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"five set match" Discussed on The ADNA presents: Know Your Narrator
"Went till nine to nine. Thirty am so all of the events. Were we guy dissimilar. Shift up their new not. I had a five. Am to nine am shift. And i would have to get to the studio at about two. Am to do research. Because okay. it's and i'm still not. Is it friday as tuesday idle. I'm still recovering. But i'm working on morning at five. Am but it's really the tuesday shift because it started on tuesday nights so goes from tuesday but anyway so they would do like four hours the first two norma do from like nine to one tony would do one to five in. I came in. And i did five tonight. like i said. Get there too because the day before you get your sheets of what the show is going to be about. Sports going to be covered in all that again at two. Am and i'd say a good third or more of the sheet. He got the night before pichit because it changes so much and then as the show goes on it changes because they're planning for a five-set match say in volleyball or in tennessee's best two out of three three out of five with somebody may win six love six lower smoke. Somebody in volleyball where it's a you know a twenty five nothing or just really quick. So it's on the fly. You just gotta be able to to adapt. So that's a lot of that was changed as the biggest hurdle for me was just getting used to how rapid live. Television really is just because it changes in a heartbeat. It really does sarah when you were training. Jeff doing live. What was something that you found really affect like. Let's show off jeff skills here like what was the thing that you saw was lake. Oh he really gets it. And then jeff maybe the same thing for for sarah. Let's let's get. Some gossip has such a nice smooth easy going quality to his voice that i knew he would be great because he just disabled to slide in without any. Because there's a certain level of panic that's happening is you're trying to describe things as they're happening on screen that underneath year like okay. What is that thing called was a carbon fiber play. And you're trying to be. You're still trying to tame this allure of calm es and jeff immediately had that calm demeanor he could just describe what he saw and keep it clear. Keep it concise. He wouldn't flab things he wouldn't mess up was really really didn't actually have to train him at all very good. How great jeff to be Unpanicked the The audio description live announcer. What was your experience working with. Sarah when she was when she was training..
The Body Serve
"five set match" Discussed on The Body Serve
"To win. The grand slam. It is very hard. There's a reason that no man has won it since nineteen. Sixty-nine let no woman has wanted since. Nineteen eighty-eight what steffi graf was on one in one thousand nine hundred eight as a teenager. I have. I think at this point the only way to do it as a teenager. Because you don't have the same fear young right. That's one of the lessons from the last couple of years writing. That when you're put in these positions where you've never been there before like emma said. I don't have any pressure because who expected to be here. What happens what would have happened. If melissa's open final nothing sheet would have been raised incredibly successful tournament. Either way right. Maybe not as rich but still would have been great. This i mean novak. Djokovic has spent so much of the past decade appearing more than human appearing impervious to pressure that it was easy to think this incredible achievement was inevitable so much so that folks including yourself thought that he was gifting sets on purpose rate pressure for himself. Let's talk about this. This was that an very interesting tournament for him. He lost the first set in five consecutive matches from the third round against nishikori through brooks be bertini's vera of in medvedev and the final was the one that flip the script. It was easy to to look at the first set tonight and say well. He's just warming up. You know he'll probably break early on and it'll be smooth sailing and he got broken right away. Yes in the very first game in the second set here he had low forty on medvedev serves and i was like. Oh here we go like this same drill via match different however a different script different cast because medvedev ended up winning that game. He was not the one today. i guess he was the one but it. It did honestly feel like novak was going to make his way through this tournament Kind of accepting. The loss of sets in knowing that his fitness is so superior and his ability to manage a five-set match is so much greater than his peers that he could win this tournament. It doesn't matter how many sets he loses. As long as he wins three in a match you commented earlier but how surprised you were that the narrative from this tournament wasn't nobody's going for the grandson and it ended up being a lot of excitement on the women's side. How i read that is that it had to do with people being kind of bored by joke of riches winning and when we were researching a savvy graphs run. A lot of the writing at the time was boredom at her achievements as well when she got to the us open. She had not won the gold medal yet. Like the olympics. Were after the. Us open year but this was a when that famous phrase was coined runs the gamut from a to be apathy to boredom. People were literally board this incredible achievement and to be fair people were a little bored by novak's excellence by his superiority right throughout this year. And not just this year for very long. But i don't know it. It had this era of well. There's no like there's no way he's not going to do it. And i we said at the beginning of the tournament. Had a lot of people do that. If i mean. It's still unlikely but if anyone were to up this narrative would probably be daniel because mentally. He just seems they're like he wouldn't mind spoiling the party except in australia this year. Right but the the difference here between that is. This is not australia and this is the. Us open where nobody has only one eight three times. Yes it's a hard court and it's a it's an you'd have expected him to win more but it hasn't been the case and my point in saying that is that i think beds chances. Were always going to be better here than in australia. Yeah i agree. I mean novak's one. What nine in australia. His his confidence level there is just in the stratosphere but when it appeared this court was playing fast and like well. That's that's good for novak. You know he loves a fast court but medved. Despite what alexander's various things has been the solid number. Two player in the world on hardcourts for quite a while. Now i mean. I wish for this man to have a better grip on reality to be less deluded in life going forward because that was just absurd from him a yes this from the man who still has yet to beat a top ten player at a grand slam but that status missa leading just missing. You know that despite he's also lost to a lot of like top thirty to forty played like it's not only top ten players. I guess that's why it's misleading. I mean this is. You should've beaten felix. At wimbledon for example. This is somebody who's been as highest top three since two thousand seventeen somebody who's won seventeen eighteen titles. Who's now played twenty five grand slam main draws and still despite all the big talk all. The delusion has yet to win against a top ten player at a grand slam now. This episode is most definitely not about him. So let's go back to novak end daniel. The title of the episode is hatched. Done snatched right medvedev hatched a while ago but he i mean he certainly snatched this title the fourth leg of the grand slam right away from novak. We've we've always talked this show. Hatching snatching maybe in the last couple of years is hashtag hatching. It's natural yes. You invented this thing ticket. I take all the credit and leland. Emma hatch done snatched at this tournament again on foreseen ways. I mean essentially like came out of the tennis womb. Only recently she's like. I don't need to incubate from nine months. Who does that plebes right. That's why her run was so unusual. Because we've seen teen winners before and sell us. And becker and boston but none of them. I mean all of those players were more heralded more accomplished before doing this but back to my video. Yes he definitely snatched. He snatched many follicles. If not the whole week today the thing is medvedev's ron. He made it through his matches easier more easily. The only said he lost was to the goat. Abo- tick fund zahn show and novak spent a lot more time on court and my and a half hours more. Yeah and it's easy to overlook no wrecks age because he is so incredibly fit in well conditioned but i think coming into the final. There was a combination of fatigue and just incredible pressure because even though he's achieved other worldly things anybody would feel pressure in this moment he wanted so badly and he displayed it so openly. How badly he wanted it. He told us after the semifinal that he was gonna leave everything he had physically mentally he was gonna play like it was last much of his career and against medvedev today. Teachers didn't have it and that happens. If you're a serena and novak fan. I feel for you today because you have. You have felt this twice now is like such a sly way of letting people that you're not a fan of novak djokovic right but i'm not gonna slate him today is that the british word sledge slick legend in what are these. Australia's sledge's sledge. That's it because i honestly do feel i'm not gonna say that. I'm sad that he lost. But i do feel for him because i know i know what is like as a fan to have gone through it with serena she was i mean she was going for her fit slam in a row. The pressure on her in her home country was immense and her approach was to downplayed as much as possible novak took a different tack and instead sort of leaned into it and said..
