Tennis thread: Australian Open finals and beyond!

[PrivateSpidey]

All tennis chat welcome here

Sorry all - I got so distracted with my own inane witterings that I forgot to press "create thread"!

Anyway hello all!
.bit scrappy from Thiem there. Looks like he's feeling the after effects of the Rafa match maybe.

Thanks Private

Some good challenges by Sascha. The line judges need some coffee.(or chicken as suggested by autocorrect!)

Thank you!
I've just realised Sascha and Thiem are wearing the same shirt, in different colours.

It is looking quite easy for Sascha at the moment. Maybe Thiem hasn't recovered from his match againat Rafa.

But Sascha is playing really well from what little I have seen so far.

x post re the Rafa match.

Wonder what it feels like to beat your Clay dad?

It will be a huge turnaround if Sascha wins this match after the year he had. He worked really hard to get back into contention.

And Frew has jinxed Sascha now.

Oh shut it Frew!

Oh, so now they have written Sascha off.

Make your minds up.

Why are they so annoying!

I saw Rafa left a nice post on Domi's Instagram, congratulating him on his win. Stan did for Sascha, too.

Honestly. Can you imagine Mac, Connors etc doing things like that (if they had Instagram back then?!).

no! Not at all

Rafa was lovely about Dom in his press conference- I mean it must have been a difficult loss, but he is always very gracious. He said before the match, that he likes Dom, and hopes he likes him too.

Aww that's romantic

Oh- it's going back the other way now. It's a funny match this.

What will the doom mongers say now?

Oh he's been on top most of the match now is it?

Jane
I love Rafa interviews, his Rafa-ese always makes things sound a bit dodgy .

that's the exact opposite of what they said earlier!

Jane they really can't make their minds up.

I suppose it is harder for them when they have no-one to be specifically biased against.

I'm not sure they want either to win!

I know Raahh and then he looks confused when people laugh so sweet.

And he has broken back.

Interesting.

Don't start with the net cord again Domi!

There was actually an ad I liked then - the Guinness one.

It's his BFF, that net cord. He admitted he got lucky with it in his last match.

Spidey I like that one!

Pity I didn't have a wealthy, tennis loving, relative to leave me money to travel the Slams

Raahh yes me neither!!

Omg. Unreal those last two points.