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One of Djoker/Fed/Nadal will win. If Djoker/Fed win, they will overtake Roy Emerson with the most Aussie Open titles with whom they are currently tied. If Nadal wins, he will be the only player in the Open Era to win 2 career slams. Murray is retiring after Wimbledon. On the women's side, Serena is still the favorite, Naomi Osaka looks to confirm her US Open victory over Serena, and Elina Svitolina, now with a Tour Finals title, will try not to choke in a major (spoiler: she will).  https://ausopen.com/ The first slam of the year begins on Monday, January 14 and ends on Sunday, January 27. Subtract 16 hours for U.S. Eastern Time. TV coverage starts at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2 on opening day but 9 p.m. thereafter due to college basketball. Fortunately, you can watch full tournament coverage when it starts at 7 p.m. every day at http://www.watchespn.com. The AO website and app also offer radio streams which are very good. Draws   Top 8 Men's Betting Favorites Novak Djokovic 6/5 Roger Federer 9/2 Rafael Nadal 9/1 Alexander Zverev 10/1 Karen Khachanov 25/1 Kei Nishikori 25/1 Kevin Anderson 25/1 Marin Cilic 25/1 Top 8 Women's Betting Favorites Serena Williams 9/2 Angelique Kerber 15/2 Aryna Sabalenka 11/1 Naomi Osaka 12/1 Elina Svitolina 14/1 Ashleigh Barty 16/1 Karolina Pliskova 16/1 Petra Kvitová 16/1
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I will miss Murray. I wish he had won one of those AO finals.  And during the offseason Aga Radwanska retired as well because of a persistent foot injury so that's now two of my favorites gone.
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Sad way for Murray to go. I wonder if he will make it to Wimbledon, hardly seems worth it just to hobble out in the first round.
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Jan 13, 2019 12:23
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2 hours till the first ball. Not anything too interesting in the first set of matches. Sharapova opening on Laver though.
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Jan 13, 2019 22:59
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Andy  We've had our first 10 point deciding tie break between Boulter and Makarova. Boulter won 10-6.
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Jan 14, 2019 03:34
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Sodium Chloride posted:Andy I totally forgot about that. Every major uses a different system now. I guess the French being the only one to not have a tiebreak makes it slightly better, and yet it's still the worst one. Crowd going wild every time Andy wins a point is nice.
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Jan 14, 2019 09:01
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I fell asleep during the 4th set of Murray's match  Also I totally should've put  on Serena at 9/2 
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Jan 15, 2019 03:27
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it's 3 AM and I am still awake time to watch Novak
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Jan 15, 2019 09:17
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Oh good Novak will win again and yawn.
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Jan 15, 2019 20:24
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None of today’s matches are appealing to me. Tennis is dead.
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Jan 16, 2019 00:26
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exciting rain delay in the Federer match e: and we're back i guess they stopped 5 minutes for the light drizzle
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Jan 16, 2019 05:13
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Millman put on a great show last night, I hope he can take a set off Nadal. Raonic also looked very composed, it would be great to see him go deep in the tournament.
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I've been enjoying the Oz tennis drama. Tomic is a wanker, but he does have a point about Hewitt and the things said should be investigated. Hewitt whined how other Oz players aren't getting attention thanks to Tomic and then does a press conference and says Tomic threatened to kill my family and is blackmailed me and wahhhh.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:40
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My views on the Hewitt/Tomic/Kyrgios stuff
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Likewise, there was an article about how the drama is overshadowing the achievements of the Aussie women, in particular pointing to how Kygios and Tomics exhibition match drew more press than Barty doing well in the Sydney International. And somehow this is Kyrgios and Tomics fault when it is the press making a big deal of it. Which is one thing that has been annoying me, Kyrgios and Tomic play an exhibition match and they don't play it seriously. It's an exhibition between friends, I'd expect shenanigans. But as part as the outrage there was a tweet about how the match should have been treated as a case of match fixing because you can bet on it. Why isn't the take "why the hell is there betting on exhibition matches?"
