de Minaur did very well to win his match in the 3td set given he somewhat struggled
up until you post!

But it was an epic doubles decider in the tie break decider to elect Germany the winners.

Final time now and its swiatek v Kerber, Swiatek has just taken the first set and a
double break in the second, its going to be Poland 1-0 very soon....

Up next is Hurkacz v Zverev, odds are 2.2 - 1.65 Hurkacz could pull off a winner here, Zverev
I hear didnt get to bet until 6.30 and has played a lot so has to be feeling the fatigue by now

Poland made it to the final very convincingly, in fact France got a little hope for the match to be decided through mixed doubles when Garcia managed to take the first set from Swiatek but Swiatek was still unstoppable, her game was better in the second and third sets to make Poland lead 2-0 and the mixed doubles no longer needs to be played.

Germany vs Australia is very likely to be decided in mixed doubles because Kerber seems to have quite a hard time facing Tomljanovic but Zverev must be able to beat De Minaur, and the mixed doubles match will be very exciting because both of them have very good mixed doubles, maybe Germany will field Zverev and Siegemund again, compared Zverev and Kerber, because Zverev/Siegemund were also quite good when they beat Greece which was a deciding match too.

Pliskova leads Ostapenko, 6-5 H2H. However, you can never really predict these matches. Ostapenko, one day finally shows up like the slam winner she is. The other days, loses to 150th ranked player after hitting everything out. It's 1.5x on Ostapenko at the moment but on Hard court, I'm not really sure who takes it.

I think Rune is ok, he has broken Shevchenko in the third set.

Osaka looked great. Her ball striking has stayed pretty consistent and her movement looked pretty good too, especially for a player who hasn't competed at the top level for a long time. However, Pliskova just loves the venue. I think it's her 10th straight win at Brisbane? She up against another heavy hitter in Ostapenko. Should be a good batter of great ball strikers who have average or below average movement.

Djokovic just played and lost to De Minaur so this injury has affected his game as the match was done in straight sets 6-4 for both.

Not sure why he didn't just pull out of playing in this United Cup and not get ready with recovering from this injury for the Australian Open which starts on the 14th of the month (13th for Australia).
That tournament should be more important to him in the long run and surely would benefit more with a good performance from this first major of the year.

1. The problem is that you are very confused, being a classic consumer of propaganda And you think that what you are NICE to hear is true, but you deny everything that does not satisfy your minimal mental needs This is not my problem, let your psychiatrist think about how to solve it
2. “Firstly, Russia in 2022 did not capture any territories either near Kiev or anywhere in the north (Sumy, Kharkov, etc.)” - hmm... Are you feeling good now? It’s just that when your brain is removed, you shouldn’t feel very good But I can’t imagine any other options, or rather reasons for such nonsense

The suburbs of Kyiv were captured, and they even entered Kyiv - the battles took place on “Victory Avenue” as well. But after this breakthrough, the “non-existent and backward Armed Forces of Ukraine” defeated the elite strike units of the terrorist country and destroyed all units in Kiev and the Kiev region, right up to the northern outskirts (to the borders with Belarus and Russia), and after preparation, destroyed the hordes of terrorists who occupied a significant part Kharkov region. Then there was a southern direction, where the “second army of the world” ran at wild speed, leaving behind a brown-bloody liquid trail )))

3. Regarding the rules of warfare. Ukraine is doing everything to take the bodies of its dead soldiers, from sorties to exchanging for living terrorists of the Russian army. There may be some options. But Russia is not at all worried about its citizens, who can no longer be “meat”. They actually lie in the fields, the Russian army itself destroys the corpses of its soldiers in order to commit fraud with payments, etc. Besides the fact that I saw it myself, there is also a lot of information and investigations. Cowardice, lies, meanness - these are the spiritual values of the Russian world, including in relation to its citizens.

