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US Open 2023

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Finally I see a fire in her eyes, a belief she can win



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Momentum with Gauff now. Hope Sabalenka can get it together in the final set 😐



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Coco pops the ball back every time, waiting for the mistake, this tactic is paying off really well. She was trying to win too many points in first set, now she is keeping ball alive, so many unforced errors from Sabalenka in set 2, and again here in set 3



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    0-30 Gauff down on serve, while leading 3-0 in final set, pressure on, wins next 4 points well to win game. HUGE



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Gauff deserved it, got the tactics right to win after an awful first set .



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Pretty gutted with that result tbh. Don't think Sabalenka cares too much about getting the #1 ranking on Monday.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Gauff has a great personality, spoke very well, on the court she's all business, refreshing to see how joyous and smiley she is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,781 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    She’s a star. Well she kind of already was but the post match speech would make it hard to dislike her.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    When you think these youngsters can't get worse, they just hit new lows. Surely this is without question the worst generation of up and coming talent ever? They aren't even close to a great player years past his prime, imagine how far they are from the big 3 in their prime?

    Alcaraz could be an all time great, or is he made look better as he's the only one able to beat Djokovic? Surely that should be par for the course for most of these youngsters?

    You look at a guy like Roddick who has only one slam, unlucky when he arrived, yet imagine he was coming through now? Would have won several slams already, blown the lot of these off court, aswell as an old Djokovic.

    Not one of them even looks like they have confidence, let alone fight. It's genuinely becoming farcical



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,785 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Hate that guy, he's like an annoyance to play against, if you let him win the mind battle he'll beat you, Novak far too experienced to fall for it though, unlike Alcaraz .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭tiegan


    Not my ideal candidates for the final so lets just hope they give us some good tennis. I don't even care who wins!!



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Prediction is Djoko in four sets. Djoko not playing with the kind of pressure he was in 2021, plus he'll be extra motivated after the events of 2020 and 2022, even if it was all self inflicted.

    Medvedev will obviously need to play a brilliant match, but as I've mentioned previously he doesn't look quite the same mentally since Melbourne last year. Hope I'm wrong, but I can't see past Djoko.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    None of the commentators are making any remark about the fact Novak is out on his feet, and clearly aching if not injured. The man is hurting.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,267 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    He is playing possum again, we have seen it too many times in the past to not recognise it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    UNREAL

    The Goat wins the second set while looking 75% at best



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,577 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    And that is that



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Yet another remarkable recovery from Djokovic 😌

    You'd imagine that should be that for this match. I'm actually kinda glad tbh, don't want to be up all night.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,545 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Well that was enjoyable, some great rallies.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,099 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Meant to be, the greats always find a way through those moments that decide a point, a game, a set, a match



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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    Mad that for all the talk of the supposed changing of the guard this year, it's Djoko who ends the year with three of the four grand slams won.

    So glad that Medvedev got his slam when he did, so unfortunate that he keeps bumping into two of the best to ever play the game in finals.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    I know it was straights sets but Medvedev pushed Djokovic hard tonight, he wins the 2nd set and he probably wins the match.

    Sometimes you watch Djokovic in his normal matches and he's not great to watch as he just grinds his opponents down with little flair involved but you truly see his greatness when he's pushed hard like he was tonight and you realize what an incredible player he is, second set was incredible from both players and Djokovic just edged it. Djokovic net play was incredible tonight which is something not traditionally associated with him and yet he was almost perfect in that area tonight shows the complete player he is.

    I think it's beyond doubt now that he's the GOAT.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    It wasn't self-inflicted - it was literally inflicted by the state.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,545 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Honourable mention for Laslo Djere. The only player to take sets off Djokovic in the whole tournament.



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