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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2021, 08:38:09 AM »
Defending champion, Kenin, knocked out.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #26 on: February 13, 2021, 06:33:21 PM »
Murray into final in Biella


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Tremendous match yesterday between Thiem and Kyrgios.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #27 on: February 14, 2021, 02:01:05 PM »
Great match between Osaka and Muguruza.



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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #28 on: February 15, 2021, 08:01:13 AM »
Murray easily beaten in final in Biella.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #29 on: February 15, 2021, 08:36:12 AM »
Murray easily beaten in final in Biella.
I caught that on the radio during the night, but I'm sorry he was beaten easily!
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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #30 on: February 16, 2021, 08:35:08 AM »
And Karatsev into the semi final. Have to admit had not heard of him before this week.

Easy win for Osaka.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #31 on: February 16, 2021, 01:41:41 PM »
Serena played great match against Halep setting up great looking semi final against Osaka.

Djokovic beats Zverev in 4 sets. Unless the injury Djokovic has been playing with gets worse, difficult to see Karatsev getting any further.
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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #32 on: February 17, 2021, 08:17:41 AM »
A shock seeing Barty knocked out from a set and a break up. The wait for an Australian singles winner of the Australian Open continues.

Medvedev's win over Rublev moves him up to 3 in the rankings. If he wins the tournament he would be ranked second.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #33 on: February 17, 2021, 01:05:03 PM »
What a match from Tsitsipas and Nadal!. Coming back from 2 sets down against Nadal has apparently only ever been done twice.



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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #34 on: February 18, 2021, 08:54:12 AM »
Osaka beats Williams in straight sets, and reading the news conference you have to wonder if it's Williams last Australian Open

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/56108395

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #35 on: February 19, 2021, 08:28:08 AM »
Salisbury and Ram make final of men's doubles, knocking out Soares and Jamie Murray, but Salisbury knocked out in mixed doubles semi final.


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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #36 on: February 19, 2021, 11:27:08 AM »
Medvedev beats Tsitsipas in straight sets. This a seriously impressive winning streak from Medvedev as it has because of it taking place across the ATP finals and ATP Cup meant that he's played a lot of top ten players. I make it 12 of the 20 match winning streak has been over top ten opponents.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #37 on: February 20, 2021, 11:49:04 AM »
And Osaka wins her 4th Slam, she's looking as if a very large number is possible.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #38 on: February 21, 2021, 08:15:30 PM »
In the end a bit of a damp squib of a men's final. Medvedev lost focus after a tough first set. 18 Slams for Djokovic and will shortly pass Federer's record for weeks at No1.
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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #39 on: February 25, 2021, 08:54:22 AM »
Barty beaten in Adelaide tournament.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #40 on: February 25, 2021, 10:59:53 AM »
Missed that Murray was beaten fairly easily by Gerasimov in Montpellier.

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #41 on: March 02, 2021, 07:49:42 AM »
Tough win for Murray, easy one for Norrie

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/56244576

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« Reply #42 on: March 02, 2021, 11:36:48 AM »
Tough win for Murray, easy one for Norrie

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Interesting link. I hope he can retain a sense of humour and not let the getting older, should retire, etc comments get to him too much.
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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #43 on: March 03, 2021, 08:30:49 PM »
Murray beaten by Rublev. Zverev and Medvedev both knocked out

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #44 on: March 07, 2021, 09:10:11 PM »

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #45 on: March 08, 2021, 06:35:35 AM »
The return of Federer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/56314453
I heard a brief mention of that on the radio - I wonder how he'll fare?
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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #46 on: March 09, 2021, 02:22:20 PM »
I heard a brief mention of that on the radio - I wonder how he'll fare?
Evans has just beaten Chardy in the first round so he'll play Federer next

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #47 on: March 10, 2021, 07:10:59 PM »
Federer beats Evans in 3 close sets

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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #48 on: March 11, 2021, 12:49:42 PM »
Federer beats Evans in 3 close sets
Was it a case of experience over energy, do you think? Or did they appear to be fairly equally matched?
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Re: Tennis 2021
« Reply #49 on: March 11, 2021, 01:18:59 PM »
Was it a case of experience over energy, do you think? Or did they appear to be fairly equally matched?
Federer was not at his best but given it's his first match oj over a year not surprising. I thought Evans did well but also didn't play as well as I've seen him. Very difficult to conclude much from it.