luckystar

Wrong strategy by Rafa, shouldn’t stay at baseline to return Nishioka’s moon balls; should move forward and cut short the rally.

TB I think. Rafa is slow at adapting to different conditions I feel. He used to play night matches so far and this is his first day match and he produces performance like this!

Nishioka just moonballs all […]

The boy needs discipline. The dad is too nice to him imo. His mum reprimanded him on the spot I think.

I hope the boy apologises to his dad afterwards, his behaviour is atrocious and getting out of hand. […]

Don’t think that’s fair to Sasha, after all he’s born in Germany. Shapo’s family also migrated to Canada, they have Russian root, lived in Israel for a while where Shapo was born, before migrating to Canada. […]

So that had explained why Sasha was struggling, getting irritated, losing his cool, etc in 2019.

I think he has grown up a bit after what he had gone through in 2019, and once he’s focused on his tennis a […]

Look at Sasha of 2018 – his game clicked in almost all aspects and hence he was playing so well during the clay season and won Madrid without dropping his serve! I would say when playing well he’s like a Delpo – […]

To me Sasha is feeling the pressure from the chasing pack of his generation, lead by Tsitsipas, Medvedev, who are ranked ahead of him and have done better than him at the slams; Tsitsipas even matches his […]

Tsitsipas USO? He’ll probably run out of steam by then; I give him higher chances at start of the year, at the AO. As for Kyrgios, no chance at any slam or masters, because he’s not serious or healthy enough to […]

Merry Christmas!

This award is different from fan favourite award when fans get to vote. Why would the players want to vote for Fed or Rafa only, and not Thiem or someone else (who’s also nominated)? They have their rights to v […]

Fortunately Rafa has time to rest before the new year starts, to celebrate Christmas too.

A great match and Tsitsipas is really something! It takes Rafa’s experience and guile and everything to beat this Tsitsipas; Rafa could’ve served better to win it in two hours, but that’s the way he is esp on no […]

A lot depends on how he recovers from his injury. He’s a regular top ten for a few years before injury affected him and his season. I mean it’s not long ago that he reached a slam final (AO2018); his 2019 was […]

Come on Tsitsipas, don’t need to vent your anger on your racket. It’s an exho but Tsitsipas obviously wants to get a win over Rafa.

I really feel that Rafa should learn how to block back serves the way Fed does, at least that gives him more option than just standing so far back to return serves and having to run so much and covers so much […]

So what you expect me to say? Rafa is serving like crap his first serve, no wonder he struggled against Medvedev at the WTF and had to fight hard to beat Tsitsipas there. These are really the TOP players that he […]

Tsitsipas is helped with his big serve whilst Rafa is pulled down by his own lousy serve! Rafa just throws away the first set by serving so poorly while serving for the set!

Rafa serving like this will get […]

If Rafa loses the first set, he has himself to blame. His serve is really terrible, and each service game is a torture for him. Tsitsipas continues with his good play from his match yesterday.

Just serve a bit better and he could’ve won the first set 6-4, now he will need a TB to win, or worse may lose it 5-7 instead!

Not looking good, serving like crap. He faced eight BPs and was broken when serving for the first set, that’s crappy tennis by his standard. His first serve was not something to talk about, don’t understand how […]