........

[magimedi]

Hope it's OK for me to start a new thread - could not believe we'd burned out on the last one.

Am looking forward to seeing highlights of the Fed/Tits match later.

Can't believe this.

Right. Now I'm panicking.

I'm not even panicking- I'm just .

I've seen Rafa do it often enough at RG in finals- he steps up a gear, made the opponent- whoever they were- look like they can't play.

Djok is doing the same.

Djok is definitely doing voodoo!!

Rafa isn't moving properly.

McEnroe rushes to bathroom...

Jane

Eek.

Same here no panic just sad.
This isn't really even a match so far.

Jane

Rafa's changing it up a bit.

Rafa's body language is just
Where's his energy???

I don’t even think that Djokovic is playing that amazingly - he is playing well but it’s just not happening for Rafa for some reason

Rafa's expression says what we're thinking

Fizzy no, Rafa is handing it to him on a plate a bit.

If he loses this game, I think it's the end.

Right- Vamos get fired up!

Djok is returning really well. Rafa needs to get him running around more but it's just not working

And now to piss me off, I have the Incredible India advert

I was thinking that Raahh - that was specially for you

Fizzy

My telly keeps freezing.

If Rafa could just get going a bit the crowd would get behind him and then Novak would get pissed off and might lose it a bit.

Yes Novak doesn't look ruffled at all. He isn't making any errors, he's just letting rafa make mistakes and being so steady.

Only good news is it looks like a much needed early night here.

Oh my.