Tennis 2021

[Villa Lew]

Andy Murray may miss the Australian Open, having tested positive for Covid.

[UK Redsox]

72 players now in isolation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/55695295

[Villa Lew]

Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/55749046

[Villa Lew]

Nadal knocked out of the Aussie Open, CD will be upset

[Meanwood Villa]

Osaka v Brady and Djokovic v Medvedev in the finals. Two clear favourites there.

Serena's search for 24 continues. Starting to look like she'll never catch the homophobic crackpot. I wonder if she'd retire if she wasn't so close. Then again Venus is still going so maybe she'd carry on regardless. 

[Villa Lew]

Djokovic wins his 9th Aussie Open in 3 sets, 18th grand slams now 2 behind Federer and Nadal, quite a bit ahead of Andy Murray.

[cdbearsfan]

Nadal knocked out of the Aussie Open, CD will be upset

😁

[luke:lamf]

I don't think Serena will make it to 24, which I don't think diminishes her as the greatest women's player ever - I know Court could only play what was in front of her, but it was a different time - although she isn't my personal favourite. I remain a big fan of Hingis and Henin, who relied on technique and tennis brain to compensate for "average" physical attributes, as opposed to say, Williams, Graf & Navratilova.

[Villa Lew]

The greatest win of his career for Dan 'The Villa Man' Evans beating Djokovic in 2 sets at the Monte Carlo Open.

[Villa Lew]

Rafael Nadal only 3rd seed for the French Open, how do they work that out?

[Villa Lew]

Britain's number 1 Dan The Villa Man knocked out in the first round of the French Open, beaten in 4 sets by Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic.

[olaftab]

Naomi Osaka has a point.

[luke:lamf]

Naomi Osaka has a point.

She'll need more than that - needs a minimum of forty-eight to win a match.

I don't think she has much of a point from what I've read. I can sympathise that it is unpleasant to be interviewed after a loss, and the press can ask unpleasant questions, but she has not gone about it the right way. A unilateral declaration, followed by apparently totally ignoring follow-ups from the GS organisers to try and find a compromise. Like it or not, all tennis tournaments - that give her the platform to earn not just winnings from the sporting side, but also earnings from sponsorship - need media coverage to survive, and that means access to the players, hence why it is part of their contracts to do media duties.

[cdbearsfan]

Feel sorry for her if she has mental health issues, they could have been more accommodating.

[Monty]

The absolute gall of the people (usually pudgy, white, middle aged journo blokes who've never once had a job you couldn't do while drinking) accusing Osaka of lacking 'mental toughness'. If she didn't have that she wouldn't have won many top-tier tennis matches, let alone a slam. It takes a fuck of a lot of toughness to carry on through depression, and a lot of people have really revealed this week that they don't understand this.