4. By publishing photos from cemeteries where Ukrainian defenders and fighters against global terrorism and racism are buried, what are you trying to convey? I know that in this terrorist war unleashed by Russia, many defenders died. This is a fact, no one denies it. It was they who gave their lives to destroy hordes of terrorists from Russia.
Better look at the cemeteries, or rather the heaps in giant fields, where the corpses of terrorist soldiers are simply quietly buried, all over Russia.

5. The only media that lies is Russian media and those who live on Russian handouts

6. “Global nuclear superpower” is a global global mega-fake We recently listened to a fairy tale about “2-3 weeks, and the second army of the world will reach the borders of Poland.” Now this army no longer exists, they are urgently recruiting meat all over Russia to try to shower us with meat I heard a screech - “we will launch a nuclear strike” - and? Putin understands perfectly well that having used even tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, his fate will end after the first detonation of a tactical nuclear charge Russia is stupid, vile, cowardly, wretched, a terrorist country. And she will be defeated!


PS This is what terrorist burials in Russia look like:

As 2024 approaching many predictions has been made about economic crisis that will shake the world with many countries rising up to fight against one another

If these assumptions/predictions are to be true then what will be its effect on cryptocurrency most especially Bitcoin. As we know during war, economic activities are always grounded where many will be thinking only about their survival in terms of living than economic dealings and gains

Was recently discussing with a friend who is of the opinion that since Crypto/Bitcoin is a digital kind of money it should not be affected by any natural disaster or war but for me I believe it will be affected since crypto/Bitcoin is striving because people are making use of it and if these people are affected by war, which will disrupt flow of doing things the normal way, then crypto will die a natural death at least for that period.

Although we both agreed that even if there would be a World War III, participating countries will not be more than 6 going by previous wars but these countries will be economic powers that can/would ground economy of others countries depending on them. Hypothetically, say Russia, it might be difficult to pump oil to neighboring countries and other countries abroad that depend on them for their survival and might not be able to power countries including  Satellites and Base stations (BTS) to generate data. Without data, cryptocurrencies will be useless as there would be no trading of any sort for that period.

Will like to know your view on these as 2024  prediction for Bitcoin, Ethereum investment is encouraging and we don't want anything to truncate this flow. For me I believe there won't be any war significant enough to affect investment in Cryptocurrencies.

That was a fairly strong performance from Nadal particularly in the second set to win that 1-6.
The commentators were in awe of his performance and fitness after being out for so long.

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Yea I heard about Djokovic injuring his wrist and then pulling out of the mixed doubles. I wonder
how serious that is going to be. It might be very minor but here we were before Christmas talking
about hoe resilient Novak is.

A gambling expert brought i and some friends a guaranteed predicted game and asked us to stake a a high amount so that we winning could be huge and so we can give him a percentage of the money at winning.

I don't believe there could be a 100% guaranteed game but yet my friends who are eager to make profits in the gambling accepted to play the gamed as instructed and at the end of it, they all loosed the game and at then, the rest of us were happy because we didn't play the game else we would had loosed as others.

I want to ask, do you believe in experts gambling predictions?

Yes for sure, two doubles specialists v two singles players in a doubles match should be
always able to win and that they did.

For todays matches so far its United Kingdom v USA and its 1-1 so far. Katie Boulter is
on a roll beating Jessica Pegula over 3 sets and Taylor Fritz beating Cameron Norrie
over 2.

This tie now depends on the doubles match:
Fritz/Pegula v Skupski/Boulter,
The US pair are favourites @ 1.44 v 2.75 for the UK pair, they might just pull that off!

