Australian Open 2018

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 28-01-2018 12:05pm

Rekop dog wrote: »

Funny how a wildly off topic stream of crap about Sandgrens personal life wasn't deleted and other things are. You can't pick and choose things to censor based on your own agenda. It's inconsistent and poor modding.

1 - I wasn't here last week.
2 - today's posts were nonsense attacks on a player and their family based on nothing.
3 - Arguing with Mods is also against forum rules.
4 - Stick to the Australian Open tennis or I will start handing out bans. Final warning.

dominatinMC · 28-01-2018 12:06pm

Fair play to Cilic, great hitting just when I thought he would fade away. Still think Fed will rally in this 5th and take it

Rekop dog · 28-01-2018 12:07pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

1 - I wasn't here last week.
2 - today's posts were nonsense attacks on a player and their family based on nothing.
3 - Arguing with Mods is also against forum rules.
4 - Stick to the Australian Open tennis or I will start handing out bans. Final warning.

It was neither baseless or nonsense but grand.

TomSweeney · 28-01-2018 12:08pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

They breached forum rules and if you don't know why then you probably shouldn't be posting here. That is the last I am saying about it. Stick to the tennis.

We must be speaking of different posts so, or else you just don't like different opinions.

The ones im referring to were talking about the mens game in general - but had a lot of meaning for this Australian Open - so was still on topic.

Anyway 2.2 Vamos Cilic!!!!!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 28-01-2018 12:12pm

LAST TIME. THE POSTS DELETED THIS MORNING WERE NOT ABOUT TENNIS. THEY WERE ABOUT ONE PLAYER AND HIS FAMILY AND CONTAINED BASELESS AND RUDE ACCUSATIONS. I WILL NOT DISCUSS THIS ANY FURTHER.

RosyLily · 28-01-2018 12:13pm

TomSweeney wrote: »

We must be speaking of different posts so, or else you just don't like different opinions.

The ones im referring to were talking about the mens game in general - but had a lot of meaning for this Australian Open - so was still on topic.

There was posts deleted from a banned poster that talked about the men's game. Those the ones you mean?

Cilic fired up for this one!!

Mantis Toboggan · 28-01-2018 12:18pm

Let's not be rude lads.

Fascinating match here.

Mantis Toboggan · 28-01-2018 12:26pm

Looks to be all but over now.

C__MC · 28-01-2018 12:28pm

Game over familiar winner

Men’s tennis: snooze fest

TomSweeney · 28-01-2018 12:30pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

LAST TIME. THE POSTS DELETED THIS MORNING WERE NOT ABOUT TENNIS. THEY WERE ABOUT ONE PLAYER AND HIS FAMILY AND CONTAINED BASELESS AND RUDE ACCUSATIONS. I WILL NOT DISCUSS THIS ANY FURTHER.

I wasn't talking about the family ones!!!!

Typical mod - focus focus on one point (even if not related)
anyway, thats a ban for me ...

TomSweeney · 28-01-2018 12:30pm

C__MC wrote: »

Game over familiar winner

Men’s tennis: snooze fest

Cilic can be proud tonight, he gave it his all and a very respectable scoreline .

C__MC · 28-01-2018 12:35pm

TomSweeney wrote: »

Cilic can be proud tonight, he gave it his all and a very respectable scoreline .

agree but moral victories Are no use

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 28-01-2018 12:36pm

TomSweeney wrote: »

I wasn't talking about the family ones!!!!

Typical mod - focus focus on one point (even if not related)
anyway, thats a ban for me ...

I went back and double checked and there is not one thing about actual tennis in the 3 posts I deleted. And yes, you are now banned. Not that it will matter now the tournament is over.

walshb · 28-01-2018 12:37pm

What a champion. What a winner...

castletownman · 28-01-2018 12:40pm

I love that man.

Greatest ever champion.

Greatest ever sportsperson.

Kristopherus · 28-01-2018 12:41pm

Well done, Federer !!!

ballyargus · 28-01-2018 12:46pm

the guy from Kia is a bit of a boring Sh*t

Rikand · 28-01-2018 12:47pm

Federer dug deep when he really needed to and came up with #20

Greatest of all time!

Great match overall.

28-01-2018 12:50pm

Cilic could have taken that match. Federer showed the championship class at the key moments. (particularly the first game of the 5ht set where he saved break points).

TheBigEvil · 28-01-2018 12:56pm

20 Grand Slams, unbelievable... even more unbelievable at 36 and doing it when questions were asked of him by Cilic when he forced a final set.

#GOAT

PropJoe10 · 28-01-2018 1:04pm

Surely not just the greatest tennis player that's ever lived, but one of the greatest sportsmen of all time in any sport?

