2022 Australian Open

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Play begins tonight at 6 on ESPN. 

 

Men's draw pdf

Novak is officially out, replaced by a lucky loser ranked around #150. At least everyone can move on now. 

 

Women's draw pdf

Barty is the heavy betting favorite, but that's no fun with the ladies. Just to be crazy, I'll predict a Badosa/Kerber final. 

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I'm thinking that last match on Laver gets moved too. 

 

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Re: Last Match on Laver opening Monday…

Throw Australia’s own John Millman vs Feliciano Lopez on there and have another men’s matchup replace their match in John Cain Arena. 

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Close. Zverev/Altmaier to Laver, Lopez/Millman to MCA. 

Updated OoP

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7 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Just to be crazy, I'll predict a Badosa/Kerber final. 

Somehow I missed Garbine’s section of the draw, it’s pretty light. Changing to Badosa/Garbine final. 

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I don’t see anyone beating Barty. Mens side Medvedev I guess.

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24 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

I don’t see anyone beating Barty. Mens side Medvedev I guess.

Barty's just so crafty. Even when someone else is overpowering her, she finds a way to mix things up. She is, and should be, the favorite for this tournament.

Badosa, Keys, Halep, Osaka, Gauff, and Krejcikova all have the game to knock off Barty. Only Gauff in that group might be a little shy of having what it takes to win 7 straight.

I don't think that anyone else, including Garbiñe & Kerber, has what it takes to win 7 straight in Melbourne. And that also includes all Slam winners in the field plus the Gold medal B(encic).

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Barty on the women, and in a shocker, Zverev the wife beater in the men’s.

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No prediction, but Camilla Osorio Serrano is tugging at my heartstrings.  Sarona Cirstea and Angie Kerber have some competition for my affectionate fandom.

Edited January 17, 2022 by cafe society

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I've had a crush on Camilla Osorio Serrano for a minute. Unfortunately her time at this Open is coming to a quick end at the hands of Naomi.

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Can't wait to watch Djok. 

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Opelka and Kevin Anderson first round. That'll be riveting ...

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Huh Cliff Drysdale lives in austin

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9 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

Barty on the women, and in a shocker, Zverev the wife beater in the men’s.

1) “Allegedly” a beater of his lady or ladies.

2) He’s never been married, so is he accused of beating someone else’s wife?

3) With his len’th, he can dole out a forehand or a backhand from just about anywhere in the room.

4) Agree that the two tall Russians, Zverev (via Germany) and Medvedev (via Monte Carlo), are the favorites over the half-Russian (via Greece, by way of Monte Carlo) Tsitsipas, the calf-Russian (via Israel) Karatsev, the fly-weight Russian Rublev,  or the maple-Russian (via Canada) Shapovalov.

Though I would love it if the chocolate croissant (aka pan au chocolate) banging the White Russian (via Ukraine) Svitolina won the whole sh-bang! Gael Monfils won 9 days ago Down Under and he’s playing with a smile.

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🚨A WTA special is brewing 🚨

 

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edit: not sure if 5-0 retire or 6-0 would be more WTA but we got the former

 

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Coco making a bid to go home on day 1. Already down a set to Wang.

edit: and now a break in the 2nd. she's playing tight

Edited January 17, 2022 by perfectchaos007

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1 minute ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Coco making a bid to go home on day 1. Already down a set to Wang

Living at home/being home schooled or being out on the WTA circuit , I don’t think that Coco has a lot of experience dealing with Wangs yet. 

American Cressy just choked away a primo opportunity to win the first set. Nadal takes it 7-6(6).

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1 minute ago, Napoleon said:

Living at home/being home schooled or being out on the WTA circuit , I don’t think that Coco has a lot of experience dealing with Wangs yet. 

American Cressy just choked away a primo opportunity to win the first set. Nadal takes it 7-6(6).

bro you're watching a re-run of a warmup tournament 😅

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WTA addendum:

I forgot to include Estonia’s own Anett Konteveit to my list of ladies who I think can win 7 matches Down Under.