It's not a matter of propaganda. The fact is that not everyone likes the truth

For example, I am a resident of Ukraine who has seen all this since 2014. Putin is simply a crazy, pathetic fuhrer who imagines himself to be the arbiter of destinies or even a god. But like everything in Russia and his fantasies, this is a fake. More than half of what terrorist Russia captured in Ukraine in 2022 has already been returned to the management and control of Ukraine. But these small villages, which the “second army of the world” captures over the course of 6-9-12 months, at the cost of indescribable sacrifices of their own soldiers, who simply bombard the defensive lines of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

I’ll just send you this link, and you can look in the chronology at how the frontline line has changed.
https://deepstatemap.live/#6/47.953/27.576

I also recommend going to Bakhmut, Avdeevka and similar hot sections of the front, and see how many corpses of Russian soldiers are still lying there, useless to anyone, neither Russia nor Putin...
When the “second army of the world” took Bakhmut for almost a year, there was such a stench of rotting flesh that our soldiers’ eyes watered, because many kilometers in front of them were covered with the corpses of Russians, whom the madman Putin threw to slaughter, only for the sake of realizing his painful fantasies.

And now you can observe the same thing - meat assaults, wave after wave, 24*7, for months... At the same time, the level of motivation in the Russian army has dropped significantly, many already understand that they are just cannon fodder, and there are no real reasons to fight in Ukraine. Although at the beginning of 2022 I spoke with Russian prisoners of war, they said in all seriousness that we have only Nazis here, we kill Russian speakers, drink their blood This is called propaganda, which corrodes the brain.

Regarding the motivation of the Ukrainians, we understand perfectly well that Russia’s goal is simply to destroy us, so we will not allow this, we have something to protect, we have something to protect, the truth is on our side, which means we will win. Yes, at a great cost, but we will definitely win.

Well I'm watching Sonego v Zverev currently, its on serve with some great play so far.

Earlier Paolini beat Kerber!

Yesterday Spain beat Brazil 2-1 in a doubles decider

and interestingly/surprisingly United Kingdom beat Australia 2 -1 without relying on
the doubles match. Boulter beat Tomljanovic and Norrie beat de Minaur, would have expected
the opposite of both matches.

and the Netherlands beat Norway 2-1 with the help of the doubles match. Ruud beat Griekspoor
which would be expected.

Well, let's see how you follow your own recommendations. Write, Marinka has been captured by the Russians, and Avdeevka and Raboche/Verbovo in the south are in the process of being recaptured? Where is the link to authoritative sources, otherwise I have a little different information? Which countries’ sources are generally authoritative for you? What about European countries, England, USA? Or maybe we will now consider as trustworthy what is written in Iran, North Korea, and African countries?

Ukraine war: Russia captures key town near Donetsk

The Ukrainian military initially denied the Russian claim and Ukrainian military bloggers reported that Ukrainian troops were holding out in a small area of western Mariinka.

But speaking during a news conference on Tuesday, the commander of Ukrainian Armed Forces, Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi confirmed that Ukrainian troops had withdrawn.

Zaluzhny: Ukrainian Armed Forces will lose Avdiivka within 2-3 months The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), General Valeriy Zaluzhny, confirmed at a briefing that Marinka is completely occupied by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and Ukrainian troops no longer control this territory.

Avdiivka could soon fall, says Som, primarily a function of the Russians’ superior firepower. "They have ten times as much materiel as we do,” he says, "and 20, if not 30-times as many shells.” The Ukrainians are suffering from a shortage of ammunition for their mortars and artillery, he adds. "In many cases, we are unable to return fire.”

Troop losses have also been heavy, the Ukrainian commander says. Of the 100 soldiers his company once had, he is now sometimes only able to send 15 into battle. Some have been killed, others wounded – and still others are simply too exhausted to fight. "It’s a similar story with all the units here,” says Som.

Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets noted that units of the 7th and 76th Airborne Russian Divisions have managed to regain lost positions in the area over the past two to three days and have pushed Ukrainian forces out of some positions north and west of Verbovoye (east of Robotyne).

Do you find my statements that Russia has already lost about a million of its soldiers and officers killed and wounded funny? What do you think are the real losses in Russia?