The Mini-Break
"five set match" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Five euro b break in. You just can't have a ten minute flip like that against novak freaking joke vich. Because he's not just going to go to. Oh he's gonna run up four lead on you. And even as europe started to inch his way back at the end of that fifth set. It was just too little too late. You're not going to overcome a five. Love deficit against novak djokovic. I'm sorry you're just not particularly when he's got slammed twenty one and the counter slam on the line. You look for novak. I've said it all week long. These two percent above his career averages right now hold percentage break percentage. I serve win percentage. He's you know five losses on the season. He's twenty seven at the majors. I believe he's four and five set matches at the majors. He's now dropped. I sets in four consecutive matches and after coming in as ten and ten after losing the first set at the. Us open. He is now fourteen and ten again. You name it the history. He's done at four novak joke. Which now with these victories just run through the stats quickly That he's accomplished and again these come from. Atp media info shout out to them as always. They are one of the best resources in tennis. You look for novak djokovic win streaks he's had at grand slams he won thirty consecutive grand slam matches from the twenty fifteen wimbledon to the twenty sixteen wimbledon. Of course that was the stretch of time he won four consecutive majors not in the same calendar year. he's also one twenty seven straight twice from the australian open to now from the twenty eleven wimbledon through the twenty twelve roland-garros final just ridiculous two thousand eighteen wimbledon to two thousand nineteen roland garros releases the dominic team in the semi-finals. Another twenty six straight major victories. He's won three in a row four separate times and he's been two wins away from winning five in a row. Excuse me four in a row three different times. What are we doing here. Folks you look for novak djokovic ninth. us openness the most finals the most of the open era. He's got nine. Pete lendl have eight counters fedor half seven most grand slam finals of all time jovic now ties roger federer with thirty one joke which twenty and ten in those finals. Roger twenty and eleven. Ross twenty eight. He's got twenty eight lendl nineteen sampras eighteen labor seventeen. You do look tomorrow by the way Jovovich burston you'll medvedev will be the fourth. Us open men's semi-final between the top two seeds of the last twenty five years each of those times. The top two seeds have faced off twenty eleven. Topsy to novak djokovic. I rafael nidal 2013. Topsy to novak djokovic verse second-seeded rafael and the doll twenty. Fifteen topsy to novak djokovic second-seeded roger federer twenty twenty one. Top seeded novak djokovic. Didn't heal medvedev. It gets to a point folks. What are we doing here. I know this is from at anna k forever all the gas. Who's one of my favorite follows on twitter. This is only be second time in the open. Era that there are the same two players to reach the australian and us open finals in the same season. The other time that happened was nineteen ninety-five. Shout out when it was andre. Agassi taken on pete. Sampras i mean again folks what are we doing here novak djokovic. He's the best and this sort of wind this sort of moment. it's just. It's absolutely incredible..
Fore Play
"five set match" Discussed on Fore Play
"He's a sweet kid. Like if i saw him on the street he'd stop and say hi to the kids house. The family know just like super nice guy He's just sort of misunderstood and then people don't like him because he you know because he beats guy matchy walks out to center court just double bird. The crowd shoes. I'm telling you that you would be a megastar. Vide did that megastar. His wife had the shirt. I run with a wolf the other night and then andy actually tweeted at andy. Roddick tweeted out. I'm saying i Job takes your legs next he takes in your soul and that was brought up in the post post game presser and joker like corrected it because he does want to delight any good guys like i don't take people saw now and mike was very polite in the way he accepted that question. Like you definitely take each your heart your tennis game. That's for sure that there's like because when we talk about golf and guys playing in the tiger woods era and they're always very thankful to play in that arab because he was able to generate a lot more money for the collective group but tennis seems to be a little bit more the opposite right. Because it's such a you got to win the event really rake in the cash. I mean we didn't see that huge bomb Like tiger i mean. I don't think we'll ever see something like that again right like i mean the guy owes him the most is someone like fill the and he understands it. He knows it He appreciates him and and look. I mean we. We appreciate roger rafa. Y'all but like we had to play them specifically it's just a little different I've been lucky enough to place a major advance in golf and stuff and just enter to have fun with it and everything in try and study like the mental side of golf and stuff in it. It's it's similar end so different At the same time like in tennis were so trained mentally to just stay. Focus the entire time. If you leave focus you could lose a couple points and then all of a sudden you've lost your serve in that in turn. We lost the set against a big server may be but in golf. I play these events early on. And i was so focused because that was all i trained. That was all how i trained right like. I'm focused on. Never leaving my. My mind is in it at all times. You do that for five and a half hours up and like a real round of golf. You are exhausted. I leave the golf course in. I'm like i'm more tired than i was in a five-set match on clay which makes no sense because we know how physical office so like So i in mentally like. I was like really fascinated by both games because they're You know they're so individual but but yet so different mentally So anyways it says something to some the thing about. I mean you're an absolute stick on the golf course too so like and i know you grew up in vero and your friends with jay cohen. Who's been friendly. We've done a few things with la. Yeah quite a bit. How's your golf game stack up against his way better. Yeah but let me. We used to play. I mean we played. We've been best friends. We are five years old. You know so we. He and his twin brother jared i. We used to get dropped off in the summer every single day in the summer at this public course called sand ridge in vero beach as shitty golf. Course that. like deflate dude. I give anything to play sandwich again but dramas often it was a dollar. Seven dollar plus tax is a dollar seven. Play nine holes..
