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[vella85]

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Yes I remember this well even though I was young at the time but I remember watching this with my grandfather and we thought who is this young Women beating the best Women's player in the world at the time and now Serena would have to be the greatest Women's tennis player of all time. Osaka will be hard to beat in this tournament and I think she will be hard to beat all year, can Osaka win all four Grand Slams this year? I think she can go close, what does everyone else think?

Good question. I think we should look at the top 5 ladies right now and see how she gauge against the competition.

2. S. Halep
3 P. Kvitová
4 S. Stephens   
5 K. Plíšková   

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I think the only thing that can stop Osaka this year is an injury or she loses her winning mentality which can sometimes happen in tennis and sports in general. All these players are great however Osaka I think is above them right now and just think that she is so young. Halep might be tough to beat on clay however she needs to get her winning mentality back. The French Open will be interesting to watch as I want to see how Osaka goes on clay.

Right. That's why I put up the list so that we can see how Osaka is above the rest in the ladies division. I think we have seen her slip early this year when she was affected mentally about the news of her break up with her coach, so she needs to keep focus and not be influenced so to speak. Same here, I wanted her to play in clay and see how she peform, her 2 slams are in a fast court, so it's going to be interesting if he can play her usual in a slow court like clay this French open.

Yes this is the question my friend, can Osaka perform as well on clay as she does on hard courts. Wimbledon will also be interesting as sometimes the grass courts can be slow. We know that Halep and Kvitova are great players on clay so lets see what happens with the upcoming clay season.

[rdbase]

Was watching a few matches for indian wells tournament and noticed some favorites to win lost today.
Puig lost her match then right afterwards kyrios. Both in straight sets.
So this tournament is full of upsets for the higher ranking players.

[vella85]

Just when you think Kyrgios has got it together after winning the Mexican Open he goes and does something like lose in his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber. Not only that he got frustrated an angry during the match breaking his racket and even throwing his shoes into the crowd which I thought was funny but still he lost it once again. This is what Kemarit and I have been talking about on here for the past year, Kyrgios will never be a great player until he sorts out his issues.

[rdbase]

Just when you think Kyrgios has got it together after winning the Mexican Open he goes and does something like lose in his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber. Not only that he got frustrated an angry during the match breaking his racket and even throwing his shoes into the crowd which I thought was funny but still he lost it once again. This is what Kemarit and I have been talking about on here for the past year, Kyrgios will never be a great player until he sorts out his issues.

And just now alexander zverev loses in straight sets. What is with these top seeded players losing all their games in this tournament?
I think just because I place alittle bet on them earlier yesterday they all have to fall over and get get hammered in their games.

[vella85]

Just when you think Kyrgios has got it together after winning the Mexican Open he goes and does something like lose in his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber. Not only that he got frustrated an angry during the match breaking his racket and even throwing his shoes into the crowd which I thought was funny but still he lost it once again. This is what Kemarit and I have been talking about on here for the past year, Kyrgios will never be a great player until he sorts out his issues.

And just now alexander zverev loses in straight sets. What is with these top seeded players losing all their games in this tournament?
I think just because I place alittle bet on them earlier yesterday they all have to fall over and get get hammered in their games.

Yeah its strange as we have seen over the past year and a bit, these young talent normally do well in these tournaments while the veterans don't do so well. Maybe it will start to turn around and we see the young talent finally make Grand Slam finals and winning them. This is why I don't bet on tennis much as its hard to predict the outcomes even for top seeded players as they can lose as well when we don't expect them to lose. Tennis in my opinion is one of the most risky sport to bet on.

[MakeMoneyBtc]

Just when you think Kyrgios has got it together after winning the Mexican Open he goes and does something like lose in his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber. Not only that he got frustrated an angry during the match breaking his racket and even throwing his shoes into the crowd which I thought was funny but still he lost it once again. This is what Kemarit and I have been talking about on here for the past year, Kyrgios will never be a great player until he sorts out his issues.

And just now alexander zverev loses in straight sets. What is with these top seeded players losing all their games in this tournament?
I think just because I place alittle bet on them earlier yesterday they all have to fall over and get get hammered in their games.

It seems like every '' lower ratwd'' player started to play better this year. Raonic almost lost today to a player that's 212 place in the world. This was expected to be an easy match for him, more like a training match but he was down a set and then down to 3-0 in the last set but won it in the end,probably because the other player wasn't mentally ready yet to make such a great performance.

