Australian Open 2016

Its going to be a Djokovic/Wawrinka final.

Verdassco knocked out after taking out Nadal. No real shocks in overnight in the Men’s. Jack Sock is 2 sets down against Rosol. I would have expects Sock to win this. Close match both sets won on tie breaks. Stan is 2 sets up and leading 4-3 in the third.

4th round draw completed.

Novak Djokovic [1] –v- Gilles Simon[14]
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) [9] –v- Kei Nishikori [7]

Roger Federer [3] –v- David Goffin [15]
Roberto Bautista Agut [24] –v- Tomas Berdych [6]


Andrey Kuznetsov –v- Gael Monfils [23]
Milos Raonic [13] –v- Stan Wawrinka [4]

David Ferrer [8] –v- John Isner [10]
Bernard Tomic [16] –v- Andy Murray [2]

The Raonic/Wawrinka and Tomic/Murray would be the pick of those. I would expect Federer and djokovic to win their matches. The Tsonga/nishikori match could be a good one just depends on what mood Tsonga turns up in.

Going to a 5th set. Simon levels it up at 2-2. Djokovic really out of sorts today, 84 unforced errors so far. Needs to buck up or he’s going out.

Nishikori up next for djokovic. Can’t see him repeating his 2014 US Open win against Djokovic unless Djokovic plays like he did against simon. But I think he got a wake up call and will now be focused.

Couple of tasty matches tonight on paper. Raonic\wawrinka and tomic\murray look like great games. Hopefully they all turn up with their A game.

Middle Sunday for some reason very often proves tricky for the top seed in Australia. Would expect Djokovic to win in straight sets against Nishikori. Simon is a tidy player. He doesn’t have the big game to take out any of the top tier players, but he invariably always gives a decent account of himself.

All the French players are like that. Tidy players but all off them lack the killer instinct. I doubt if any of the top players worry if they are drawn against French players in the latter stages of a competition.

Yeah, France always seems to have maybe 4/5 players in the top 20 but invariably never in the shake up. Think Yanick Noah’s French Open win in 1983 is the only Grand Slam won by a French player in 70 years since Yvon Petra won the Championship in 1946.

Wawrinka in trouble in the 5th set. Serve has just been broken. Raonic leads 4-2.

Raonic has beaten Stan.

Federer is broken very first service game. Looking ominous already.

Djokovic is unplayable. 5-1 up in 20 minutes.

He’s looking imperious alright.

Hindsight is wonderful,but the Serena/Djok double hasn’t looked troubled so far.

Djokovic is on fire. 6-1 first set. Fed needs to break him early in the second or else Djokovic will demolish him

Djokovic is playing some unreal stuff and not missing a shot. If it was a boxing match you would be throwing in the towel. :slightly_smiling:

I hate that mouthful.

Djokovic is human, he hit the net.

Is Djokovic the greatest player of all time?

He’s certainly the most underrated of all time.

He needs to win the French to stamp his credentials. I reckon he’ll do that in June.