The Body Serve
"five set match" Discussed on The Body Serve
"Aloofness about him but he's never going to deflate or or sort of win the crowd back because he appears not to care. I don't know if that's the case but that's what it appears to be and he doesn't really seem to have a lot of self awareness about these things. No and he's done incredible job of railroading his image in the last few weeks gets wild. This greek atanas persona. Oh flitting through the atp. Just having swarms of fans follow him. If fierly through the skies it was fairy tale thing with him for awhile and what that ended up being a lot of blinders due to his whiteness and his looks meaning a lot of benefit of the doubt that has been given to him over and over and over and over again because of who he is on what he looks like. Frankly let's be real and so no all the sheen has come off of stephanos pizzas and i found for myself watching this unfold. The thing that really bugged me is that stephanos does not give the impression or show at all that he gives a damn about other people on score. It's all about him. The centeredness is unmistakable. And in twenty twenty one still in the middle of a pandemic. that is not something that i can allow to seep through my bandwidth. Well i mean this is coming shortly after the whole vaccine thing. There's young out about and like this is not forget that this is not meant to be An assassinate bosses character. You know these past ten minutes but andy. Murray attempted to assassinate his character on live television. It was really something to behold unlike television and then in the press conference and then the next two days on twitter now. That's what really surprised me was the next day. Because andy andy is right. And that's why a lot of people including myself love him or one of the reasons but he's also a grown man yes and he's also he doesn't really. He's not somebody who picks on his colleagues. He's asked something answer you honestly but aside from the What's his face. The everybody hates you incident soul the soul incident. He's not somebody who goes after his fellow players on a personal level. I don't think right. But i'm saying this. He did and it was for me. Too much and unnecessary pylon and beneath him. Frankly like it was good for a laugh is like whoa. Did he really do that. They did it again. And it's like okay like this is entirely superfluous. You can make your point without being that snarky about it and you and you have already made your point. Yeah yeah now. As a result of all that controversy in the meritas much everybody was on high alert for any breaks any with of gamesmanship throughout the week. So some people were noticing. Jensen brooks b.'s. Costume changes. he was like diana. Ross out there. Sometimes he made it so easy because it was a different color shirt every yes red black. Obviously critique of a bud man the the fans and the broadcasters were on high alert for the stuff there's nothing they like more than o'clock to come down something only god time since last point. The length of bathroom break clock. And if you're coming from outside of tennessee must think this whole thing is so ridiculous because how can a sport which presumably is led by smart people presumably. What a presumption. How have we not figured out how to handle this. Like if you know. Coaching is another thing. If we had a whole segment on that we'll leave that the show but one of our listeners submit the other day on twitter suggested well. This is such a problem. All the time with these strategic breaks. Why not just institute a break right like a ten minute break before deciding set. That's that's an option. And that's why i say with like with murray. Let's say you're a player who's going to be really hurt by cooling down more than others. If you enshrine a rule that may actually just become part of the sport right if you can't can handle that cooling down period than you are at a disadvantage but it takes away that the tactic it allows both players to take a break it allows fans to go get food and everything because once a match starts. You know from experience if you want anything. If you've got to go to the bathroom as a spectator you better move. And then you're going to be standing in the tunnel for a while before you're back in and instead of the dread of watching your opponent and waiting for the mess to happen. You are then able to look forward to maybe having bicycles on the court stationary bikes. Shore will say that. Well i'm gonna get through this fourth suit. I know that there's going to be ten minutes. I will then spend the those ten minutes on the stationary bike. And keeping warm while i can block out whatever is happening on the other side of the court and then we come back and we reset because this tournament has seen more five-set matches than we've seen in forever like it's crazy. How many much as we've had the narrative doesn't always have to be our five-set matches good for tennis. It could be. How can we make five-set matches better for thames. Are we managing them. The correct way. If you institute like a sort of mandated break as if he rules in under something then one player doesn't have to waste all their emotional energy being pissed off at their opponent right for taking a break. And i'm not saying that's the perfect solution but that's one one example of the way you could address the issue. It just seems silly that that this is what we're talking about and most of the media are talking about for the first week of a slam. Something that was actually well done and uplifting and good progress in tennis was the fact that we had v most. Lgbtq i eight plus visibility. We've ever had at a grand slam jes so we you know we always call out the bad but it's really important to recognize when folks Just show up and do something cool. So pride day was this week at the us. Open tuesday and guito pila came out in rainbow gear. And you know it's nice. See a player do this and not have it be like image rehabilitation. Just did it to do it of think. Maximo gonzalez was another one. Who did it in his doubles man. A yeah pam shriver had her rainbow wrist bands on court for the interviews and a bunch of male players were asked about it in whereas asked Essentially what would happen in the atp if someone came out. Do you feel that the tour is a safe space for someone to come out as lgbtq felix stephanos mad video of the all had positive things to say and this is part of moving the needle forward. We're no at a place now where we're not just relying on murray. We're not relying on us in. Cincinnati a couple years ago asking federal voted to get one of the really top names who have nothing to lose presumably to say something positive to move the needle forward..
The Body Serve
"five set match" Discussed on The Body Serve
"As a rinca against mcgrath. Oh mertens against the jabber and then if this match happens. It's going to be the rumble in the jungle. The shot heard around the world. Danielle collins against arena suppleant. There's a lot of good stuff. Eros yes so those are the third ramp. The potential third rounds that you were reading out critic of like we said she has not missed her year in singles alone. Surprisingly she's at this point now where she's a top ten player grand slam champion. Who picked that at the start of the year but when you combine it with her double three times singles title list in two thousand hundred twenty one and then her doubles prowess right now. This is one of the most well rounded tennis players going right now period yet. We were doing our due diligence before this episode. And i like to do like a rundown of the top eight seeds and how they've performed at the us open and what they've been doing lately so her best result is the third round of qualifying way back in two thousand fourteen. She's no main trails and singles at the tournament. But like so. What else has craig ben up to this year. Obviously we know. She won rolling girls wimbledon round of sixteen. Oh also very very minor. She won four doubles titles including rolling girls the olympics and the mix title at the australian open. There's i mean she is the most successful player this year across single and double. You just mentioned this this nice. Little nifty spreadsheet that you do. I'm sitting here trying to figure out whether you're trying to trip me leah trap and see what i would do because under the comment section for carrying applicable. You have that. She's yet to beat a top ten grand front. That was a copy and paste error. That was referring to that guy that we don't speak off and it was just a you know. He has a very specific name. That you use for him. When we're making notes for the show will not repeat right now. It is an animal. It's three levy that young lovers anyway. My trust levels in your research is it's lagging right now because of fair enough. So critique of opens against a qualifier mud innovation. konta Is an exciting first round. Possibly in that little section sarah irani is back. You know got a direct entry back in the first round here against alexandrova evita as aranka. You know i really. I don't know how to call this. She's been a little bit hit. Mislead leash took a bad loss to bharti. And i mean a lot of people have recently. But i'm just not getting that feeling from her that it's an run to the finals. Are i mean these players have boats of form in spurts. Letter at the air move with was unbeatable. Almost choose impregnable for now. She suffered an injury. And it's it's hit or miss a lot of mrs lee. Yeah but then you get a thorough match between beacon and maruta and that could be catalyzing win for either of them yes absolutely viga is historically more successful at this tournament. She's been in three finals. Mera's best result. Here is a fourth-round really. It's not our favorite slam. So i honestly hope that those two face off in the thurgau. Because i think it'll be a very interesting. Matchup moore also had very little success at cincinnati until she wanted the exactly. I mean we know she can play on hardcourts so she's the kind of player who sometimes upends expectations and can win. Titles at big events and just like crap out at smaller ones there as well. Somebody who's also had an incredible twenty twenty one their a lot names here if you go by. The ranking of sixteen would be mugabe against critic and some linka against martin's. The men's draw is headlined by novak djokovic coal twenty time grand slam champion alongside roger federer and rafael nadal. With those other two gentlemen am i a at the. Us open novak. Djokovic is the only one with a chance to get to twenty one at this tournament. Yeah well that's that's the first the second not so little bit is he's won the other three slams the year so this is his chance for a calendar year slam. He went after the golden calendar slim. That didn't happen losing at the olympics but now he arrives in new york looking to break the all time record and also achieved. This calendar slammed that has not happened on the tour. Since rod labor did at the very start of the open era no doubt the olympics were a huge disappointment for novak so part of kind