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2012 Australian Open - Men

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Who wins the first slam of the year Down Under?

Draw of seeded players:

01 Djokovic
29 Stepanek

23 Raonic
15 Roddick

09 Tipsarevic
17 Gasquet

27 Chela
05 Ferrer

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04 Murray
32 Bogomolov

19 Troicki
14 Monfils

12 Simon
24 Nishikori

26 Granollers
06 Tsonga

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08 Fish
25 Monaco

20 Mayer
11 del Potro

13 Dolgopolov
22 Verdasco

31 Melzer
03 Federer

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07 Berdych
30 Anderson

21 Wawrinka
10 Almagro

16 Isner
18 Lopez

28 Ljubicic
02 Nadal
 
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No shocker with the djoker as the favorite, it will be interesting to see if he has recovered from the crash and burn which caused a collapse in his last 4 matches of 2011.

it seems somewhat surprising that odds makers think Nadal is a longer shot to win than both Murray and RFed.

Fed withdrew from Doha with a back injury and dropped 2 of his 3 matches in the master's cup.

Murray is winless in Slams and has the toughest draw to the semis, where he would get the djoker.

Nadal's legs are healed from last year's aussie collapse. Rafa's also experimenting with a more powerful racket to generate pace and pick up easy points on serve, but his shoulder is a concern.

Seems like some generous odds for long shots this year in Tsonga, Berdych and the field at 33-1, Del Potro, Almagro and the youngsters.
 
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The Isner v. Nalbandan match looked to be another lengthy match ala Isner's Wimbledon 5 setter where no one broke.
Shut it off too early it seems.
Nalbandan filed a grievance with the ATP over a controversial ruling by the chair umpire at a breaker.
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After an epic struggle reached 8-8 in the deciding set and with Nalbandian on break point, Nouni overruled a linesperson who had called out an Isner ace. Not only did television replays show Nouni had made a mistake ? the ball was indeed wide ? he then compounded the error by refusing Nalbandian the right to challenge via Hawk-Eye due to the time taken to make the decision amid the confusion.
Isner duly held and then broke the Argentinian in the next game to complete a victory, and Nalbandian said: ?I asked for Hawk-Eye as he made an overrule. I say ?okay, I see the mark, I challenge?, not a big deal, but he didn?t want to do it. So somebody from the umpires or ATP can explain this situation. I mean, what is this? This is a grand slam.?
He added: ?I haven?t seen the video but I don?t think it was too late to call. John said, ?yeah, ask?. It?s ridiculous playing this kind of tournament with this kind of umpire. Eight-all, break point. Can you be that stupid to do that in that moment?
?What does the umpire need, press, the name, his picture (in the paper) tomorrow? Incredible.?
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gracelhink;2091080; said:
The Isner v. Nalbandan match looked to be another lengthy match ala Isner's Wimbledon 5 setter where no one broke.
Shut it off too early it seems.
Nalbandan filed a grievance with the ATP over a controversial ruling by the chair umpire at a breaker.
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boo hoo....watching it now, he choked away 2 break points before that, and choked the tie breaker away in the 4th set

It was a bad call/judgement....but cant blame it on that call alone

I've seen this situation happen a lot, where the ref overrules, and it's hard to understand what the call was, and i've seen the ump tell the player, "I overruled it, you wanna challenge it"

ummmm, he did take a long time to finally challenge it though, you can't stare at the mark for 10 seconds and decide to challenge it (overrule or not)
 
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It was an unbelievably bad overrule. The umpire has made a correct overrule on a serve to that same portion of the court a little earlier (on being long, though, not on being wide to the middle of the court), and maybe that made him a little overconfident in his own judgment. The serve was wide, and it wasn't even close, there's no way he should have changed the call.

I have no idea why Nalbandian waited so long to challenge, but if I had been the umpire, I would have allowed it.

It definitely threw him off, he hadn't been broken in a long time and was promptly broken to lose the match. Isner was fading, he was having a tough time serving hard, and wasn't moving well at all; 1 leg was cramping up. John said after the match that he was lucky that the sun went down before the match ended, that helped him hang in a little longer than he otherwise would have been able to.
 
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Im kinda surprised how poorly the ref handled it, I always this guy was one of the top guys, I liked it him a lot (mostly cause he's got an awesome voice)

As you said, he prob should have let him challenged it either way, but I have a feeling he didn't because he took so long after he realized it was called out, as I said, you can't stare at the mark for 10 seconds then decide to challenge...shoulda been an insta challenge on an overrule like that
 
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fuck ESPN (shocker i know)

instead of showing Isner who split the first 2 sets with Lopez, which is the top ranked american left..

they decide to show an unranked american against a has been Jankovic, and it has been some UGLY tennis already (which is now the standard for womens)
 
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The djoker vs. Nadal in the finals, Saturday 3:45 am from down unda.

In today's match, McEnroe commented that Djokavich struggles more with Murray's low sliding returns than Nadal's topspin.
It appears, lately djoker doesn't struggle with much of anything.

Nadal must be loving the extra day rest and watching the 5 hour marathon in the upper semi for Novak.

The decision in the majors of playing semis on different days, obviously motivated by attendance numbers for the men's events, does disadvantage the later semi winner.

Will be interesting to see if the player's union addresses this with the ITF/USTA.
 
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Unreal match. 5 hours and 53 minutes, the longest major final ever, and the longest match ever in the Aussie Open.

Nadal wins the first set 7-5.

Djoker dominates the next two sets: 6-4, 6-2.

Nadal was down love-40 in the middle of the 4th set, and pulled the game out. He got into a tiebreak, Djoker was up 5-3 in the tiebreak, but Nadal pulled it out.

In the 5th set, Nadal got up a break early. Djokovic was showing jelly legs, and saving energy on the court. Rafa was up 4-2 and serving at 30-15 when he lined up a winner down the line that Djoker wouldn't have reached - it went wide. Djokovic managed to break and tie it up at 4-4, he was visibly reinvigorated.

It went to 5-5, and Djokovic broke Nadal, and then served it out. He's now won 3 straight majors (all over Nadal in the final) and 4 of the last 5. He's doing to Nadal just what Nadal did to Federer.

I think the only better matches I've ever seen are the 1980 Borg-McEnroe Wimbledon classic, and the Nadal-Federer match at Wimbledon a couple of years ago.
 
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