This is over. Going to sleep. Maybe I’ll get surprised, but I doubt it.
I hate the head to head stats. Djoko has 6 years on Fed and had played an injury diminished Nadal. (And of course on the other hand Fed and Nadal had some years before Djoko rose to prominence to collect slams).
I used to watch tennis all the time growing up. I remember McEnroe/Connors matches, Ivan Lendl, Sampras, and maybe early Federer. Then I just kinda stopped watching. Like, I’m aware of Federer and Nadal and Djokovic, but I’m not gonna be watching Wimbledon live or anything.
Cut to the US Open this year. I’m wfh, I’ve got a newborn who sleeps on my chest for hours, and I’ve got a tennis tournament on. So I’ve dug in. And it’s fucking awesome! I forgot the thrill of watching an incredible match and how nerve-wracking a single point can be. There also seems to be a decent level of parity (but again, first tournament in years so wtf do I know.) I post this to say, count me in going forward. I’m going to get back in to tennis.
Right and if there were any meaningful data that the ATP wasn’t hoarding it would be straightforward to check for anomalies in the movement. We know that it exists but all of it is still under wraps and presented in the form of those useless IBM keys-to-the-match “analytics.”
The dude always getting stronger as these grueling 5 set matches go on is pretty suspicious.
I mean the thing where he runs down every ball with a slide stop on hard courts is what glue factory dreams are made of. That’s almost certainly what killed Nadal. But this dude has shown no effects other than that 18 month span or whatever where he completely fell off the face of the earth.
This 19 year old is really something to root for. Was down 1-4 in the 1st set and has fought back to 5-5.
Sabalenka is straight up screaming at the top of her lungs when she hits the ball
Thanks for the post. Was watching NFL pregame stuff but glad I got to see the end of that set.
I was certainly not expecting that after the way Sabalenka came charging out of the gate.
RIP Sabalenka’s racquet.
Weird stat that’s of interest to probably no one but me…at the end of the US Open, there will have been 14 different GS winners in women’s singles over the past five seasons. For the men, if Djoker wins here, you would have to go all the way back to Pete Sampras winning here in 2002 to get to 14 different GS winners.
It’s insane that three guys have 60 titles in like 18 years.
Theim is the only player born after 1989 to win a major.
Prize fight shit right now.
Fernandez with insane back to back winners
I’m so damn old I’m noticing the mom. Shit she is probably 10 years younger than me.
wowowow
Total meltdown