of setting your mind. Right is getting past that. He didn't play any lead up tournaments to the us open which is very unusual for him and this draw is feeling a bit. Like novak in the seven dwarfs which you may know it was a very uncharitable coinage From the ninety s when a reporter called the women's tours steffi graf in the seven dwarfs that sounds like christine brennan was it. I i knew at one point. Which writer did and i think we talked about it in our steffi episode but this is the future this is novak versus the future and a lot of these. Young players are untested okay. We're gonna do in a little bit differently. I'm gonna put you on the spot where the people who can beat novak. Let's start there. Well who are the people who can beat novak in best-of-five five. And i don't i don't know who they are. Where are the. I'll rephrase the question where the people who could challenge novak feasibly. Ah medvedyev okay. To me is is kind of the number one. And i think he's somebody who would most relish playing the spoiler and he's actually number two on the bottom half of the draw so they would not meet until the final if they both won their for six matches. Now i mean this isn't revolutionary here right on novak's side of the draw the guy who potentially could do it or could challenge him is somebody. We don't wanna see winning anything but that guy out of everyone here. What i think there are a couple other people bertini maybe but on hard courts I don't know maybe it. It all depends on novak's form really. He's nursing an injury right. He took off the summer hard court tournaments to get his body right for this monumental ask but he's going to be undertaking and despite being a wizard on hardcourts. He has only one the us open three times. And i know it sounds ridiculous to say only three times but by his standards. It's a little bit low. I mean adult has one more. Us open's them. Dragevic dot puts that into perspective. It is surprising now. I think he's been given a draw where a lot of the really difficult guys are going to take each other out Because somebody who i would say could challenge him is or catch but then he has to get past bertini in the fourth round to then play novak in the quarterfinals in novak's section. We've got go fat as the third round seated opponent or nishikori. Gopher has to open against mckenzie mcdonald who had a great tournament at washington. I believe and i. I was looking up. Nishikori could be tough. And then i was like. Oh wait. now. Know their head-to-head seventeen and to well not only that corey only plays five-set matches in the first week of grassland. Right that's all he does and so by the time he gets to his very consistent while in his prime his very consistent round of sixteen quarterfinal stage. he's gassed yep yep karachi of Is the number twenty. One seed serious downswing on his ear emily star. Yeah dumi nar haven't really heard from much from him lately. Maybe there's somebody like ago. Who could be crowded. Who could catch fire again. Johnson brooks be is in that little section. Could get through if alex or taylor. Fritz kind of fizzle out. The i mean demon our first round against taylor. Fritz is not easy ride demon our one east born back in june and he's recorded a single win since then two guys who could make deep runs here they get get bunched together in the same little section sebastian cuarto and lawrence and what seti both unseeded but corto would have to play public arena boosting the second round and said he would have to play a palca in the second round to then potentially play each other in the third round..
Sportify
"five set match" Discussed on Sportify
"Surprising actually because now wear. And i honestly think it's very very overrated. Hand wash anyway then. Saw the final was bits. Tits in a five-set match djokovic. Beat it's so jovic. Another title in women's singles cocoa off and.
The Mini-Break
"five set match" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Since the calendar since we knew it was going to be a wimbledon in twenty twenty one. But there's nothing he's done here in this event to suggest otherwise and he hasn't even flash his best stuff yet he was up five love in that first set with foods rich started messing around five three ends opponent putting the set away the matches on choke which is racket always his flexible. His flexibility serviceability change direction. His return everything. He's novak frigging joke. That you guys know the deal but look when you play novak djokovic. You need to have weapons. You need to be fearless. You need to have borderline hubris and just some cockiness and be like. I'm going down swinging. And that's dennis shape of allah for you. He absolutely has that quality to his game the ability to go down swinging in the sort of power to make anyone uncomfortable in the you know a quick enough i step in you know. A willingness to go big in the outer thirds be unpredictable. Go after that i serve. He's got the gumption to do it. There's no denying that and you know he's dropped. What i think to three sats maybe in this tournament so far you look for chiappa. The excuse me to five set matches for me beach. Kohlschreiber in five doesn't have to play a second round straight-sets over murray and bautisa goot than the five-set win over hatching off in the quarterfinals..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"five set match" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"And we're going to now look back at today's ladies event where we saw well. Let's start with tonight's match. Joe because we had emma radikal against isleta mladenovic which pretty much we were waiting. All day for the players are waiting all day. All the fans awaiting it was the match kind of that was being able to be amazed. Purchase fans or just kind of know really wanted to watch but it does does raise a bit of a question over the scheduling. All of the women schools finals. Take pace tomorrow so regard you know it was going to win this much tonight. That being quiet disadvantage when they've got to come back tomorrow. Each play ash bertie. Well number one on central a you imagine and you know being given like half as less rest because as of shafts or at the end of the order of play should they know of been on before the faa's verve much would have thought that that would be more sensible. Got a completely agree that it's fell a bit. You know if. Hopefully we're not going to have these well less of these situations in the future. Because we're not gonna have manic mondays as much anymore but it definitely felt like this should have been played or they should've at least got the two ladies matches done consecutively One on court one. I think it was the abbot disappointing. Because you know these players. They had to wait around so long. I mean they didn't didn't get onto the cool until around eight pm. Uk time and you know the the amount of nervous energy. I can imagine the radic. Kenny and tomjanovich would have had just waiting around You know seeing that five-set match kind of unfold with a jealousy and zverev it. Just kinda been geared and you defy you do hope that then not put a competitive disadvantage tomorrow but you just felt the if that match at followed. You're the first lady's match that we wouldn't really be having this conversation. You would have felt that you would. You would have been a lot more confident. You would almost kind of guaranteed tomorrow. Yes both those victims would be on a on a on an equal playing field. Yeah i just think it already puts the disadvantage and i was wondering if it would affect you know how radicati kind of performed and i think in the first set. You didn't seem like she had any specific like she was playing very very well. She had chances you know she had break points on on the tomjanovich serve four. Wasn't able to take those option teas. And then you know unfortunately got breaker and in the second. Say it quickly change. She seemed to be unravelled. Donald saying yeah. I did think oh. Is this going to finish very very quickly. I wasn't expecting it to finish in quite the way it did but she seemed to be having some sort of issue with her stomach region. date noth. It was muscular sickness but three loved on chat to go of course to have treatment. See the doctor and get did not come back on court. At that. was the last resort for. It was a strange one. It was you know. Obviously it's she feel probably feel like a big disappointment. You know it. It's it's not the way anyone would have wanted that much. Not much to finish. Tomjanovich would have wanted the match mish like that or the fines you know as well coach a team So it was a bit. It was a bit of a shame. Not sure what's going on that The fact that she went of course. I don't know if that's a. It didn't look like an injury that you could kind of say as as a fan on on tv looked maybe like it was something insight maybe to do her stomach. Oh if she had strained a muscle not sure but Yeah it was. It was a bit of a downer. Wasn't it because that that i sat. She really kinda flirted. I think with breaking tomjanovich and serving saving for the sat. You know particularly at foro. I think fat to tomjanovich in terms of being able to to hold and got out those and save those break points but yes she did she did. I mean just told me about. She did that guy she just saw picked up. I think she left off really and getting it was very Very impressive is very similar. Level thought to match with costanza the one the one love winners and i think you know the match was very much about moving your opponent around the court. In order to make an unforced error. And i think that was occupied kind of both players strategies. I think tomjanovich. Maybe she just held her nerve a little bit more in the big moments. Yeah i think the fact that she's speed on the tool for like ten years and there's a little more experience that definitely helped and she was nervous as well because cheap hasn't ever been into the quarterfinals of a grand slam so she was breaking into new territory as well she'll she'll be slightly relieved to know how to actually serve our and it's got to be given pause at the end. There is completely choosing. It can because we've seen before her not being able to close out these batches babies. He was a little bit relief. Yes she was. She wasn't going to have to do it against the rowdy candidate because of retirement oversee. She wouldn't have wanted that to happen. But i mean she whenever she was kind of cooled into action saying she say five out of five break points and that was probably the the key stock in terms of in terms of coming free with victory. Yeah definitely and i wonder with with the radicarti like it must be quite bad for her not to come back onto the court to retire impact and i don't think i've ever seen a player retire from from off cool and have someone come onto do your work for you to not face. The crowd like she must be in a bad state so emotionally as as well which is real shave. And i guess she seemed to be handling the occasion over right. You know. i've certainly we've seen players walk-on shake all for a night match before crumble..