[Kemarit]

I'll just quote myself here.  .

Did I jinxed all those top seeded players? LOL. As I have mentioned, perhaps the reason why they are falling one by one is because of the weather conditions as I have mentioned a few days ago. I forgot a similar tournaments late last year wherein players are question the humidity and heat and even some of the greats succumb to this kind of conditions so maybe this is the second why we've seen so many upsets up to this point.

Looks like Guneswaran pulled one of his biggest upset this year 7-6, 6-4, in almost one and one half hours. He could land in the top 80 at least because of this win. It's interesting to note that Guneswaran mentioned about the windy conditions. We might see some upset if players are not accustomed to this kind of conditions. Still a long way to go to, its round of 128 so let's see if other rated player will faltered along the way.

[AB de Royse777]

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It seems like every '' lower ratwd'' player started to play better this year. Raonic almost lost today to a player that's 212 place in the world. This was expected to be an easy match for him, more like a training match but he was down a set and then down to 3-0 in the last set but won it in the end,probably because the other player wasn't mentally ready yet to make such a great performance.

In third set he was 4 - 1 down before he held his service and break two constitutive service of Giron.
Anyway, today we have Djokovic, Nadal match. They both should get easy win.

[Kemarit]

Ok so we are down to the round of 32 and although there's a lot of surprises so far. There are also some familiar names still left and fighting. Interesting match to see:

Marin Čilić vs Shapovalov and then we have Federer vs Wawrinka and then Nadal vs S Schwartzman.

[vella85]

Nadal's match is live right now and he looks in control of the match and should win from here after winning the first set 3-6 and currently leading the second set 0-2. We did see a few more upsets today with Nishikori losing after winning the first set against Hurkacz and Medvedev losing in straight sets to Krajinovic who has actually been in some good form of late so I wouldn't really call it an upset but he is unseeded at this tournament and he did beat the number 14th seed. Cilic also lost his match against Shapovalov but again I wouldn't call this an upset either.

[MakeMoneyBtc]

Medvedev losing in straight sets to Krajinovic who has actually been in some good form of late so I wouldn't really call it an upset but he is unseeded at this tournament and he did beat the number 14th seed.

I watched the first set and I have to say that Krajinovic deserves this victory because he's played probably some of his best tennis. After winning the first set all the job was done because Medvedev let himself down and made a lot of unforced errors. I think Medvedev could have win this match if we would have played at his best but seems like in the last weeks something is going wrong for him.

[Juggy777]

Nadal's match is live right now and he looks in control of the match and should win from here after winning the first set 3-6 and currently leading the second set 0-2. We did see a few more upsets today with Nishikori losing after winning the first set against Hurkacz and Medvedev losing in straight sets to Krajinovic who has actually been in some good form of late so I wouldn't really call it an upset but he is unseeded at this tournament and he did beat the number 14th seed. Cilic also lost his match against Shapovalov but again I wouldn't call this an upset either.

Hey Nadal dominated the match and won it comfortably, the way he was playing there was no doubt left as to who will be the winner in the end. I feel he has an extra motivation to win this cup as he’s yet to win it, and since he’s at the prime of his carrier he will wish to win it. The way Nishikori lost was kind of strange, after winning the first set who would have expected Nishikori to surrender the game.

[tanvir232]

Today quarter final svitolina elina(UKR) vs vondrousova Market(CZE)
 Svitolina elina performance 
loss that favourite: 14
loss that outsider: 2
winnings that favourite: 35
winnings that outsider: 6
reliability that outsider: 25 %
reliability that favourite: 71.4 %

 Vondrousova Market performance
matches: 40
won: 24
percentage: 60 %
 For this statistics i will go with svitolina😍

[Kemarit]

Nadal's match is live right now and he looks in control of the match and should win from here after winning the first set 3-6 and currently leading the second set 0-2. We did see a few more upsets today with Nishikori losing after winning the first set against Hurkacz and Medvedev losing in straight sets to Krajinovic who has actually been in some good form of late so I wouldn't really call it an upset but he is unseeded at this tournament and he did beat the number 14th seed. Cilic also lost his match against Shapovalov but again I wouldn't call this an upset either.

