Tennis

    Novak Djokovic graced a jam packed Rod Laver Arena to a robust applause from his adoring Serbian contingent on yet another second sunday and produced a near perfect match of tennis, one which Stefanos Tsitsipas just couldn’t stand up against. Tsitsipas was playing good level of tennis coming into this match and Novak looked almost unbeatable having dropped only one set in the entire tournament. It was always going to be a huge mountain to climb for Tsitsipas but one thing he couldn’t afford was a shaky start and it was anything but that. Tsitsipas was making way too many errors in the first set which didn’t help him and lost serve fairly early in the match. Novak gave nothing away on his serve and closed out the opening set in less than 40 minutes. The greek looked better in the 2nd set and managed to hold onto his serve throughout the set but was very inconsistent in the breaker. He made as many as three forehand errors in the breaker to hand Djokovic the set, who in all ...

        The point to break Kokkinakis’s serve at 0-2 down in the third set really summed up Andy Murray’s entire career. He probably isn’t the most naturally talented player but he has made most of what god gave him. Always hanging onto whatever he could, Murray found a way to win tennis matches in his career more often than not. 2 sets & 2-5 down against the home favourite and any 35 year old, not named Federer, Nadal or Djokovic, would have doubted himself. If Murray hadn’t broken Thanasi’s serve in the match up until that point, I don’t think he would have believed in himself but Murray always breaks, doesn’t he? Only twice have there been matches in majors where Murray has failed to break serve, both at Wimbledon, first against Roger Federer in 2012 and second as recently as last year against John Isner. With just won the game away from the defeat, Murray was supposed to have very little business in winning that set, let alone the match. What we saw over the ...