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"The moment he sees even the slightest sliver of opportunity. Who's looking to hit big forehands at any point in the rallying capitalize and play plus one balls. And if you're going to give him fifteen feet of space by standing that far behind the baseline with the return of serve. He's going to take that time and space away from you. That was mirren chile through sets one and two and he was land in the big forehand. And that i serve. That looked like a guy who six foot six and has. That sort of wingspan has that sort of natural pop on the ball. It looked like a former wimbledon finalist but then two things happened. a deniro. Medved have settled in physically. He has that joke of itching quality. You've heard me say at all week long. That ability to make matches physical even on this surface. He puts every not every return but he puts eighty percent of his returns in the court. There's a reason he's the only player right. Now who's top five in tennis. Abstracts leaderboard in both hold percentage and break percentage in. You look for him in this match. He still made sixty one percent of his first serves one seventy four percent of his first-serve points only one forty three percent of his second sir points and that's a credit to chile to look to find big forehands and swung freely at those big forehand cuts on second serve returns but medvedev also held chillers to a forty eight percent. Win percentage on second serves and chile had to hit more. Second serves in this match than medvedev did medvedev ultimately ada fifteen on break point chances chile. Five of eight four match again. Once medvedev locked in physically was moving a little bit more freely in the outer third was getting a little bit more depth wind. Chill forced him into the outer thirds was hitting his passing shot. Better his dropshot which was tracking down really well and sets one and two it was. It was a great performance from chilton. Those first two sets. He was in control playing on his terms but he slowly wore down over the course of this match. And that's what to. Neil medvedev kim due to you and you know again. Chile also lost his form You know he went from hitting winners on the fourth ball. In a rally to missing the forehand well wide on the fourth shot of the rally in the shank count started to pick up. He just missed hitting balls left and right and there was a weird challenge. Early on in third-set where votes clearly out. He challenged in any ways in the shot. Spot confirmed the ball was out that he had hidden. Kinda just flustered him in there. Were a couple of challenges and you know there were a couple of calls that the people on the line to got wrong. And i think that got a little bit under chill skin but you know what else gets under skin when you're planning a guy who six foot six but moves that fluidly around the court can seemingly track down every big forehand you head and hit the ball to the open space. You put all of your weight momentum into taking this ball early on the rise medvedev tracks down and then beats you to the next spot cross. Quarter down the line. Whenever it may be arrowhead some funky on the ron dropshot and then you know again. The guy serves like prime Not quite prime. John is ner but in that neighborhood holds over eighty seven percent of the time again. A top five number medvedev raised his game as this match went on and corresponded with chile. Drop in level and again for neil medvedev the big number here now. After being owing six in his first six five set matches..
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"But i wondered you know the way that man arena was able to be awkward. You know with his his game play whether norie could also be as awkward given that kind of similar styles and saw the norrie was sort of threatening to do the unthinkable. And maybe take it to maybe take it to a fifth set and i think you can tell by the you know the expressions officers from federal and he said i'm super relieved as it was a tough battle. You can tell the you know. he sent. That was a momentum. Shift brewing but he was he was very happy. I think to be able to nip it in the bud. I think i think the cow on cam norris point of view. I think he was very nervous. Going into that match and that radi shuttered Threat property most of the first set. I think had he come on his first match on central. Italy has played on central before he certainly not played norian center. Sorry paid federal central before. He's only played federal before the hultman cup. But he but. I don't think nari has had inexperience on that big stage because he's played in adult on chatree this year. So you know it's similar experience pain on the big stage. But i did think that he came into that with you. Know the white off. The you know the last british person in the draw you know. Some people have had some small data by roger. Federer in high far could go a net four. Was that a bit more pressure on him to to do well and to sort of make a statement and i think he just came in full back knows at the beginning and Had that not been the case. Had this been you know on co twelve or it or at different events It might have been a different story. You know have not been not pressure but sir yeah if he could find his rhythm eventually but i think it was just too light. I think you probably would have done better to not have those nerves at the beginning and play. Perhaps that would have been you know. Been perhaps one each at one point rather than being used as down. You felt that set. Yeah you felt that second set was was quite pivotal and you know i think we with nori. He's done as well as he probably could. Have you know looking at the jewel. Federal in the third third-round taking him to four sets yet pretty pretty good account of himself again. It will be a case of. I think just continuing to eat up the atop the winds on the hp and just kind of continue the continue that consistency across the whole season. I don't think his first or is very far away to be honest nari. He's he's not gonna play the olympics and he's going to go and play las cabras next. He loves it in the heat in mexico needles. Pay nothing's going to atlanta and then prepare for the us ipo. That is the the states that he really suits his game and he likes playing on. So i think that's why he's not going to go to concentrate on that on hopeful that you know he will have a good run there just to mention that he won in the doubles with his partner manar and they know tat the fifth seed so it's not all bad for come north and that was off you know on the night after the loss of address. So you could tell. He really enjoyed that any way to put a lot. A lot into that so I think that he's the kind of person who sees that losses federer as a k. That's a real. didn't he. Sees that as a real darren. He'll see that you took a set off your menu probably evangelized it in the same way that we have the could've gone in there without the nerves and perhaps you know. But he'll know that. And i think he's he's. He's very honest to himself about his place. Yeah and we had two other dramatic matches for different reasons. We had medvedev versus chile with medvedev winning from two sets up down. Which i think was the first time he's chief that and then we also had an carry us against felix. Asia elliott seem which ended in retirement Curious to leave. You had an abdominal injury at one. Settle let's so. Let's quickly touch on the medvedec match. I think first of all because again this was a thirst for medvedev a he was six seven three six down against chile. I think is like nine. And one win-loss record on grass courts. The season that to come back from that against a playoff tillich's caliber. I think was very very impressive. You get you know. One of those final three sets very formulaic wish. Very pragmatically six three six. Three six two But i think medvedev will have your even greater confidence now. The fact that he's gone to the he's gone to a five-set he's got a five-set win but the fact that he was two sets down to do that was very very impressive. Yeah i think not do a lot for his confidence knowing that you can win a match from two sets down a did look this one in the drawer Before it happened. Nothing that's got a potential for being five sets but i didn't think it would be two sets down comeback. I thought they more evenly matched throughout. So that surprised me medvedev to win that. One pretty much you know by based on metro have been higher ranked player but yeah. It's chilly got phone for this. Having led two sets and then lost lost in five thing you know she did lost to federer that way to pay that way You know it's it's not and it. It's always got a chance. Yeah you've but also. I think it's gonna probably be a real knock to his confidence. I mean you know chile cheese getting on a bit now. He's he's been around for donkey but it's probably still going to be a not to his confidence to be two sets off and then you know something in the match changes whether it's himself whether it's opponent that switches around and it doesn't it's not because he is not because he's playing now is at a level that is not suit two to five set matches and the you know that's perhaps pushing it to fall for him now without now. Yeah if it felt a little bit. I think the smaller scale to read virgil federal played. Pete sampras all those years ago it was felt maybe like a passing of the torch maybe baby like a smaller scale because chile.
