New thread for a new season!
It sure is, self indulgent nonsense from him , if he isn't 100% fit he shouldn't be next or near the Olympics and should have backed away from being selected.He's already won 3 Olympic medals so he doesn't need it anymore and considering selection for olympics is limited the he should have allowed someone else the opportunity rather than chancing taking a place and not being able to play.
Frankly his entire long goodbye over the past couple of years has been utterly tedious.
A very reasonable perspective. But I'll be far more likely to watch Andy Murray play 1 match than Norrie/Draper/Evans play further.
Djokovic and Nadal drawn to play each other in the second round of the Olympics, though the word on the street is now that Nadal may pull out of the singles and focus on the doubles. I suppose getting rinsed by Djokovic on what is essentially home turf probably isn't that appealing.
Not appealing to me either!!
Nadal has better form lately, and how well joker's knee will stand up. Unlike Nadal to duck a battle.
Jesus, let him have at least 1 game ya miserable ba****.
Battle of the oldies in the next round. Combined age of 75 and a chance for Nadal to even up the H2H.
Murray and Evans doubles match was a great watch! They saved 5 (I think) match points in the third set, but have somehow fought their way through!
Yes, amazing they were down 8-3 in the tie break set - some comeback for them!! And I loved the kids in the crowd afterwards shouting for Andy to autograph their balls - great result!!
Will be interesting to see if Nadal has anything to hurt Djoko with here. On paper it should be a straightforward win for Djoko, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Nadal lifting his level enough to cause him trouble one last time.
Snap.
Djokovic steam rollering him in first set so far. 5-0
Made short work of that. Don't think we will see Nadal again here in singles
yeah wasn’t much of a competition, nice to have 10/15 competitive minutes at the end but yeah the end is nigh Rafa.
Wawrinka is on his way home, but he put up a decent fight against Popyrin. We'll find out later today if Murray and Nadal will be following him. Along with Djokovic, that's four great players for whom this is the last Olympics. But only 3 of them have gold medals 😀
Alcaraz and Nadal on the way the way out of the doubles now also by the looks of it.
Murray and Evans are tomorrow I think. Fritz and Paul will be tough.
11am I think - bah! Anyone know a way to watch online? I've just discovered I can get BBC Red Button on TV, but will have only internet at work. No chance RTE will screen it, I assume
Discovery plus show everything
Thanks - I registered now to see free content - remains to be seen if that included the tennis
Its about €7 for a months sub - well worth it to get all the streams.
Some other good stuff on it as well
Zheng takes out Swiatek, not many will have seen that coming.
Hoping Vekic wins the other semi, could be a good final on Saturday.
Swiatek was pretty poor versus Collins to be fair
Looks like Raducanu made a decent decision going to Washington she is into quarters.
Carlitos whips FAA 1 and 1.
Well that's the Gold medal sorted. The others are fighting amongst themselves for the base metals.
Don't bet on it - would love to see Alcaraz get gold, but Djokovich want's it soooooo badly!! Hoping that Musetti might provide a contest in their semi later today
Flicked over to the Raducanu match she was up a break in third set against Badosa, then had a bit of a collapse, serve erratic. Badosa then serves for the match...Raducanu then breaks! Then she is broken again and out.
Fair play to him, played some unbelievable stuff today.
Surprised when I saw the result , I'll be honest I thought he was going to struggle to ever beat Alcaraz again and he'd only win anything major if he avoided him.
