French Open Day 15. Let's get ready to crumble?...

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You know what's on.  Roll up. Roll up

YESSHHHHHHFFFFFF

ALLLLEEZZZZ

Allllleeeezzzzzz!!!! We got a match!!!!

Deserved set 2, every return game it seemed he was pushing for the break. and getting close.

And deserves 1-1 on the balance of the 2 sets.

Yessssssssss

Djoko smashes racquet.

crush him, dont give up.

Ah that line point stolen from Stan.

Could of been 2 sets up now...

King Stanimal!

Fair after two sets. Nole was the better player in the first set and Stan in the second.

Stan is now looking more and more comfortable out there. Hopefully he can keep it up.

Cracking game that from Stan and it is the way to get sets off Novak. Hang in and hold serve and pounce on tightness from Novak which will come at the business ends of the set. One set all and game on.

Come onnnn dont let up.

C'MON STAN!!!

Immense power hitting to break the defensive bot

YES!!!!!

Got back from replacing the Headlights just in time for Wawrinka to give me false hope.

Keep your serve now.

Thats it, go go go.

Now Novak has to really work for it. This is how it should be

Djoko starting to get lost.


break himmmn

Big hold, gutsy from novak.

Big chance missed by Stan

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I copy before I hit send so I can paste it back in when the internet inevitably crashes as I hit send on a long post

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Lucky boy stan

Oh dear the doctor

Dr?

That was a stretch of I think 5 games on Nole's serve where Stan had BPs. He has too little to show for it.

well, most of the BPs missed were in set 2 which he won anyway. we will if the BP conversion costs him throughout the match though.

Jahu wrote:Djoko starting to get lost.


break himmmn

Yep, Djokovic not as sharp now. If Stan maintains focus, I think he can win this.

Stan needs this set and be 2:1 up, its all over then.

Djoko with no plan, just hanging in there.

Stan ground strokes are like missiles

The post I made which was lost was that Murray and Stan have been Novak's 2 hardest opponents based on only sets lost, followed by Kokkinakis that took 12 games, with Nadal, Nieminen and Muller level on 9 games each, and Gasquet on 6.

Commentators were saying that Djokovic looked tired. So I suppose he must be tired.

Stan goes two sets to one then we have s classic. Because he's only half done theb

It is interesting how their last four slam matches have gone to 5 sets but in bo3 Stan gets hammered. 
Allez Stan breakkkkk nowwwww!

I keep getting "request timed out" however it mostly happens when I am downstairs where my internet connection is dubious

What am I watchng?

That tennis ball must feel lumpy

summerblues wrote:Commentators were saying that Djokovic looked tired.  So I suppose he must be tired.

They said that he looks tired and then 20min later after sucking some of his secret juice from a pouch in his bag, he looks all good.

Crush him nowwwww

He is GOATing

Omg BALLISTICCccccc

Yessssssss

Allen what a game!!

Stan in the zone now. He could do no wrong in that game. Can he keep it up?

This matc'h is STAN'S to lose...cmon Stan the man

39:18 winners for the tableclothed swiss.

C,mon Jahu, Stan is lucky to have an extra day of rest. He has the momentum now.

Stunning hitting from Stan Wawrinka!

So when the tournament draw was made I kind of hoped the winner would come out of the tougher half, otherwise it would be unfair. And when today's match starting I was kind of siding with Djokovic still for the reasons I gave back on page 1.

But thinking about it a bit more:

Stan has already beaten Rafa on clay this season, has taken more games off Novak already in this match, and might have even beaten Rafa had they played.

He is playing at least as well (or better) than Murray did against Novak. Perhaps he could have beaten Murray.

Powered through the draw with 3 and 4 set matches. A straight sets dismissal of Federer is not to be sniffed at.

So they both equally deserve to be in the final or win it.

He who dares from here and with the break it looks 50/50 here. Clearly a match on!

Mats saying Djoko looking mediocre now.

The other commentator: Djoko is being manhandled

Beat himmmmm

Matchpoint wrote:C,mon Jahu, Stan is lucky to have an extra day of rest. He has the momentum now.

Whys Stan lucky? He didn't create the schedule

Wow, Novak all over the show at present.

I knew there would be spells where he was tense, irritable and below his best because Stan is nailing it but this is dragging on a bit now.

The test for Stan will be when he begins to sense that the day could be his. Then we'll see how his nerves hold up.

The worrying thing for me is that I knew there would be periods where Stan is hard to break. But I'm surprised at how tough Novak is finding it to hold his own serve.

Ah, the frustrations of following Novak - always so close to brilliance, always so close to a meltdown.

Stan has to hold!