The match is like 3:00 am local time here so I wasn't able to watch the game. As expected, Nadal win and Roger as well and he will be facing, for me, a dangerous foe in Edmund. As for Nishikori his playing inconsistent so I'm not surprised at all with the lost to Hurkacz as he is playing good so far. Shapovalov is ranked 24 against a 10th seed Cilic so I we could call that an upset as well. In the womens side, Bencic giant killing spree continues as he ousted the number 1 player, Osaka. She will be facing Karolína Plíšková in quarter finals and Venus Williams against Kerber in the other bracket.

[AB de Royse777]

Holy crap!
I was just following the score and noticed Kohlschreiber won against Djokovic. That's an upset. the score was 6-4 6-4. Who would have thought that Djokovic will lose so easily?

[rdbase]

Holy crap!
I was just following the score and noticed Kohlschreiber won against Djokovic. That's an upset. the score was 6-4 6-4. Who would have thought that Djokovic will lose so easily?

Yes. He beat Nick kyrgios in straight sets but Novak djokovic was favorite by a land slide to win this match because his progress had been going up every tournament he has been playing this year.
Expect more outing of the favorites before the finals in this one.
It has been a strange one so far.

[Trofo]

Definitely a lot of upsets this year. I am expecting it to continue today as well. Therefore I am backing some underdogs both as straight wins and handicaps. I am thinking Struff could have a fighting chance against Raonic. Same goes for Karlovic against Thiem and Khachanov against Isner.

Didn't watch a lot of matches but from what I have seen this far Nadal looks very good and could add another title to his stash.

[Kemarit]

Holy crap!
I was just following the score and noticed Kohlschreiber won against Djokovic. That's an upset. the score was 6-4 6-4. Who would have thought that Djokovic will lose so easily?

Well, I have the same thoughts today, just looking yesterday and today's score and I was wondering why everyone is not talking about it, LOL. I never thought that Djokovic will be upset. So obviously the women and men side number one are gone, as I have posted earlier than Osaka was upset as well. So it's now on Nadal and Federer hands as they are the top players to stay in the contention for the trophy and obviously, our favorites to win.

[AB de Royse777]

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Well, I have the same thoughts today, just looking yesterday and today's score and I was wondering why everyone is not talking about it, LOL. I never thought that Djokovic will be upset. So obviously the women and men side number one are gone, as I have posted earlier than Osaka was upset as well. So it's now on Nadal and Federer hands as they are the top players to stay in the contention for the trophy and obviously, our favorites to win.

I did not know that women number one gone as well.

Anyway, If everything goes as planned then Nadal and Federer will meet each other in the Semi which means we are not going to see a Nadal vs Federer final. Now question is who will face one of them in the Final?

Shall we work it out? Remember last time, we both did well :-)

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I think it will be Thiem? ;-)

I know it is stupid.

Kohlschreiber P.

Monfils G. (18)  <===


Karlovic I.
Thiem D. (7) <===


Monfils G. (18)
Thiem D. (7) <===

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Struff J-L.
Raonic M. (13) <===



Nishioka Y. <====
Kecmanovic M.



Raonic M. (13) <===
Nishioka Y.

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Thiem D. (7) <===
Raonic M. (13) <===

[Kemarit]

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Well, I have the same thoughts today, just looking yesterday and today's score and I was wondering why everyone is not talking about it, LOL. I never thought that Djokovic will be upset. So obviously the women and men side number one are gone, as I have posted earlier than Osaka was upset as well. So it's now on Nadal and Federer hands as they are the top players to stay in the contention for the trophy and obviously, our favorites to win.

I did not know that women number one gone as well.

Anyway, If everything goes as planned then Nadal and Federer will meet each other in the Semi which means we are not going to see a Nadal vs Federer final. Now question is who will face one of them in the Final?

Shall we work it out? Remember last time, we both did well :-)

edit:

I think it will be Thiem? ;-)

I know it is stupid.

Kohlschreiber P.

Monfils G. (18)  <===


Karlovic I.
Thiem D. (7) <===


Monfils G. (18)
Thiem D. (7) <===

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Struff J-L.
Raonic M. (13) <===



Nishioka Y. <====
Kecmanovic M.



Raonic M. (13) <===
Nishioka Y.

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Thiem D. (7) <===
Raonic M. (13) <===

And did you know who knocks out Osaka? It's Bencic, LOL, I remember we almost got everything correct in our prediction except for Bencic and now it seems she is continuing her run to the Indian Wells. Let's wait for the men's QF before making our bold prediction as there are lots of surprises.  . I've seen you followed one tipsters though, how does it goes on your end?