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2019 US Open -|- August 26th - September 8th -|- Grand Slam Tennis Comes To Queens
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I wonder if it's the shoulder that bothering Djoker.
Edit: Yeah he's getting that shoulder worked on.
Edit: Yeah he's getting that shoulder worked on.
Well clearly somethings bothering him as he's made 17 unforced errors compared to Stans 7. Usually it's Stan win or lose making more unforced errors.
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Wow. I hate to see retirements. Total bummer (even if I was rooting for Stan). Hope Novak can recover quick. It's better for the sport to have these guys at the top of their game.
Indeed. Novak was on his way to winning three slams this year.
Damn. Great play from Wawrinka, but it's unfortunate that Djokovic is injured. Hopefully he recovers quickly.
I'm a big Djokovic fan and was at the match. Look, i think people were blindsided by the retirement. From our perspective Djokovic was healthy, but simply being out played. I didn't boo, but I understood those who did. It certainly seemed like Djokovic retired because he knew he was going to lose and didn't want to take the L.
I didn't hear him. There was one guy who kept yelling Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! And I don't know if they kicked him out or not
That's a very lame and thin excuse. You guys should never assume things, as despite being meters away from the players, you absolutely have no visibility on their state of minds or of their bodies. Besides, everyone should give the benefit of the doubt to one of the GOATs, 16-time GS winner. Bet your ass as if Federer had retired in such fashion, he would have been cheered off the field.
NYC showing its usual class. Great city, but terrible fans.
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To be fair, I was watched the final at Wimbledon this year, and the muted applause that greeted Djokovic when he won the match was really quite awful, and the French crowd are particularly hostile to British, Eastern European and American players too.
It's only at the Australian Open where things are quite even — and it is nice to see the Asian players receive a lot of encouragement and support.
Generally, both the US and French Open have bad crowds however, Wimbledon can lean too hard on favouritism, whilst the Australian Open is generally okay with the odd rowdy group of folks.
Wimby's crowd this year was a disgrace. They have gotten worse over the years as Fed's chances of winning the title kept (naturally) decreasing... first time in my mind that they have reached FO/USO-level of ugly.
AO is the new Wimby as far as I'm concerned.
There are a few things to consider. You are surrounded by 1000s of people. It's weird as heck, but energy is contagious out there. I don't usually oh and ah when I watch a match at home, but there I'm very vocal. It's embarrassing. I would not boo, but there is a good chance a lot of the audience have no clue about Djokovic being injured.
A medical timeout isn't so obvious when you are high up or one of the 100s (or 1000s) of people that leaves for a break whenever the opportunity presents itself. Watching the game from a seat really is a different perspective. You can somehow see a lot of small details and miss big ones. Like when Tsitsipas was yelling at the Ump in his first round match saying "You are all Weirdos". I had no idea that was going on. It looked like a fairly casual conversation. And we had no announcers, or replays, going over that incident. And I was sitting pretty close. But I can also see what the players are doing while the people at home are watching commercials.
And the last thing to consider is how easily voices carry at these giant stadiums. There's around 23,000 people at Ashe. If only a few hundred people are booing, it's very loud.
Day 8 Discussion Starts
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Ehh..
Osaka has nothing for Bencic. Never did.
Real test starts now as she's the favourite to go to the finals.
Osaka needs to start paying more attention to tennis and stop with all the side things. The only reason she got side things was because she won in tennis. It's can all go away rather quickly if she doesn't regain her form. Some people can juggle all the distractions but she doesn't seem to be one of those.
