Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

French Open 2021

1282931333438

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭Girly Gal


    Tsitsipas can still easily win this, he did it against Zverev the other day and was 2-0 up on him...

    Big difference doing that against a flaky Zverev and probably the mentally toughest player ever


  • Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That shadow would be annoying at this level of tennis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    wow .... could it be possible ???


  • Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yes!

    Come on ND.

    Yet again, such a hard-won game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,429 ✭✭✭C__MC


    ND could win the 4 in one year
    Easily the GOAT


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Coneygree


    That's that, his recovery capabilities are like nothing I've ever seen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    I want him to go a double break up so I can relax...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 696 ✭✭✭lostcat


    Missed the first two sets here, but presume Tsitsipas was playing a bit better than he is now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭Girly Gal


    The difference between the greats and the good players is that they never know when they're beaten, they make you earn every point. As the pressure builds they get better while the rest begin to retreat, that's what we're seeing here, probably the greatest player ever refusing to accept defeat even when not playing well, while the younger inexperienced player starting to wilt as the pressure comes on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Nervy ... can see Tsits break back now ....


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Coneygree


    Nervy ... can see Tsits break back now ....

    For a diehard fan of Djokovic you sure don't know much about how calm and ruthless he is under pressure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭sxt


    If djkovic had of chosen cycling as his sport. He would have won a half dozen tour de Frances. His stamina and recovery powers are just levels above any other tennis player in history


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,238 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Rubbish by Tsipitas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,701 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I reckon had Nadal gotten to the final he would have won in three basic sets!


  • Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    superb service game by the man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭Girly Gal


    Rubbish by Tsipitas

    This will be a damaging defeat for him, would have to question if he has the mentality to win a slam.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,238 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    What a point!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,238 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Thats better from Tsipitas


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Ouuch those missed chances to go a double breap up could cost him ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭Rob2D


    I wonder if he'll just quit the sport like Coria did.



  • Advertisement
  • Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    1 more game.

    1 more game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,238 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Girly Gal wrote: »
    This will be a damaging defeat for him, would have to question if he has the mentality to win a slam.

    I think he does, he is the best of the new era.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭Coneygree


    He hasn't completely wilted, future should be very bright for him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,429 ✭✭✭C__MC


    Such a bottle job, tennis is boring


  • Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There is absolutely no question that he's the best tennis competitor that has ever been seen at this point.

    Haters will still hate but he don't care.

    To be able to dig himself out of that hole when Tsitsipas was well on top and two sets up was nothing short of amazing.

    Don't know how he did it. Don't think that anyone else could come back like that.

    With the crowd against him all the way.

    That fourth game in the third set where Tsitsipas smacked away 4 winnners to save 4 break points but Djokovic was able to fashion a fifth and take it was just beyond superlatives.

    He built from there.

    Credit to Tsitsipas. Tough to take but he will win slams and this experience will stand to him in the future.

    No doubt about it.

    He pushed him all the way. All the way.

    Tension up until the very last point. Djokovic had to go out and win it all the way to the very end.

    He turned up for sure.

    Djokovic ->

    Double career slam now added to his achievements.

    Far from flakey flake flakeland was he reared.
    “Ten Deutsche marks, I remember 10 Deutsche marks,” said Djokovic, the 16-time Grand Slam singles title winner who went into the Australian Open this week as the reigning champion.

    As he spoke, he slammed his hand on a conference room table, just as his father, Srdjan, had once slammed a 10-mark bill on the kitchen table of their cramped rented apartment in Belgrade.

    This was during the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Djokovic does not remember precisely when, but he remembers his father’s words.

    “Ten Deutsche marks was, and my father said, ‘This is all we have,’” Djokovic said. “And he said that more than ever we have to stick together and go through this together and figure out the way. That was a very powerful and very impactful moment in my growth, my life, all of our lives.”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭Girly Gal


    Congrats to Novak, refused to accept defeat when not playing well, really showed why he's such a great player.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,238 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    The possum won, who'd have thought it.

    Cant believe people still fall for it every time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Wow ... double career slam.

    the GOAT.

    Feel bad for Tsitsipas but he'll be back...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭Augme


    Girly Gal wrote: »
    This will be a damaging defeat for him, would have to question if he has the mentality to win a slam.

    Luckily for him he won't be up against much when it comes to mental toughness. Zverev and Thiem are as flaky as can be. Medvedev has never really been tested, but he didn't set the world alight in his one grand slam final.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭Girly Gal


    Augme wrote: »
    Luckily for him he won't be up against much when it comes to mental toughness. Zverev and Thiem are as flaky as can be. Medvedev has never really been tested, but he didn't set the world alight in his one grand slam final.

    That's true, but, by the time Djokovic is gone, there might be a younger guy who isn't as flaky as these guys


Advertisement