TENNIS THREAD- The Slams are over, and we have new Champions!

[Raahh]

Even though the commentators are still talking about Djokovic as though Medvedev hasn't won.

How much credit does Daniil deserve? All of it! He bloody won .

I'm a bit cross. Can you tell .

Oh no! Is Matteo ok?

Oh no looks as if Matteo is injured

Stomach strains are not something you can play through- says Tim.

Unless you are Djok, obviously.

Poor Matteo. It took him ages to get over it last time.

He looks really upset.

He must be gutted. I knew there was something wrong when he did that stretch because I tore a muscle under my rib cage before and sometimes it still plays up and I do that exact thing to try to make it stop but it doesn't work!

yes, well, Djok is a cheat wasn't really all that injured then, was he.

Is he carrying on?

Poor Matteo. Really gutted for him.

The first set was so good- horrible way for it to end- and he is possibly out of the tournament now.

Sascha's sad face.

Aww, Sascha and his sad face on the camera, .

How many interviews does Sascha have to do?! What more can he say?

Aw that’s such a shame - hope he recovers soon

Yes I wonder how Djok managed to recover and win the AO (he wasn’t really injured !)

Must be very hard to have to talk about- and I think Sascha is genuinely upset about it. He wanted to win, obviously - but not in that way.

Jane it's rubbish. Glad he didn't have to say much more.

Unless you're Djok, then it heals miraculously with no scar tissue.

I was just saying to DH (before the injury) that it must be rubbish being an alternate as they never get to play - did Norrie go as an alternate?

No-one has ever mentioned Djok's abs again, since AO.

Funny that.

And yes, Sinner is the alternate. Fortunately for Turin. If not for Matteo.

Fizzy yes, he's the second alternate.

So if Djok gets a sudden flare up of his abs issue , Cam might get his day on court .

The scoring confuses me!

Greg

Rafa also managed to win 2 matches and lose one- and not make the semi finals- in 2019. He also won that tense match against Daniil (when he was losing 5-0 in the final set and still won ) . I was watching it from the hospital, with kidney stones.

It was very stressful. .

Oh yes I’d forgotten about Sinner - that’s good for the home crowd at least!

The scoring system is very complicated - Andy Murray also lost out on going through a while ago (but nobody could really work out why!)