The Tennis Thread

This is a very erratic start.

Both players a bit nervous. Medvedev served 7 faults in a row

Medvedev is not going to finish this match.

He looks brittle physically but that set will give him a boost.

How many double faults did he serve in that set?

7 I think.

Neither of them have a hope against Federer on this form.

Federer has a resurgent Dimitrov to contend with first.

No 74 in the world?

Fair play to medvedev for continuing to play lesser players would have conceded the match by now. In saying that Stan is helping him by playing shite.

Looks like Stan has finally woken up.

Touch of Kyrgios to Medvedev, does some daft things at times and looks like he couldn’t give a toss.

Stan’s backhand has been awful.

Point of no return for Stan now, he’s been too erratic.

Medvedev has played some nice tennis. I don’t know how badly he is physically, he’s so skinny and all taped up but he hasn’t really shown any state of physical distress so far.

Medvedev has this now. Fucking Stan so inconsistent

Those big loopy backhands well over the baseline are embarrassing from Stan.

Thats the problem with the one handed backhand very little margin for error. The 2 handed backhand is more forgiving.

Stan is a goner now. Will be interesting to see how Nadal deals with Medvedev

It’s Federer up next.

That’s a very impressive from Medvedev. I don’t know whether to read too much into that as Wawrinka was really poor.

Commentators eye.

The way he is playing i wouldn’t be surprised to see in the final.