Don’t know the score on the time violations. Only sat down to watch it 15 minutes ago as well pal. Nadal really struggling with his serve but you sense after going a break up twice in this set and not capitalising on four set points for a third break to take the 2nd set, Grigor is going to go 2-0 down in the tie-break.
Mind you its 15-40 all of a sudden and he has two more set points.
Bad omen - Raonic had 6 set points in the 2nd set on Wednesday, didn’t take any of them, lost the 2nd set in a tie-break and then in straight sets.
You’re not going to be winning the Stefan Edberg sportsmanship award even once, yet alone twelve times if you’re getting pulled up for time violations every time you go out to play.
What’s the weather like in Melbourne these last two weeks? It generally tends to be crazy in late January, often around the 40 degree mark. Less of a factor in recent years with all the later stages played at night time.
Some words of concern there from John McEnrore about the unfortunate gentleman with the suspected heart attack.