How much of the NATO inventory has been sent to Ukraine?
The US has 5000 tanks, the others around 2000, Ukraine received 200.
The US has 600 Patriot batteries, it has sent 2 to Ukraine.
The US has how many fighter planes? How many have they...wait zero!

You're fighting a country 1/4 of your size armed with 2-5% of the NATO leftovers and losing badly!
Face reality, Russia was a paper tiger!

LE:
Actually, both the EU and US and NATO on the other side could have just go indeed warmonger as russian claim we are and armed Ukraine to the teeth from March 22, with indeed all the weapons we have , then this f* war would have been already done by now ending both Russia's dream of another USSR and the civilian drama that is happening right now with thousands of civilian casualties.
Russia is still pushing in Ukraine because they still bet the aid will cease, if the civilized worlds shows clearly it won't then they will simple claim another fake victory again and go back home.

Evidence suggests a deadly explosion at a busy market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka this month was caused by an errant missile fired by Ukraine, the The New York Times reported on Tuesday. Ukraine has said the Sept. 6 blast, which killed at least 16 people, was caused by a Russian missile.

Texas? Oh wait, Texas is twice as big as Russia when it comes to economic size!

Also, the US exported 180 billions worth of goods in October,  60% would mean 108 billion, around 3.6 billion a day.
At the price of oil of 80 per barrel you're telling me the US is exporting 45 million barrels of oil equivalent per day?
Must be nice to export half of the world production!

Who is stupid enough to go to war agaisnt the US?
After Russia's disastrously campaign in Ukraine every dictatorship in the world is looking at its mighty army and realizing it's the same , a paper tiger! Do you think that all those disappearance happening in Chinese army and all those "demotions" are not the result of the leaders finding out the truth?
There won't be any war!

A great recession in a country that has been faking number for ages is not that much of a concern as a recession in the US.
Besides, the world is slowly getting rid of the dependence on China, money if coming out of there, production has been constantly moving back to the western world or other low cost countries,  a recession in China is not that much feared since we we're the ones triggering it!
Remember how their ban on rare minerals was supposed to destroy the western economies? Again, crickets!

And the US has mathematically broken the 2019 record two weeks before the end of the year in both gas and oil
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/US-Shatters-Oil-Production-Records-in-2023.html

Looking down through the team sheets for the United Cup its interesting to see the absence
of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz for teams Italy and Spain.

Ive been reading Sinner wont make an appearance until the middle of January for the Kooyong
Classic in Australia.

I wonder how these tournaments really feel about top players appearing at their event
and knowing that they are not going to get 100% from the top players...although there is
decent prize money.


Djokovic is a machine, physically and mentally on top of his game, he is definitely the one to
beat and its going to be difficult over 5 sets in the Grand Slams.

Let's turn to stubborn facts. On February 24, 2022, eight Russian armies, supported by thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, attacked Ukrainian territory from the north, east and south. The approximate number of occupation troops was about 250 thousand people. They were given the task of arriving near Kyiv in the first half of the same day, and the calculation was to capture Ukraine in three to five days, using the fact of the demonstrative power of the invading occupiers. The threat was indeed great and this was and is recognized in Kyiv. Russian troops landed at the Gostomel airfield near Kiev, and separate groups penetrated into Kyiv itself. Therefore, in addition to the army, the people themselves rose up to fight the occupiers. In Kyiv alone, over 20 thousand machine guns and other weapons were distributed to the population. So what's the result?

What conclusion can we draw from this? Is Russia still winning?

And I would advise Serveria.com to be more tolerant of your opponents and not call them idiots and other bad words. Typically this method is used when there are not enough arguments.

even in this forum the propaganda still works and people believe Russia is losing. they already have a huge territory of Ukraine. that's the truth as much as we want to punish Putin, he is winning but let's just say this guy is also fighting for the good of his country/people while the West is also fighting for the good of their people.

it's not bad versus evil. there is nothing such as that. every side is protecting its interests.

There is another competition running ATM - The United Cup, its happening in Australia.