ILE rolling non-slam Tennis thread

~10 min hold by nick

nick using the sab(r)

wow rog

from set pt down, 3 unreturnable served from kyrgios

wishing this shit was best of 5

that point @ 7-7 in the tiebreak omg

fed returning these serves is incred

its 9-9 rn

epic first set

holy shit at that forward-tweener winner from kyrgios. disrespectful almost?

wow that serve and volley to hold from fed

hes done that before a bunch, hes just insane m/l xp

this is def going to second tiebreak

omg that point!!

not that theres been a ton of opportunities but nick is a lil too content to play rallies / doesnt go for winners enough maybe

he almost reminds me of monfils a little with his questionable showmanship skills and general demeanor. though kyrgios is way angrier

i can see that

god this match is sick

nick has served sooo well when needed

this match

i want a 3d set so bad

yes those 2 break points earlier this set and now in tiebreak when down mini break

holy shit

whoooaaa

omg

w a 3rd set like the first two, this is like an alltime classic nonslam match basically

this chair umpire has kind of an obnoxious voice

great hold

kyrgios just spun what was probably a <70 mph second serve in

love kyrgios playing the heel

chris fowler is a gd tennis commentator imo

u cannot give fed anything short hes so sick

holy shit fed

nicks serving this match is just ridic

wow @ that slap 4-hand 118 mph

gotta spin the 2d serve there

fed / nadal again is crazy

mens tennis is p compelling rn? imagine a last 16 of fed rafa kyrgios zverev murray stan kei novak goffin thiem milos sock delpo monfils sock cilic

that leaves out berdych and tsonga even

fed the goat man

couldn't tear my eyes away from that match for one second. insane drama, insane quality

april 2nd, roger federer has lost one match and it was to evgeny donskoy

if someone predicted that on jan 1, youd assume he reinjured himself rd 1 aussie prob

This is getting ridiculous now. A Slam and two ATP1000s. World #4 from nine tournament results.

Gutted I missed Fed/Kyrgios.

35yo Federer swanning back to dominate the ATP is getting written up ever so slightly differently to 35yo Serena dominating the WTA. (As for the return of the Fedal rivalry as a whole, fucking spare me - the quality of the men's final was no better than Konta/Wozniacki, ie not great.) (I am enjoying the way the only thing to come out of Nadal's resurgence is Federer clawing back the h2h.)

Cilic still being the youngest active Masters winner at 28 is an absolutely ludicrous stat btw, and if it was the case on the WTA the women would be getting dragged for lack of quality.

(talking of Konta: my god I would never ever have thought she'd do this. Two years ago if you'd seen this result you'd have assumed it was an April Fool. It's particularly funny given that there was indeed supposed to be a GBR resurgence of female talent in the top 20 but it was supposed to be Robson (can't string two matches together in ITFs or get back in the top 200) and Watson (freefalling out of the top 100)

Yeah, the Konta surge is extraordinary. She was playing on the ITF circuit as recently as Aug 2015 - winning titles in Granby and Vancouver (men's winners in the parallel Challenger events: V Millot and D Sela. Where are they now?). She was basically that level of player from her late teens until she was 24.

keys was up 6-4, 1-0 on shelby rogers......and then lost 11 games in a row

fed returning to "dominate" the ATP (and it's been 3 months, not....forever) is different than serena dominating the WTA (which she's always dominated) because the depth of talent is so much different across the sports

anyway my mom, a huge federer fan, is worried that he's doing PEDs and is going to get busted. she thinks he looks bigger