What an absolute king

A pusher with good aim who can hit the ball really goddamn hard when he has too and can also hit every damn shot in the book really well despite looking weird as hell doing it. He’s this horrifying swiss army knife monster who drains all your energy with perfectly placed no-pace balls that are a nightmare to attack…

Oh, you’re completely right! I forgot about that too. Thanks for reminding me!

I think it would’ve been his second. Pretty sure the only time he’s lost from two sets to love up was against Fognini in 2015. Great article btw!

The Grand Slams are separate entities from the rest of the men’s and women’s tour and are governed solely by the ITF, the International Tennis Federation. Furthermore, the WTA is the Women’s Tennis Association, who solely govern women’s events. The men’s equivalent is the ATP, the Association of Tennis Professionals.…

Justine Henin was the dominant women’s player from 2003 to 2008, when she abruptly retired as world #1 right before the French Open despite being the overwhelming favorite to win it and defend her title. Women’s tennis had a reputation for producing lots of mental burnouts in stars still in their prime because of how…

Oh fuck I’m actually going to throw up.

In for the 3-4-3 was a 4-3-3 that saw Romelu Lukaku, the team’s big, strong, target man of a striker, playing on the right wing, Kevin De Bruyne, the versatile attacker who’s spent most of time at the World Cup in a central midfield duo, in the center forward spot as a false 9, and Eden Hazard taking up his more…

Yup. Counting those Masters finals as well as Davis Cup matches, his best-of-five record on clay is 110-2.

85-2 is Nadal’s record in best-of-five at the French Open only. His overall best-of-five record on clay (including Davis Cup singles matches and the old Masters Series finals) is 110-2.

40.0% is definitely not good. I was just pointing out not close to “one of the worst shooting % of this playoffs”, not even for a star player. Hell, in Westbrook’s best game this playoffs (Game 5) he shot 43.6% in a win, which was also his best shooting performance in the series. He averaged 39.8% shooting in the…

One of his* worst shooting % you mean, right? He still shot 40%. The guy who’s gonna win MVP shot 11% and 38% in two playoff wins last round.

Yes, let’s hope it continues!

Fuck. I forgot to mention that the testing was done right before the 2011 season and Djokovic cut those foods out of his diet during that offseason and then proceeded to massacre the entire tour, so we can’t blame the food stuff for his dip in form. There’s plenty of bs that spiritual guru is feeding him that we can…

You mean Pepe? Yeah, Pepe the guru is still on. Although, I should point out that the guy who told him bread was bad for him and did the ridiculous bread test was Dr. Igor Cetojevic, who is an actual doctor and did do blood tests on Djokovic afterwards which confirmed that he was sensitive to gluten, dairy, and…

Right now? Probably Top 7 or so. The rest of his game still isn’t quite there yet.

Personally, I need to see Novak get through Thiem for this not to feel like a rehash of the Australian Open. How do you fancy him against Nadal if he makes it there, Giri? Also, I’d love to see you do a profile on Coric. In my very amateur opinion, he’s got a solid serve and a fantastic backhand, even if it doesn’t…

Yeah, I remember one moment in particular when, about 30 minutes in, Ronaldo skinned Lichsteiner off the dribble and started running into an acre of space in the middle of the final third and Lichsteiner just straight up swept Ronaldo’s left leg from behind. The ref didn’t even call a yellow. Ronaldo had the kind of…

“Thyorry luf”

Under the current rules, away goals still count as tiebreakers in extra time. The shootout only occurs if the extra time period is scoreless.