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"I think it is one of those where i think we've particularly say with for example dominic. Thiem you need to lose these finals before you can start winning them. And yes we've had situations like i guess. Delport tragic springs to mind with beating roger federer. usa in coming from seemingly sort of. On the periphery to to win. But that really doesn't happen. It feels like a really and you do need to have these losses. I think in your locker before you can become a grand slam champion. And i think that will this result will make this stronger for wimbledon and just generally i think for for grand-mom's going forward but yeah i think he will. He would need to know he would need to draw. I think and reflect on these. And i think understand what these kind of match ups made and and how he performed on call in order to kind of draw in it in the future if and when he gets to another grandson final yet i mean he just needed to put on stan bothering his shoes didn't he. Because john was able to to win. A couple of finals felt like he had short song. Yeah the sets. I mean just just tactically. I mean if felt like djokovic was playing a lot more his forehand cross court which i think was working really well in the semi final against nadal really pinning into his back canned is double hunted. Candles is left a source of doing the same thing with not as as you know the results intended in those first two sets. He was going into the suspect strength in terms of his forehand. And i think he was a bit surprised with how much spain and work was coming back from those shots and i think that this past four hundred come on leaps and bounds. In the last few seasons such a is such a majestic shot is back and is not too shabby either and it really was. I think though that combination and particularly his serving as well which was again a very very impressive you very top of the line in the first two sets of mean he hit eighteen winners at six out of six that the net only ten ten unforced errors in that first set. Any one eighty seven percent of his points in the second-set so he really was able to kind of bring it together for the first two sets and i think you know what will so encouraging about that was how how nervous he was wasn't it it didn't it didn't even know it was his first. Sam finally felt like he was. He had been preparing for this for a long time and and when he was there he was. He was full of confidence. Yeah it was very impressive. A definitely a lot. More with it than i thought you know. I just kind of thought it might be very much one way traffic as she said i think do you think that was a slight hangover from the needle win for finance as well at the start i mean. He changed up tactically. I think yes in. Yes that's three and four and think going down the line with his four hundred helped. I think no other things as well. But i think overall as the match went on you just felt jackovitch experience in grandson finals with with five-set with five-set matches under his bout and and really understanding what it takes to be a slam champion. Having come so far you know with the you know that nadal victory. He didn't want to eat him. He did not want to face another staff africa situation in terms of having done the probably what he felt. Was that the ultimate obstacle. Only two full the define who huddle. Yeah obviously when you've won this title before that was two thousand sixteen. That was andy. Murray's second victory at wimbledon mosinee. So he he hasn't done that. The klay gross slam double as of yet so that will be the next thing on his agenda to take off. And i mean he looks like that's going to happen but there's a lot still to happen. Perhaps a line judge might get in the way krista do you see. Jovic is outright favourite. Going into the grass sees season. The we had grass court tennis two years. I mean do you see him as the you know the number one player to be i mean yes he is the number one but do you think i feel like it might be the as more challenges. I think from round one to a final. At wimbledon because there are cross specialists there are a lot of players with big serves now the condemned. -ly take it to a tiebreak and maybe it's it's fifty fifty and yes djokovic could have an off day and i think he probably would need to give the retired. He's had this week on. Serve as the favourite. Do you see him. Potentially doing a golden a golden slam the season. Yeah i mean. It's tricky isn't it. Because it's one less week going into wimbledon this year so there is a move players will be turning up without much much practice on girls at all going into the slob. And like you said you could come. Cropper against a girls. School specialist massive server. He manages to edge three breaks. It's entirely possible in that before and we'll say someone who's played this week and an extra week's worth of matches in jock rich. Probably not i mean. I know what you're rich is is routine is going to be because i wanted to. He normally plays the the buddha was exhibition. I think it's dope. I don't think that is going ahead this year. So i don't know where he's going to find his his match practice You know in the build up to him to he. He does have any sorta builder annot previously. He's not been such a mainstay of having a leader tournament on the tour. I guess we'll we'll have to see. Yeah he hasn't actually of previous he has really done a warm up tournament like one or two weeks before oversee on the clay. This year it was a bit different with with. Belgrade is home tournament and oversee. That did wonders for him. But i remember. He did play eastbound one year but that was the that he was kind of coming back from injury Which he them. When they won the tournament i think he won wimbledon ear as well but they will not i i yeah i feel like he's probably not going to play but his game translate say well onto surfaces as we know he's won wimbledon countless times. Say i think that would be a major oil. And i think there'll be a lot of other players in exactly the same so a bit like was it spicy stake in a wildcard into halibut. It's probably more of necessity. Because the such short turnaround and it's one of the eighty event he could be playing before wimbledon. say he might be joined. The old classic rafferty trick of gang straight from the clay get t matches on girls then having a few days off perhaps before going into wimbledon but we will say Lobster took valves girls coming up but yeah novak absolutely fantastic tournament for him and his second french. Open play him. He is absolutely raking up. The slams he's i think it's a question he's going to oversee ed and his career with more slams throw jordan rafeh. I think most people would agree that that's the likely outcome unless there's something catastrophic happens. I mean just just on that sort of debate. Because as you said djokovic sh nineteen slams now federal dowell equal on twenty. It doesn't look. I mean the signs off. Rafeh he was seeing kind of limping on the tv. I think into around the john garrels venue. I think he's already said he's not going to be playing yorker Because of potentially i think fit injury so it sounds like there's a doubt there in terms of whether he's gonna pap sit out the season and with federal obviously coming back. Everyone i think particularly fans will obviously hype that he can hop..