Congrats, Roger. We're lucky to be able to witness your brilliance!

jr86 · 28-01-2018 1:06pm

Well done federer and a great game to end the tournament.

Cilic came of age this fortnight and I'm sure he'll retire with at least another slam to his name

Pretty average tournament overall, sadly, and horrendous thread here! Hopefully more sanity at the rest of the slams this year. Ok, let's not expect miracles at Wimbledon

As for the tennis, a few interesting subplots for 2018. federer looked a bit more human today and he's got a big target on his back now. Cilic should contend at wimbledon and USO and will this run out have benefitted Djokovic in the long run? Is it the beginning of the end for Rafa?

Pity with the daft scheduling we won't see much big tennis till late March

dominatinMC · 28-01-2018 1:06pm

Well done Fed, a true legend! Good to see Cilic make a match of it, and not disintegrate like Wimbledon last year, had he broke in that first game of the 5th set, who knows what could have happened! Fed dug deep and his mental resolve, more than anything, got him through.

Very emotional here, dare I say it could be his last time coming to Melbourne? Hope not!

28-01-2018 1:14pm

totally unforeseen fall-off in quality in men's tennis in terms of the incumbent top 5 (Djko, Murray, Stan) and failure of the younger generation to be able to contend properly at the 2-week 5-set grand slam format (Zverev, Krgios, Dimitriov etc) has allowed Fed back in to take 3 slams after it looked like he was done as his last slam was 2012 before last years AO.
Absolutely nobody would have predicted Fed and Nadal sharing the slams at 2 each in 2017 at the start of last year.

what were these banned posts about anyways? the only interesting thing about the thread.

dominatinMC · 28-01-2018 1:18pm

jr86 wrote: »

Well done federer and a great game to end the tournament.

Cilic came of age this fortnight and I'm sure he'll retire with at least another slam to his name

Ya, he will surely win another, at the moment I think he looks most likely outside of the Big4. Dimitrov let me down big time in this tournament, flatters to deceive, unfortunately.

jr86 wrote: »

Pretty average tournament overall, sadly, and horrendous thread here! Hopefully more sanity at the rest of the slams this year. Ok, let's not expect miracles at Wimbledon

Not a patch on last years tournament, which was one of the best GS in a long time. Lots of injuries disrupted the mens side this year. Hopefully we won't get similar scenarios in the FO and SW19 in the summer.

jr86 wrote: »

As for the tennis, a few interesting subplots for 2018. federer looked a bit more human today and he's got a big target on his back now. Cilic should contend at wimbledon and USO and will this run out have benefitted Djokovic in the long run? Is it the beginning of the end for Rafa?

Pity with the daft scheduling we won't see much big tennis till late March

In fairness, how many times has that been said before, and how many times has it been emphatically answered. He's coming off the back of a great season, 2 slams, and No.1. Given the state of the mens game, I see another FO looming. He won't be going anywhere for a while, especially now that Fed has No.20, I bet Rafa will do everything he can to chase that down (I don't think he will get there though!)

no.8 · 28-01-2018 1:29pm

TomSweeney wrote:

This match needs Nadal. Mens tennis is in big trouble when an almost 37 yr old can just saunter his way to the title.

He's not your avg. Tennis player Tom, he's the goat.

Hopp Schwizzz!! Legend and a humble a champion as you could find.
Great match.

P.s. Not sure what the poster meant about giving adv. To Cilic opening the roof. It's not exactly cold in the summer where Rodger grew up

Congrats to Cilic as well. Impressive

mickmackey1 · 28-01-2018 1:30pm

Soak it up folks we'll never see another sportsman quite like him again! Wins everything and yet gets more popular, it's an extremely difficult combination.

Was a ropey enough performance in parts, Cilic just didn't have the consistency to really force the issue. On to RG

Royale with Cheese · 28-01-2018 1:35pm

When the tears started at the end of the speech, did anyone else think he was about to announce he wasn't coming back next year?

yerwanthere123 · 28-01-2018 1:42pm

Oh dear, seems I missed a fun thread this morning. Was it that same poster that's already been banned about four or five time this tournament alone? So sad, know when to give up.

Can't say Federer getting another slam fills me with joy tbh. Wasn't thrilled with yesterday's result either, but there we go. Overall I thought the tournament was pretty poor, not many great matches. Kerber-Hsieh was probably my favourite match.

28-01-2018 1:42pm

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

When the tears started at the end of the speech, did anyone else think he was about to announce he wasn't coming back next year?

no.

Fed only cares about 3 slams these days - 6 weeks of the year he really prepares for.

could go on for another few years.

he's just so professional and loves winning GS's and isn't bored of it.

20 in the men's game is some number.

Australian Open 2018

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