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The Sharapova/Woz match was pretty good yesterday. Indoor conditions helped Sharapova's poo poo serve and Woz didn't attack enough.Amoeba102 posted:Why isn't the take "why the hell is there betting on exhibition matches?" Because as long as some fuckwit wants to bet on it bookies will offer it. Those sort of matches are bad to bet on anyway and usually some other proper tennis match going on at the same time.
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Sodium Chloride posted:The Sharapova/Woz match was pretty good yesterday. Indoor conditions helped Sharapova's poo poo serve and Woz didn't attack enough. And now she is melting down
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Jan 20, 2019 04:29
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Get off my tv Scott Morrison you loving turd
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Jan 20, 2019 05:35
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This Federer/Tsitsipas match is real good. A lot of resilience on both sides. Also happy that Kvitova is into the quarterfinals. I haven't been able to see enough of her this tournament to know if this is proper God Mode Petra or not, but I'm allowing myself to be hopeful. Actually whoever comes out of the Kvitova/Barty match winning the whole thing would be great in general.
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Crosspost from Auspol - because I was going to post it:JBP posted:McEnroe: what are they booing
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Jan 20, 2019 12:19
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Not often you'd say 4-set epic but that was a loving incredible match.
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Jan 20, 2019 13:03
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Tsitsipas wins!!! Grandpa is going home
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Jan 20, 2019 13:03
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I thought the call in the penultimate point was from the loving crowd again.
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Jan 20, 2019 13:04
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Amazing match, Tsitsipas should really go places. Look forward to seeing him on grass this summer, his favourite surface apparently.
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Jan 20, 2019 13:08
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Zverev currently having a meltdown and its very entertaining.
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Jan 21, 2019 05:01
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Carreno Busta seems to have been screwed out of a match against Nishikori.
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Nah, I think the umpire made the right decision cause the linesman's call came exactly as Nishikori's racket connected with the ball, not before. It didn't affect his play at all and Carreno Busta was miles away. The umpire did make a mistake in allowing him to challenge, though, since there was no reason to go to hawkeye if Kei was getting the point either way.
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Zverev losing was great. A bit shocking how he couldn't cope with the slices to his bh. Svitolina went through, maybe she can do something at a slam for once. The matches I've seen have been great so far.
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Looking very ominous for Barty here. Kvitova is just smoking every shot
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Looks like Nadal is gonna get him another Australian win unless his body destroys itself again.
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Svitolina predictably melted. Right now Serena isn't serving or returning well enough to turn it round against the good Pliskova. e: and Pliskova immediately gets broken back. pfffft. Sodium Chloride fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Part of me wants Serena to win just so she can lose to Osaka again. But I’d rather not take the chance and just have Pliskova beat her.
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Finally a good result
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I love me some Raonic, but he's like the ultimate anti clutch. Every time I see in in the quarters/etc he's losing to like Tsonga and Isner and whatever a Pouille is (grats for him). But man, Milos is jusr hard to watch once it gets past the round of 32 Shapovalov will save us right? since Genie just sells Mccain fries now or whatever
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I like the lineup for the men's semifinals. On paper any combination could make a good final but probably for the best if it's either Nadal/Djokovic or Pouille/Tsitsipas just cause an ATG vs a new finalist is the most likely combo to be a dud. And I really hope Petra wins the whole thing on the women's side.
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Looking pretty from above in the summer sun https://twitter.com/Lensaloft/status/1086870914740891648 https://twitter.com/Lensaloft/status/1087934500942827525
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ESPN posted:MELBOURNE, Australia -- Four times, Serena Williams was only one point -- a single point -- from closing out a victory in the Australian Open quarterfinals. jesus christ she stared down 4 match points to Serena loving Williams and pulled it off 
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Noted choker Serena Williams.
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Puckish Rogue posted:Noted choker Serena Williams. She probably had too much gluten leading up to the open
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