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"Final against zverev he went two sets up and had a bit had a bit of a wobble managed to come through in five sets and it felt the same story kind of unfolded in in the final. In the fact that he guy two sets up then yeah he had that wobble in in the sat and i think a lot of people will agree with me in thinking as the match went on. I think experience was going to be bored of a factor. And if you go look kind of joke of inches record going five in slam. Finals is just very very good. I think he's even won his own. Lock being. I think tandy murray the us open in two thousand twelve. But it did feel the. I think that it was the longer it went on. It was gonna favor more of djokovic. And maybe it's about sort of realized that and he he felt like he needed to get across kinda foster. But i think his issue is that you know. He's getting himself into these positions. But he still. I think needs to understand the best of five-set matches. Perhaps this is a marathon notice sprint and perhaps there they had kind of different perspectives and mindset going in and jackovitch even though he was two sets down. He's that sort of marathon approach in knows the the longer i contract this out the more likely his on going to win it why're assists pass perhaps treated street a bit more like a sprint and although you would love to go kind of two sets up it it was. Perhaps he hits expanded to much energy in winning those first few sets. Yeah i mean he can eat a day. You have to call not want to be in that situation. But i think you'd probably panic a bit. Wouldn't you in the third set thinking of ridden to win this in three. Because especially if he if he was feeling an issue with his back he's played a lot of tennis over the last fortnight and so on just all not there's no there's no from the jock itch camp. There's no sort of lulling your opponent into a false sense of security with this you would. There is no because You know because i'll open source of reading and speaking friends whether you know this was a sort of hatay i know. That sounds absolutely crazy like you know. Would you ever want to go cut of two sets down in a grand slam final. But i think there are all kinds of people he wanted to about the fact the whether jovic was kind of creating a faux said security was a new deep down that he was able to kind of basically switch it on a matt third-set and really continent i guess bright kind of cisa pass mentally over the next three sets for example. Did you did you get that sense. Oji think djokovic. He would have probably preferred to win. At least one of the first two sets. Yeah i mean. I'm sure he would have absolutely not. I sat day when i went into the tiebreak. I think as much as i'm sure he's a genius tactical whilst mind. I think you would want to go to at style on a low. You're into security. But i see we made. It's like mary stab. an unintended. like silver lining of the fatigue. H he says down is the kind of changes the you'll rationale and how your opponents behaving as well kim. I swear if there is a player who is two sets down and you still think is favourite. it's novak djokovic talking by talking to my friends at the pulses guy gone. They were still like. Yeah but novak djokovic will come back in five. And i think that's testament to how battle hardened i guess novak djokovic riches and his you know his mental strength which you know we. We spoke about as one of his biggest positives and now he is needed this week. Because this wasn't the first match. He came back from two sets down and he came back from this back from the situation against lorenza mazzetti as well and it again this. I think when you look back on this tournament he really has needed to be the comeback king in order to to win trophy here. He's all sorts of matches rallies. At some you know easy regulation matches in the early rounds and then couple of four settlers couple of five. Say he's really proven you know. He was the best. I ever the tournament and wherever you could throw up against him he he's managed to come through and you know now he's he's on nineteen slams. He's just one behind russia and rafeh you know he's the whole fave. For wimbledon a lot of people are saying easels the favor of the us open so he might have to the golden the golden year throw with the olympics. Three in as well. It's i mean. I see it very hard to sort of see beyond that really is absolutely the favourite to do all of that so he could be making history Just breaking records left left right and center. I mean it's going to take a lot to to beat navey pitch in a slam at the moment. I guess it was quite scary. Is that you know we. We see a nadella very long garrison beating the dalit. Roller garo says one of the biggest challenges in in spoil. Let alone tennis. And he's he. He overcame that in the semifinal. Went on to win the french open and equally look at them. You got to look at wimbledon in usa thing. There's no that sort of challenge. That i think now with regards to federal for example on central i think as you were kind of talking about you know a few days ago jovic really kind of i think it has federal is arguably has federal number in our a stop. Say you wouldn't feel like there's a big over challenge or obstacle for him to overcome. Like an dollar roland garros. Potentially at wimbledon i guess the unknown factories and this is kind of to to stephenville sit surpass. Donyo medvedev dominic. Thiem sashes of is how they are going to perform. Because i think they might be. They might look at this past run and themselves be inspired and encouraged in terms of how well he has handled i think. The tag of y- being deformed player coming in reaching the final. I mean yes i think he had. He had a nice. He had nice drool He did have a tough match against verve in the semi's but i certainly think those young guns and young pretenders will look how surpass played. I'm particularly against your commission. The final and i think that will give them a lot of encouragement. They're still gonna need to go out there with the call and do the business but it feels like with this result even though jackovitch one and surpass loss two sets are. I think there'll be a lot of encouragement death for players who might think that this isn't as insurmountable as perhaps it might seem. Yeah that's a good point. I it's interesting. Is we going onto the girls because we haven't girls for two whole years. It's i think a lot of players going to be quite rusty. And i really don't you know how the likes of sits passed in a fair and i wonder if sits bus having lost from tease. That's up today. We know he's quite phyllis off school. Play quite deep. I wonder how he's going to be affected by this loss. And if he's going to carry that package into the girls. I wouldn't necessarily expect team japan moonlight. He's had a fantastic season. But i do expect that to be some sort of drop-off perhaps i'm underestimating him. I'm my will will come get in the end. I i think it's quite surprised. He's taken a wild cod into holler. And i don't think the fact he's taking that while khad don't think he's gonna allow kind of a lot of him a lot of reflection time on this. Maybe that that's the way he wants to approach this but for me. That's a little bit surprising. Of course this was his first grandson final when he he's done he's done very well i think he's done better than nothing. A lot of us was sort of expecting but it is..
