The tennis thread.

Does the roof not make the ball bounce or move funny? I think that I heard that from somewhere, I could be terribly wrong, though.

Andy wrote:Does this match resume at 11:45?

Weather permitting, 12pm, although it probably won't get going until about 12:15.

Still confident of that Rafa win?

At least if he doesn't, Maria won here..

Hot.

Glen Damon wrote:Does the roof not make the ball bounce or move funny? I think that I heard that from somewhere, I could be terribly wrong, though.

In general it makes the ball move faster through the air. I was never particularly good at science so I couldn't give a great explanation as to why that happens.

I do know that when it's colder in outdoor conditions, the moisture in the air makes the ball feel heaver thus making it feel much slower. Warm & sunny weather makes for quicker conditions.

Indoors are generally quicker because of the lack of interference from the weather, but it also depends on the surface of the court.

just going to let everybody know that Julia has moved to 25th in the world

Also Kerber has gone to 9th in the world.

Which means I have seen a current Top 10 player play a match in Auckland!!!!

I'm so glad this match got held overnight, I'm emotionally prepared for defeat, wouldn't have been able to handle it if it happened all in one go.

Chip wrote:just going to let everybody know that Julia has moved to 25th in the world

Also Kerber has gone to 9th in the world.

Which means I have seen a current Top 10 player play a match in Auckland!!!!

I've seen a young Andy Murray play doubles with Rusedski in Glasgow Mind you, they were playing Zimjonic, who's one of the best doubles players around.
Just to think that if I'd went to see the singles instead (Davis Cup) I would have seen Djokovic & Tipsarevic

I've seen Tim, doesn't get better than that.

Has anyone ever tried "accidentally" knocking over Nadal's bottles?

He knocked them over himself once.



Made sure they went back in the right place though.

Rain coming, inb4 Nole takes control again.

Novak holds with 2 serves wide, that's where Rafa needed to take him, Novak has this now.

Rafa "Save the balls"

Racist American commentary.

FUCKING YESSSSSSSSSSSS

Well done RR on your prediction.

My heart was genuinely pummelling out of my chest on championship point.

This is too perect, Maria and Rafa.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Nadal in 4.

Exceptional.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Nadal in 4.

Exceptional.

Agreed.

Ended on a double fault, lol. Pathetic.

Pico wrote:Ended on a double fault, lol. Pathetic.

Balls of steel I tell you.

Robyn ‏@RobynVC
@Kyro7 I think you might need to spend your winnings on therapy, Rafa losing to Nando on clay is a sign of bad things to come...

I always remember this What a clay court season he's had away from that blue shit.

Both semi finals and the final were poor, that was the bad thing to come

Well, I obviously enjoyed them, thought Rafa played really well throughout the whole thing.. except for that 8 game run Novak had.. not sure if that had anything to do with the way the balls were getting heavy and stuff, and Rafa's mind went a bit, apart from that it's been great from him.. but yeah I could definitely see why you find it shit, I found the other semi to be horrific and it was probably better than Rafa - Ferrer.

menalawyerguy wrote:Holy shit...Sharapova and Nadal win a tournament on the same weekend! I'm gonna have a kyrogasm.

Again!

You're slacking though, man. It's been over two hours since the match completed and you're still working with the same out-dated avatar and signature banner. Come on! Step your game up.

menalawyerguy wrote:You're slacking though, man. It's been over two hours since the match completed and you're still working with the same out-dated avatar and signature banner. Come on! Step your game up.

I'm already working on it.