Tennis

[HaroldBishop]

You're right with the short turn around hurting NK, he is probably just starting to get into a real fitness base on the pro tour, I know he is young but he wouldn't be as fit as at a lot of the guys on tour, I suppose you could call it match fitness. He has strung 4 or so rounds of quality tennis together plus maybe the qualifiers to get in the main draw so he will be coming into a flat spot shortly.

A big factor in tonight's match v Raonic will be how he returns Raonic's serve, they both serve bombs but it will come down to NK making decent returns, if he can get into the point when receiving he is more than capable of winning the majority of points as I believe he has the better ground strokes over Raonic.

Moving forward for NK he will need to learn how to kill the point quicker, many times last night he let Rafa off the hook when Rafa did some so/so returns from NK's serve, people like Fed, Joker, Rafa, Murray etc have the ability to kill the point when serving a bomb, NK will get this as matures as he seems to be a smart thinking player as well.

Big kudo's to him, he's playing out of his skin.

He's a natural baseliner so if he can get his volleying up a few notches in the next few yrs he will end up being a very hard player to beat.

Yep as predicted BS, he was a bit flat last night. Not to worry, what an amazing week and a half he's had. It's nice to have an Aussie player to get genuinely excited about.

 

[Bundy Shark]

Yep, best thing of all is he seems to be a grounded person as well, I heard part of his press conference, he wants to go away & work hard & improve on parts of his game, he's saying all the right things, success for him is there for the taking.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Yep, best thing of all is he seems to be a grounded person as well, I heard part of his press conference, he wants to go away & work hard & improve on parts of his game, he's saying all the right things, success for him is there for the taking.

Agree. It's very refreshing after putting up with Tomic the spoilt brat for the last year or two.

 

[Sir Chadley]

I wonder if there is any chance at all that Tomic can learn from NK's approach. Probably very unlikely but the day is going to come when NK's ranking is better than Tomic's. Or is it already?

 

[HaroldBishop]

I wonder if there is any chance at all that Tomic can learn from NK's approach. Probably very unlikely but the day is going to come when NK's ranking is better than Tomic's. Or is it already?

Before Wimbledon Tomic was 86 and Kyrgios 144. I'm pretty sure Kyrgios moves into the top 100 after Wimbledon so it's possible he will be higher.

 

[evertonshark]

Before Wimbledon Tomic was 86 and Kyrgios 144. I'm pretty sure Kyrgios moves into the top 100 after Wimbledon so it's possible he will be higher.

Could be wrong but I think I heard he'll be no.66 in the world.

 

[Bundy Shark]

Plus it was reported Tomic will drop out of top 100 with he's past results (the tennis rankings work on how they compare to previous yr, Tomic hasnt bettered previous yr resluts, hence him dropping further ranking)

 

[Sir Chadley]

Could be wrong but I think I heard he'll be no.66 in the world.

Wow, that's a huge jump 144-66. But then again its a major tournament and he reached the final 8 so it may be true.

 

[deano the p]

Hope he is ranking above Tomic.

 

[A.Snowden]

Tomic... Used to see him all the time on the goldy. Grade A ****wit. Said all along he was **** lol

 

[HaroldBishop]

A good US Open campaign from Kyrgios after Wimbledon, bowing out in the third round. Really needs to work on his temper though on court, don't need that kind of crap in his game.

Nice to see Casey Delacqua having some success too, into the fourth round.

 

[Sir Chadley]

A good US Open campaign from Kyrgios after Wimbledon, bowing out in the third round. Really needs to work on his temper though on court, don't need that kind of crap in his game.

Nice to see Casey Delacqua having some success too, into the fourth round.

Thought he may have gone on with it HB after being 6-3 and 2-0 up at one stage. Yes Delacqua has a real chance - paying over $3 for her next match but Roger Rasheed says it's great value.

 

[HaroldBishop]

Thought he may have gone on with it HB after being 6-3 and 2-0 up at one stage. Yes Delacqua has a real chance - paying over $3 for her next match but Roger Rasheed says it's great value.

Can't stand him Chadley, won't be touching it based on that alone.

 

[Sir Chadley]

Can't stand him Chadley, won't be touching it based on that alone.

Yeah mate, forgot to have the sarcasm meter on. He's on that program I shouldn't be listening to each morning BSB. Don't know why they bother with him, totally full of himself.
He uses one phrase constantly in his reports, "There's no doubt about that."

 

[HaroldBishop]

Yeah mate, forgot to have the sarcasm meter on. He's on that program I shouldn't be listening to each morning BSB. Don't know why they bother with him, totally full of himself.
He uses one phrase constantly in his reports, "There's no doubt about that."

Yep he is certainly full of himself. The guy that coached Hewitt from #1 to below #100. Great coach.

 

[Bundy Shark]

A good US Open campaign from Kyrgios after Wimbledon, bowing out in the third round. Really needs to work on his temper though on court, don't need that kind of crap in his game.

Nice to see Casey Delacqua having some success too, into the fourth round.

He does plus he has a heap to learn from a mental part of his game, needs to learn to keep the foot on the throat when in charge like all good players do.

I am not saying he did this but he thought he had the match under control towards the end of the first set to the point I get the feeling he was disrespecting Robredo's ability, Robredo has been on the men's tour forever & finds a way to win matches when he has less talent & this match was a classic example.

Before young Krygios new what hit him the momentum had swung & he was gone, what I didn't like about his loss was it would have showed all players on the tour that if you stay with Krygios whens he's hot you will get your chances against cause he goes in & out of the matches.

I am probably being a tad too tough on him but at this point in time he should be mentally stronger than he is, on the positive side he is leaps & bounds ahead of Tomic mentally.

 

[HaroldBishop]

He does plus he has a heap to learn from a mental part of his game, needs to learn to keep the foot on the throat when in charge like all good players do.

I am not saying he did this but he thought he had the match under control towards the end of the first set to the point I get the feeling he was disrespecting Robredo's ability, Robredo has been on the men's tour forever & finds a way to win matches when he has less talent & this match was a classic example.

Before young Krygios new what hit him the momentum had swung & he was gone, what I didn't like about his loss was it would have showed all players on the tour that if you stay with Krygios whens he's hot you will get your chances against cause he goes in & out of the matches.

I am probably being a tad too tough on him but at this point in time he should be mentally stronger than he is, on the positive side he is leaps & bounds ahead of Tomic mentally.

Haha not exactly setting the bar very high there, Bundy.

He's only young so I think it's all part of the learning process for him. Unlike Tomic he seems to come from a well-grounded family so that's one thing. If he's still carrying on like this in two years then he will have real issues.

Whilst he's had a great few months I think a couple of failures (knocked out first round) would be good for his development shortly so he realises things don't always go your way.

 

[evertonshark]

Watching a pretty epic battle here between Monfils and Federer

 

[evertonshark]

Federer was down 2 match points in the 4th set and comes back to win the set and take it into 5 sets.

 

[evertonshark]

And Federer wins !