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"Maybe four. I don't know i'm still sticking with adultery. The problem is if i think i think djokovic is truly playing well enough to take a set off of nidal hem taking office s taking a set off doll to me is much more impactful than maybe not all getting a set takeoff on by schwartzman to me doesn't mean quite as much as that makes sense so it joke mitch surely is playing at a level where he can win sets against the or even a single set against it all in his mind he can beat at all and so that's the scary part because he's probably right i mean djokovic is just simply that goods he's playing at a level where he could win set to me. There's no reason he can't win the match but again i'm sticking with it. The dollar three and brand of the gods. Let's see it happening now again. We're both taking the dull. Just think i just have a thing but again giving the doll in four. But i do think four set match now. Flipside sierra cpos. They've played before in their career. You book overall for seats past five. Two advantage for him over zverev overall. Of course you look at the majors. They've played at never actually played at the majors. This will be their first time. They played once this year. Acapulco final zero have won in straight sets now. they've only played once on clay courts. Madrid twenty nineteen was a three-set win four seats over sviridov in the quarterfinals. Of course i've said the stat before. So i'm not gonna say it again. You guys know seats passes. Break percentage jumps by ten percent. He goes from being number forty to number fourteen in the app. Tennis abstract leaderboard when you switch from hard courts to klay measures of his break percents which again measurement of his returns you look at their pathways to this semi-final four pasu by the way fifty. Eight and nine fifteen nine nineteen excuse me in his last fifty two weeks. You look for him. Overall fifty four and seventeen seventy six percent win percentage in his last fifty two weeks. You know his clay court. Season winds monte-carlo finals of barcelona quarterfinals of rome. Winds leone now here in roland garros suits on a nine match winning streak. You look for him. Obviously for the fourth career. I believe semi-final. He's never advanced to a major final before meanwhile four alex fear of you look at his results. This season It's just the last fifty two weeks fifty five forty five and fourteen. Excuse me so seventy six percent. Win percentage is well his clay court season. A little more up and down loses second round monte carlo fan second round munich to vodka than wins madrid loses quarterfinals. To rafa in rome now reaches the semi-finals here. You know we mentioned the five set match against ota but pretty straightforward draw for him and it's funny in his four times competing in the grand slam semifinals. He has zero top ten wins. You can only play the player put in front of you and he is just better than these other players. That aren't top. Ten in the best of five format wins for him over. Otis affiliate jury nishikori individual kina for seats. Deposit was wins overshirt de patrimony. Gina's john is ner pray no public arena booster and daniel. Medvedev jamie your breakdown of this. You can read it both ways. But let's be honest..
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"five set match" Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Jovic needs to path plus one success. He's had that he's locked in on that specifically in the lead up to this match. I think it's going to be a really fun. I do think rafa ends up winning. Think jovic takes the set. I think he takes the opening set as well. And i think that adds to the intrigue but then i think rafa takes three close sets from there and then defining himself in the final against one of alex fear. Define of seats you positive. I talked about that match a little bit yesterday. Book both guys have had two days off and he enters this match pretty much a hundred percent physically fresh because he played a five-set match in his first round match but hasn't dropped a set since then and diminished davidovich. Fo- kina as well in that in that quarter final battle at least mentally did have the test of medvedev. That's gonna just take more out of you and of course physically that match certainly got physical. Are they just gonna take more out of you in one match jovovich Then zero has had taken out of him in its entirety in of his run. Here in paris. I mean on the clay. Against europe's got the weapon to at least make the pounds return uncomfortable. And he's got the sort of physicality to as the match gets longer. You withstand joe seats passes first and when it becomes a little bit harder for seats spouse to generate that first strike pace you know zero will be right there physically to still hang with him at the same time seats. You pass playing so decisive. And he's not going be shook by the moment and so often seize your of frozen by that moment that serve abandons him replaced such passive tennis. Play pass tennessee pass. It's gonna make you pay. I think that match goes the distance. I'll take gt in five. But i think both of these men's semi-finals get super super fun and again we have a fun. Day of women's semifinals ahead. It's going to be soccer. taking on is barbara crutches. cova pelech ova taking on tomorrow's don's very very fun day of matches so hopefully those will be good ones. And you know again. The men's semi-finals i guarantee you. Those are going to be exciting. Certainly we will talk about them a little bit. Tomorrow's podcast as those matches semi-final matches can end pretty early. So we'll try and get that out early enough to you all that you can listen to another preview of the matches but again we are guaranteed a first time slam champion here in the women's singles event at the two thousand twenty one french open. That's all we can ask for as tennis fans. Some excitement fueled into this year. Second major and of course. If you've missed any of the action from the two thousand twenty one..
Beyond The Baseline
"five set match" Discussed on Beyond The Baseline
"Seem casey's in self admittedly full disclosure. She issues a friend to put you a lovely person and I i'm not sure quite what happened but if people ought to know that Go quickly to the men's side I think there was a huge upset this tournament and we weren't really talking about it much and that's often the doll. Having a two sets to love lead against a plane he's dominated in their previous meetings and falling in the quarterfinals to sit surpass People say sits speech the dollar a fast court. I think you say all right. I i could see that happening Robbing two sets to love. I think turns this from A perhaps somewhat surprising result into a shocking result. It'll not sure why this did not seem at least in my quarters did not seem to get quite the attention that i thought it might Any thoughts on that one. Yeah i mean we've had this conversation you know as we were previewing. The season last year know we talk about the big three and we always ask the question you know. When will that next generation. When will the younger guys overtake the big three. And when when will we see you know. I think even in your predictions. I think one of the questions was who will be who win their first grand slam into in two thousand twenty one so it we've been asking him for a while and you know i think you see players like dmitrov or iran edge. You know there may have passed but you know now this this twenty five and under group You know as the next group here and sit. Suppose he made it happen in this in this match. But i think one of the things that really brings is just the the belief that these players these young players can can beat. The big three ingredients matches. We talk about it best. Three burst gusts five and That was a five set match that surpasses beaten. So i think that's a really important point And you know what we'll we'll see how how shakes out and and if He.
Beyond The Baseline
"five set match" Discussed on Beyond The Baseline
"And i think that you know. We talked before the us open. We said with this title. Have an asterisk which really was sort of a silly conversation. That didn't come to pass. And i it quite the opposite. It does not matter that the word fans in the stands that doesn't mattering didn't have to go through any of the big three. I think you're totally right. Jamie is one his major. He's done without discussion. He's proven himself can win. Seven matches and that makes the difference Curious with was great fun it was sort of. It's as you might expect it was. It was a spirited affair. Curious look great in curious. Wilted we've seen this from him in a sort of an annual dance attempts to do where he looks good. In the early rounds he plays one of the higher seeds Very tightly and gets the crowd involved and then eventually can't quite get across the finish line and you you do sort of as much as you admire curious as how it you do wonder if he had a normal training regimen and didn't play call of duty the whole time and if you had a normal coach who might have gained plan a little different if he really applied himself as we might say Through to a teenager if he'd really applied himself you wonder if he could have gotten over that. But you know. Dominic thiem wind five-set match. You probably should not have won The two guys rank ahead of him are both physically compromise as you say he now takes the court every time knowing. Look i've done this before. I don't have to worry about. Will this be my breakthrough major. That's already happened and suddenly Yeah suddenly i. i don't know. I haven't checked the odds here. But suddenly dominic thiem has gone from being one that eliminated from the tournament to probably pretty good back to do much better than last year and win the thing. So i think that's i think that's a really good point jamie. How many of these majors has an awful lot of value that you can't necessarily quantify via beyond the adidas tied line. You're absolutely right. I was using it more to make a larger point. Yeah nobody said it funny that he said that he said Impossible nothing. And i've seen that. Everyone was all right by twitter and i saw yahu headline love taking like wait. A second. i think sounds. Yeah familiar but Definitely team quays billboards. He's he's an adidas guy so maybe corporate citizen now i that was my you know looking at it. Closer my my second job. But like i said i think just a larger know about that To transition a bit. I think That really brings up serena to mind because of course there is this big number twenty four that is just hanging over her head and i feel like we've been talking about this for way too long..