US OPEN 2016

plish not hitting that cross ct was crazy

def less fluky than the vinci loss, serena showed her age imo ~ 24 hr turnaround from the halep match

gael abt to get bageled o_o

great comeback, nole has to hold this or gael will serve for 5-5!

so just caught the end of djokovic/monfils and apparently something was weird about it and the commentators were bagging on monfils for being unprofessional but i don't really "get" tennis so i don't know what happened

*first set of

God what the hell is monfils doing

that's what i'm trying to figure out! i can't hear the commentators v well

so just caught the end of djokovic/monfils and apparently something was weird about it and the commentators were bagging on monfils for being unprofessional but i don't really "get" tennis so i don't know what happened

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*first set of

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i only caught the last couple of points of the set, but my guess is that once monfils fell behind he started playing purposefully erratically, basically tanking the set, in order to 1) conserve energy and/or 2) serve first in the second set

OMFG what a point

he's playing very...casually. his shot selection has been pretty bizarre. even for him!

tennis is exciting!

lol otm

it's clear that monfils feels he needs to junk up the match a little because he knows he'll never outslug djokovic from the baseline (he's something like 0-12 in his career against him), but i'm not sure djokovic is the kind of player these little chip shots are going to work against. he's just too solid and too mentally strong

omg this lil fans that those ppl had plugged into their phones

mcenroe is really mad an monfils, lol

im not listening but mcenroe is terrible w things like this, he was the same way w krygios

djokovic just demoralizes ppl

now gael is limping....lol

i love monfils but...

monfils showing some life!

don't tell me gbx stopped watching!

can't watch rn but yes to the mcenroe stuff. he gets relentlessly negative some matches. it gets to be a bit much. during the nole-dimitrov it was obvious cliff was getting annoyed with it too in the booth. kept pulling him back to center.

oh i'm watching doggy

this is the most monfils set of all sets

like sometimes he just doesn't give a shit? i'm having a tough time following without sound

he does do that a lot, but he's been pretty focused this set! i mean the general roller coaster nature of the set, the bizarre decision to serve and volley on SECOND SERVES against the best returner of all time, the drop shots, the court coverage, the crazy angles...this is what makes him so exciting to watch

i'm pulling for him

also, i am now noticing for the first time something that dfw pointed out in one of his tennis essays: the pros really do have hypertrophic serving/favored arms!

oh yeah they're huge, any semi-serious player will have hypertrophic forearm muscles but the pros, if you ever see them in person, are alien-like

monfils is such a ham

what in the heck

uh oh, novak calling the trainer now

mcenroe is still bagging on monfils!

there's no quit in this young man

has been a battle

does stan have a zit on his nose y/n

mercy roof closing for the a/c

stan impresses me often

12 straight points

i meant 10, but still

stan/novak is the most boring semi result :(

who doesn't think kerber will win the third set 6-1 or something

I don't

hmm you're right

was some wishful thinking tbh, pliskova has a really, really dull game

the fuck are these unforced errors

this is more like it, brilliant hold

and there's the collapse. took longer than i thought, but the way pliskova celebrated getting to 4-4 as if she'd won the whole thing...didn't get another point

broken at love is a tough way to lose