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5 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

bro you're watching a re-run of a warmup tournament 😅

Well that’s awkward. 

Where in the hell is the LIVE TENNIS?

 I was looking on my phone and found a match in Melbourne and thought, okay, time to finish my midnight snack and watch some tennis. 
 

😳

🤯

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All on ESPN+ right now. Coco down a double break in the 2nd set.

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4,2 Wang def. Gauff. Coco is quickly the first seeded woman out of Melbourne

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Sofia/Keys underway. This really does suck they’ve already moved shit to + on day 1, but the DTV extra channel has it too. 

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Kenin did much better than I had anticipated. I was thinking more along the lines of 6-2, 6-1.

It was straight sets, but the first set went to a tie-breaker, 7-6, 7-5.

With Madison serving like this, anyone can lose. This is from her last service game to win the match.

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While focusing on the Australian Open, I think that it's also a perfect time to take in a little Australian culture.

I've never been to Australia, but I may check out one or more of these films.
 

 

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19 hours ago, cafe society said:

Sorana Cirstea and Angie Kerber have some competition for my affectionate fandom.

Fun opening match tonight. 

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Easy first for Sorana, Petra can’t serve. 

Easy first for Garbine, Burel can’t serve. 

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2 & 2 for Sorana, fucking ouch. 

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Djokovic & Isner both out before the second round of a Grand Slam . . .

 

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On 1/16/2022 at 2:24 AM, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Just to be crazy, I'll predict a Badosa/Kerber final. 

Well, Angie out to Kanepi in straights. Oops. 

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Emma & Sloane finally taking the court. 

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20-3 in pts the first 5 games for Emma. Sloane gonna be at the buffet in about half an hour at this rate. 

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Make that 4 pts in a 17-minute bagel. Fucking embarrassing. 

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And of course the script completely flipped, playing 3 now. 

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Quick 4-0 for Emma. 

Women. 

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6-0, 2-6, 6-1. 

Enjoy that airline food, Sloane. 

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Possibility that Sloane hasn’t exactly been focusing on tennis since the end of last season. My prediction that Sloane could beat Emma no matter what was a bit off. (Though the Kerber not having 7 wins in her was apparently sunshine pumping.)

https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/culture/tennis-star-sloane-stephens-marries-soccer-player-jozy-altidore-in-gorgeous-wedding

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Nick Kyrgios “tweener “ serve and he wins the point.

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/33090676

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All kinds of WTA action up early today. 

Trevisan/Badosa
Tan/Svitolina
Martincova/Giorgi
Azarenka/Teichmann
Sorribes Tormo/Kostyuk

I’ll be on the first & third ones mostly. 

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0 & 3 for hot Paula. 

2 & 6 for hot Camila. Second set was peak Camila, swing & pray. 

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Oostapenko looks a little chunky but no matter, she beats Riske in 3 sets

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I won’t make much of it, but Amanda/Belinda up shortly. 

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Amanda wins in straights over Bencic. Finally after roughly 2 years Anisimova gets a signature win in a slam.

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No one likes Bencic. 

Everyone likes & pulls for Anisimova.

This is nice to see.

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Crazy how some quarters get so lopsided. Barty v. Giorgi & Anisimova v. Osaka in the top, Parrizas-Díaz v. Pegula & Kudermetova v. Sakkari right below. 

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Happy to see both Mr. & Mrs. Monfils-Svitolina in the 3rd round. 

There are occasionally couples on tour (not talking about lesbians), but I can’t recall a married couple both ranked in the Top 32 for a Grand Slam. 

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Elina’s opponent was retired by the chair at 1-5 in the third yesterday because she literally couldn’t walk. Never seen that before. 

They had to do Elina’s on-court interview while the other girl was still getting treatment on her bench. 

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Getting us started today... 

Cornet v. Muguruza 
Kontaveit v. Tauson 
Swiatek v. Peterson 
Konjuh v. Collins 

I’ll watch 1/3/4. 

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Clara jumped all over Anett in the first.