13VanDerBale13
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Can’t wait to hear his speech ?
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13VanDerBale13
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Just realised how late it is in Australia (half 1 in the morning) ?
13VanDerBale13
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Very gracious from Med, fair play ??
ajspurs
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Just watched this post match conference from Medvedev, have to say it was such a good watch and it actually made me feel quite sorry for him. Basically, for anyone who won't want to watch it all, he tells a story about how he as a kid had such big dreams for his future in tennis and how certain things inspired him, but today made him rethink those dreams and he feels he may just continue tennis for himself and to support his family and those around him. This isn't because he's sad from just the loss though, it was pretty much due to the disrespect of the Australian crowd in between points and such, probably throughout the whole tournament as he'd voiced his annoyance in prior rounds.
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I'll admit it came across to me as a bit of a hissy fit, and I think he will rethink his rethink, once he has time to, well, think.
He's played one of the most popular players in the world trying to get the 21st major and break the log-jam; what does he expect?
In the future he has to aim to be the one that they're all shouting for, and this isn't the way to do it.
I've only ever played one match where the crowd were overwhelmingly against me - 'us' actually, as it was doubles - and it's a bad experience. So an understandable reaction, but like I say, he'd do better to win the crowds round rather than alienate them.
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Great win for Rafa. Can he now be termed as the GOAT?
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That press conference for me was him almost saying that he's never going to be a fan favourite and has to play more cynically for himself rather than trying to entertain the crowd. He strikes me as being quite similar to Djokovic where he doesn't understand why the crowd don't love him. Whereas from the outside you can see that he doesn't encourage the crowd or have any interaction / showmanship about his game (plus lets face it nobody would have been a crowd favourite against Rafa coming back from 2 sets down in a slam final like that).
It's a strange one, I quite liked playing away with the crowd against me as it always helped to get my mind into 'the zone'. A few teammates would react badly when the home crowd celebrated our bad luck but you have to rise above it and use it to push you on then smile back as you taste their sweet grudging "congratulations" after the game.
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Yeah I'm not sure really. I don't know if it's all just gotten to him, the crowd not being very supportive of him that is, or if it's genuinely just the nature of the support against him, with the noise in between serves for example is what irks him more than anything else. Her certainly doesn't come across as one who cares about fans thoughts too much and he'd have to be massively deluded and naive to think his actions in particular wouldn't reflect negatively in any way with regards to the crowds perception of him, and I mean by his gestures towards crowds and certain comments he makes. Although despite ones character I'm sure it's something that can end up taking it's toll.
To me he just went a long-winded way to try to express the difference between support (or lack of) and disrespect. Maybe it is just sour grapes though, it's hard to tell with a person such as him.
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Deservedly so. It's the way he hit the chair like he really wanted to hit the umpire and at the very least scare him. Shame for the tournament, but absolutely the right call.
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He is just a prick. Bad loser generally. Should get punished more.
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Understand the desire to add consistency to the majors but why not just introduce a standard 5th set tie-break. Why have a whole new breaker to 10 instead of the standard 7 
www.dailymail.co.uk
Tennis' four Grand Slams announce unified fifth-set rule change
MIKE DICKSON: Instead a match going five sets for men or three sets for women will now be decided by a sudden-death, first-to-ten tiebreak when it gets to six-all (with a two point advantage).
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Understand the desire to add consistency to the majors but why not just introduce a standard 5th set tie-break. Why have a whole new breaker to 10 instead of the standard 7
Tennis' four Grand Slams announce unified fifth-set rule change
MIKE DICKSON: Instead a match going five sets for men or three sets for women will now be decided by a sudden-death, first-to-ten tiebreak when it gets to six-all (with a two point advantage).
Presumably further to distinguish them from 'ordinary' tournaments, despite the men already playing 5 sets.
Marty
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Ash Barty on why she’ll ‘never stop loving tennis’ and why she had to retire
World No 1 Ash Barty has stunned the tennis world by announcing her retirement from the sport at the age of 25 during an emotional interview with Casey Dellacqua which she shared on Instagram. This is what she said
www.theguardian.com
Two months after winning her home slam too, but good for her for prioritising herself and her own wellbeing.
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