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canefan

@1kiwi said in Aussie Open:

Kiwi Erin Routliffe and her Canadian doubles partner are through to the Women's Doubles quarter-finals after a 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 win

They need to stop losing the 1st set. That will come back to bite them sooner or later.

She started slow in the mixed doubles with Michael Venus too

booboo

Is it just me or are Serbians incredibly over sensitive?

A Human Rights complaint? An interview boycott?

For that?

Yes, dumb attempted humour, but really?

dogmeat

@booboo said in Aussie Open:

Is it just me or are Serbians incredibly over sensitive?

Come from an ultranationalist country so not renowned for their ability to laugh at themselves. Plus it was a lame and deliberately insulting comment. Hiding behind the 'harmless banter' defence as he desperately backpedals.

booboo

It was harmlessly lame, and rather unfunny, but to my mind Serbia and Setbians have made themselves look stoopid.

But the coverage is how "offensive" the "joke" was.

Jones should have just told them to get over it.

Enough of that distraction now.

canefan

Both viewpoints can be true. It was clumsy and lacked humour, the Serbs and Djokovic have overreacted

canefan

@Bovidae said in Aussie Open:

@1kiwi said in Aussie Open:

Kiwi Erin Routliffe and her Canadian doubles partner are through to the Women's Doubles quarter-finals after a 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 win

They need to stop losing the 1st set. That will come back to bite them sooner or later.

No such issues in the QF. Routliffe and Dabrowski win their QF in straight sets

canefan

Coco Gauff is on the verge of losing to Paula Badosa. She's playing terrible, with so many unforced errors, Coco has been far too tentative and hit tons of groundstrokes into the middle of the net. It's 5-2 in the second with Badosa serving for the match. Gauff is running out of time to save herself. Having said that Badosa has dropped her serve, Badosa will have one more service game to try and serve the match out

canefan

Badosa wins. Great match from her, her first GS semi I believe

dogmeat

Gauff probably unable to focus what with her TikTok withdrawl

canefan

Nice for Badosa after a bad run with injuries. She's easy on the eye too, a bit of an Amazon at 5'11".

1kiwi

Routliffe and Venus through to the mixed doubles semi finals after a win in the quarters

canefan

@1kiwi said in Aussie Open:

Routliffe and Venus through to the mixed doubles semi finals after a win in the quarters

Not sure if Venus is still in the doubles. But Routliffe is a double semi-finalist.

canefan

Sabylenka is playing her QF now, the crowd is pretty poor from the looks of it, lots of empty seats

Bovidae

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

Sabylenka is playing her QF now, the crowd is pretty poor from the looks of it, lots of empty seats

I'd have to take earmuffs to watch her play. I can't stand the grunters in the modern era.

canefan

@Bovidae said in Aussie Open:

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

Sabylenka is playing her QF now, the crowd is pretty poor from the looks of it, lots of empty seats

I'd have to take earmuffs to watch her play. I can't stand the grunters in the modern era.

She's not as bad as Azarenka in her prime

Bovidae

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

@Bovidae said in Aussie Open:

@canefan said in Aussie Open:

Sabylenka is playing her QF now, the crowd is pretty poor from the looks of it, lots of empty seats

I'd have to take earmuffs to watch her play. I can't stand the grunters in the modern era.

She's not as bad as Azarenka in her prime

From the same country. It's mainly an Eastern European thing.

canefan

Aryna Sabalenka went 22 sets at the AO without losing one, finally had the streak broken but she escaped just, winning in 3

canefan

Novak turns back the clock in an epic 4 set come from behind win vs Alcaraz. I'm still sceptical he can win it all but this was a big statement game and he's more of a chance than I gave him credit for

ACT Crusader

And kiwi Erin Routliffe is into the women’s doubles semi. She and Dabrowski should be favourites to win their semi against Hsieh/Ostapenko

Unfortunately Routliffe and Venus lost their mixed doubles semi against the Aussies.

canefan

Great women's SF between Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek, Keys coming from behind to win a third set super tie breaker. She's gonna have to raise her level to beat Sabalenka who despatched her mate Paula Badosa in the other SF

The Silver Fern

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