Humbert playing great stuff. Kyrgios is up and down like a yo-yo.
What a game. 2 match points saved. 5-5 now. You can’t beat Kyrgios for the drama.
What a set of tennis. 5th set shoot out now.
Kyrgios breaks Humbert in the 5th set. Thought Kyrgios was going to lose the game there when he hit the net with is racket and cursed at the umpire.
Kyrgios through in 5 sets. Saved 2 match points. Great match.
Thiem vs Kyrgios is going to be a cracker on Friday.
The last 8 should shape up quite nicely if the seeds play to form.
Djokovic v Zverev
Thiem v Shapovalov (Think Shapovalov is a much bigger threat on hard than Schwartzman)
Medvedev v Rublev
Nadal v Tsitsipas
I’d say tennis hasn’t been as strong for a good 6/7 years back when the likes of Tsonga, Berdych, Del Potro, Wawrinka, Murray and Ferrer were all in their pomp along with the big 3. It’s been a long time since I can recall a slam with 7 of the top 8 seeds in a slam QF.
Tsitsipas survives a scare to get home in 5.
Rublev also home in straight sets.
Medvedev and Nadal get their matches under way shortly.
Kyrgios a set up against Thiem. Thiem needs to come up closer to the baseline for Kyrgios’s serve.
Kyrgios now serving for a 2 set lead. Thiem in real trouble.
Underarm serve ace to finish the set. Thiem’s head is gone.
Wouldn’t rule Dom out, only Nadal and Djokovic are stronger mentally than him in the mens game.
FAA beating Shapovalov up too.
Thiem has won the third set and now seems to be getting on top. Kyrgios is getting annoyed at everyone. Giving out about the crowd now after he wound them up.
Kyrgios is a dope. A simple shot to win a game and he tries a tweener and missed and Thiem wins the set.
Thiem wins more to do with Kyrgios being a fucking complete gobshite. Fair play to Thiem for sticking in there and getting the win.
Thiem has huge form in this. Arguably the mentally toughest player in the game now, coming from 2 sets down in the US Open final last year.
Glad to see Thiem still in it, will make Djokovic have to earn it.
If Djokovic is to win it from here, it should go down as one of the best slam wins ever. He will have Raonic in R16, Zverev in the QF, Thiem in the semi, Medvedev/Nadal/Tsitsipas.
That’s pretty much his last 4 slam matches against top 16 players who have all made at least a slam final (Tsitsipas excluded).
Thiem’s win was all down to Kyrgios acting the prick as usual. All he had to do was see out the 3rd set but instead he started his usual shite fighting with the umpire and then crowd. He is a fucking gobshite.
Djokovic went off for a injury time out, he has a problem with is hip.
He seems to be making hard work of Fritz albeit he will probably come through in straight sets but the points won tally is very close at present.
Fritz has a set on Djokovic.