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

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Yessss Stan is the King of Claaayyyyyy bbyyy

Stan Wawrinka seals his legacy by becoming a multiple major winner! ALLENZ STAN!!! #STANIMAL

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fantastic Stan. What a display. He beats Djokovic to lift the title his second slam title and boy did he deserve it. Novak will be shell-shocked and the wait for the career grand slam goes on. For Stan what can you say - epic performance.

Brilliant performance and a fabulous result for Stan.

I love seeing players embrace a big occasion and Stan did that today. The better player by a distance.

I also find is frustrating seeing players underperform under pressure, and that was the case with Novak today.

I think he is becoming this generation's Lendl - great player, brilliant career but too many losses in slam finals to become a true "tier 1" great.

What a way to do it.  Wow Stan. Deserved. What an effort.  My condolences to all Novak fans. I feel for you all so much.

Stan HAS DONE IT!!!!

Omgggg this is New Year come early ahhahaha

Djoko beaten fair and square.

Ho Lee Crap. Wowowow

Wawrinka. what a win!

Awesome tennis. The tennis of the next 5-8 years played by an older guy.

-Two slam finals
-Two wins
-Beats Nadal and Djokovic to win

Novak may never win RG!!!

Crushing. I'm really sorry Murdoch. Truly that's soo harsh

Ridiculous thoughts of calendar slam buried. Thank Stan for that.

So Stan is the Man, after all

This will take a while to sink in. I was so certain that Nole would manhandle Stan in three very routine sets.

Amazing performance by Stan. He played like a #1 player today. The hold from 0-40 was so huge, He just would not crack.

I would say Novak shouldn't beat himself up too much as next year (if Rafa is not back in top form) he will have a great chance for that elusive career grand slam. Things conspired against him here such as the draw, the weather and Stan playing insane tennis. Commiserations to him and his fans on here but today belongs to Stan. Superb performance.

Commiserations Djokovic fans. This time next year 

Stan Warwrinka 

What did I just see?! I wanted Stan to win but deep down I didn't think he would. When it actually came to it I actually felt sorry for Novak and felt he really deserved it this year

CaledonianCraig wrote:I would say Novak shouldn't beat himself up too much as next year (if Rafa is not back in top form) he will have a great chance for that elusive career grand slam. Things conspired against him here such as the draw, the weather and Stan playing insane tennis. Commiserations to him and his fans on here but today belongs to Stan. Superb performance.

Djokovic's chance in Paris is gone Craig. Murray will be the man in 2016.

Bogbrush, bit of a poor predicition from you today on Stan

temporary21 wrote: Crushing. I'm really sorry Murdoch. Truly that's soo harsh

I'm fine.

I'm perfectly happy for a player to win any match playing like Stan did.

Disappointing that Novak let himself a down a bit but, hey, the sun will rise again tomorrow and I'll still have to go to work!

CAS wrote:What did I just see?! I wanted Stan to win but deep down I didn't think he would. When it actually came to it I actually felt sorry for Novak and felt he really deserved it this year

Sometimes that is just the way it goes though. Stan could say its pay bck for their Australian Open epic which Stan lost and was really unlucky.

Delighted for Stan. Little bit gutted for Novak if I'm going to be honest. I was hoping to see a little bit of history today, and I think Novak deserves the career grandslam. I still think he will achieve it.

As for Stan, wow! That is box office tennis.

Djoko to crumble now at the W and USO, see you at WTF!!!

I'm still happy Stan got it, Rafa getting injured took away from his win. A bit like until Mauresmo won Wimbledon after winning Aus when Henin got injured, just puts a stamp on it

Wow Stan! Unbelievable! So many winners! He's now a two time slam winner, well done!

He has beaten Nadal, Fed and Djoko this clay season! Simply amazing!

Now we have a new rival for Djokovic! At least Stan plays an attacking power tennis that also comes with finesse at the net. This rivalry will certainly be more exciting than Djoko/Murray.

We have two Swiss players as FO champions now, both beating the players who beat Rafa in the earlier rounds. Congrats Stan!

Commies for Novak and his fans, it's not his day and not his FO title this year. He has to try again come next year. It makes us realize how difficult it is to win the career slam, make us appreciate Fed and Rafa more; not to mention the CYGS!

Djokovic basically got bossed around after the first. This is gonna break his head. So happy!!!

Kuerten; the only man to triple-bagel Federer at a Slam.*

* one for the veterans of 606

3 days of mourning in Serbia

Hold your tears Djoko, Monaco loves you!!!

Uh-oh..... Federer moment?

STAN mine executioner
Got the hat trick!

Novak blown away by the applause. I am like you Danny I think the career grand slam will come for him. A lot conspired against him this year. Fabulous from Stan though nobody can deny he did not deserve that.

I've stopped watching.

Is he crying?

bogbrush wrote:Uh-oh..... Federer moment?

Or Murray moment. Take your pick.

HM Murdoch wrote:I've stopped watching.

Is he crying?

Very close to it as he got a standing ovation that lasted about two or three minutes (and that is no exaggeration).

Eugh tears in my eyes... His popularity hasn't been hurt one bit. Holds it back for Stan.  Classy in defeat

CaledonianCraig wrote:

HM Murdoch wrote:I've stopped watching.

Is he crying?

Very close to it as he got a standing ovation that lasted about two or three minutes (and that is no exaggeration).

Nice touch from the (generally awful) RG crowd.

HM Murdoch wrote:I've stopped watching.

Is he crying?

By the time of his speech he was all ok, so not a Fed moment!!

Wow! what can I say? This was truly a great final and I really thought Novak would push it to a fifth set.

Congrats to Stan on grand slam #2. He has beaten two giants of tennis en route to his slam achievements.

For Novak, I think he is mentally tough enough to bounce back and have a great rest of the season.

HM Murdoch wrote:

CaledonianCraig wrote:

HM Murdoch wrote:I've stopped watching.

Is he crying?

Very close to it as he got a standing ovation that lasted about two or three minutes (and that is no exaggeration).

Nice touch from the (generally awful) RG crowd.

Easy for them to clap him when he's lost, they're a terrible crowd.

So marriageworks proved rubbish after all.

Will be interesting to see how Djokovic motivates himself now for the rest of the season. Doesn't he handle himself so much better in defeat than victory.

So no individual joined the career slammers today but now Stan and Andy have one between them!

The match hinged on 3-3 in the fourth. I though Novak had done it with the Stan volley. But blew the love fourth lead which decided it

Kuerten has 3 RG's and Novak has 0. That is very unjust.

They did the same thing last year. They only like Novak when he's collecting the runner up trophy.

Thats good enough for Djoko.

Josiah Maiestas wrote:Kuerten has 3 RG's and Novak has 0. That is very unjust.

Kuerten played well enough to win three finals.

Novak's played three finals and hasn't played his best in any of them.

Matchpoint wrote:OMG, happening but I still can't believe it!

Gotta correct myself here. It's actually not THAT surprising. He recently beat Nadal in a slam final NOBODY saw coming. Did it again beating the #1 against all odds. Besides, Stan was the junior RG champion in 2003. he always knew how to play on clay. it's just taken him more than a decade to win the men's final on the surface he'd always loved. So happy for him.

This is not Djokovic's last chance. Time on his side. He will have another go for a few more years to come.

HM Murdoch wrote:

Josiah Maiestas wrote:Kuerten has 3 RG's and Novak has 0. That is very unjust.

Kuerten played well enough to win three finals.

Novak's played three finals and hasn't played his best in any of them.

It has a nasty Lendl at Wimbledon taste to it.