WIMBLEDON 2019

this match is nuts man

10-10

Totally getting to that 12-all tiebreak, sigh.

it seems obv now that 12-12 was the fated destiny of this

11-11

OMG HE ACTUALLY GOT A HAWKEYE CHALLENGE RIGHT

saved that fuck me

what a hold

too damn much

this is agonising

jesus my brain is going

He's not showing up for this TB again.

prob has to win this pt at 2-4

that backhand! novak

3 CPs

done

happy for him

unbelievable

Yuck

This and the cricket at the same time. Too much.

This should have been Federer 3 sets to 0 but whatever. Blergh.

Never in doubt

yeah Fed deserved this, Djokovic a master of tranquility though.

lol who eats grass

Madness

Total points won

Roger Federer: 218
Novak Djokovic: 204

— Tumaini Carayol (@tumcarayol) July 14, 2019

fed w two champ pts on his serve is gonna stiiing gdamn

Give it about five years before I can stand to watch highlights of this. Particularly the Fed MPs.

Lol Fed. "I'll try my best to forget it"

yeah tbh that's it, two CPs, had it there and then..

Didn't think I'd be broken up for a man who has 21 slams but there you go

Booooo. I hate watching Djokovic play.

Would he have quit if he had won? Like.. immediately?

(Fed obviously, Djoko is gonna continue playing until he surpasses Fed's 20)

Doubt it, Fed has said he wants to be around for Tokyo Olympics.

And he likely will if he keeps playing like this!

has fed ever lost a final from up champ pt before

i understand djokovic haters but he is just so good, cant hate him

Not Slams. But he lost to Del Potro from MP up in Indian Wells F last year. Also Nadal in Rome F 2006. And Novak has done him at least twice now. Not finals though (USO sf once or twice and possibly Paris Masters sf last year - 76 57 76).

And he likely will if he keeps playing like this!

yeah!

I didn't hate Djokovic but his continued public support of Justin Gimelstob is unconscionable and a huge reason why men's tennis is a mess rn. Andy Murray he is not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/sports/novak-djokovic-atp-player-council.html

he's just so deeply unlikeable to watch. in everything. even those stupid uniqlo ads.

i can hate him

someone should ask fed in this press conf if he is pro/con/indifferent to the 12-12 tiebreak rule

& he said "it is what it is" ok

the gimelstob affair is unfortunate but tbh just seems like a convenient excuse for people who've always hated him regardless

it smacks of generic eastern european bias imho

My dislike of him was compounded by the Becker connection, who I hated more than anyone who has ever played the game.

Give him his due, he may have dips in intensity and focus in matches but seemingly never when it really matters. Fed’s winner-UE diff was +32, Nole’s was +2. How on earth, I blame the electoral college, etc etc

1 could say that fed wins this match vs any other man in history

he's for people who thought Sampras was the ultimate in charisma black holes.

Also the 12-12 t/b thing - ok in the sense it keeps the tournament moving, prevents players being spent for the next round because they had to toil for six hours plus, but I think they should have suspended it for the final(s). These guys are doing nothing until August and there’s a roof.

I really didn't see the need for that change at all. And Novak was cynically playing for the TB whereas Fed was really going for the break on the 5th (The only come back would be that this match would lenghten out what was the longest final ever even further).

Watching the highlights late last night I was reflecting on why Djoko so confident of winning the breakers against a man who isn't bad at anything to do with the goings on in a tennis and that got me to armchair-thinking of what you have to do to get to this level at his age. The management of it, my assumption that Fed plays a lot less (and its here that someone who follows the ATP tour all year around can fill in the gaps) to get to slams in that competetive shape that can last out for two weeks...but one which also leads to a severe lack of sharpness at the moments that decide the matches in a close contest. The edge that perhaps only be ironed out through volume of matches. But maybe idk Novak plays a similar volume of matches throughout the year and is bringing the confidence of winning multiple slams recently.

Like, this would not matter at all - one player in grass can get anywhere near Fed's level to find that out. One or two other players in clay lay out those lack of edges in Fed for us to see. Just yet another layer to Fed's incredible accomplishments. To do all this with slightly younger greats like Nadal and Djoko. And Djoko will almost certainly only surpass his slam total because absolutely no one seems to be coming through apart from Thiem who has made two slam finals - and this is on clay.